WASHINGTON — Meet the latest entrant to smartphone house-hunting: . The official website of the National Association of Realtors just unveiled a free application for the iPhone.
The online demo, shown to reporters during a teleconference, revealed a couple of cool features, not least of which is access to about 4 million listings that are supposed to be updated every 15 minutes.
Like Zillow’s iPhone app, which was launched in April, the new app uses the phone’s GPS function to zero in on your location and display nearby listings.
The Realtors said the app will allow shoppers to search for open houses within a 20-mile radius, sorted by location or date. Users can take camera-phone pictures of listings as they tour them, assign them star ratings, jot notes on the phone, and quickly post listings to their Twitter or Facebook pages — or e-mail them to friends, family and their real estate agents. Elizabeth Razzi, The Washington Post
