CAMPBELL, Calif., June 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Realtor.com is
adding its signature Area Scout and 'My Real Estate' experience to
its Android app, giving Android users a more powerful and
personalized real estate search experience. Launched and
available today by Move, Inc., (NASDAQ: MOVE), the leader in online
real estate, other key enhancements on the Realtor.com Android app
include a new home screen to find recent searches and saved
listings faster, enhanced contact features that make staying in
touch with agents easier, and instant access to all nearby open
house events within one to 20 miles of a user's location.
Realtor.com mobile apps deliver the largest and most accurate
collection of online property listings with more than 80 percent of
all property listings updated every 15 minutes and the remaining
updated every one to 24 hours.
The free Realtor.com Real Estate Android app was first launched
in November 2010, and is compatible
with Android 2.01 and later. It can be downloaded at
http://www.realtor.com/mobile/Android or at the Android Market™:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.move.realtor&feature=search_result.
Today, 13 properties are viewed every second on a Realtor.com
mobile app including the Android, iPhone, Windows Phone 7 and iPad.
In May, more than 1 million active Realtor.com mobile app users
viewed 35.6 million homes on Realtor.com, a 33.5 percent increase
in home views in one month. In the past three months, active
users of Realtor.com mobile apps have increased by 40.7 percent and
user outreach to agents while using a Realtor.com mobile app has
increased 24.3 percent
Key benefits to Android users resulting from today's Realtor.com
Android app update include:
- Know the list prices in a neighborhood at a glance
anywhere in the U.S. with Area Scout. It's fast and allows users to
see the list price of all homes in a neighborhood down to street
levels. Tap the list price icon and a listing detail bubble
instantly appears on the map surfacing the street address, number
of bedrooms and number of bathrooms. Tap again and the user
is taken to the listing's detail page.
- Personalize your search with addition of the "My Real
Estate" experience. As a result, Android users can instantly
access 'My Listings', 'My Saved Searches' and 'My Recent Searches'
by using one easy-to-find icon visible throughout the app.
Once stored, these searches and listings are available via
each user's personal Realtor.com account on a desk top and on all
Realtor.com mobile brand apps. Users can also sort, refine or
filter search results according to what's important to them –
price, distance, square footage. Users can also create new
searches for homes or open houses based on their location, MLS ID
number, by city, state, or street.
- Staying Connected with an agent from each listing detail
page via email to ask questions or to schedule a tour is now
effortless for Realtor.com Android app users. Android users
can now also store their agent's contact details within the app so
it's easier to send notes, comments and ratings about properties to
your agent without having to enter their email address each time.
In addition, users can now select email addresses from their
phone's contact list with one tap and listings are instantly
forwarded for sharing and consideration with your friends, family
or agent.
"Realtor.com is committed to giving people the tools and
connections they need to buy and sell homes with the technology
that meets their lifestyle. By continually updating all of
our apps so they deliver the power of Realtor.com anywhere and at
any time, buyers and agents can remain better connected and more
productive together," said Realtor.com President, Errol Samuelson. "Through mobile, Realtor.com is
helping turn what once was a lengthy process into literally a
matter of hours or days. To say we're excited about where our
mobile technology is taking us would be an understatement. We
expect these updates and those planned later this year will
continue to evolve property search."
In February 2011, the Realtor.com
Android mobile app was the only real estate search app showcased at
the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the world's largest mobile
exhibition and congress. Spanning 219 countries, the GSMA
Mobile World Congress unites nearly 800 of the world's mobile
operators and 200 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem.
More information on Realtor.com mobile apps can be found at
http://www.realtor.com/mobile. It can be downloaded at
http://www.realtor.com/mobile/Android or at the Android Market™:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.move.realtor&feature=search_result
About MOVE, Inc.
Move, Inc. (NASDAQ:MOVE) is the leader in online real estate
with over 15.5 million monthly visitors (1) to its online network
of websites. Move, Inc. operates: Move.com, a leading destination
for information on new homes and rental listings, moving, home and
garden and home finance; REALTOR.com®, the official website of the
National Association of REALTORS®; MortgageMatch.com, Moving.com;
SeniorHousingNet; ListHub; and TOP PRODUCER Systems. Move, Inc. is
based in Campbell, California.
ABOUT REALTOR.COM®
REALTOR.com®, where the world shops for real estate online, is
operated by Move, Inc., (NASDAQ: MOVE) and is the official Web
site of the National Association of REALTORS®. Ranked as the #1
homes-for-sale site, REALTOR.com® currently offers potential home
buyers access to over four million property listings, as well as
the most brokers and agents. It also provides REALTORS® and the
home sellers they represent with the Internet's largest real estate
marketplace, reaching more than 12.7 million consumers in
May 2011 (2). Agents and companies
have the power to customize REALTOR.com® resources to maximize
their brand and productivity.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements,
including information about management's view of Move's future
expectations, plans and prospects, within the safe harbor
provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. These statements involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors which may cause the results of
Move, its subsidiaries, divisions and concepts to be materially
different than those expressed or implied in such statements. These
risk factors and others are included from time to time in documents
Move files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including
but not limited to, its Form 10-Ks, Form 10-Qs and Form 8-Ks. Other
unknown or unpredictable factors also could have material adverse
effects on Move's future results. The forward-looking statements
included in this press release are made only as of the date hereof.
Move cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity,
performance or achievements. Accordingly, you should not place
undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Finally, Move
expressly disclaims any intent or obligation to update any
forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or
circumstances.
(1) internal mobile metric reports – March 2011 to May
2011
(2) comScore report – May 2011
SOURCE Move, Inc.