) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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."

) 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.

AgentWorld.com has combined real estate specific profile marketing with social media distribution to create a powerful online marketing tool for real estate agents. (PRWeb Oct 27, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/10/prweb3095894.htm

) 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.
   

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.

) 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.

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

For Lone Wolf Real Estate Technologies, the purchase expands the privately-held company’s offerings to real estate brokerages for back office management technology.

) January 8, 2009 -- CellSigns, Inc today announced that Coldwell Banker Burnet, a leading real estate brokerage serving Minnesota and western Wisconsin, has launched three phases of a new mobile real estate information service that gives home buyers convenient access to local home for sale information using CellSigns' Mobile Agent™ tools.

Mobile Agent Real Estate for Coldwell Banker Burnet

) March 30, 2009 -- HomeGain®, a leading real estate website, today announced that Alan Shafran, Realtor® with The Alan Shafran Group of Prudential California Realty in La Costa, CA, and HomeGain AgentEvaluator® member, has reached one million dollars in gross lifetime commissions with HomeGain.

"HomeGain has been instrumental to building my online business," stated Alan Shafran. "AgentEvaluator consistently puts me in touch with home buyers and sellers in my area. HomeGain is the secret sauce to growing my client list, to closing 20 percent additional homes per year, and to making me one of the top Realtors® in the U.S."

) 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.

) 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.

) December 17, 2008 -- As millions of baby boomers retire, many are struggling with the high cost of living in the United States. Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama have become the new Florida. Retirees are looking to Latin America for its low cost of living, affordable health care and and less expensive real estate.

) 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.

) 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.

) December 14, 2008 -- ResortQuest Southwest Florida is proud to announce a new feature to ResortQuestSWFL.com, a Travel Agent booking site.

ResortQuest Southwest Florida TA Site

ResortQuest Southwest Florida is very pleased to announce the launching of our travel agent booking site

Phoenix, AZ - July 13, 2009 - Real estate agents now have a new marketing tool available which will increase their properties exposure. Agents will now be able to use the power of social media sites.

) 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

The National Association of Exclusive Buyer Agents (NAEBA) is an organization of real estate professionals who have dedicated their business lives to representing only buyers of real estate.

) 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.

) July 25, 2009 -- RealUp, a new commercial real estate marketing site offering free listings and industry data, has experienced tremendous growth since the launch of the RealUp.com website. Only sixty days since the May 15, 2009 beta launch, RealUp has grown an astounding 1,319%, experiencing just shy of 7,000 unique visitors in the month of June, as reported by Compete.com. With such a high percentage of growth, RealUp has become the fastest growing commercial real estate site in the industry and has catapulted its way into the top ten of major industry competitors based on traffic.

) 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.

) September 18, 2009 -- Sperry Van Ness ("SVN"), one of the nation's largest commercial real estate firms announced today that during his keynote at the state of the company address in Chicago, CEO, Kevin Maggiacomo, mandated the firm have a 100% adoption rate of social media into their business model by Q2 of 2010. "The reason for the mandate is simple…every segment of our clientele has embraced social media, and our competitors are all but invisible making this a tremendous opportunity," said Maggiacomo.

) August 12, 2009 -- Mycondonetwork.com is proud to announce the launch of one of the largest real estate websites in the GTA. This website contains a database of thousands of properties, with more being added each day.

) November 19, 2008 -- Fizber.com, a U.S. real estate website, has recently entered into an agreement with Trulia.com, a residential real estate search engine, to create a co-branded online real estate section powered by Trulia's innovative search technology.

Fizber Partners with Trulia

The Trulia Publisher Platform (TPP) gives the Fizber audience the ability to find homes for sale nationwide directly from the Fizber.com website using Trulia's search technology and award-winning user interface.

) August 5, 2009 -- Z57 Inc., a real estate online marketing company, announced a 115% increase in client acquisition for the first half of 2009 as compared to the first six months of 2008. This statistic supports the fact that real estate professionals nationwide find added value in choosing an experienced, one-source personal Web marketing company. With Z57's AE Premiere and Pro websites, Z57 offers a traffic guarantee which provides a money back guarantee if someone does not receive 60 unique visitors in 60 days.

Andhraproperty.net is a newly launched real estate marketing blog in India with an objective to be a virtual marketplace for the andhra pradesh real estate industry.

If you're in the real estate investing industry then you've probably seen how much profit one can possibly gain after putting money into real estate and investing in properties. Not only that, if you

If you're in the real estate investing industry then you've probably seen how much profit one can possibly gain after putting money into real estate and investing in properties.

Agent Invitation is a new service that lets buyers and sellers approach real estate agents to help these agents reduce their cost to do business and share the savings. (PRWeb Apr 7, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/04/prweb2290714.htm

) June 22, 2009 -- There is a vast difference in income between real estate agents who use social marketing and provide a video tour for their listings, and those who do not. Only one percent of real estate agents use effective social marketing tools. They know how important it is to have potential buyers find them on the internet. Just having a website and using email is no longer enough. Top agents reach out to buyers. And when a potential buyer finds an agent on the internet, their first impression is critical. A quick response is important because buyers closely watch the clock after initiating a contact.

) September 2, 2009 -- The website, www.dreamhomesdot.com is an international luxury property website that helps you to find or advertise your luxury real estate to a global audience. Dreamhomesdot.com specializes in advertising and marketing luxury real estate around the world through real estate agents and brokers uploading their luxury properties, on behalf of their clients, onto www.dreamhomesdot.com in order to find a buyer.

The Home of Luxury Real Estate

) 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.