iPhone users will now find house hunting quite easy. A new app called ‘Open Houses’ is released by HomeFinder.com for the iPhone. This app is claimed to be the first iPhone application to aid homebuyers in finding open houses and to get in touch with a skilled local Realtor.
The company has a considerable number of open houses listings. This is due to its collaboration with over 130 local newspapers across the country. HomeFinder.com is alleged to be exclusively branding the app as the essential source for users planning to hunt houses. The app would be promoted aggressively to potential home buyers.
Tim Fagan, HomeFinder.com’s CEO, commented, “The mobile platform is a perfect match for house hunting, which requires leaving the desk to go out and tour houses. With the Open Houses app, consumers can now find – and get to – open houses from wherever they happen to be, without printing directions, property flyers or taking time to view homes that do not match their criteria.”
Fagan added, “Mobile applications are best when they focus on one thing very well. Home buyers will always want to tour homes, and sellers and their agents will always want to be found. Our Open Houses app makes that happen without the clutter that plagues so many mobile real estate applications.”
The Open Houses app can be clicked to view the open houses around a user’s locality via the iPhone’s local location-aware technology, in addition to search filtering to locate the regions, price range and different kinds of property, as per the preference of the user. With the app, one can effortlessly get in touch with selling agents by means of email or phone about a particular property from within the application.
With the built-in mapping and point-to-point driving directions via Google Maps, this enables the user to chart out their tour and navigate it well. One also has the facility to save a desired property and see images of complete floor plans. Users can also surf through HomeFinder.com’s listing database of more than 3.5M homes for sale.
The objective in creating the app is to profit mobile home shoppers by facilitating the complete open house process in a more organized manner. The app can also be used to enable a sales procedure and provide eligible property contacts to its user base of more than 20,000 real estate agent, broker and builder advertisers.
The Open Houses app is available for no charge and can be downloaded from the iPhone App Store. This app will work on both iPhone as well as iPod Touch.