) 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.

) October 28, 2008 -- While many real estate companies are struggling in today's economy, Fizber.com continues to experience rapid growth as the U.S. largest FSBO marketplace. Traffic to the site increased 12% in September, which generated more than 30,000 unique visitors and over 4 million page views on the site.

Fizber Growth

) December 9, 2008 -- It is estimated that approximately 15% of all property for sale in the US is FSBO (for sale by owner).

) October 24, 2008 -- According to the Fizber's recent competitor research with Google Trends, the Fizber.com website ranks second after ForSaleByOwner.com, the trusted leader in the FSBO real estate.

Google Trends

Following the lead of sites like Compete.com and Alexa, Google Trends for Websites allows users to see a graph of traffic to the sites they designate. Trends for Websites is a Google Labs product that lets users view how popular their favorite websites are and also compares and ranks site visitation across geographies, and related websites and searches.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) December 9, 2008 -- In a market where 50% of San Diego real estate sales are foreclosed homes, Surf Foreclosures has launched today to provide the most comprehensive, free Foreclosure Search Tool to San Diego home buyers.

This site provides two different search options. The first option allows buyers to search all current bank owned homes listed on the San Diego Multiple Listing Service (MLS). In addition, the site provides a list of San Diego short sale listings. With one click, buyers can see all the listings sorted by cities, as well as the addresses, pictures, description plus other pertinent information.

) 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.

) 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.

) December 9, 2008 -- Fizber.com, the leading real estate property listing website in the United States and ModelHomeTour.com, a California-based website created by the Building Industry Association of Southern California (BIA/SC) have come together to offer the largest online inventory of new home community listings in the country.

ModelHomeTour.com has developed the largest and most comprehensive content of new home communities throughout the United States and is providing such information to Fizber.com.

) 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:

) 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.
   

) March 31, 2009 -- Though some reports in the news media might suggest otherwise, people are still buying and selling homes. In fact, during 2008, more than 66,000 homes changed hands in the metropolitan Chicago real estate market, according to data compiled by Midwest Real Estate Data, LLC (MRED).

However, there is no question that home sellers faced a more challenging environment in 2008 and will have to deal with similar issues in 2009, according to Jim Merrion, regional director of the RE/MAX Northern Illinois real estate network.
   

) October 31, 2008 -- Consumers searching for real estate in Mid-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 Mid-Florida Regional Multiple Listing Service (MLS) every 15-minutes, delivering the freshest and most up-to-date information to home buyers searching online for real estate.

FSBO site offers innovative mix of sellers' blogs, short URLs and more.

) 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 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.

) 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.

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 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.

) 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 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.

) May 20, 2009 -- CondoDomain is pleased to announce four new markets including: San Francisco, Seattle, Houston and Phoenix. With the addition of these four markets, CondoDomain is now serving 18 cities across the U.S. and offering buyers a true alternative to full-service, full-commission real estate brokerage.

Condo Domain

) 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.

) 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.

) 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."

) 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 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.

) October 9, 2008 -- Design To Market Home Staging delivers success in Cincinnati's competitive real estate market. Jo Potvin, owner of Design to Market, Greater Cincinnati's premier home staging company, sees an uptick in interest from sellers and listing agents looking for a competitive advantage in a tight housing market. "Everyone wants their home to stand out. Professional home staging gives sellers in every price point an edge over other homes on the market -- a real bonus when the market is dragging."

) July 23, 2009 -- In HGTV's first live interactive event, viewers of the network's new series Real Estate Intervention can comment on the show via Facebook and see live tweets from the show's host Mike Aubrey while watching the episode this Sunday, July 26 at 8:30 p.m./7:30 Central. Aubrey will provide behind-the-scenes play-by-play live on HGTV's FrontDoor.com, Facebook and Twitter during Sunday's episode about a Washington, D.C. resident who has lost her job and now fears losing her home.

) 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.

) 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.
   

) December 16, 2008 -- As part of its continued growth strategy, BizQuest is pleased to announce today the launch of its completely redesigned website. The new site features improved search tools, a more modern look and feel, and improved navigability.

"Now that we have over 42,000 active business-for-sale listings on the site it's become more important than ever to ensure that our website visitors can easily find the types of businesses for sale that they are looking for," says Dylan Garland, CEO of BizQuest. "This new site is faster, easier to navigate, and has introduced a number of search tool improvements designed to do just that."

) November 11, 2008 -- CondoDomain.com is pleased to announce the launch of their web-based buyers' brokerage business model in the San Diego, CA and Washington D.C. marketplaces.

We are in a wild market at a wild time right now

RealOrganized, Inc. releases a significant free upgrade to their RealtyJuggler Real Estate Software Organizer. Upgrade includes improvements FSBO, and Expired listing Prospecting tools, support for graphical letterhead, and printed flyers using RealFlyer, and over 50 additional enhancements and bug fixes. (PRWeb Sep 14, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/real_estate_software/realtyjuggler/prweb2872514.htm

) February 16, 2009 -- One of the biggest challenges, and highest priorities, in the real estate industry is to have a comprehensive online marketing presence. The cost and skill level needed to provide these ever-expanding services are difficult to meet for many real estate professionals. RealeFlix® is now open to provide a true video real estate listing platform and tools to integrate online media, distribution, management, and monitoring services for real estate professionals and sellers.

RealeFlix Searchable Video Real Estate Listing Service