Chris Smith – iPad Apps for Real Estate, The Webinar Everyone is Talking About!

Last week Chris Smith, Cofounder of CURAYTOR, presented a FREE webinar sponsored by Homes.com and Secrets of Top Selling Agents entitled “iPad Apps for Real Estate Agents”.  If you missed it, don’t fret – you can watch the recording by visiting the previous webinars page of the Secrets Webinars website.  There, you can also see all of the other archived webinars, hosted by big wigs like Gary Keller, Larry Kendall, Sue Adler, Barbara Corcoran,  Brad Korn, and Michael Maher.Watch this webinar and see what everyone is talking about!

In this packed-house webinar, Chris Smith shared in a matter-of-fact, easy to understand way, what are his best suggestions for strategies using the iPad for real estate and which apps are key. It also doesn’t matter which model you have! Whether you’ve got a first-gen or the latest edition, Chris Smith says there’s something for everyone. Here are some of the topics Chris covered in this webinar: Continue reading

Homes.com Adds New iPad App to its Mobile Portfolio

Homes.com Adds New iPad App to its Mobile Portfolio
Home Search Experience on the Market

NORFOLK, Va. — (November 11, 2011)Homes.com one of the nation’s largest online destinations for real estate listings, announced today the expansion of its mobile suite with the release of its iPad application for home and rental searches. Considered to be the most comprehensive real estate search application on the market to date, the Homes.com iPad application joins the company’s widely successful release of home search apps for iPhone, Blackberry, Windows 7 and Android users.

Homes.com’s iPad app has been specifically designed to provide home buyers and renters with an intuitive, highly targeted and easily navigable property search experience, complete with extensive listing details, powerful sort and filter tools, sweeping photos, interactive maps, driving directions, favorite property management and share features, an integrated real estate agent search and more valuable home search tools for nearly four million property listings.

Additionally, to further assist home buyers and renters in their home search, the Homes.com iPad app offers several innovative features not currently available in other iPad real estate search apps. These include a quick toggle to view listings for sale or rent, seamlessly integrated with home values and a readily-accessible mortgage calculator, allowing home seekers to easily determine their estimated monthly payment.

Specific features of the Homes.com iPad app allow users to:

  • Instantly find nearby homes for sale or rent with a GPS-driven location finder
  • Quickly refine home and rental searches through customized filters, e.g., by price,
    property type, location and more
  • Easily toggle on property values to display within homes for sale or rent
  • Drag or pinch the screen to zoom and navigate neighborhoods with interactive maps in
    landscape or portrait mode
  • Quickly flip through sweeping photo galleries of one or multiple homes through
    Homes.com’s simply designed user interface
  • Bookmark and save searches of favorite properties to MyHomes.com account
  • Immediately receive email alerts when new properties are listed that match established
    criteria
  • Instantly generate turn-by-turn driving directions from your current location to the
    property of interest
  • Easily share properties for sale or for rent with friends and family via email
  • Quickly connect with a real estate professional via integrated contact links or through the
    integrated local agent search
  • Determine best financial options, loan amounts and monthly payments with Homes.com
    integrated mortgage calculator
  • Instantly check credit scores and complete an optional online loan pre-qualification
    application

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