The time has come for when real estate consumers in Vermont and Central Vermont can view the real estate listings for the area on the go using their mobile phone.  I was looking at Trulia.com and found a link to the app.  But it has to be an ipod touch or an iphone from what they were saying.

After looking at the advertisement, it looks like the system is getting some pretty poor reviews, only 2+* out of 5 for an average.  So the bottom line is, don’t rely on this just yet.  But my company, century 21 jack associates, also has an app coming out that will be free and hopefully it will work a little bit better.

The way this works is that almost every real estate firm decides to allow their listings to be broadcast to the world by other agencies though data sharing agreements, one specifically is called IDX which stands for internet data exchange.  An automated daily “push” of this information makes it out to heaps of sites on the internet, where sites like Trulia compile the information and try to make sense of the data.