Year: 2010

Sotheby’s International Realty Brand Puts Luxury Listings at Consumers’ Fingertips with Launch of Mobile Real Estate Application for all Mobile Platforms

PARSIPPANY, N.J., (Dec. 15, 2010) – Sotheby’s International Realty Affiliates LLC today announced the launch of SIR Mobile, a free Sotheby’s International Realty® mobile application that works on standard cell phones and smart phones across all mobile carriers, allowing consumers to view luxury homes for sale in a given market.  The app is available via…

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Smarter Agent Wins NAR Second Century Ventures Fast Pitch Innovation Contest!

Smarter Agent started the 2010 REALTORS® EXPO off with a bang when the team stole the show in the Fast Pitch Innovation competition. Twenty start-up companies took to the stage Friday night at the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans to deliver their 60 second pitch for a chance to win a booth at next…

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RE/MAX of New Jersey Empowers Agents and Homebuyers with the Launch of 27,000 Real Estate Apps

  RE/MAX of New Jersey is the first real estate brokerage in the nation to provide each of its 3,000 brokers and agents with individually-branded mobile real estate apps – from BlackBerry to iPhone to Android to any feature phone available in the market today.   (Moorestown, NJ) – Today, RE/MAX of New Jersey announced…

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Smarter Agent’s President to Present at the 2010 REALTORS Conference

This year the National Association of REALTORS® is hosting its conference and expo in New Orleans, where Smarter Agent’s President Eric Blumberg will speak on the panel “Connecting with Consumers through Mobile Technologies” on Sunday, November 7th at 1:30pm. Mobile technology is changing so fast! What’s next? How can you keep up? Blumberg and panelists…

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App Brings Real Estate Info to your Fingertips

Smarter Agent Founder/CEO Brad Blumberg on Fox Business News describes how Smarter Agent built one of the first mobile applications for every phone long before the word app was coined.

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MLSListings, Inc. and Smarter Agent expand MLS Mobile Strategy for Northern California

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – June 2, 2010 – MLSListings, Inc. (MLSListings), based in Sunnyvale, CA, today announced the launch of a new mobile application that works on standard cell phones and smart phones across all mobile carriers. The public can download the application to their phone to view all homes for sale in northern California. MLSListings’…

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Product Placement: Location-Aware Mobile Apps Go Mainstream

By J. BONASIA, INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY Working with Curtis Lee is a little like having a real estate agent on call anytime day or night, ready to steer you to nearby homes for sale, anywhere you happen to be. At least his app is. Using mobile-phone software licensed from Smarter Agent, clients of the 45-year-old…

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Watson Realty Wins Best Use of Mobile Technology Award

One of our valued partners, Watson Realty Corp., was recently presented with the Best Use of Mobile Technology Award from Leading Real Estate Companies of the World®, the nation’s largest network of premier independent real estate brokers. Watson Realty partnered with Smarter Agent in July of 2009 to provide clients and prospects with a mobile…

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Smarter Agent to Offer Mobile Services to LeadingRE Members

CHICAGO – (4/28/10) – Smarter Agent has been selected by Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® (LeadingRE) to offer mobile services to the network’s 600+ member firms. The alliance is part of LeadingRE’s Leading Real Estate Solutions® division, which identifies leading-edge real estate products and services for its member brokers. Smarter Agent’s mobile real…

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Startups step into the smartphone game

By Peter Key In October 2008, 60 people attended Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic’s first meeting at the Union League of Philadelphia to hear six people, four of whom co-founded the organization, talk about the state of mobile technology in the area. Earlier this month, the latest meeting of the local chapter of the global mobile-technology group…

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