Dissemination of real estate information through text messaging

A system for use by prospective real estate customers for managing personal information including real estate information, wherein the system comprises:

• a mobile software module configured to run as an application for managing real estate information on a mobile device of a user that is a prospective real estate customer, wherein the software module has been downloaded by the user to the mobile device via at least one of a mobile phone network and the Internet and is recorded on a non-transitory computer-readable medium of the mobile device;
• a server module associated with a website for managing personal information including real estate information;
• wherein the website includes one or more secure pages for receiving input from the user to perform one or more of entering, displaying, updating, requesting, filtering and sorting of information;
• wherein the user can visit the website through the Internet and provide a username and password associated with the user to access the secure pages of the website;
• wherein the mobile software module is configured to receive updated information from the server module through the Internet and to synchronize the information so that the user has access to the synchronized information both on the mobile device and on the website;
• and
• wherein the mobile software module includes programming instructions that enable the user to:
• make a request to the server module for real estate information associated with a plurality of properties in a neighborhood determined from at least one of a location based service, a zip code and an address;
• and
• receive from the server module real estate information in response to the request and relating to one or more properties within the neighborhood.