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Android idea: Real estate

Monday 25 Feb, 2008 12:09 AM

Okay, so the idea is this: an Android app that takes a set of criteria for what sort of real estate you're looking for – price, no. bedrooms, etc. – and uses its location-awareness to alert you to real estate within your area that matches your criteria. You could even set it to tell you about open houses so if you were driving past you could pop in. But I think it'd also just be handy to know these houses existed – for example, I like to go for the odd evening walk and it'd be handy to be able to say, "Hey, there's a nice house the next block over. I'll detour to have a look."

So anyway, if realestate.com.au wants to contract me to create said app, get in touch :D

Tags: android

Comments

Andrew said on 05 Mar 2008:
Not a bad idea for an app at all. No market for it at the moment though.

What about developing it for some of the later model Nokias? Or even if you needed to revert back to basics and use a standard phone app, insert the post code that you're currently in and some house spec details and it responds with relevant results.

We're currently working with a real estate company and all that we are doing for mobiles are the simple 'SMS me open house details'.
Jhack said on 02 Mar 2011:
How about an app that tells you all the properties in close proximity .. say 500m radius, that are for sale and sold providing links to the details for each property .......