House hunting? Download these applications first

 

"There has been a revolution in innovation," said Alex Periello, CEO of Realogy Franchise Group, which has sponsored a conference last month with several new technologies in real estate.

Matterport, Mountain view, California, recently unveiled 3D Showcase, which produces high-quality images, 3-d houses that can be embedded in the ads online. Users can walk virtually piece by piece, behind sofas, around beds and past the corners. (For an example, click here.)

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Then, at a click of a button, walls peel away from revealing a photographic image of the House with all exposed areas. 3D image can be turned, rotated and zoomed in on.

CEO of Matterport, Bill Brown, said that, so far, list of sites usually contain slideshows of photos but, 'did there were no namespace context as a whole."

Furniture can be erased, leaving empty space. Or, it can be replaced with other furniture to re - organize the rooms. Buyers can see what would look like the place after having buy and put in sofas, chairs and a table they choose.

"This is part of the dream of hunting of the House and takes it to the next level, said Sherry Chris, CEO of Better Homes & gardens Real Estate."

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Meanwhiles, to avoid open houses crowded where you can not get a response to your questions, or agents who do not know the property, a company called BrightDoor offers Beamly.

It uses small Bluetooth devices located throughout the House to send information through their mobile phones or other devices home shoppers. When a buyer goes in the kitchen, for example, they can learn about the devices or the wood cabinets options at their disposal.

 

With Boston CO Everywhere, users with equipped with Bluetooth mobile devices can draw borders around the interactive maps of the districts, they want to enter, and the site will display a table of the contents of local social media Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook in this region. She also posts of the local Meetup and treaty events and coupons to local businesses through sites like YipIt.

"It's like the NSA for real estate," said Tony Longo, CEO of CO everywhere.

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Longo has called a zone of two blocks of Greenwich Village in New York and found 49 people, he was able to connect with at this time. "Social intelligence that comes out of a zone can be rich," he said.

Zumper, which specializes in the rental, has produced Zumper Pro app that helps agents quickly create ads online in a few minutes. Officers using their smartphones or tablets, can take pictures, write descriptions and fill in the details, such as the number of bedrooms, bathrooms and square feet.

Then, even before leaving the apartment, agents can validate the registration online and send alerts to potential tenants with the $ $ app a new place is on the market.

First published: 8 July 2014: 6: 54 et