) 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.

) November 19, 2008 --
As advertisers and publishers seek ways to improve performance to
compensate for shrinking budgets, new technologies like location-based
advertising provide a means of improving relevance and response rates.
Today, leading real estate site, Trulia.com, and interactive media
company, 1020 Placecast, have announced their partnership, using
location information to target specific audiences for advertisers and
deliver more relevant messages to them on Trulia.com.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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 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.

) April 7, 2009 -- Today Maponics LLC (http://www.maponics.com), a provider of highly-local geographic data, announced the promotion of two senior executives. This move will further accelerate the unprecedented momentum the company has achieved over the past year, which it projects to continue in 2009.

Mark Friend has been named vice president of sales and marketing and will oversee the expansion of US and international spatial database licensing and partnerships. A key focus will be continuing to develop the Maponics reseller network, a group recently broadened to include MapInfo, Infusion and AWhere.

) November 4, 2008 --
Roost, Inc., the fastest, most comprehensive search engine for
finding your dream home, today announced the appointment of Felicity
Carr as the company's new director of business development. Reporting to
Roost Vice President of Business Development Matt Cullen, Carr will
leverage a decade of experience in sales, business development and
strategic alliances to extend Roost's partnerships with brokers
nationwide as the company expands its reach across additional real
estate markets.

) 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 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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 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.

) 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.

) 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

) December 2, 2008 --
1020 Placecast, the interactive media company delivering highly
effective audience targeting with its place-based advertising solution,
added another seasoned advertising veteran to its team with today’s
announcement that Jeff Montgomery has joined as the company’s Chief
Revenue Officer. Jeff will be responsible for the development and
execution of sales and operations strategy for Placecast, as well as
delivering cross-platform digital marketing campaigns and world-class
client service.

) 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.

) 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.

) September 23, 2008 -- eCommission Financial Services, Inc. (eCommission), the nation's leading provider of commission advance services to real estate sales professionals, announced they have reached some important goals and milestones for 2008.

) July 22, 2009 -- Dynamic Network Services Inc. (Dyn Inc. http://www.dyn.com), the rapidly-growing DNS provider based in Manchester, NH, and its Dynect Platform (http://www.dynect.com) announce record growth for the second quarter, citing superior technology and excellent customer service as well as the competition's service troubles, including managed hosting and managed DNS outages and poor performance, as contributors to the company and product's success.

) 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

) 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 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 24, 2008 -- ForeclosureRadar, which helps REALTORS® and professional investors participate confidently in the foreclosure process with accurate, timely information and tools, today released a new version of its FLX foreclosure property search solution. FLX - which functions just like an IDX search derived from the Multiple Listing Service - is available for real estate broker and agent websites as a free benefit with a standard ForeclosureRadar subscription.

FLX Screenshot

) October 12, 2008 -- Swiss Panama Group, Corp. celebrates its 3rd anniversary as the premier online business classifieds portal in Panama. Encuentra24.com ® launched live for its thousands of users on 10th of October 2005. The Web based company attributes is local business success to their great timing during Panama's Real Estate Booming economy and to delivering a user friendly interface ideal for the local market. Each new visitor saw the advantages and potential of Encuentra24.com® classifieds then quickly begun posting thousands of for sale and/or for rent listings online.

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) 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.

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.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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.

) 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

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.

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

) September 17, 2008 --
Roost, Inc. (www.roost.com),
the fastest, most comprehensive search engine for finding your dream
home, today announced the launch of its service in Southeastern
Michigan, extending its coverage to the Detroit Metro Area (Oakland,
Macomb and Wayne Counties), as well as Ann Arbor and rural areas
spanning from Washtenaw County to the Thumb. The addition of these new

) 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 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.

Onboard Informatics, the premier data services and technology company for top tier organizations in real estate, media and technology, announced their Value Added Reseller (VAR) program during the 2009 Inman Real Estate Connect conference in San Francisco. The VAR program provides qualified real estate web developers, brokers, financial institutions and other public sectors with full access to the highest quality data sets and technology on the market. The program is focused on developing viable partnerships, which begins with an assessment of their needs and product offerings in order to develop a custom solutions package with specified training programs. (PRWeb Aug 7, 2009)