{"id":5237,"date":"2009-09-29T10:36:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T17:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=5237"},"modified":"2009-09-29T15:42:18","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T22:42:18","slug":"search-homes-com-on-your-phone-for-us-real-estate-listings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/5237\/","title":{"rendered":"Search US Real Estate Listings On Your Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Homes.com Mobile \" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/Homes.jpg\" alt=\"Homes.com Mobile \" width=\"189\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Homes.com\">Homes.<\/a><a title=\"mobile site\" href=\"http:\/\/Homes.com\">com<\/a>&#8216;s slick looking mobile site at <a title=\"mobile site\" href=\"http:\/\/mobile.homes.com\/\">mobile.homes.com<\/a> lets you search local real estate listings for residential rentals and properties for sale in the US. Listings include description, photo, map, asking price, address and the name address and phone number of the realtor offering the property. Search is by address, zip code or MLS ID.  Results can be filtered by price, property type and number of bedrooms and\/or baths and can be sorted by price or number of bedrooms\/baths.<\/p>\n<p>At first glance the site seems impressive. It looks great on my Android phone and returns dozens of results per zip code for my test searches in the San Francisco Bay Area. On closer examination some usability issues surfaced.  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Phone numbers are not click to call<\/span>, which is inexcusable on a site designed for mobile browsers.  Attempting to advance beyond the first page of listings returns a ColdFusion error.  Although it doesn&#8217;t say so, the site seems to be optimized for the iPhone. Pages have a fixed 300px  width and some functions require  JavaScript.  Things start to break down a bit on feature phones although the site is still at least partially usable on most devices. Without JavaScript the maps don&#8217;t seem to work and horizontal scrolling, overlapping text and images and missing button captions  mar the user experience on some non smartphones.<\/p>\n<p><em>Filed in:<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/?id=1700\">Wap Review Directory &#8211; Search\/Real Estate &amp; Apartments<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Ratings:<\/em> <span class=\"small\">Content <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-blue-star.gif\" alt=\"*\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/blue-starOL.gif\" alt=\"_\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/> Usability <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-red-star.gif\" alt=\"X\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/sm-red-star.gif\" alt=\"X\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/red-starOL.gif\" alt=\"_\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/red-starOL.gif\" alt=\"_\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/images\/red-starOL.gif\" alt=\"_\" width=\"15\" height=\"13\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Ready.mobi Score: <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/ready.mobi\/results.jsp?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmobile.homes.com%2F&amp;locale=en_EN\">2 &#8220;Bad&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Mobile Link:<\/em> <a title=\"mobile site\" href=\"http:\/\/mobile.homes.com\/\"> mobile.homes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homes.com&#8216;s slick looking mobile site at mobile.homes.com lets you search local real estate listings for residential rentals and properties for sale in the US. Listings include description, photo, map, asking price, address and the name address and phone number of the realtor offering the property. Search is by address, zip code or MLS ID. Results can be filtered by price, property type and number of bedrooms and\/or baths and can be sorted by price or number of bedrooms\/baths. 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