January 7, 2005
Realtors association develops Web-to-phone technology
Realtors across the country will soon be able to use a tool that converts Web-based leads into cell phone calls, the National Association of Realtors announced today, reports Inman Real Estate News.
"Messenger, a software product that uses voice synthesis to translate consumers' Web-based real estate inquiries into voice messages that are sent to a Realtor's cell phone, is scheduled for release before April."
Related real estate mobile services:
-- For-sale homes 'speak' in text messages - A new service available in Florida allows home shoppers with cell phones to get information on for-sale homes in the form of a text message.
-- Artificial Life, Inc. Announces Mobile Real Estate Service in UK The new mobile service allows clients to enter short-codes in their mobile phones to retrieve SMS and MMS based information about available real estate offers in the UK in near real time.
-- Real Estate Listing by SMS Australian real estate company Hocking Stuart offers their potential clients up-to-the-minute listings via email and text messages, allowing buyers and vendors to receive relevant information in a personalised and private way.
-- A new use for camera phone: Agent's safety - Camera phones as a tool for real estate agents seems a natural and has often been mentioned as one of the strong business applications for these new handsets. Shooting on the spot and forwarding pictures to prospective buyers, could give a real estate agent a speedy edge in a competite market. And a company suggests real estate agents user their camera phones - not to shoot property - but to snap pictures of their clients (with their permission), as a form of insurance.
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