) April 17, 2009 -- Colton Creative LLC announces that OutrageousAgents.com is now live. With thousands of page views a month during beta testing, and critical praise in "Realtor Magazine," OutrageousAgents.com is rapidly becoming the leading resource for independent reviews and ratings of Realtors and real estate agents. The site also aggregates news related to buying and selling real estate.
   

) October 29, 2008 -- Free, no commission For Sale by Owner (FSBO) listings on RealtySpace.com are not just effective, according to two recent studies, FSBO listings make good economic sense. RealtySpace.com is now offering no commission home sales listings free.

) March 26, 2009 -- Paso Robles real estate agent and broker Kristina Wesley has joined the distinguished team of professionals at Prudential Hallmark Realty in Paso Robles, CA. A broker and Realtor®, Kristina brings over eight years of experience in the real estate market, as well as a background in real estate office management.

) February 21, 2009 -- SentriLock (http://www.sentrilock.com), a leading provider of electronic lockboxes to the real estate industry, today launched "Lockbox Live," a virtual presentation that allows boards, associations and individual real estate professionals to gain keen insights into the numerous high-tech benefits of electronic lockboxes. Lockbox Live can be accessed at: http://www.sentrilock.com/lblive/lblive.html.

) April 17, 2009 -- In a ground-making move, CyberCity 3D, Inc. and Prudential California Realty's Cyber Advantage Referral Services have inked a deal for the first 3D property advertising program.

Modeled by CyberCity 3D

Prudential Realty's Cyber Advantage Referral Program connects Prudential and outside agents with relocating buyers in need of representation. Thanks to the CyberCity 3D/Cyber Advantage agreement, this system will now also support inquiries generated from 3D real estate posted on Google Earth™ through the Google Earth™ API.

) November 5, 2008 -- CyberCity 3D (www.cybercity3d.com) today announced that real estate industry veterans Steve Ozonian and Ed Krafchow have joined its Real Estate Advisory Board to assist the Company as it launches 3D real estate publishing via the web. CyberCity 3D will introduce its 3D Geo Web Real Estate Display Services via Google Earth at the NAR Conference November 6th in Orlando, Florida.

"Our Company feels privileged to have both Ed and Steve on our advisory team. They bring a wealth of knowledge of the real estate industry and how technology," stated Kevin DeVito,CEof CyberCity 3D.

) April 6, 2009 -- Real estate agents looking for a powerful cost-effective tool to manage their online reputation can now create a free profile at AgentWorld.com. The site provides many of the core features of social networking; including profiles, blogs, photos, and videos but avoids the time-wasting features of typical social networks that are geared more toward generic socializing with friends.

"AgentWorld.com was built strictly for real estate agents and real estate buyers and sellers. It is a site where agents can showcase their skills and experience and connect with buyers and sellers. It is not a place to find long-lost school mates or keep track of how many cups of coffee your friend has had today", says founder Tyler Kraemer.

) February 7, 2009 -- 74% of Real Estate Agents in Memphis ask the same question. "What in the world is 9to5 Realty?"    

9to5 Realty offers a retro--and revolutionary-- business model designed to fill a specific niche in the real estate marketplace. Real estate agents can build their own personal, independent, non-affiliated business in real estate and can now avoid questioning both their role in a larger organization and their compensation programs. 9to5 Realty evolved to address shortfalls in the real estate sales process. Real estate experts themselves, the developers of 9to5 Realty recognize that the home sales process model must change.

) November 5, 2008 -- CyberCity 3D (www.cybercity3d.com) today announced that real estate industry veterans Steve Ozonian and Ed Krafchow have joined its Real Estate Advisory Board to assist the Company as it launches 3D real estate publishing via the web. CyberCity 3D will introduce its 3D Geo Web Real Estate Display Services via Google Earth at the NAR Conference November 6th in Orlando, Florida.

Your house on Google Earth

) April 13, 2009 -- Prudential Realty's Cyber Advantage Referral Program connects Prudential and outside agents with relocating buyers in need of representation. Thanks to the CyberCity 3D/Cyber Advantage agreement, this system will now also support inquiries generated from 3D real estate posted on Google Earth™.

Modeled by CyberCity 3D

) July 30, 2009 -- How can selling homes lead to building homes for the homeless? That's the challenge that Barbi Bistrowitz, founder and president of VirtuallyShow.com, set for her team. "When I first started my business in 1992, I was only focused on making a profit," states Ms. Bistrowitz. According to Barbi, the recent housing crisis and economic downturn, had her rethink her profit only focus and come up with a business model that could really help families get decent housing. At the same time Ms.

) September 27, 2009 -- Movoto.com (www.movoto.com), today announced the expansion of the company's online home buying solution to include property listings in the Tucson, Arizona area. Movoto.com adds the Tucson real estate market to the growing list of regions where Movoto's "start to finish" home buying solution is available to real estate consumers. Movoto's inclusion of Tucson homes for sale listings increases the over 37,000 Arizona homes for sale listings already live and available on Movoto.com.

) July 9, 2009 - Looking for Colorado Springs real estate? Pikes Peak Association of REALTORS® recently released a powerful new update to their web site, PPAR.com. The updated PPAR.com features full MLS searching along with comprehensive listing reports.

Released on May 18, 2009, the new PPAR.com features powerful but easy to use tools and a great depth of information that includes comprehensive data, maps, virtual tours, multiple photos and much more. The site allows for robust searching of every property type, including:

) July 17, 2009 -- 123 Movers.com, a leading online moving portal and a division of Dominion Enterprises, has partnered with RealEstate.com to provide free moving quotes to those looking to buy or sell a home on this industry leading real estate web site.

) December 10, 2008 - Fizber.com, the real estate property listing website, forms a partnership with Help-U-Sell® Real Estate, the nation's best provider of professional licensed real estate services. With this partnership, Fizber.com will showcase Help-U-Sell® Real Estate properties on the Fizber.com website providing Help-U-Sell® Real Estate advertisers with increased exposure.

) September 2, 2009 -- Rowell Auctions, Inc. is conducting an online only auction in Arkansas, Colorado, and Louisiana, as well as an absolute online auction of 80 properties in the south-eastern states of Georgia, Florida, North Carolina and Alabama. In the midst of difficult economic times, this multi-state sale is an opportunity for all licensed real estate professionals to earn commissions from online real estate auction sales by showing these properties to prospects and registering them with the selling agent, Rowell Auction, Inc.

Absolute Online Real Estate Auction Property - Rowell Auctions, Inc.

) July 1, 2009 -- eppraisal.com, a consumer-focused home valuation and real estate information site, today announced the launch of a new version of its Real Estate Professional Directory. This updated service gives real estate professionals one location to list their business profiles not only on eppraisal.com, but also on Google Maps, Yahoo! Local, Yellowpages.com, and 80 other search engines and local directories.

Using the advanced directory service, real estate professionals get a profile page on top-ranked eppraisal.com as well as numerous other local directories, improving their online visibility on local search engines and directories.

) October 31, 2008 -- Blevins Wist Real Estate, the Maryland-based real estate sales and consulting company of Keller Williams Realty agents Michael Wist and Matthew Blevins, has recently launched the upgraded version of their company's website (blevinswistrealestate.com), which now features real-time updates to listings of Maryland homes for sale and full user search capabilities.

) March 2, 2010 -- 2M Realty has added a new feature to its website that monitors changes to Houston MLS listings. Houston real estate buyers can now get automatically notified by email when the asking price or listing status of a property changes. This feature helps consumers keep current with their favorite properties and allows them to act fast if the price or status change is to their benefit or disregard a property when it is no longer for sale.

) October 22, 2009 -- Jack Kilkenny, the leading Realtor serving the Central Pennsylvania real estate market proudly announced the launch of his new website - HersheyHouseHunt.com. Designed to be the leading resource for residential properties in the Dauphin County area, including the communities of Hershey and Harrisburg, the website aims to match the superlative real estate services that Kilkenny has been offering since 2002.

) September 18, 2009 -- Movoto.com announced expansion of their unique service to home buyers in Oregon and South Washington today. Residential real estate buyers can now use Movoto.com to access active homes for sale listings in Oregon and South Washington communities including the Portland, Oregon metro area. In addition to homes for sale listings, Movoto's comprehensive service allows real estate buyers to be introduced to a local experienced real estate agent from an established neighborhood brokerage when they are ready to buy or sell a home.

) August 12, 2009 -- Movoto.com announced coverage of the residential real estate market in the Chicago, Illinois metropolitan area today. Real estate buyers can now access over 90,000 active homes for sale listings in Northern Illinois communities using Movoto.com. The company offers a complete solution for consumers, helping real estate buyers from start to finish through the process of buying homes for sale.

Raleigh, North Carolina Dakno Marketing, Inc. a rapidly growing real estate web design and marketing firm, incorporates innovative consumer-friendly web tools for an enhanced web site experience. These creative tools were featured in a recent article in the April issue of REALTOR Magazine. In its article entitled 5 Cool Things Real Estate Pros Are Doing on Web Sites, this industry-leading publication highlighted three web sites designed and developed by Dakno Marketing.

) October 7, 2008 -- As the U.S. financial and real estate markets deal with realities such as a $700-billion bailout and the sharpest annual housing-value declines in history, you've got to imagine what it takes for a real estate professional to stay full-time in the business. Now imagine doing so in the Las Vegas real estate market, a city which has been called 'Ground Zero' for the housing crisis. Aaron Auxier has been there the whole time, and his dedication has paid off. He says that a website named ActiveRain deserves much credit.

) May 12, 2009 -- Z57, Inc., a leading provider of real estate online marketing, announced Q1-09 client acquisition is up 125% over Q1-08. This 3-digit percentage increase is proof positive that Z57's real estate clients recognize the need for an experienced, one-stop source for their Web marketing. For over 10 years Z57 has provided REALTORS® nationwide with top-performing, professionally branded websites. In addition Z57 stands behind their AE Premiere website with a guarantee of 60 unique visitors within the first two calendar months or the site is free.

) October 31, 2008 -- Consumers searching for real estate in Southeast Florida have a competitive advantage when negotiating for properties found on Realtor.com, the #1 homes-for-sale-site. Updated information on property listings is fed to Realtor.com by the REALTOR® Associations in Southeast Florida every 15-minutes, delivering the freshest and most up-to-date information to home buyers searching online for real estate.
   

) July 30, 2009 -- Amid the housing crisis, a newfound importance has been placed on developing functionalities to market homes. One of the most recent of these tools, and what might be lauded as a breakthrough in the way homes are sold in the future, is a new Internet-based service called MyHouseIn3D (www.myhousein3d.com), developed in part by its co-founder Scott Pearl.

) July 2, 2009 -- RE/MAX recently introduced an extensive redesign of its popular Web site, www.remax.com, geared to meet the challenges of the current real estate market. In its new and improved form, the Web site should be especially welcome in major metropolitan areas, such as the Chicago real estate market.

The most popular real estate brokerage web site, remax.com, has recently been designed to be even more consumer friendly.

) October 16, 2008 -- Trulia, the best place to start your real estate search, has launched the Trulia Partner Program to enable trainers, small and mid-sized brokers, MLSs, associations and publishers to promote the Trulia Pro marketing solution to their members and visitors, while generating additional revenue.

"Trulia Pro has proven to be a cost effective and targeted way for real estate agents to market their listings and their personal brand, in the local areas that matter most to them," said Sami Inkinen, co-founder of Trulia. "Dozens of partners have already joined the Trulia Partner Program in order to provide their agent communities with smart, ROI driven marketing tools in today's uncertain market."

) September 8, 2009 -- Facebook has exploded in the real estate community, and forward thinking vendors such as My Single Property Websites ( http://mysinglepropertywebsites.com ) have followed suit. The company, which helps real estate agents create single property websites for their listings, has completely redesigned their listings for easy Facebook posting.

) March 31, 2009 -- Prospect Smarter Inc., announced today an agreement to provide their Enthusem product to be a sales and marketing catalyst for RealEstate.com, REALTORS®. The Enthusem product will allow RealEstate.com, REALTORS®'s 1,100 agents to access the web portal anywhere throughout the country so they can create and send printed cards to prospective home buyers and sellers with their own personal design and message.

RealEstate.com and Enthusem Partnership

) October 6, 2008 -- Beginning this month, the Southern California MLS (SoCalMLS), one of the nation's largest Multiple Listing Services (MLS), becomes the newest major MLS to begin displaying detailed information about recently sold properties on REALTOR.com®. As a result, consumers can now access actual sales prices within 24 hours of a sale's closing, review property details and photos, and find the transaction's listing and buyer's agents for thousands of Southern California properties on REALTOR.com®, the #1 homes-for-sale Web site.

) November 24, 2008 -- Real estate professionals can now add unique value to their websites using Kate's Free Mortgage Blog Widget. Jam packed with up-to-date real estate information, Kate Ford, mortgage insider and creator of http://www.get-your-best-mortgage-rate.com/mortgage-blog.html, offers a free mortgage widget allowing Realtors and mortgage lenders to provide daily content to their websites, ezines, blogs and on-line newsletters with little effort on their part. It's as easy as three clicks of a mouse.

While no longer in a free fall, the real estate industry is still in terrible shape, with business down for agents and brokers across the board. As large and small brokers look to cut costs any way they can, the notion of a completely virtual real estate brokerage is gaining popularity. Resonant Properties, a San Francisco real estate brokerage, has made this the heart of their new real estate strategy. (PRWeb Oct 15, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/10/prweb3033604.htm

) October 5, 2009 -- GlobalNewHomes.com, the Web's largest free search directory of new real estate, announces its recent launch. Now, people can search for new developments and condos for sale on one comprehensive site. To celebrate its launch, Global New Homes is featuring a contest, with a grand prize of $1,000.

GlobalNewHomes.com - Search Your World

) August 5, 2009 -- TLC Innovations Inc. launched their much-anticipated RealtySites PLUS™ product today at the Inman Real Estate Connect San Francisco.

) May 6, 2009 -- Seventy percent of Realtors® are interested in using a one-stop online shopping source for real estate closing services. And 71 percent said they would be likely to refer clients to a neutral site unaffiliated with their agency, to find and compare real estate closing costs, according to a survey of nearly 2,000 Realtors conducted recently by the National Association of Realtors* for ClosingCorp.

) February 28, 2009 -- In a challenging marketplace where every advantage is an asset, Prudential Lifestyle Realty is proactively keeping its award-winning Realtors and satisfied customers ahead of the technological curve and the competition.

Highly educated consumers may make some businesses feel more vulnerable or irrelevant, but Prudential Lifestyle Realty recognizes the value of putting real estate resources and cutting edge tools directly into the hands of clients. The Asheville area real estate brokerage recently launched a sleek new Web site that includes free tools such as a high-speed MLS search engine.

) October 14, 2008 -- When the housing market was booming and gas prices were low, it was easy and fun spending hours driving house to house taking clients to look for a home. Now, with fewer buyers and higher prices at the pump the costs in terms of time, money and the environment are simply too high especially when there are alternatives to visiting every house while still getting a solid understanding of what is available in the market.

) November 21, 2008 -- Fizber.com, the U.S. leading real estate property listing website, announced one of the stars to be officially given the name of Fizber.

Certificate

The stars have always had a great influence on the lives and destinies of people. But how can one decide what star is theirs? And which one from millions of them is lucky? For Fizber.com this question doesn't exist anymore. Recently the company has received a certificate confirming that one of the stars was officially given the name of Fizber.