Search, shortlist , explore your future home and find brokers on-the-go with these mobile applications. Therealtypaper samples the some of the best mobile applications dominating the real estate industry today.
Technology is adding efficiency to the way things function in Indian real estate industry. Your search for your dream home is now just a tab away, on your smart phone – what with so many slick apps available which allow you to search, shortlist, explore your future home in detail. There are virtual tours and detailed 3D Floor plans available on most of these, you can search your broker, plan your site visit and contact the seller quickly. You can even list your property and showcase the home in great detail with videos and pictures.
Housing.com Housing’s real estate and property search app makes finding a home to buy or rent easier than ever! One can find an apartment to rent, select a PG/hostel, get a roommate, buy a new property, post a flat for sale, find the right tenant and look up new localities. The app goes beyond just a basic property search and explores the neighbourhood showing unique lifestyle ratings, schools, amenities. For students looking for room mate or working professionals seeking a flat mate, they can post details of their flat and chat with potential roommates right from the app without sharing their contact. They can connect to fellow seekers and find a new home together.
CommonFloor Real Estate app eases your property search and all housing needs by helping you look for a better home and lifestyle, anywhere in India. Buying a new house, property selling, posting property ads or requirement, renting a flat or finding an apartment in your favorite locality is easy with the CommonFloor Real Estate App. This free housing app has features to shortlist and filter preferred houses, view details, contact owners and agents, and post requirements. It also has various other unique interfaces such as letting you post ads for sale, map search and 360 degree Live-in tours. It gives simple and easy-to-use property search experience. Full details on real estate projects and 100% verified residential properties such as locality/ lifestyle rating, directions, photos, map, location. Aerial images of projects to help understand its space, how large it is, proximity to roads, and the area surrounding it
Agentsearch is one app that is assisting brokers to share inventories online and close any deal faster. The platform will be the next big thing in Real Estate technology. The platform is successful to build a market ecosystem in the realty market with brokers at the center of it. According to Nirav Gosalia, CEO Agentseach, “This app will simplify the way brokers work – it’s a good platform for brokers to share inquiries amongst each other and match them with the relevant broker, and then sharing the brokerage fees. This is the conventional practice but with technological intervention there is more speed and efficiency to the process.’ “There are a total of 7 lakh broker companies in the country and they are the target market. They are consolidating network from key metros of Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune followed by Chennai and Kolkata in phase 1. For a real estate agent, this is very useful because it empowers him to increase his efficiency. He can increase his avenues greatly while enlisting help from his peers and friends directly. Even those agents who pursue real estate deals in their spare time will be able to leverage agentsearch for increased revenues. Actually, agentsearch benefits the entire real estate ecosystem. Not just the real estate agents, but also the end customers. They can now expedite their transactions with super efficient real estate agents.
IndiaProperty.com mobile app is a free real estate app that makes it simple and convenient to buy, sell and rent properties online. The app provides access to over 7 lakh properties across India. It gives locality articles, price trends, tips and nearby localities based on the search words. One can get tailor-made property suggestions based on past searches and property requirement. There is a virtual walk-through of the future home on mobile. A sophisticated 3D view of the floor plan gives a better idea of what the dream home will look like. One can even Click-to-Call to contact the builder/agent/seller directly.
MagicBricks Property Search app is yet another solution to know available real estate property listings in a particular area, city or a region. Apart from merely accessing the database, the app lets you post real estate listing deals from the main screen itself and you will not have any kind of trouble to do that. Some of the noticeable features of MagicBricks for Android include presence of sense-making filters like price, number of bedrooms etc, ability to create property alerts, integrated options to contact the advertiser, options that will help you evaluate the property.
The PropTiger.com property app helps to compare prices and find the best deals available. Every listing contains detailed data about the property including real photographs, floor plans, payment plans, possession date and exhaustive information on amenities available in the development. You may research the neighbourhood around your shortlisted home to look for schools, hospitals and restaurants and evaluate real estate trends such as price, demand and supply in the surrounding area. The app also allows map based search so that you can identify real estate developments and homes around your present location. The map allows you to get driving directions from your present position to the house of your choice.
Square Connect mobile app by Square Yards, a technology-enabled transaction platform for primary real estate is a mobile application for real estate brokers, independent financial agents, stock broking firms and financial institutions. The app provides them access to a much larger primary real estate inventory opening up more possibilities to do business outside the current area of operations and helping them potentially earn higher commission slabs from developers. Says Tanuj Shori, founder Square Yards – “With the Square Connect program, we are pivoting our business model to be more of a technology-enabled aggregator and distributor of primary real estate rather than a pure play transactions advisory.”