Trulia Inc, the online real estate company, has re-launched its mobile app for Android and iOS, with more focus given to high resolution photos and other added features.
While photos are the centerpiece of the now simpler app, other exciting features - like browsing home details, refining searches according to price, neighborhood information and an area's crime rate - have been added.
The Trulia app, designed to help users find homes using a GPS-based interactive map, provides information on current listings, open houses, rental listings and sold homes in a given area. Users can also set up notifications designed to alert them should a certain property's price change.
According to Techcrunch, Trulia held the app's launch back in order to observe what worked and flopped in its niche market, as well as to make sure the release would coincide with the seasonal uptick in house hunting.
One of the first real estate services to launch a mobile app, Trulia has more mobile than desktop users, with more than 60 percent of the company's leads to agents coming from mobile, according to Steven Yarger, director of Trulia mobile. In all, more than 14 million monthly visitors use the app, reports Pulse2.com.
Trulia, which offers separate apps for rentals, mortgages and agents, was also the first property service firm to release an app for the infamous "Google Glass." Those wearing the high-tech specs need simply to into a neighborhood to immediately receive notifications and alerts about the homes listed for sale. The alerts are based on either previous data submitted by Trulia or the type of homes searched on the website earlier.
More recently, Trulia also released an open source software, Trulia Java RETS Client, through the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) website to help programmers build easier applications and uncomplicated MLS usage information.
"We appreciate companies like Trulia sharing technology that inspires innovation within the MLS community. Trulia's commitment to the real estate industry and sharing of its technical expertise establishes a positive framework with which to collaboratively address technology challenges," Russ Bergeron, one of the directors of RESO, said in an official statement.
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