Real Estate Brokers Enter Red-Hot Mobile Space Via Smarter Agent

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RISMEDIA, Sept. 18, 2008-This week, Smarter Agent’s Homes for Sale mobile search launches, accessible to over 50 million AT&T and Sprint customers on 80 different cell phone models.

Over 99% of mobile location-aware real estate activity is now powered by Smarter Agent. According to the company, Smarter Agent is the only carrier approved, on-deck mobile real estate search-meaning it has gone through significant security and usability testing to be chosen to be on the carrier (AT&T, Sprint) deck.

Smarter Agent, says the company, delivers accurate and up-to-the-minute home sale information to a consumer’s cell phone.

What is seismic for the real estate industry, and what differentiates homes for sale from other mobile real estate applications, is the robustness of Smarter Agent’s platform:

– The most real estate data. This information is delivered from the country’s top brokerage firms including cooperative access to all publicly viewable MLS data feeds. This means just about every home for sale in a market can be viewed by any consumer.

– More access for consumers. Smarter Agent is on more cell phones than most mobile applications of any kind. Over the next 100 days, Smarter Agent will also launch on iPhones and BlackBerry’s.

The company says Smarter Agent can be downloaded:

– from a consumer’s cell phone via AT&T’s Media Mall,
– from a consumer’s cell phone via Sprint’s Get New area,
– from www.SmarterAgent.com via the application downloader which takes
you to the carrier deck.

Smarter Agent instantly returns information such as sales price, taxes, beds/baths, square footage, property descriptions-even pictures! A button reading “Call to See” routes the user directly to the broker/agent, who can show the home.

To provide consumers with the best and most accurate home listing information, Smarter Agent has partnered with premier brokerages whose combined sales in the past twelve months exceeds $125 billion, including:

Prudential Fox & Roach
William Raveis Realty
Prudential Georgia Realty
Prudential California Realty
Coldwell Banker Howard Perry and Walston
Prudential Carolinas
Prudential Douglas Elliman
Prudential Network Realty
RealEstate.com
Weichert Lead Network
Luxury Realty Group
Century 21 Sussex and Reilly
Prudential Palms Realty
Prudential Preferred Realty PA
RE/MAX Allegiance
Tomlinson Real Estate Group
The Keyes Company

Dependent on your carrier, Homes for Sale costs between $2.99 and $4.99 per month for unlimited usage, billed directly to your carrier bill.

For more information, visit http://www.smarteragent.com.

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