Thursday, June 18, 2009

Home Finder Real Estate Tool


This iPhone App allows users to locate a home by using the GPS tool on the iPhone find their current location or by typing a search for a neighborhood. Users can view pictures of the home and save it as a favorite on their phone. They can also email the listing if needed. More importantly this application calculates monthly mortgage payments using daily interest rates from Zillow.com.  

This application can easily be used in everyday life when searching for a home. Most people, when they begin looking for a house to buy, the first thing they do is ride through a couple of neighborhoods. Grant it, they can search on the internet, but seeing a house in person is much more realistic that looking at pictures on the internet. Once a house is found, the user of this application can use the GPS to locate the neighborhood they are in and use the mortgage calculator to see if the house is even affordable to the buyer. This is a huge advantage to a homebuyer because buying a house can be an emotional purchase so this application may be able to stop someone from falling in love with a house he or she cannot afford.


Resources:  http://www.zillow.com/iphone/
itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=288213844 &mt=8 –

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