A system for providing property details to a mobile communication device of a user, which transmitts property data from the database of properties to the mobile communication device such that the property data can be read from the mobile communication device by the user. Typically, the communication device is a mobile telephone and the data is transmitted as an SMS text message. The system may respond to a received enquiry message from the mobile to select matching houses from the real estate database in accordance with the user' s preference request.