Often when real-estate agent Karen Fick is showing a house, the prospective buyers will spot another home for sale down the street and wonder about that one. Can they afford it? How many bedrooms does it have? Could it be the one?

As an agent with access to Realtor listings, Fick can call up the information on her cell phone.

But with the growth of software and Web sites that enable mobile-device searches of listings and neighborhoods, both agents and consumers increasingly will be doing instant home searches on the go, according to industry experts.

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