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I purchased an iPod touch recently. The iPod touch is an iPhone without the phone and fee (for those of you that didn't know). It works wirelessly so you need to be in range of a wireless network to go online. One of the many things you can do with an iPod touch (aside from listening to music, surfing the web, checking your stocks and playing Pac-man lite) ~ you can search for homes, too! There are a number of mobile applications you can use including Zillow, Trulia and Realtor.com. I tried out the Realtor.com application and really liked it. (BTW, sugarpinerealty.com rocks as a property search tool on the iPod touch in the Safari and Opera Mini browsers. Give it a look.) So what does mobile access to home information say about the real estate market? Nothing you don't already know: Doing real estate has changed and will continue to change. The fact is people don't need realtors® for home information so much anymore, per se. They can get that from the internet. What they do need realtors® for is insight on the local market, guidance and instruction through the home purchasing/selling process and personal human care and interaction. That last thing especially the iPod touch cannot do.
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"What they do need realtors® for is insight on the local market, guidance and instruction through the home purchasing/selling process and personal human care and interaction. That last thing especially the iPod touch cannot do."
No, you need to upgrade to an iPad for that!
But seriously, local information services are bread and butter Web2.0 applications now (such as UpMySTreet.com providing crime, schooling, property tax and other info) guidance and instruction on processes can be documented and automated through AI Agents... Never be complacent about what can be stripped out of a transaction when the customer no longer sees value in it.
The trick is to take the advances in technology and use them to support your role by helping you add value elsewhere.
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