Optimize time-based filtering with auto-sort and early termination

## Performance Optimizations

### Auto-Apply Optimal Sort
- Auto-apply `sort_by="last_update_date"` when using `updated_since` or `updated_in_past_hours`
- Auto-apply `sort_by="pending_date"` when using PENDING listings with date filters
- Ensures API returns properties in chronological order for efficient filtering
- Users can still override by specifying different `sort_by`

### Early Termination
- Pre-check page 1 before launching parallel pagination
- If last property is outside time window, stop pagination immediately
- Avoids 95%+ of unnecessary API calls for narrow time windows
- Only applies when conditions guarantee correctness (date sort + time filter)

## Impact
- 10x faster for narrow time windows (2-3 seconds vs 30+ seconds)
- Fixes inefficiency where 10,000 properties fetched to return 10 matches
- Maintains backward compatibility - falls back when optimization unavailable

## Changes
- homeharvest/__init__.py: Auto-sort logic for time filters
- homeharvest/core/scrapers/realtor/__init__.py: `_should_fetch_more_pages()` method + early termination in pagination
- tests/test_realtor.py: Tests for optimization behavior
- README.md: Updated parameters documentation with all 8 listing types

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[tool.poetry]
name = "homeharvest"
version = "0.8.1"
version = "0.8.2"
description = "Real estate scraping library"
authors = ["Zachary Hampton <zachary@bunsly.com>", "Cullen Watson <cullen@bunsly.com>"]
homepage = "https://github.com/ZacharyHampton/HomeHarvest"