The latest tool for selling real estate: FaceTime

The San Jose Mercury News reports:

Real estate agent Julie Ray has come of age in the red-hot housing market. But this was a first: Zooming through a $1.7 million house with her iPhone, she used its FaceTime video application to send images of the property -- including bathroom tile and a backyard lemon tree -- to the prospective buyers in Switzerland.

"They couldn't fly over on a whim to see a house that was going to be gone in three days," said Ray, who got her license five years ago and is accustomed to the bidding wars that routinely break out here. "So I would schedule a call with them, and I would FaceTime them through the house."

The march of technology.