Selling a house is hard work. Ask any real estate agent.

You scour the Multiple Listing Services for properties, often printing off dozens of listings.

Maybe that couple you're helping will find their "dream home" among the stack.

Well, NextGen Agent hopes to make realtors jobs a whole lot easier.

NextGen Agent is a cutting-edge Pocket PC software application that features a fully-distributed listing database with color photos, contact management, CMA and scheduling information. It synchronizes thousands of real estate listings and pictures with a desktop PC or even to a networked server.

With NextGen Agent, Pocket PC users can have access to property and customer information anytime, anywhere.

Ken Lovett, CEO of NextGen Realtor.com, Inc. told BrightHand, "The combination of the Pocket PC and NextGen Agent will provide the ultimate time-management tool, real-time database accessibility, and an easy-to-use portable PC for the real estate industry."

And we agree.

NextGen Agent can display listings in an unlimited number of user-configurable views. Here are two simple formats: one house per screen or two houses per screen.

	Next Gen Agent

	Next Gen Agent

And NextGen Agent has a grid view for storing other particulars, such as the dimensions of the rooms.

But matching a home buyer's criteria is a key component of any real estate software and NextGen Agent's got that covered. Realtors can use the NextGen Agent search screen (also user-configurable) to search for properties that fit the bill.

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Realtors can also save and recall saved searches, a great time-saving feature!

And NextGen Agent allows agents to mark properties for printing (via IR printer) or emailing to their prospects.

Jim Sherry, Head of consulting firm Innovative Solutions, which has recently completed an evaluation of the NextGen Agent software for their Realtor® Association, MLS and Mortgage Company clients calls NextGen Agent "an exciting new PDA software application."

"It's the first entry into the PDA environment that provides real estate agents and brokers with a sensible, low-cost, portable and PC-like tool for their business," says Sherry. "Because Pocket PCs have the familiarity of Windows that so many people know, thousands of real estate professionals will take to this solution with ease."

If you're a real estate agent, or simply interested in this exciting new software for Pocket PCs, you should visit NextGen Realtor's Web site.

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