) 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

) 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.

) 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.

Fasturtle Technologies is excited to announce the launch of the brand new Habitat 360 website. Habitat 360 is a self proclaimed worlds bazaar of real estate and rentals, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters around the globe. Fasturtle provided the new organization with a state of the art website, combining true dynamic functionality, database integration, online payment processing, and award winning design to launch their online presence.

) 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."

) November 27, 2008 -- www.CLRSearch.com, the real estate search engine, has added a comprehensive list of community demographics and a handy interface to allow consumers to compare the demographic profile of two areas while conducting their real estate search. Utilizing the up-to-date and flexible data provided by Onboard Informatics LLC, a premiere online real estate information provider, CLRSearch.com continues to provide simple, user friendly tools to assist in the real estate search process.

) 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.

) 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.

) February 9, 2009 -- Leading Web solutions provider Network Solutions announces the launch of a new Local Search Visibility service, which provides the first step towards getting found online and driving leads to local businesses. On-demand reporting will be included with the local directory submission service to provide business owners with information about how well they are doing online.

Network Solutions offers local directory submission service

) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

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 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.

EstateAnalytics.com launches a specialized website to collect comprehensive, multilevel real estate news and provides it in a customizable format. This free service, sponsored by RealeFlix® delivers real estate professionals the news that affects their local markets through email alerts within minutes of publication. (PRWeb Dec 16, 2008)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/12/prweb1739824.htm

Website takes a consumer-centric approach to Chicago real estate (http://www.atproperties.com/) with enhanced search functionality, Chicago neighborhood guides and content from all over the Web (PRWeb Nov 3, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/11/prweb3149684.htm

) March 16, 2009 -- Bruised by the recent economic crisis, real estate companies are using the Web to expand their services and provide fresh insights to clients. This trend signals a new era in how real estate professionals convey information; it offers bloggers and Web site owners greater access to current information and allows realtors, investors and other interested parties to easily view listings, news and services.

The Real Estate Book Widget

) June 6, 2009 -- TerraServer, the leader in online imagery, announces the launch of subsidiary company RealUp, a new commercial real estate information company. The beta site officially launched May 17, 2009 and is available to the public at www.RealUp.com. RealUp offers commercial real estate professionals free memberships, unlimited free searching, free recent sales comparables, free lending quotes and interactive listings.

) September 25, 2009 -- ATD-Austin, a leading independent directory publisher for nearly 40 years, announced today the company has launched a new Internet Yellow Pages web site at www.theredphonebook.com and www.atd-austin.com through Internet directory software pioneer, Innovectra Corporation.

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

) 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 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) August 17, 2009 - Business Directories of Texas, LLC, publisher of "Your Go To Source" directories for finding products and services in the Rockwall/Heath, Royse City/Fate, Forney/Sunnyvale, Rowlett, and Wylie/Sachse areas of Northeast Texas, announced their partnership today with Innovectra Corporation. The companies are launching new local search directories in these communities to complement the "first and only" directories of their class, Business Directories of Texas.

) December 2, 2008 -- Due to the ongoing market conditions, credit crisis, and downturn in the economies around the world, many real estate investors are hunting for cheap properties abroad and inexpensive properties overseas. This is an opportune time for real estate bargain hunters. LoftyVistas.com is ideally positioned to cater to such real estate investment plans and goals due to their many cheap property listings in various countries including Egypt, Turkey, Thailand and Caribbean. Bargains are also available in previously booming markets like Dubai.

) November 12, 2008 -- RE/MAX of New Jersey has a new search tool to help home buyers find amenities close to homes for sale in New Jersey. The new tools were launched with assistance from real estate technology tools company Onboard Informatics. In addition to weather, employment, and health information already on the web site, home buyers can now find amenities close to home, which includes local schools, hospitals, and churches.

) 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 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

) 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.

) 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.

) August 28, 2009 -- Pioneer Directories, a leading telephone company directory publisher in the Midwest, announced a new partnership agreement with Innovectra to launch all of its online directories at its new Internet site www.midwestyp.com.

"We are excited to be building an online directory and community based portal in and around the markets we serve. Innovectra delivers the right combination of platform capabilities, publisher services and digital media solutions for our business customers. We feel that the ActivImpact platform is the perfect compliment to our Yellow Page product", said Paul Jacobs, President of Pioneer Directories.

) December 18, 2008 -- Vertical Measures, an internet marketing firm based in Phoenix, Arizona, has introduced a highly personalized local search marketing service for clients that will enhance customers' current marketing efforts.

) 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.

) September 16, 2008 -- While experts claim that the housing market continues to lag, certain areas in Southern California are showing signs that the worst may be over for home sales.

Sean Reynolds

According to The Reynolds Group OC www.reynoldsgroupoc.com in San Clemente, recent MLS data suggests that key indicators are on the rebound in the highly desirable area of San Clemente:

) August 11, 2009 -- Local Market Monitor, the premier real estate forecasting solution, announced today its newly formed partnership with Beazer Homes (NYSE: BZH), one of the nation's top ten homebuilders. This new relationship will help Beazer identify the most profitable markets for new sales by giving them the local market risk intelligence they need to make better decisions.

) 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.