Augmented reality is all kinds of awesome, especially when it’s used for something practical. And the upcoming Commonwealth bank Real Estate iPhone app looks like it will be extremely practical for anyone in the property market.
The app pulls data from realestate.com.au and rpdata.com, in order to give you up to the date information on properties around the country.
By pointing your iPhone’s camera at a property, the app will give you information about past sales history, current property listings and recent sales, nicely overlaid over the property you’re interested in. You can also drop back into a “bird’s eye view” to see information on properties that match your “dream home” description.
The app is apparently “coming soon” to the app store, although CBA promises video of it working next week.
[Commbank]
Douglas Orchard
Friday, April 23, 2010 at 1:23 PMI hope it going to be free… Please Commbank! Give something back to your loyal *cough* customers!
Tom
Friday, April 23, 2010 at 2:14 PMThis would be brilliant if they do a version, or add, a rental functionality. My lease will be up in a couple of months and if I can see a place I like, hold my phone up to it and it tells me prices, when it’s available, that would be fantastic.
Will they do it? There’s no money in it for them, so no. :(
Pete
Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 5:07 AMTom,
Try LiveSpot Property on the augmented reality browser Layar for sales and rentals
Browse to http://m.layar.com/open/livespotproperty
from your iPhone or Android device
Enjoy.
AR
Monday, May 3, 2010 at 4:48 PMLivespot doesn’t show sales history information. It’s also on the very bloated and extremely buggy Layar platform so its pretty useless.
Housefinder on the other hand, is the height of awesomeness.
Ariel Giron
Friday, April 23, 2010 at 3:59 PMHeight of awesomeness or invasion of privacy?
Adammm81
Friday, April 23, 2010 at 5:33 PMThey’d just be piping the data from the address, they’re just making it nice and easy from what you could look up online anyway. You might as well blame Google for invasion of privacy for the same reasons.
Axio
Friday, April 23, 2010 at 6:03 PMThe free app called “Layar” has a similar setup, but no property history, just new for sale and rental listings from domain.com.au. You can also select all types of other layers showing nearby attractions.
Augmented reality is fun ;)
YoYo
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 2:21 PMDear Privacy,
You where once a shining star in this world but with Facebook, Gmail, CBA real estate Apps Location and GPS we would need to say that your star is close to extinction.
Cant wait for the Face regonistion App what tells you hey you spend 500 in a str|p c|ub last week.
Yours
Tobi Fukushima
Sunday, May 2, 2010 at 4:53 PMIsn’t this the same as the one by st.george?
“housefinder” seems to have very similar if not the same capabilities as described above?
as for privacy issues information relating to property transactions are made available as public record and are used for assessing and valuing of property. Such information ensures that property values, purchases and investments can be made with confidence and transparency.
Personal Information relating to individuals is protected under the national privacy act and as a result can be withheld from such records.
In regards to RP Data providing property sales information to anyone including these apps and websites like RealEstate.com.au, this information is only provided in the event that RP Data has been supplied the sale detail from the Agent. This is not comprised of personal data relating to the sale or any information that may have been supplied from the respective states Lands department.
shaneo
Monday, May 3, 2010 at 12:40 PMYeah I have seen this by st george as well, in fact I downloaded it from the App store yesterday…it’s called ‘housefinder’….pretty good and actually useful.
Jess
Monday, May 3, 2010 at 2:54 PMTypical CBA over promise and under deliver
Tommy
Friday, May 28, 2010 at 11:58 AMObviously ‘coming soon’ means sometime in the next decade? Still can’t see anything in the app store. Thanks for the fluff CBA!
Alison May
Monday, May 31, 2010 at 3:18 PMI heard the application will launch in June!