Buying a home is a nasty, arduous and blessed task. It’s further complicated by the glaringly obvious fact that nobody makes any money until you buy. The feeling that you are so much meat waiting to be ground into sausage rarely goes away.

I should know. I am in the process of moving from the lovely state of Wisconsin to sunny California—specifically, the San Francisco Bay Area. There are, shall we say, some bracing differences in the two real estate markets, and not just in terms of price. (Did you say the actual ground beneath your feet sometimes … moves?)

Big Market For Real Estate Apps

Luckily for me and everyone else in the market, there are many useful real estate apps available across all major smartphone platforms. In fact, there are so many good real estate apps that it can be hard to choose the best one.

This shouldn’t be too surprising. The housing market in the U.S. is valued at about $10 trillion. Numerous companies are eagerly hoping to carve out a slice of this sizable American pie—and garner your loyalty—by helping you choose among the 70 million homes located throughout the country.

Zillow, for example, recently began airing this television commercial.

Having viewed nearly as many apps as properties in my ongoing search for a home, I can recommend these three: Trulia, Zillow and Redfin.

They each provide you with an abundance of listings and include the most important details of nearly every home displayed. Each app can text new listing alerts directly to your phone. You can also search for properties using the smartphone’s GPS, or input an address or city into the app’s search bar.

All three are available on iPhone, iPad and Android, and are all free. All three also have companion websites, with additional layers of information available, such as school rankings and property taxes. 

1. Trulia

Trulia is my favorite of the bunch, with a simple, intuitive design and ample listings of properties for sale and rent—along with links to open houses and agents. You can search by city or address, although I found it most useful to let the GPS service provide a map of all nearby homes for sale (within my specified criteria). As you drive through an area, the map can adjust, updating the homes quickly as your position changes.

With Trulia, it’s also very easy to set-up notifications and to save your searches. These may be linked to their website, so you can review your favorites on your laptop later. 

Trulia’s app often displays a small ad-sized listing of an agent across their map. At the beginning, this is helpful. After you’ve selected an agent, it becomes annoying. I would have been happy to pay about $2 for the app, say, to ditch these ads.

Trulia makes it a snap to get turn-by-turn directions to any property listed, and to quickly text your spouse of your latest find. You can also sort listings by price, features (e.g. number of bedrooms), and by “newest” listing – which can be very useful to know.

Use Trulia and you’ll wonder how people searched for homes before smartphones existed. 

2. Zillow

Because of the ease of use of the Trulia app, I have placed it above Zillow. The breadth of information that Zillow offers on each listing, however, makes it a must-have for your home search.

Zillow includes a photo tour of the property, a sales history and an estimate of its current value.

Spoiler alert: for the Bay Area, at least, the price estimate is wildly under-valued. This fact somewhat diminishes the Schaedenfreude of discovering that seemingly every buyer in the past ten years has lost a small fortune. 

Zillow includes a handy “draw” feature which lets you swipe an area on the map that then displays the listings within that area. The app also claims to include “pre-market” properties—those which may be coming on to the market soon. This might be a great feature, though I never saw any such properties in the Bay Area. And I would have jumped at them.

If you love good house porn, Zillow is the app for you.

3. Redfin

Redfin is also very good. The app provides a simple, yet robust search interface. You can search by GPS, type in a city or street—or even an MLS number—and narrow these down across several search criteria. These can include price, square footage, year built, number of baths and much more. 

For me, Redfin’s best feature was letting me know if a house was already “pending”—meaning, an offer had been made. This saved me a great deal of time. 

Redfin also lets you check out homes that have recently sold and for how much. This turned out to be extremely helpful information and has aided my subsequent searches.

Note: Redfin appeared to have as many or more listings than either Trulia or Zillow, at least within the Bay Area. In my personal app tests, looking for sales data in other states yielded fewer results.

Location, Location, App

I sometimes tell people that there are so many apps that they need to download three great ones, no more, and focus. But that’s not quite true.

While I do highly recommend all of the apps above, there remains that nagging uncertainty that some awesome property is out there, ready to slip away if I don’t reach for an alternative. So here are several backups for the paranoid house-hunters out there (i.e., all of you):

1. Foreclosures Real Estate

In the Bay Area, at least, a shocking majority of houses for sale are, in fact, houses in foreclosure. It may be the same where you are searching.

This app lists foreclosures, short sales, HUD homes and auction properties. 

2. For Sale By Owner

This app claims to be the “only” one to provide properties that are exclusively for sale by owner. It contains over 30,000 listings. As most listings in other apps are taken from the MLS, this app clearly serves a purpose.

3. Realtor.com

A very well-designed app from the National Association of Realtors. Not surprisingly, it appears to contain as many listings as any of my top three. This app also provides better in-app data on schools.

That said, I found my top three easier to navigate, and their information better optimized for my iPhone’s screen. 

4. HomeSnap

This is a popular app that includes all the available MLS listings. Its claim to fame is that the app lets you take a picture of a house and—based on the GPS data embedded in the photo—get back the sales information on that property.

I have yet to use this feature.

5. Google Glass

If you’re one of the very few people possessing Google Glass, I am not, there are already real estate apps available for you. According to the New York Times, both Trulia and Zillow offer Google Glass apps.

6. Agents and Brokers

I found no compelling reason to choose a particular realtor’s app over any of those listed above.

Article source: http://readwrite.com/2013/07/02/real-estate-apps-from-android-to-zillow

A Bay Area real estate agent who was arrested for allegedly assaulting a prostitute at a South San Francisco motel in 2012 has pleaded no contest to one count of false imprisonment, prosecutors said.

David Patrick O’Mara, 47, entered his plea in San Mateo County Superior Court on Monday in exchange for a maximum sentence of one year in county jail, Chief Deputy District Attorney Karen Guidotti said.

According to prosecutors, O’Mara arranged for a 20-year-old prostitute to visit him at his San Francisco home through the escort website myRedBook.com on June 5, 2012.

O’Mara later claimed that during the encounter, the woman stole an iPad and $280 in cash, though she consistently denied the theft and O’Mara never filed a report, Guidotti said.

The following night, prosecutors said, O’Mara allegedly disguised himself and arranged to meet the same woman at a Travelodge in South San Francisco.

The victim let O’Mara into her motel room, where he allegedly assaulted her, punched her multiple times and bound her legs, feet and mouth with black duct tape, prosecutors said.

South San Francisco police went to the hotel after receiving reports of a woman screaming and entered the room to find the victim bound on the floor.

O’Mara was arrested at the scene, and prosecutors later charged him with several felonies, including false imprisonment, assault and battery.

The victim was treated at a hospital for moderate injuries.

O’Mara remains out of custody on $150,000 bail and is due back in court to set sentencing proceedings on July 12.

Chris Cooney, Bay City News

Article source: http://sfappeal.com/2013/06/sf-realtor-accused-of-assaulting-prostitute-pleads-no-contest-to-false-imprisonment-charge/

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 17, 2013

Climb Real Estate Group’s new app for iOS devices allows users to browse homes and apartments for sale and rent in the San Francisco Bay Area. Buyers, sellers, owners, and luxury real estate aficionados are set to explore the world of extraordinary real estate with Climb’s long-awaited app.

The app shows high-quality photos and a full description for each of Climb Real Estate’s properties, as well as a link to contact the listing agent directly from the mobile device. Listings are updated in real time so users are always up-to-date with what’s happening in San Francisco real estate.

The app’s features include the ability to see all Climb’s current sales and rental listings or see what’s been recently sold and rented. Users can browse agent profiles, save favorite properties for viewing later, or share properties via email, Facebook and Twitter from inside the application.

“We are happy to announce that our dedicated mobile users can find a version at Apple’s Newsstand featuring some of our many fine properties,” said Climb partner Mark Choey, who was instrumental in the development and launch. “As a thought leader in the real estate technology space, it is crucial that Climb have an app.”

“With such a larger userbase using smart phones, iPads and other mobile devices, the importance of communicating effectively with a mobile consumer is essential,” said Managing Director Dirk Kinley. “What we have created not only provides compelling information for buyers, but it also reflects the innovation of Climb’s brand.”

The “ClimbSF Real Estate” app is available for free from iTunes and the Apple App Store.

Climb Real Estate Group is a full-service general real estate brokerage with an emphasis on the purchase, sale, rental and marketing of select residential new developments, commercial and premier resale properties. We specialize in condos, high rises, lofts and homes in South Beach, SOMA, South Beach, Mission Bay, Rincon Hill, Potrero Hill and Central Waterfront. Our focus is on urban-style properties, specializing in new construction, historic loft conversions, live/work spaces, Victorian flats, modern condominiums, and stylish single-family homes. We also have exclusive access to Off-Market Listings, Foreclosures and Developer Specials.

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Article source: http://www.sfgate.com/business/prweb/article/Climb-Real-Estate-Releases-iPad-App-for-San-4526213.php

Users can browse agent profiles, save favorite properties for viewing later, or share properties via email, Facebook and Twitter from inside the application.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 17, 2013

Climb Real Estate Group’s new app for iOS devices allows users to browse homes and apartments for sale and rent in the San Francisco Bay Area. Buyers, sellers, owners, and luxury real estate aficionados are set to explore the world of extraordinary real estate with Climb’s long-awaited app.

The app shows high-quality photos and a full description for each of Climb Real Estate’s properties, as well as a link to contact the listing agent directly from the mobile device. Listings are updated in real time so users are always up-to-date with what’s happening in San Francisco real estate.

The app’s features include the ability to see all Climb’s current sales and rental listings or see what’s been recently sold and rented. Users can browse agent profiles, save favorite properties for viewing later, or share properties via email, Facebook and Twitter from inside the application.

“We are happy to announce that our dedicated mobile users can find a version at Apple’s Newsstand featuring some of our many fine properties,” said Climb partner Mark Choey, who was instrumental in the development and launch. “As a thought leader in the real estate technology space, it is crucial that Climb have an app.”

“With such a larger userbase using smart phones, iPads and other mobile devices, the importance of communicating effectively with a mobile consumer is essential,” said Managing Director Dirk Kinley. “What we have created not only provides compelling information for buyers, but it also reflects the innovation of Climb’s brand.”

The “ClimbSF Real Estate” app is available for free from iTunes and the Apple App Store.

Climb Real Estate Group is a full-service general real estate brokerage with an emphasis on the purchase, sale, rental and marketing of select residential new developments, commercial and premier resale properties. We specialize in condos, high rises, lofts and homes in South Beach, SOMA, South Beach, Mission Bay, Rincon Hill, Potrero Hill and Central Waterfront. Our focus is on urban-style properties, specializing in new construction, historic loft conversions, live/work spaces, Victorian flats, modern condominiums, and stylish single-family homes. We also have exclusive access to Off-Market Listings, Foreclosures and Developer Specials.

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The online CMA can be created in mere minutes and functions as its own unique, password-protected website. Property information includes full descriptions and details from the Multiple Listing Service, as well as all photos of the property, making it easier for clients to have a firm grasp of the market competition. Dynamic mapping shows positions of all comparable properties in relation to the listing.

Agents have the ability to add custom content, including recent sales, a biography, client testimonials, a customized marketing plan, and much more. The information is stored, thus avoiding the need to repeatedly recreate the analyses, saving agents a tremendous amount of time. Pages and sections can be added or removed as needed, and an expiration date may be added in order to stay current in a rapidly-changing market.

Sellers may refer to the CMA after a listing appointment from anywhere they wish. The entire CMA is optimized for viewing on a tablet computer, such as the iPad, but also works beautifully and seamlessly from a desktop or laptop computer as well.

“Off-the-shelf products didn’t address the dynamic aspects of the San Francisco marketplace. We envisioned a far more robust interface and content, so we spec’d, wrote, designed and developed this unique tool to address the specific needs of our agents and clients,” commented Melody Foster, Zephyr’s Director of Marketing and Web Development. “We are delighted by the enthusiastic response to this latest web tool and its efficacy for our community.”

About Zephyr Real Estate
Founded in 1978, Zephyr Real Estate is San Francisco’s largest independent real estate firm with $1 billion in gross sales in 2011 and a current roster of more than 200 full-time agents. In 2010, Zephyr launched its new website, which has earned three web design awards, including the prestigious WebAward for Outstanding Website from the Web Marketing Association. Zephyr Real Estate is a member of the international relocation network, Leading Real Estate Companies of the World; the luxury real estate network, Who’s Who in Luxury Real Estate; and the local luxury marketing association, the Luxury Marketing Council of San Francisco. Zephyr has six strategically located offices in San Francisco, a business center in Marin County, and serves a large customer base throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information, visit www.zephyrsf.com.

Article source: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/zephyr-launches-dynamic-new-online-market-analysis-tool-1742962.htm

San Francisco Bay Area luxury real estate company Alain Pinel Realtors has redesigned its website, adding property search by keyword and by lifestyle attribute, and adds the ability to search for for-sale homes within school districts and by the number of days on the market.

The new site also features a more integrated global search capability, three new blogs, and a toolbox with a rent-vs.-buy calculator for property listings.

The new site features a lifestyle search that allows visitors to search for a home by some of the lifestyle attributes they want a home and its neighborhood to provide. It’s one of the highlights of the redesign, said Rainy Hake, executive vice president for Alain Pinel Realtor.

Filtered by county or neighborhood, the search prompts visitors to provide relative importance to a variety of home/location-related features of prospective homes, including: “school quality,” “the arts,” “entertainment/dining,” “family-friendly,” and “shops and services,” among other choices.

APR.com screenshot.

The new keyword search option allows homebuyers to search for listings using keywords that might turn up houses with certain unique attributes that would take much longer to find in conventional search.

The site also features a cool map-based orientation to the 11 San Francisco Bay Area counties that Alain Pinel services that allows visitors to select various towns within a county to see homes for sale, a short introduction to the market and fairly robust up-to-date market data.

The site will be mobile- and tablet-friendly soon, with a mobile app and an iPad app in development, said Hake.

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San Francisco, CA – December 22, 2011 – (RealEstateRama) — Today, Redfin launched Redfin for iPad, a home-buying app that combines the best real estate data with an industry-first “swipeable” interface. This app follows on the success of Redfin for Android, the highest-rated real estate app in Android Market.

Redfin for iPad’s unique interface uses the iPad’s large screen size to display area maps, thumbnails of homes for sale, listing details and galleries of full-screen photos, all on one page that customers navigate by swiping, rather than going back and forth between pages. Also, no other iPad application combines Redfin’s rich feature set with listing data directly from the Multiple Listing Services used by brokers. As a result Redfin for iPad shows users all the homes for sale, in more detail than any other application can provide.

Redfin for iPad is a combination of the features enjoyed on Redfin’s top-rated Android and iPhone apps and the fun and fast interaction of iPad’s high-resolution screen. Additional Redfin for iPad features include:

• Full detail on every listing, with more than 20 fields for each home in the native application, and dozens more a tap away;
• Full-screen photos, for luscious detail on every bathroom and kitchen;
• Full price history, so users see how a listing’s price has changed since its debut;
• Photo upload, so users can add photos taken by the iPad camera to a listing already on Redfin’s site;
• Agent Insights, which give iPad users comments from Redfin agents with firsthand experience of a listing;
• Price-drop notifications, so users can follow a listing via iPad and get email updates when its price drops or its status changes;
• Syncs with Redfin’s website, so that favorite listings, crossed-out listings, private notes and home-tour schedules are the same on the device and on the web.

“We designed this app from the ground up to take advantage of the crisp screen and large size of the iPad’s display,” said Sasha Aickin, Redfin’s Chief Technology Officer. “Customers told us they want one page that shows the map view, a list of homes and details and photos of individual listings. Rather than having to browse back and forth between views, with Redfin for iPad, they’ve seen the map, narrowed their search, viewed the listing and are halfway to talking to a Redfin agent while other applications would still be loading the map for the fourth time.”

The areas of the United States served by the iPad app are the same as those served by Redfin’s website, which include the metropolitan areas of Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Portland (Oregon), Seattle, Washington DC, New York’s Long Island and Westchester County as well as the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego and Palm Springs.

The app continues to deliver on Redfin’s commitment to combine technology and service to make the home-buying process better, from start to finish. Redfin for iPad not only allows buyers to search for homes, but also gives them fast, mobile access to agents who specialize in their search area, and unique insights from agents who have seen the homes. During the next year, Redfin will continue marrying technology and service throughout the home-buying and selling processes.

Redfin (www.redfin.com) is the real estate industry’s first online brokerage, combining a customer-focused team of real estate agents with online tools for making the process of buying or selling a home easy. Redfin’s agents handle every facet of a transaction, including tours, pricing analyses, negotiations, inspections and closings. Redfin is the only major search site to feature listings direct from broker databases as well as for-sale-by-owner and foreclosure properties from across the Internet. The company pays its agents customer-satisfaction bonuses, not commissions, and surveys every client, publishing each survey alongside the agent’s complete deal history. Redfin’s service is available in the metropolitan areas of Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Portland, OR, Seattle, Washington DC, New York’s Long Island and Westchester County as well as most of California, including the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego. To keep track of our daring exploits, subscribe to blog.redfin.com or our Twitter feed @redfin.

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• RE/MAX Agents Receive Exclusive iPad App for Listing Presentations
  Anaheim, CA – November 11, 2011 – (RealEstateRama) — NAR Convention – RE/MAX agents worldwide will soon be pulling out their Apple iPads when meeting with prospective home sellers, using one of the real estate industry’s first iPad App for listing presentations called “RE/MAX Presenter,” an innovative and intuitive application developed exclusively for RE/MAX agents….

• Homes.com Adds New iPad App to its Mobile Portfolio
  NORFOLK, VA – November 18, 2011 – (RealEstateRama) — Homes Media Solutions, sister real estate brand of For Rent Media Solutions™ and branch of Dominion Enterprises, announced today the expansion of the Homes.com mobile suite with the release of its iPad application for home and rental searches. The Homes.com iPad application joins the company’s widely successful release of home search…

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Article source: http://www.realestaterama.com/2011/12/22/redfin-launches-ipad-app-featuring-real-estate-industrys-first-swipeable-interface-ID013509.html

San Francisco, CA – December 22, 2011 – (RealEstateRama) — Today, Redfin launched Redfin for iPad, a home-buying app that combines the best real estate data with an industry-first “swipeable” interface. This app follows on the success of Redfin for Android, the highest-rated real estate app in Android Market.

Redfin for iPad’s unique interface uses the iPad’s large screen size to display area maps, thumbnails of homes for sale, listing details and galleries of full-screen photos, all on one page that customers navigate by swiping, rather than going back and forth between pages. Also, no other iPad application combines Redfin’s rich feature set with listing data directly from the Multiple Listing Services used by brokers. As a result Redfin for iPad shows users all the homes for sale, in more detail than any other application can provide.

Redfin for iPad is a combination of the features enjoyed on Redfin’s top-rated Android and iPhone apps and the fun and fast interaction of iPad’s high-resolution screen. Additional Redfin for iPad features include:

• Full detail on every listing, with more than 20 fields for each home in the native application, and dozens more a tap away;
• Full-screen photos, for luscious detail on every bathroom and kitchen;
• Full price history, so users see how a listing’s price has changed since its debut;
• Photo upload, so users can add photos taken by the iPad camera to a listing already on Redfin’s site;
• Agent Insights, which give iPad users comments from Redfin agents with firsthand experience of a listing;
• Price-drop notifications, so users can follow a listing via iPad and get email updates when its price drops or its status changes;
• Syncs with Redfin’s website, so that favorite listings, crossed-out listings, private notes and home-tour schedules are the same on the device and on the web.

“We designed this app from the ground up to take advantage of the crisp screen and large size of the iPad’s display,” said Sasha Aickin, Redfin’s Chief Technology Officer. “Customers told us they want one page that shows the map view, a list of homes and details and photos of individual listings. Rather than having to browse back and forth between views, with Redfin for iPad, they’ve seen the map, narrowed their search, viewed the listing and are halfway to talking to a Redfin agent while other applications would still be loading the map for the fourth time.”

The areas of the United States served by the iPad app are the same as those served by Redfin’s website, which include the metropolitan areas of Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Portland (Oregon), Seattle, Washington DC, New York’s Long Island and Westchester County as well as the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego and Palm Springs.

The app continues to deliver on Redfin’s commitment to combine technology and service to make the home-buying process better, from start to finish. Redfin for iPad not only allows buyers to search for homes, but also gives them fast, mobile access to agents who specialize in their search area, and unique insights from agents who have seen the homes. During the next year, Redfin will continue marrying technology and service throughout the home-buying and selling processes.

Redfin (www.redfin.com) is the real estate industry’s first online brokerage, combining a customer-focused team of real estate agents with online tools for making the process of buying or selling a home easy. Redfin’s agents handle every facet of a transaction, including tours, pricing analyses, negotiations, inspections and closings. Redfin is the only major search site to feature listings direct from broker databases as well as for-sale-by-owner and foreclosure properties from across the Internet. The company pays its agents customer-satisfaction bonuses, not commissions, and surveys every client, publishing each survey alongside the agent’s complete deal history. Redfin’s service is available in the metropolitan areas of Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Portland, OR, Seattle, Washington DC, New York’s Long Island and Westchester County as well as most of California, including the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego. To keep track of our daring exploits, subscribe to blog.redfin.com or our Twitter feed @redfin.

• Redfin Releases Native Real Estate Search Application for Android Mobile Devices
  San Francisco, CA – July 19, 2011 – (RealEstateRama) — Redfin today released Redfin for Android, a map-driven real estate search application for mobile devices using Google’s Android operating system….

• Barrett Co Real Estate reaches Greater Boston home buyers with custom iPhone/iPad App
  Concord, MA – May 31, 2011 – (RealEstateRama) — Barrett Company Real Estate has expanded their mobile MLS IDX reach with the addition of a complimentary, custom Massachusetts Real Estate App for the iPad iPhone. With Verizon’s launch of the iPhone, Apple’s recent launch of iPad 2, and over 10 million iPads sold in 2010, Executive Director of…

• RE/MAX Agents Receive Exclusive iPad App for Listing Presentations
  Anaheim, CA – November 11, 2011 – (RealEstateRama) — NAR Convention – RE/MAX agents worldwide will soon be pulling out their Apple iPads when meeting with prospective home sellers, using one of the real estate industry’s first iPad App for listing presentations called “RE/MAX Presenter,” an innovative and intuitive application developed exclusively for RE/MAX agents….

• Homes.com Adds New iPad App to its Mobile Portfolio
  NORFOLK, VA – November 18, 2011 – (RealEstateRama) — Homes Media Solutions, sister real estate brand of For Rent Media Solutions™ and branch of Dominion Enterprises, announced today the expansion of the Homes.com mobile suite with the release of its iPad application for home and rental searches. The Homes.com iPad application joins the company’s widely successful release of home search…

• Stan Jones Santa Fe Real Estate Launches Free Mobole Santa Fe Real Estate Application For All Mobile Platforms
  Santa Fe, NM – February 21, 2011 – (RealEstateRama) — Stan Jones Santa Fe Real Estate/ Sotheby’s International Realty in Santa Fe, NM today announced the launch of a free mobile application and mobile web search that works on standard cell phones, smart phones, and iPads across all mobile carriers, allowing consumers to view all homes for sale in Santa…

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• • Canyon Gate Real Estate Services’ Vice President Kim Corcoran Named to APCM Board of Directors
  • Governor Haley to sign South Carolina REALTORS® Point of Sale bill Monday
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  • The NH Department of Revenue Administration’s Annual Low and Moderate Income Homeowner’s Property Tax Relief
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Article source: http://www.realestaterama.com/2011/12/22/redfin-launches-ipad-app-featuring-real-estate-industrys-first-swipeable-interface-ID013509.html