LayarTradeVision - iphone app to find best local tradesmen

LayarTradeVision - a new iphone app transforming the way builders, plumbers and double glazing professionals advertise their work.

With the lack of movement in the property industry more and more owners are opting for home improvements over moving house. However second only to selling a property, comes the hassle of trying to find a reputable tradesman to undertake the project and at a decent price.


But looking for a builder or plumber is a daunting process, especially if you don't have any local recommendations from friends or relatives. These days the next best way to find one has been to use web based referrals sites that can provide you multiple quotes from tradesman on their books. While only some of these quote referral sites have a good selection of local tradesman covering your area there's still the major issue of actually how good they are and what is the quality of their work.


Layar Trade Vision, a new and free iPhone service launched today intends to alleviate these problems by providing a user’s with unique way to seek out the best local and busy tradesman which is often a sure sign of reputability.




This location-based app uses augmented reality technology to overlay digital information over a live camera view, in this case floating icons representing electricians, builders, plumbers, roofers. It's part of the growing wave of augmented reality apps using a mobile phone’s camera, compass and GPS data to identify the user’s location field of view, retrieve data based on those geographical coordinates to present data in a much more intuitive and mobile fashion.




After downloading the free app at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/layar-trade-vision/id4138 ... users activate their camera to be presented with icons representing the different types of work recently undertaken by local tradesman all around them. If you are looking for a builder for a new driveway then just filter your search from a list of trades and the camera view will automatically update to show where and how many tradesman have completed jobs in your area. Decide you want to progress and obtain a quote? Then just tap the screen to access the providers email, web and phone numbers and arrange instantly.

The service is growing daily with 1000's of trade listings already covering the U.K. and expanding with new members uploading their digital portfolio. Layar Trade Vision is working to enhance the service even further by incorporating any organisations the tradesman belong to such as the National Federation of Builders or the Chartered Institute of Building so that users can instantly gain greater confidence in the tradesman being listed.



Companies can join Layar Trade Vision by visiting http://www.layartradevision.com for registration details. The straightforward service allows time poor tradesman to simply upload their contact details and portfolio of references and be listed within 48 hours. All subsequent contacts for quotes are routed instantly leaving tradesman to concentrate on their work rather than online quote systems.

Layar Augmented Reality store now available on iPhone

Today iPhone users can buy paid layers with the latest release of the Layar Reality Browser. Download now, its available from the Apple App store. The iPhone release follows the release for Android of less then 4 weeks ago.

The Augmented Reality content store with its paid layers offers publishers a way to monetize their content and offers users more variety and quality in layers available.

The first payment provider is Paypal. The store is setup to support payments to residents of United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. More countries, currencies, payment methods and providers will be added regularly.

Sold Price App Launches

‘Sold House Price Data 2010′ – Check the latest UK residential Sold Price information as recorded by the Land Registry while on the move using the Layar Augmented Reality Browser.

Sold House Price Data 2010 places a huge amount of residential property sales data on your iphone or Android mobile. Instantly retrieve the latest sold prices within your immediate location all via your camera view.

Note: Positional accuracy of data outdoors is dependant on your GPS enabled phone with results accurate up to approx. 10 meters in a good reception area.

Features:

Instantly retrieve sold prices - using in your current location the GPS functionality will allow you to see what properties have been sold recently to give you an idea of current valuations.

Filter Your Search Results - Refine your results further using filters to match your exact criteria, based on a wider search radius up to 5km, property types including Detached, Semi-Detached, Terraced, Flats or even set minimum and maximum property values.

Reality - Map - List Views - Use Live Reality view to locate data based on actual camera view, use alternate Google Map view to obtain 'Take-Me-There' directions or List views for multiple overall comparison of data.

Useability - Change the orientation of the Reality view from portrait to landscape, to encompass more detailed sold price data within the viewable screen area.

Coming during 2010:

The Latest Property for Sale

Add Area to Watch List

Average Sales Data

Average Rental Data

Who is this app for?

Property Professionals - for immediate and recent sales data on the move.

Owner Sellers & Buyers - instant information on determining current valuations

What is Layar?
The Layar Reality Browser shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of the real world as seen through the camera of your mobile phone. This technology is called Augmented Reality. We augment the real world as seen through your mobile phone, based on your location.

How does Layar’s Augmented Reality work?
The idea is simple: Layar works by using a combination of the mobile phone’s camera, compass and GPS data to identify the user’s location and field of view, retrieve data based on those geographical coordinates, and overlay that data over the camera view.

Property Prices on the move?

A new quick property prices mobile iphone application has been launched by Mouseprices this week which allows the user to browse house price information on the move. Priced at £2.99 this is seemingly targeted at estate agents on the move the app provides geo tagged historical data using either post code entry or automatically via the iphones GPS receiver. Time will tell if the public choose to pay to check out local house price changes.

Marketing partnership with Tepilo.com

Link marketing partnership with Tepilo.com



After just days of using social media networking site Twitter.com to contact the founders of Tepilo.com, Sarah Beenys new website for property sellers, we are happy to announce our latest marketing partnership.

Under the patrnership, our estate agency & quick property sales comparison services will be promoted under their Buying & Selling Advice section.

In return, all estate agent searches will be sponsored by Tepilo.com.

With new iphone & web tools in the pipeline we hope to develop this and other partnerships further to help empower property buyers and sellers to maximise the process to their benefit.

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Quick Property Sale & Rent Back Market to be Regulated

Quick Property Sale & Rent Back to be Regulated

The Government has this month published a summary of responses to its consultation of the quick property sale and rent back market, which closed in May 2009. The FSA will publish the details of its regulatory regime, which will take effect on 1 July 2009 subject to Parliamentary approval.

The Government’s consultation followed an Office of Fair Trading (OFT) market study published at the end of last year, which looked at the impacts of the growing quick property sale and rent back market. The OFT report identified a number of risks to homeowners entering into these arrangements and made three recommendations to Government, including compulsory regulation, increasing consumer awareness and improving information about housing benefits.

The proposed legislation includes a two-stage approach to regulation, in order to ensure consumers are protected as quickly as possible in the current market environment.

The FSA will put in place its full regulatory regime in the second quarter of 2010, following consultation and the publication of its final rules.

EstateAgencyFeesDirect.com will incorporate the findings and work to ensure that only regulated companies are listed.


Regulating Sale and Rent Back
3 June, 2009
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