You are looking to buy a property and have just viewed a house with the agent whom you called earlier after seeing the advertisement in the newspaper. Not satisfied with the house, you decide to check out other similar houses in the vicinity.

Instead of checking the newspaper classifieds again or driving round and round to spot a “House for Sale” sign, you just click on your iPhone real estate application and out pop several locations nearby with details of similar properties for sale. All you need to do now is to contact the agent or owner and drive over to the house immediately using the directions in your GPS-powered iPhone built-in map, thus saving you a second or third trip.

As you move around the neighbourhood, property listings are updated to give you the latest listings. The convenience extends to being able to access iProperty.com website and all its functions fully, for example, filtering the property by criteria such as property type, state, area, price range and keyword.

You could also view property listings in full detail with descriptions and pictures, in addition to being able to save your shortlisted properties and e-mail them to a friend. Released since April, the first real estate iPhone application in Malaysia has been a runaway success, attracting a total of 16,584 downloads since. It is ranked the number one application in the Lifestyle category.

It can be accessed free at www.iproperty.com.my/iphoneapp or at the iTunes App Store.