Today, we are introducing our Version 1.5 apps (download on the App Store) along with new pricing to make our apps more affordable than ever.

A Better Search: In this release, we focused on improving the core search experience based on agent feedback to better find the listings clients care about.

Save & Share Searches: Along with a search history, agents & their clients can now save searches.  Agents can also share these searches with their clients with 1-click.  When you invite a client, make sure you set up an initial search for them so they can view search results right away that match their preferences.

Swipe to Load More Listings: To give more visibility into the total number of listings available for a search, each view now also displays the total search result count.  To load more results, simply swipe at the end of a listing view.

Filter by Listing Status: Listing Status is now searchable in addition to over 10 other listing fields. The Map View now displays listings color-coded by status.

Deepest MLS Integration: We continue to work closely with FBS and the Spark Platform to deliver a best-in-class native mobile experience with the deepest MLS integration.  One of the advantages of direct access to MLS listing data for your clients is the richness of local information that you can’t find on the consumer portals.  In this release, the listing view has now been updated to display all IDX fields as the MLS intended.  The Photo Search and listing view also display retina-quality photos where available and HD photos otherwise.

FREE Social Edition! The base Social Edition plan—which includes MLS integration, all the collaboration features, and an unlimited number of clients—is now FREE (vs. $15/month previously).  Of course, for clients and leads, the DreamScore app will always be free.  When you are ready to step up to a premium branded app for you and your clients along with a custom app referral code to distribute to leads, the Social Plus Edition is now priced at $15/month (a 40% price cut).

P.S. And for all you Android users, please stay tuned.  Our first Android release is coming soon.

Just in time for the holidays and hopefully your shiny new iPads and iPhones, we are excited to announce our Version 1.4 apps now live on the App Store!  New features include:

• A Reimagined Photo Search: Wow your clients with beautiful, high-resolution listing photos perfect for your retina display.  Search photos by room or by your clients preferences.

• Search History: Do you have a standard search you always make when getting started with a client?  Your most recent searches are now automatically saved so you can easily kick off that search again with your next client.

• New Product Tour: For those agents or clients just getting started, we now provide a quick product tour when first launching the app.

With Spark Platform integration, DreamCommerce’s Social Real Estate Platform is now available in over 120 MLSs and to 250K+ agents.  Make 2013 the year you go mobile to collaborate with your clients!

The DreamCommerce apps were featured by our friends at 1000watt in their Spotlight email newsletter today with the killer title “Collaboration nirvana in mobile.”  Enjoy!:

Agent/client collaboration tools provide tons of value in mobile – to both parties.

Buyers can save properties, make notes, share them in a private setting and send quick comments back and forth with their agents via an easy touchscreen app.

Win.

Agents can cut the daily volley from email to text to chat programs and voicemail and opt for one app that pulls together the communication, notes on properties and buyer preferences, and even listing data.

Tons of value.

Plenty of apps already provide mobile collaboration in real estate: Buyfolio is one. And Redfin and Realtor.com each have features enabling collaborative search as well.

We want to highlight another one: DreamPro.

DreamPro includes all sorts of bells and whistles around collaboration. Clients use a companion app, DreamScore, that lets them search properties, rate property features, share listings with their agent or friends and family, and leave notes for their agent.

For agents, DreamPro has deep Facebook integration, which can help pull in and convert folks from Facebook. Agents also can collaborate with colleagues, synch to DreamCloud (a companion cloud service from the same app creator), and get alerts when clients add or comment on a home.

DreamPro is integrated into the Spark Platform (real estate’s first app store) and gets its listing data directly from the MLS. Accuracy of data is a big consideration when getting clients to use a tool.

If you haven’t tried a mobile collaboration tool with your clients, now is the time to start. Never miss a cue from a client about what they like and don’t like. Understand their preferences better. And make yourself as easy to reach as possible.

The stuff great customer service is made of.

Yes!  We are in Orlando this week at the NAR convention with our friends from FBS Data Systems to exhibit in the Spark Pavilion (Booth #511) and deliver some exciting announcements:

New native iPad app makes social real estate more beautiful than ever:

The design of the new native DreamPro and DreamScore apps for iPad combines all the best social features from our iPhone apps with the gorgeous retina display of the iPad to deliver a big, beautiful, photo-centric interface for searching and collaborating with clients and leads.

First native mobile app available on the Spark Platform:

As you may have guessed, DreamCommerce is a Charter Developer of the Spark Platform.  We have worked closely with FBS to soon offer the Social Real Estate Platform to Spark’s 250K agents & brokers and their clients.  The new version of DreamPro will be the first native mobile app available on the Spark Platform making MLS access for agents & brokers as simple as clicking the Login with Spark button from an iPad or iPhone.

If you are in Orlando, please stop by the booth for a demo to learn more about our Social Real Estate Platform.

You can read the full press release after the jump.

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We are excited to announce from Startup Alley at the Inman Connect San Francisco the national launch of the Social Real Estate Platform in five markets with Los Angeles, Miami, Phoenix, and Seattle joining Boston.

The 1.2 version of the DreamPro and DreamScore apps were also posted to the App Store today.  New features include:

• Industry-first Facebook Open Graph integration: Generate & convert social leads by touring homes or sharing listings with clients from within the DreamPro app and seamlessly publishing those actions to Facebook. Be seen as a local expert.

• Agent Referral Codes: Convert mobile leads into clients by distributing a referral code that potential clients use to experience the full MLS search and social features of the DreamScore client app and tap to contact an agent.

• Agent Branding: Put your brand and best listing photos in front of your leads as they search the MLS with a customized DreamScore app.  Simply drag-and-drop your custom image files via Dropbox.

• Improved DreamScore: Now integrates with Walk Score® and Education.com for the best in walkability, transit, and school data.

You can read the full press release below:

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We are busy here adding features you request and updating our Apps to provide an even better home shopping experience–from the most-seasoned real estate pros all the way to first-time home buyers.

To that end, we have updated both our DreamPro agent & broker app and DreamScore consumer app with a bevy of new features in our 1.1.5 release.

First, we have improved the Map View to add quick jump navigation buttons to skip from saved listing to saved listing immediately without panning manually.  We have also adding Satellite-overlay support so you can zoom in on a listing for a bird’s eye view of the yard and the neighborhood.

Second, DreamSearch results now allow quick sorting from the results list by Price, Days on Market, #Bedrooms, #Bathrooms, and Square Feet along with a sort order toggle.

Third, we have added support for two additional MLS systems – ARMLS for our Arizona realtors and CARETS for our SoCal friends.

Stay tuned for more exciting features rolling out this summer.  And please keep submitting your ideas in our forum.  We are listening!