Inside Real Estate Launches 2024 with New Innovations in AI, Platform and Home Ownership Tech
New products and features highlight smarter tech through the industry's most robust and fully connected ecosystem, unlocking workflows and empowering customers to provide exceptional value to their clients, work more efficiently, and drive higher profitability this year. MURRAY, Utah, February 15, 2024 --- Inside Real Estate, independent industry tech leader, and trusted partner to over 400,000 agents, teams, brokerages and top franchise brands, just announced a wave of new product innovations and enhancements, as well as a look at their 2024 roadmap, designed to make it easy for their clients to increase productivity and profit through a fully connected front-to-back office ecosystem. In a recent webinar for Inside Real Estate clients, the company detailed innovative new enhancements to their platform solutions, as well as a preview of plans in development for future releases. More AI-powered productivity-enhancing solutions have been added including a revamped CRM experience that offers efficient and effective communication tools leveraging AI call scripts, email, and text generating capabilities. New designs and customizations for branded collateral and sites help customers "stand apart from the sea of sameness without the hassle of design or development," said Ken Katschke, SVP of Product at Inside Real Estate, and an upgraded, complete back office technology suite creates a single workflow, boosting productivity, and driving brokerage and team growth with a best-in-class data-backed recruiting and retention solution. The latest release and enhancements are designed to help agents and brokers: Leverage AI, automation and insights, to create opportunities, and drive engagement so agents can focus on their most important activities. Differentiate their business, brand and unique value props with design customization and workflows to help them stand apart. Create clients for life, bringing the front office and back office operations together to seamlessly deliver value during the full homeownership lifecycle. Find and align with a community of support to offer inspiration, motivation, and ample opportunities to come together and build connections. "I am confident this will be a momentum-building 2024, and the businesses that lean in, focus on the fundamentals, and set themselves ahead of the competition will capitalize on the opportunities that await," said Joe Skousen, Founder & CEO of Inside Real Estate. "As much as ever, we are taking our role as technology partner seriously, and are laser-focused on delivering the technology, tools, support, and connections, to help our clients find success and stay ahead." Inside Real Estate rounds out their 2024 innovation roadmap with a keen focus on fostering a strong community, peer-to-peer enablement and elevated customer support experiences. Mastermind events, peer coaching programs, new certifications to maximize ROI, and a highly touted user conference in April, called UNITE will all be available this year. To learn more, visit insiderealestate.com. About Inside Real Estate Inside Real Estate is a fast-growing, independently-owned real estate software firm that serves as a trusted technology partner to over 400,000 top brokerages, agents, and teams. Their flagship product, kvCORE Platform, is the most modern and comprehensive solution in the industry known for delivering profitable growth at every level of a brokerage organization. Built on a modern, scalable, and flexible architecture, kvCORE enables every brokerage to create its own unique technology ecosystem through custom branding, robust integrations, and high-quality add-on solutions. Recent strategic acquisitions have expanded the company's technology portfolio further, including BoomTown, Brokermint, and AmpStats solutions, which solidifies Inside Real Estate as the leading technology partner in the real estate industry. With an accomplished leadership team and its talented staff, Inside Real Estate brings the resources, scale, and vision to deliver ongoing innovation and success to their growing customer base. To learn more visit insiderealestate.com.

National Association of Realtors Announces Partnership with Chirpyest
WASHINGTON (January 17, 2024) – The National Association of Realtors® today announced Chirpyest as a new partner with NAR REALTOR Benefits®. Chirpyest is a social commerce marketplace that empowers users to earn cash back when they shop and share their curated finds. As part of the agreement, NAR members will receive multiple shopping boards to customize around themes or listings, as well as custom training workshops to help optimize website visitors, social profiles, emails and open houses. Members can earn up to 30% cash back on the products they buy while simultaneously monetizing their past and present listings. "The NAR REALTOR Benefits® team constantly seeks innovative ways to support our members in growing their businesses and enhancing the value they provide to their clients," said Rhonny Barragan, NAR vice president of strategic alliances. "Our partnership with Chirpyest represents a unique opportunity for real estate professionals to seamlessly integrate the latest in social commerce into their business models." Chirpyest provides all NAR members with the exclusive opportunity to create multiple shopping boards on the platform, each customized around themes or listings. Users can create a go-to storefront with the best furniture, appliances and decor items for home buyers and sellers, and earn cash back when clients purchase their finds. "Real estate agents are at the forefront of home and lifestyle trends – they are influencers in their own communities. We are excited to partner with NAR to help its members create a new revenue stream using the power of their influence," said Colette Shelton, Chirpyest founder & CEO. "With Chirpyest, agents can earn additional income by sharing products from hundreds of online retailers immediately through their own curated storefronts." To claim this benefit, NAR members can visit chirp.chirpyest.com/narrealtorbenefits. About the National Association of Realtors® The National Association of Realtors® is America's largest trade association, representing more than 1.5 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries. The term Realtor® is a registered collective membership mark that identifies a real estate professional who is a member of the National Association of Realtors® and subscribes to its strict Code of Ethics. About Chirpyest Founded in 2019 by former TV executive and COCOCOZY founder Colette Shelton, a Forbes Top 30 influencer, Chirpyest was launched as a social commerce marketplace with a mission to democratize the influencer model and help small business owners create new income streams.

Second Century Ventures Selects Seven Tech Companies for 2024 REACH Canada Program
CALGARY – Second Century Ventures, the strategic investment arm of the National Association of Realtors®, announced seven companies selected for its 2024 REACH Canada program. These firms operate within a diverse range of market segments and specializations, from empowering agents and brokers through productivity and efficiency solutions, to resources that help real estate businesses combat fraud and address some of society's growing housing challenges. "Each year, the REACH Canada program showcases the powerful blend of technology and innovation that is transforming the real estate market," said Dave Garland, managing partner of Second Century Ventures. "The 2024 class emphasizes the role of technology and collaboration in addressing some of real estate's core challenges in Canada and across the globe. We're thrilled about the transformative potential these companies bring, and we're proud to be supporting their efforts to shape this industry's future." Second Century Ventures is the most active global venture fund in real estate technology, with more than 230 portfolio companies worldwide. SCV operates the global REACH scale-up program in six major markets: U.S. Residential, U.S. Commercial, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and Latin America. The award-winning REACH program helps high growth-potential companies scale across the real estate, financial services, banking, home services and insurance industries. Companies joining the 2024 program are broadly categorized within three verticals: affordable and equitable access to housing; enhancing housing supply; and streamlining the agent and consumer experience. The seven companies selected for REACH Canada 2024 are as follows: Collegium: Makes real estate development a data-driven process by bringing owners, architects, engineers, building trades, constructors, financiers, and insurance underwriters together onto one platform, with an end-to-end process and next-generation digital tools. Maket: Revolutionizing design with generative AI that empowers architects, designers, builders, contractors and developers to automate residential floor plans, create 3D renders and explore limitless styles. Proxima HQ: A digital, end-to-end real estate sales platform that enables agents to sell anywhere with the best buying experience. Propra: A suite of property management tools that improves efficiency, communication, and cost-savings while elevating the resident experience. ilumin.ai: A continuous anti-money laundering (AML) compliance and monitoring tool for the real estate sector. Infinite Creator: Helps real estate professionals create captivating content for real estate that's fast, easy, affordable and professional PropTexx: Provides generative AI, data analytics and actionable, real-time business intelligence for the real estate industry. "This cohort of companies offers a remarkable range of diverse solutions that leverage REACH's rapidly expanding global presence," said Lynette Keyowski, Managing Partner of REACH Canada. "These innovators are working to advance the real estate ecosystem through unique value-added solutions for homeowners, asset owners, real estate operators and agents." REACH Canada will offer its 2024 program a robust curriculum including education, mentorship, exclusive networking opportunities and significant exposure to the global real estate marketplace. Learn more about the companies selected for the REACH Canada program and how you can get involved at www.narreach.ca. About NAR The National Association of Realtors® is America's largest trade association, representing more than 1.5 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries. The term Realtor® is a registered collective membership mark that identifies a real estate professional who is a member of the National Association of Realtors® and subscribes to its strict Code of Ethics. About REACH REACH is a unique technology scale-up program created by Second Century Ventures, the most active global fund in real estate technology. Backed by the National Association of Realtors®, Second Century Ventures leverages the association's more than 1.5 million members and an unparalleled network of executives within real estate and adjacent industries. The REACH program helps technology companies scale across the real estate vertical and its adjacent markets through education, mentorship and market exposure. For more on REACH, visit www.narreach.com.

EasyKnock Acquires Home Management Platform Onder
The acquisition will further expand EasyKnock's marketplace of solutions serving homeowners, buyers, and sellers across the country NEW YORK -- EasyKnock, the first technology-enabled residential sale-leaseback platform, today announced its asset acquisition of Onder, a property maintenance solution built with homeowners in mind to make it easier to own a home. The transaction is integral to furthering EasyKnock's development of its marketplace by offering consumers solutions for every stage of the homeownership journey. "This acquisition is a key addition to EasyKnock's extensive suite of products and services, allowing us to expand our offering and continue to empower families nationwide," said Jarred Kessler, CEO and founder of EasyKnock. Onder CEO and Co-Founder David Krieger will be joining as chief product strategy officer. "Between Onder and ten years spent leading product strategy at Expedia, he is the perfect fit to lead our existing product strategy, expand Onder's solutions and take our marketplace to the next level." Through the acquisition, Onder's services will simplify the home maintenance process for EasyKnock marketplace customers. The platform manages all maintenance, repairs and upgrade needs to help customers save time, reduce stress and ensure a safe, well cared-for home. Combined with EasyKnock's existing property management team, the company plans to establish the first nationwide property maintenance platform for homeowners. "I am thrilled to join EasyKnock's mission to solve real problems for American homeowners," said David Krieger, former CEO and co-founder of Onder, and the new chief product strategy officer of EasyKnock. "This acquisition is a natural fit as Onder complements what EasyKnock has already accomplished, and together, we will continue to expand products and services to help more homeowners." Recognizing that everyday Americans are deserving and in need of a new approach, the marketplace will benefit customers with convenience, cost savings, and the competitive edge afforded by the combination of multiple services. Deal terms were not disclosed. About EasyKnock EasyKnock is the first-to-market, technology-enabled residential sale-leaseback company in the U.S. Through innovative and accessible solutions, American homeowners who sell their property to EasyKnock can remain in their homes as renters while still getting the cash they need to pursue their financial goals. Headquartered in New York City and founded in 2016, EasyKnock has team members nationwide working to help homeowners unlock their financial freedom through non-loan programs so they can pay off debts, buy their dream home, fund a venture, and more - all while maintaining the ability to stay in their homes and communities. For more information, please visit www.easyknock.com. About Onder Onder is a home maintenance subscription platform revolutionizing the way homeowners and renters manage their living spaces. As a home services subscription company, Onder's mission is to simplify home care and provide more time for what truly matters. Our vision is to redefine the home services industry, offering transparency in pricing, access to trusted professionals, and hassle-free scheduling. The company, founded in 2021 is headquartered in Seattle, WA. At Onder, we believe that every home should be a sanctuary of comfort and convenience. Join us as we transform your home management experience with a commitment to making 'Home' where your journey truly begins.

Second Century Ventures Announces Inaugural REACH LATAM Cohort
MEXICO CITY (June 15, 2023) – Second Century Ventures, the strategic investment arm of the National Association of Realtors®, announced the selection of eight companies to its inaugural REACH Latin America (LATAM) cohort. Second Century Ventures is the most active global venture fund in real estate technology, with more than 200 portfolio companies in six major markets worldwide. "This is a groundbreaking moment for Second Century Ventures as we extend our REACH program into Latin America," said NAR CEO and SCV President Bob Goldberg. "We're confident our partnership with these new innovators will offer tremendous benefits to consumers and real estate agents in Latin America and across the globe." The award-winning REACH program helps launch and accelerate high-growth potential companies in the real estate, financial services, banking, home services and insurance industries. "We're excited to welcome these new innovators to the Latin America PropTech community," said Carlos Rousseau, managing partner of REACH LATAM. "The solutions provided by this group of companies have demonstrated considerable relevance and strong innovation, and we can't wait to see what's next for the remainder of this year and beyond." The companies chosen for the 2023 REACH LATAM program offer solutions in digital marketing, cross-border investing, financial transaction management, mortgage, property services, data and AI modeling, and more. The eight companies selected include: Ambana: Provides cross-border fractionalized real estate investment opportunities across Latin America and the United States. Koggi: Connects developers, financial institutions and home buyers to simplify home financing throughout Latin America. Kolonus: An integrated residential property management platform with neighborhood maintenance services, access control, payments and collaboration for residents and tenants. Alohome: Helps homebuilders increase their conversion rates through simple-to-use sales and marketing software. Propmeteus: Provides a centralized and verified analytics database for real estate professionals in Mexico. Kipp Storage: Helps commercial landlords monetize vacant spaces by transforming them into storage and logistic solutions across Chile and Mexico. Ai360: Provides data and AI models to improve financing and investment decision-making in the real estate industry. Beleta: A hand-curated marketplace for premium residential properties in Mexico. "We are excited to debut the 2023 REACH LATAM cohort, a remarkable lineup of solutions across the Latin American real estate ecosystem," said Dave Garland, managing partner of Second Century Ventures. "Guided by the vast knowledge and backing from our worldwide community of real estate professionals, investors, strategic partners and mentors, we are optimistic that this inaugural cohort will lead positive and enduring transformation for real estate in Latin America and worldwide." REACH LATAM will offer its 2023 program a robust curriculum, including education, mentorship, exclusive networking opportunities and significant global real estate marketplace exposure. Learn more about REACH LATAM and how you can get involved at https://nar-reach.com/latam/. About REACH REACH is a unique real estate technology program created by Second Century Ventures, the most active global venture fund in real estate technology. Backed by the National Association of Realtors®, SCV and REACH leverage the association's more than 1.5 million members and an unparalleled network of executives within real estate and adjacent industries. The program provides education, mentorship, and market exposure to one of the world's largest industries. For more on REACH, visit www.narreach.com. About the National Association of Realtors® The National Association of Realtors® is America's largest trade association, representing more than 1.5 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries. The term Realtor® is a registered collective membership mark that identifies a real estate professional who is a member of the National Association of Realtors® and subscribes to its strict Code of Ethics.

Sisu Launches Client Portal 2.0 with Vendor Integration for Streamlined Real Estate Workflows
New release promises to reduce duplicate data entry and increase efficiency for real estate teams Kaysville, UT - May 16th, 2023 -- Sisu, the leading provider of real estate workflow automation solutions, today announced the launch of its Client Portal 2.0, featuring integrated vendor capabilities. With this new release, real estate teams can streamline their workflows and automate their processes even further, as they can now submit orders for essential services, such as mortgages, title orders, listing photos, home warranties, and more, directly from within the platform. By eliminating the need for duplicate data entry and reducing the potential for human error and inefficiencies, Sisu's Client Portal 2.0 promises to make the lives of admins and transaction coordinators much easier. The original Client Portal, launched in February 2022, was a significant step forward for real estate workflow automation. But with the release of Client Portal 2.0, Sisu has taken this platform to the next level. Custom road maps provide clients with a "Domino's pizza tracker"-like experience, offering visibility into every step of their transaction. This level of transparency is a huge value-add for consumers, as the number one complaint about working with a real estate agent is the lack of communication and visibility throughout the process. Now, with Mortgage and Title vendors on the platform, communication with all parties involved is located in one central place, reducing the potential for duplicate data entry and increasing efficiency. The new release of Client Portal also includes document storage, file sharing, centralized communication and collaboration, as well as the ability to add and edit roadmap steps. This powerful combination of features promises to help real estate teams streamline and automate their workflows like never before, saving time and reducing the potential for errors. "Sisu's Client Portal 2.0 is a game-changer for the real estate industry, and we're thrilled to bring these powerful new capabilities to our clients," said Brian Charlesworth, CEO of Sisu. "By integrating vendors and providing a seamless, transparent experience for all parties involved, we're helping real estate teams take their businesses to the next level. We believe that this platform has the potential to revolutionize the way real estate transactions are conducted for generations to come, and we can't wait to see the impact it will have on our industry." Overall, the Client Portal 2.0 is a highly anticipated and huge development for the real estate industry, and Sisu is proud to be at the forefront of this digital transformation. By empowering real estate teams to work more efficiently and communicate more effectively, Sisu is helping to drive better outcomes for consumers and professionals alike. For more information about Sisu and the Client Portal 2.0, please visit our website at sisu.co/client-portal. About Sisu Established in 2016 and headquartered in Kaysville, UT, Sisu is a leading provider of real estate workflow automation solutions. Our mission is to change the real estate industry by helping real estate teams work more efficiently and effectively. By providing powerful tools for sales contests, tracking metrics, transaction management and more, Sisu empowers teams to grow and increase revenue year over year. We are proud to be at the forefront of the digital transformation of the real estate industry, and we're committed to delivering innovative solutions that drive better outcomes for our clients. For more information about Sisu and our products, please visit our website at sisu.co.

Second Century Ventures Announces Early Acceptances to 2023 REACH U.S. Programs
CHICAGO (March 23, 2023) – Second Century Ventures, the strategic investment arm of the National Association of Realtors®, announced today the early acceptance of two companies as part of the 2023 REACH U.S. programs. REACH is a scale-up program that helps propel technology companies throughout the real estate, finance, banking, home services and insurance industries. "The early selection of these companies demonstrates the speed at which Second Century Ventures and REACH operate to equip real estate professionals, across all sectors, with top tools to accelerate their businesses," said Dave Garland, managing partner, Second Century Ventures. "We are tremendously impressed by Real Grader and APM Help, for both their solutions and their teams' passion for advancing innovation. They will join a portfolio of more than 200 companies that have demonstrated immense value for the real estate ecosystem worldwide." The companies chosen for early acceptance to the 2023 REACH and REACH Commercial programs are: Real Grader measures, manages and maximizes digital presence for real estate professionals. Its most recent product launch, the Instacard® – a digital business card – has already been adopted by tens of thousands of agents, brokers and MLS organizations worldwide; and APM Help assists property managers with audit, accounting, finance, and technology to run their businesses better. Clients can manage their entire back office while accessing a curated marketplace of partner solutions with preferred pricing and seamless integrations. The 2023 REACH and REACH Commercial programs mark the 11th and 4th years of operation, respectively. This year's rosters of companies will leverage the longstanding success of the REACH program – which saw its 2022 U.S. portfolio raise more than $240 million and secure numerous strategic partnerships across the corporate landscape while incorporating feedback from Realtors® in the development of various new products and services. Real Grader was featured at the 2022 Miami Realtors® Rock the Market event as part of the REACH Labs initiative. "It has always been a vision to team up with the people at REACH," said Alex Montalenti, CEO, Real Grader. "We look forward to leveraging their knowledge, mentorship and partners to advance our adoption nationwide and worldwide. We are confident that this will accelerate our growth and expansion in the industry." APM Help founder and CEO Taylor Hou also shared his excitement to join the 2023 program. "We built APM Help to assist commercial brokers and it was a natural fit to work with REACH to help accelerate our vision to be the ‘easy button' for brokers to manage properties," Hou said. "We are excited to work with Second Century Ventures and REACH to help brokers diversify their businesses while managing their rentals with our AI-powered property management solutions." REACH will announce the remaining participants for the highly-competitive 2023 program in mid-April. The program will offer its incoming cohort a robust curriculum comprised of education, mentorship, exclusive networking opportunities and significant exposure to the global real estate marketplace. To learn more about REACH and how you can get involved, visit www.narreach.com. About NAR The National Association of Realtors® is America's largest trade association, representing more than 1.5 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries. The term Realtor® is a registered collective membership mark that identifies a real estate professional who is a member of the National Association of Realtors® and subscribes to its strict Code of Ethics. About REACH REACH is a unique technology scale-up program created by Second Century Ventures, the most active global fund in real estate technology. Backed by the National Association of Realtors®, Second Century Ventures leverages the association's more than 1.5 million members and an unparalleled network of executives within real estate and adjacent industries. The REACH program helps technology companies scale across the real estate vertical and its adjacent markets through education, mentorship and market exposure. For more on REACH, visit www.narreach.com.

Second Century Ventures Selects Six Tech Companies for 2023 REACH Canada Program
VANCOUVER (November 7, 2022) – Second Century Ventures, the strategic investment arm of the National Association of Realtors®, today announced the six companies selected for its 2023 REACH Canada program. These firms operate within a diverse range of market segments and specializations, helping agents and brokers become more efficient as they serve consumers, enhancing business capabilities, and addressing some of the persistent challenges facing global housing markets. "Our REACH program aims to partner with companies that empower Realtors® to succeed," said NAR CEO and SCV President Bob Goldberg. "These innovators are developing technologies that will help our members navigate the current market and build their businesses for the years ahead. We are thrilled to collaborate with the 2023 REACH Canada cohort to ensure that Realtors® remain at the forefront of the real estate industry." Second Century Ventures is the most active global venture fund in real estate technology, with more than 200 portfolio companies worldwide. It operates the global REACH scale-up program in five major markets – U.S. Residential, U.S. Commercial, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom – with plans to expand the program to a sixth global region in early 2023. The award-winning REACH program helps high growth-potential companies scale across the real estate, financial services, banking, home services and insurance industries. Leveraging REACH's rapidly expanding global presence, the 2023 REACH Canada cohort represents technology companies based in Canada and around the continent – each with ambitions to advance the real estate ecosystem through unique value-add solutions for homeowners, asset owners, real estate operators and Realtors® alike. The six companies selected for REACH Canada 2023 include the following: iGuard Home Solutions offers technology that protects loved ones and property from kitchen fires before they can start. FrontRunner is the intersection between real estate and new media, changing the face of the digital out of home (DOOH), commercial real estate and retail industries. RealSage builds technologies that leverage data across the rental journey to generate real-time actionable insights and standardized processes for enterprise rental managers. SingleKey helps landlords find the right tenant and manage risks through easy, fast and effective tenant screening and background checks while supporting long term landlord-tenant relationships with rent collection and rent-guarantee products. Productive.app increases Realtors®' productivity by collecting, analyzing and prioritizing tasks, sending them directly from a phone call to their chosen customer relationship management (CRM) tool. JOBI by Sustainable Projects Group is an energy efficiency software as a service solution (SaaS) that empowers property managers and asset owners in the built environment to create and execute industry-leading, actionable sustainability plans. Collectively, these companies have raised over $11 million USD in capital and represent a market capitalization of more than $75 million. "The 2023 REACH Canada cohort offers an impressive range of diverse solutions and demonstrates that technology truly has no borders," said Lynette Keyowski, Managing Partner of REACH Canada. "These six companies – led by a diverse group of founders with expertise spanning multiple industries, geographies and ideologies – are focused on addressing some of the most critical and evolving real estate challenges, including aging in place; access to housing; environmental responsibility; and space utilization. We are excited to work with companies that are helping solve industry challenges in partnership with the Realtor® community." REACH Canada will offer its 2023 program members a robust curriculum including education, mentorship, exclusive networking opportunities and significant exposure to the global real estate marketplace. Learn more about the companies selected for the REACH Canada program and how you can get involved at www.narreach.ca. About NAR The National Association of Realtors® is America's largest trade association, representing more than 1.5 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries. About REACH REACH is a unique technology scale-up program created by Second Century Ventures, the most active global fund in real estate technology. Backed by the National Association of Realtors®, Second Century Ventures leverages the association's more than 1.5 million members and an unparalleled network of executives within real estate and adjacent industries. The REACH program helps technology companies scale across the real estate vertical and its adjacent markets through education, mentorship and market exposure. For more on REACH, visit www.narreach.com.

More than a Third of Young Americans are More Interested in Smart Home Technology Due to the Pandemic
Technology for safety and security, energy efficiency, and entertainment and relaxation top consumers' stay-at-home wish lists SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- A new survey from realtor.com found that interest in smart home technology has increased since the pandemic began. A quarter (25%) of Americans said they are more interested in smart home technology now that they're spending more time at home and 41% of smart home technology owners have bought at least one device or feature since the pandemic began. These numbers were even higher for 18-34 year-olds, with 37% showing increased interest and 48% of current owners having purchased at least one device or feature since the start of the pandemic. Realtor.com® and YouGov surveyed more than 2,000 Americans between Dec. 3-7 about their thoughts on smart home technology. More than half (57%) of all Americans and 61% of younger Americans (18-34 year-olds) already own some smart home technology. The most commonly owned products were: smart TVs (36%), smart home speakers (22%), smart doorbells (12%), robot vacuums (10%) and connected climate control systems/smart thermostats (10%). "The survey results show that many Americans, and especially younger people, are leveraging smart home technologies to enhance their quality of life, even more so now that most of us re-shaped our homes into live, work, learn and play spaces," said realtor.com®. Senior Economist, George Ratiu. "In a year defined by a global pandemic, and fraught with civil unrest and economic volatility, it's not surprising that people are prioritizing the safety and security of their home, their finances, and having a comfortable place to relax and unwind." Safety and security are top priorities Survey respondents were particularly interested in technology that enhances the safety and security of their home. Specifically: When asked to select just one smart home feature to add to their home, a high-tech security system ranked first (21%) When choosing a smart home feature that would make a new home most desirable, two of the most popular responses were a smart doorbell with camera (36%) and a high-tech security system (34%) A larger share of respondents were willing to pay more for a home with a high-tech security system (21%) and a smart doorbell with a camera (21%) When asked to describe a futuristic home, 22% selected a 'fortress of safety' that can protect against climate-related challenges Energy efficiency and environmentally-friendly features rank high When describing a futuristic home with smart features, the most popular selection by far (35%) was a green, energy-efficient home. Further: When asked which feature would make a new home more desirable, solar roof tiles (37%), a home battery pack to store solar energy (32%), and standalone solar panels (24%) were among the top responses Many consumers would be willing to pay more for these green features that could have a return on investment (24%, 20%, and 17%, respectively) When asked to pick just one smart home feature that would improve their current living space, a connected climate control system/smart thermostat (17%) was the second most popular choice At-home entertainment and relaxation are more important than ever 2020 was a year with many outside stressors, which led respondents to think about their home as a place for relaxation and entertainment. As such: When asked which features would make a new home more desirable, 26% said a high-tech home theater, and 18% want TVs that pop up out of dressers or drop down from the ceiling Eighteen percent signaled that a sleep sanctuary with ambient sound, soothing music and a bed that automatically adjusts for the perfect night's sleep would be among the features which could most improve their current living space Fifteen percent selected a high-tech massage chair, and Six percent of respondents were interested in an automatic cocktail maker Methodology: Realtor.com® commissioned YouGov America to conduct the survey. All figures, unless otherwise stated, are from YouGov America. The total sample size was 2,284 adults. Fieldwork was undertaken Dec. 3-7, 2020. The survey was carried out online. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all U.S. adults (aged 18+). About realtor.com® Realtor.com® makes buying, selling, renting and living in homes easier and more rewarding for everyone. Realtor.com® pioneered the world of digital real estate more than 20 years ago, and today through its website and mobile apps is a trusted source for the information, tools and professional expertise that help people move confidently through every step of their home journey. Using proprietary data science and machine learning technology, realtor.com® pairs buyers and sellers with local agents in their market, helping take the guesswork out of buying and selling a home. For professionals, realtor.com® is a trusted provider of consumer connections and branding solutions that help them succeed in today's on-demand world. Realtor.com® is operated by News Corp [Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA] [ASX: NWS, NWSLV] subsidiary Move, Inc. under a perpetual license from the National Association of REALTORS®. For more information, visit realtor.com.

Buffini & Company's Latest Networking Tool Changes Game for Real Estate Agents
The new Buffini Referral Network connects thousands of top-notch real estate professionals, creating the most powerful agent network in North America CARLSBAD, Calif., Jan. 27, 2020 -- Buffini & Company's latest networking tool has made it easier than ever for real estate agents to connect with professionals across North America. The Buffini Referral Network is an online tool linking Buffini & Company members to top-notch, like-minded real estate professionals dedicated to the working by referral system. "The Buffini Referral Network was intentionally designed to help our members go from local agents to national agents," says Dermot Buffini, CEO of Buffini & Company. "This is an essential membership benefit that taps into the most powerful agent network in North America, connecting our clients directly with the best in the business." Available through Buffini & Company's productivity tool Referral Maker CRM, the powerful Buffini Referral Network is more than just a means of giving and receiving referrals. It is a platform for agents to cultivate their own personal database of Buffini & Company members, with the ability to search for others based on attributes like credentials, affiliations and state, and then connect. Exchanging referrals through the platform is simple, convenient and straightforward. The database isn't just for real estate agents in the states either — it includes Canadian members as well as lenders. The Buffini Referral Network is free for current Buffini & Company One2One Coaching, Group Coaching and Referral Maker PRO members. About Buffini & Company Buffini & Company is the largest coaching and training company in North America. Founded by real estate legend and master motivator Brian Buffini, the company provides a unique and highly-effective lead generation system. Buffini & Company's comprehensive business coaching, training programs and cutting-edge content have helped more than 3 million professionals in 37 countries improve their business, increase net profit and enhance their quality of life. Buffini & Company is headquartered in Carlsbad, California. Learn more at buffiniandcompany.com.

Second Century Ventures Announces 2019 Accelerator Class
WASHINGTON (April 23, 2019) – Second Century Ventures, the strategic investment arm of the National Association of Realtors®, announced its 2019 REACH® Class today. REACH® is a growth technology accelerator program helping launch companies into the real estate, financial services, banking, home services and insurance industries. The REACH® accelerator focuses on providing early- to mid-stage companies with access to NAR's industry expertise, influence and key relationships as businesses launch into the trillion-dollar real estate space. The vertical focus within real estate industries and the growth stage at which most companies enter the program make Second Century Ventures unique compared to other accelerators. "As the real estate industry continues to evolve at a rapid pace, Second Century Ventures has positioned NAR at the forefront of the emerging technology landscape. REACH® continues to recruit and accelerate the most promising new technology companies through education, mentorship and market exposure efforts, driving industry innovation and our ability to deliver new technology to our members," said Bob Goldberg, NAR's CEO. The companies chosen for the 2019 class are: Amarki: A seamless, automated marketing platform that helps real estate professionals integrate their favorite systems in one place; Curbio: Helps agents deliver exceptional results for home sellers through ROI-focused, pay-at-close renovations; Evocalize: A platform that makes sophisticated digital marketing simple, and helps brokerages and agents collaborate to generate demand when and where it's needed; Kleard: Kleard is a safety and productivity app that provides real-time verification for open houses and showings; RateMyAgent: A digital marketing tool designed to help agents easily collect, share and promote verified client feedback; reConsortia: An open, crowdsourced referral consortium that builds transparency, enhances professionalism and provides an improved customer experience; and Staging & Design Network: The first-ever online shared rental pool for home furnishings built for the real estate and home staging communities. "The future of our industry is increasingly dependent on fast, seamless adoption of technology that benefits homebuyers, sellers and investors at every step of a real estate transaction. Companies accepted to the REACH® program are positioned for rapid growth within the real estate, finance and home services spaces, which will help them expand into other verticals and benefit the overall real estate industry," said Mark Birschbach, NAR's Senior Vice President of Strategic Business, Innovation & Technology. Hundreds of applications are received annually. Those chosen for the program have demonstrated solid business models, executable business plans and significant potential to influence our nation's economy. Program participants can expect significant results, as past classes have, on average, doubled their customer base and collectively raised over $300 million in financing following acceptance. REACH® is a unique strategic accelerator created by Second Century Ventures, a strategic technology investment fund backed by the National Association of Realtors®, which leverages the association's more than 1.3 million members and an unparalleled network of executives within real estate and adjacent industries. The REACH® Accelerator program helps technology companies launch into the real estate vertical and its adjacent markets. The 9-month program provides education, mentorship and market exposure to one of the world's largest industries. For more on REACH®, visit www.narreach.com. The National Association of Realtors® is America's largest trade association, representing more than 1.3 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries.

Moderne Ventures Announces Its New Class of Seven Passport Companies
CHICAGO--Moderne Ventures, a venture investment fund, hosted its third annual Moderne Portfolio Company & Industry Summit last week hosting over 120 leaders in real estate, insurance and finance. The leaders came together with Moderne's 40+ portfolio companies in working sessions to foster partnership, innovation and growth. At the Summit, Moderne announced seven companies selected for its 2018 Midyear Passport Program. These seven companies were selected from over 4,500 companies Moderne reviewed this year. Passport Program participants have demonstrated unique, defensible solutions that are augmenting and challenging real estate, finance, insurance and home services industries – multi-trillion dollar industries ripe for innovation and change. Companies selected into the Passport program will embark on an intensive 7-month industry immersion program where they receive strategic consulting to support the growth of their business, participate in over 100 one-on-one mentor meetings with senior executive leaders who are a part of the Moderne Network, capture pilot opportunities with leading corporations and garner exposure at major industry conferences. Constance Freedman, Moderne Ventures Founder and Managing Partner, who has recently been named one of the most influential women by HousingWire shares, "These companies are addressing some of the core challenges facing our industries on a global scale. They are positioned to make a dramatic impact. Moderne was created to accelerate that growth by helping our companies, and our industry partners, create mutually beneficial relationships, share market feedback, rapidly iterate, and scale." The Moderne Passport 2018 Midyear Class has collectively raised almost $80M in funding prior to joining the class and collective valuations north of $200M. The new companies are: Dwelo – Salt Lake City: Simple, seamless smart building technology platform Geo CV – New York: Truly automated 3D computer vision technology Havenly – Denver: Online interior design that's fun, convenient and affordable PERQ – Indianapolis: Increase online conversions with guided buying journeys powered by artificial intelligence Shyft – San Francisco: A technology and logistics company transforming the moving and relocation industry Sisu – Salt Lake City: Coaching and accountability sales platform Super – San Francisco: Home warranty that makes owning as easy as renting About Moderne Ventures Moderne Ventures invests in technology companies in and around real estate, finance, insurance and home services. Moderne most often looks outside its industries to find game changing innovation that can be applicable within them. Moderne operates both a Venture Fund and the Moderne Passport, an Industry Immersion Program designed to foster innovation, partnership and growth between industry partners and new emerging technology companies. Moderne works with over 700 executives and corporations within its core industries and evaluates over 4,500 emerging tech companies each year. Its principals have invested in over 60 companies including DocuSign, Updater, August, Better, Hello Alfred, TaskEasy, Homesnap and Leaselock.

Amazon Alexa Skills Are Changing the Voice of Real Estate Education
Amazon Alexa is being programmed to assist real estate brokers and agents with education, training, and coaching alternatives to traditional live classroom instruction. Ask Amazon Alexa about real estate terms, office policy, and other brokerage operation functions when you enable the skills created by visionary training delivery expert Doug Devitre. ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, USA (JULY 24, 2017) - You used to have to sit through boring classes in order to acquire the necessary knowledge to get licensed or be equipped to handle a real estate transaction. Not anymore. Amazon Alexa is being programmed to be smarter and faster than your average real estate broker with the help of Doug Devitre, a National Association of Realtors Hall of Fame Educator and visionary in cutting-edge training delivery techniques who says, "It's time we let go of having to know all the answers and learn to ask better questions." Amazon Alexa is commanding a significant stronghold on the voice-enabled assistant market, as much as 82% of the market share compared to Google Assistant, Apple's Siri, and Microsoft Cortana according to a recent survey by Voicebot.ai. And since real estate agents spend as much as 1-2 hours in their car every day, they need to be able to pull answers fast and be prepared for when customers have very specific questions without having to look up it up from a search engine, locate the right .mp3 file from their sales coach, or wait for their broker to respond. "Amazon Alexa gives a real estate company the ability to structure categorical, sequential, and rote knowledge on-demand for an agent so that they are better prepared to serve today's 'information now' customer." Currently Devitre has several public facing skills such as Office Policy, Real Estate Terms, Real Smarts Real Estate Quiz, and internal skills like Training Calendar, Real Estate Coach, and Real Estate Contracts. All someone has to do is log into their Amazon account, enable the skill, and start asking Alexa about the same things real estate brokers would educate their agents in a typical training course. Devitre confirms, "A couple years ago I assumed it would be better to learn how to program machines than to soon be programmed by them. This is the start of a revolution in training delivery for real estate and it's up to the forward-thinking real estate brokerages to start repurposing their expertise in the most user-friendly technology which is the sound of their own voice." There are recent claims that artificial intelligence will dramatically decrease the number of real estate professionals in the industry but Devitre disagrees. "Amazon Alexa will never replace a real estate agent in the transaction, she will only enhance the customer's experience."

Survey Finds Voice Control Next Big Thing in Smart Home Technology
MADISON, N.J. 01-04-2017 — Your kids may not always listen to you but soon your smart home will. A new survey from Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC and Vivint Smart Home found Americans are ready to embrace using voice control, with an increasing number already using the feature. According to the survey, 72 percent of Americans who have smart home products – controlled remotely by a smartphone, tablet, computer or by a separate automatic system within the home itself – want voice control. And of that group, 81 percent of parents who have smart home products desire to control smart home products with voice activation. The survey also found that 48 percent of Americans with smart home products currently have voice control capability. So what do consumers want to control using their voice? Entertainment is the clear winner. More than half (57 percent) of Americans who own smart home products with voice control use the feature to control smart entertainment, such as playing music, or controlling smart TVs and speaker systems. In addition to entertainment, the next three most popular functions being controlled by voice activation for smart home product owners are: lighting, security products and shopping (all tied at 33 percent). "We're not surprised that so many Americans want to be able to use their voice to control smart home products because it makes for a much more intuitive user experience," said Sean Blankenship, chief marketing officer for Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. "As the smart home leader in real estate, Coldwell Banker is at the forefront of smart home trends and we're hearing directly from our agents that their clients are demanding voice control to make their smart home experience more seamless." "Last year we announced our integration with Amazon Echo and we've been blown away with how consumers are unlocking the full potential of a voice-controlled smart home," said Jeff Lyman, chief marketing officer for Vivint Smart Home. "By simply saying aloud what they want to happen with their locks, lights, thermostats and security system, customers spend more time living and less time managing. The experience is pretty magical." For the full results of the Coldwell Banker Real Estate / Vivint Smart Home consumer survey including demographic breakdowns of Americans with smart home products, please visit here. MethodologyThis survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Poll on behalf of Coldwell Banker Real Estate and Vivint Smart Home from November 14-16 and from November 18-22, 2016 among 4,108 U.S. adults ages 18 and older, among which 923 have any smart home products. This online survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore no estimate of theoretical sampling error can be calculated. For complete survey methodology, including weighting variables, please visit here. About Vivint Smart HomeVivint Smart Home is the largest smart home services provider in North America. The company combines innovative products and services to offer homeowners the best smart home experience. As the only vertically integrated smart home company, Vivint delivers its integrated platform and products with in-home consultation, professional installation and support delivered by its Smart Home Pros, as well as 24-7 customer care and monitoring. Dedicated to redefining the home experience with intelligent products and services, Vivint serves more than one million customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. For more information, visit www.vivint.com. About Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLCSince 1906, the Coldwell Banker® organization has been a premier provider of full-service residential and commercial real estate brokerage services. Coldwell Banker Real Estate is the oldest national real estate brand and franchisor in the United States, and today has a global network of 3,000 independently owned and operated franchised broker offices in 48 countries and territories with more than 89,000 affiliated sales professionals. The Coldwell Banker brand is known for creating innovative consumer services as recently seen by taking a leadership role in the smart home space, being the first national real estate brand with an iPad app, the first to augment its website www.coldwellbanker.com for smart phones, the first to create an iPhone application with international listings, the first to develop an iPad application (CBx) to easily bring big data into home listing presentations, and the first to fully harness the power of video in real estate listings, news and information through its Coldwell Banker On LocationSM YouTube channel. Coldwell Banker is a leader in niche markets such as resort, new homes and luxury properties through its Coldwell Banker Previews International® marketing program delivering exceptional experiences for all consumers served.

Coldwell Banker Introduces First-ever Smart Home Staging Kit
MADISON, N.J. 08-23-2016 — Coldwell Banker Real Estate, LLC, the original Silicon Valley real estate start-up, today announced that it has signed a supplier agreement with Worthington Group, Ltd., to directly supply the industry's first Smart Home Staging Kit directly to sellers who list their homes with Coldwell Banker®. The Smart Home Staging Kit, available on Worthington Group's smart home staging website, allows participating sellers to enhance their homes and meet the guidelines of the newly released Smart Home Definition that was jointly developed by Coldwell Banker and CNET, the leading online technology reviewer. Coldwell Banker agents can then market qualified properties as a Smart Home bearing a Smart Home icon on the listing and inclusion on the brand's smart home resource site, coldwellbanker.com/smarthome. Available on SmartHomeStaging.com, the kit will include: Nest Learning Thermostat Nest Protect smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) alarm Nest Cam Indoor security camera August Smart Lock August Connect Lutron® Caséta® Wireless Lighting Starter Kit Products can be purchased as a complete kit directly from Worthington or separately as individual items. Worthington is offering clients of the Coldwell Banker brand's affiliated sales associates a promotional rate of $999 for the complete kit. On SmartHomeStaging.com, consumers can also opt-in for installation by Pro.com service providers or elect other service providers of their choice. A recent survey conducted by Coldwell Banker found that roughly half of Millennials and 42 percent of U.S. broadband households surveyed would "smart stage" their home to attract buyers. The survey also found that more than one-third of Americans (35 percent) now associate smart home technology with a move-in ready home — something that 71 percent of Americans would want if buying a house today. "Smart Home technology is a consumer driven movement," said Sean Blankenship, chief marketing officer of Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. "Our research confirms this technology has a positive influence in the appeal of a home -– and agents agree. Our homes, like cars, are providing convenience and a sense of security like never before.  We want to bring the two together for our customers." The Smart Home Staging Kit is also available for buyers and homeowners who wish to upgrade their homes. Methodology This survey was conducted online by Parks Associates on behalf of the Coldwell Banker brand within the United States between June 6-9, 2016 through a third party via its omnibus product.  The survey was conducted among 1,250 adults (ages 18 and over) among whom 801 own at least one smart home product.  For the purposes of the survey, "smart home technology/products" were defined as products or tools that aid in controlling a home's functions such as lighting, temperature, security, safety, and entertainment, either remotely by a phone, tablet, computer or with a separate automatic system within the home itself.  Survey sample was demographically targeted to be representative of the U.S. general population. All sample surveys and polls, whether or not they use probability sampling, are subject to multiple sources of error which are most often not possible to quantify or estimate, including sampling error, coverage error, error associated with nonresponse, error associated with question wording and response options, and post-survey weighting and adjustments. Therefore, the words "margin of error" are avoided as they are misleading. All that can be calculated are different possible sampling errors with different probabilities for pure, unweighted, random samples with 100% response rates. These are only theoretical because no published polls come close to this ideal. Respondents for this survey were selected from among those who have agreed to participate in surveys for Research Now. About Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC Since 1906, the Coldwell Banker® organization has been a premier provider of full-service residential and commercial real estate brokerage services. Coldwell Banker Real Estate is the oldest national real estate brand and franchisor in the United States, and today has a global network of approximately 3,000 independently owned and operated franchised broker offices in 44 countries and territories with more than 84,000 affiliated sales professionals.  The Coldwell Banker brand is known for creating innovative consumer services as recently seen by being the first national real estate brand with an iPad app, the first to augment its website www.coldwellbanker.com for smart phones, the first to create a iPhone application with international listings and the first to fully harness the power of video in real estate listings, news and information through its Coldwell Banker On LocationSM YouTube channel.  The Coldwell Banker System is a leader in niche markets such as resort, new homes and luxury properties through its Coldwell Banker Previews International® marketing program delivering exceptional experiences for all consumers served.

BoomTown Accelerates Innovation with Open Platform Initiative
CHARLESTON, S.C. – BoomTown, a leading real estate sales and marketing technology provider, has launched an Open Platform Initiative, which will pave the way for an expanded developer ecosystem and strengthen its solutions and services. With new partnerships and integrations, and an expanding product offering and leadership team, BoomTown is poised for further growth on all fronts. "Modern real estate teams and brokerages need a partner that truly understands the challenges and opportunities that the industry currently faces and anticipates what's coming tomorrow," said Grier Allen, BoomTown's President & CEO. "BoomTown is focused on the future of real estate and driving innovation in the industry." Expanding platform and solutions suite Through key integrations and the upcoming release of its Application Program Interface (API), BoomTown is dedicated to building an open environment that will spur rapid innovation on its platform. The company will expand its partner network even more later this year through the upcoming release of its API, which is a core part of its strategy to become an open platform. In addition to its partner integrations, the first large scale initiative for the API will be an agent-facing mobile application, currently in development. "Modern real estate agents want all their tools in one system," said Allen. "We've listened and are building best of breed integrations and opening our platform to drive efficiency and better results." In line with its mission, BoomTown has ramped up integration efforts, recently releasing an integration with BombBomb, a leading provider of video email marketing solutions. "In a digital environment, personalization and breakthrough marketing are critical to ensuring customers feel connected to an agent," said Kristen Fergason, BoomTown's vice president of marketing. "Partnering with BombBomb was a natural fit for us as the integration enables agents to build meaningful relationships with their prospects and customers—from a centralized platform and right from the start." "We've known the BoomTown team for years and have many mutual customers who are equally excited about and are already using this integration with great results," said Conor McCluskey, BombBomb's CEO and co-founder. "BombBomb will help get BoomTown customers face to face with their prospects and clients more often, which will drive engagement and translate to more leads and closed deals." This adds to its roster of integration partners including the popular Mojo Dialer, maximizing real estate agents' telephone prospecting efficiency, Realtors Property Resource (RPR), which provides seamless access to data on more than 166 million parcels of property in the United States and Bandwidth, powering BoomTown's integrated texting feature. When paired with its predictive Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools, these key integrations enable smart prospecting in less time. In the past year, the company has also expanded its suite of solutions, now ranging from its most popular and best-in-class offering for midsize teams and brokerages, to an expansion product for multi-office power users, and a streamlined offering for small teams, currently in pilot with general availability in the coming months. "With BoomTown, I'm confident that I have a technology partner that is committed to my team's continued success and growth," said Ben Kinney, Keller Williams mega agent, long-time BoomTown customer, entrepreneur, speaker and author. "BoomTown is focused on innovation and delivering the tools we need to get closer to our customers." Businesses interested in learning more about Open Platform integration with BoomTown can contact partner[at]boomtownroi.com. Investing in top tech talent and headquarters expansion BoomTown takes a people first approach to technology – recently expanding its senior leadership team and hiring and investing in top talent across the company from The Weather Channel, MLB Advanced Media and Yahoo!, LoopNet and Amazon. Key hires include CTO Chris McClellen, Vice President of Marketing Kristen Fergason, Vice President of Sales Bryan Smith and a Director of Client Enrichment Janet Smith, all hailing from the technology industry with extensive experience in customer success, SaaS, digital marketing and CRM. To accommodate its growing team of more than 200 employees, BoomTown recently announced plans to expand its Charleston office in the heart of Silicon Harbor's new technology corridor. It also maintains offices in San Francisco and Atlanta. About BoomTown BoomTown combines a powerful real estate sales and marketing platform with success management services to help real estate brokerages and teams across the country grow their business and build lifelong relationships with their customers. An established and growing SaaS company dedicated to simplifying and modernizing the business of real estate, BoomTown has nearly a decade of proven results in all stages of a buyer and seller's journey. The BoomTown real estate sales and marketing solution includes: acustomized real estate website integrated with local MLS data, a predictive Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system with real estate marketing automation, client success management—and through its position as  the only Google AdWords Premier SMB Partner in the real estate industry—personalized lead generation services. To learn more, visit www.boomtownroi.com.

CoreLogic Launches Homeowner Keys
  August 19, 2015, Irvine, Calif. – CoreLogic®, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled services provider, announced today that it has launched Homeowner Keys, a solution specifically designed to provide insights into consumer real estate activities. Homeowner Keys applies CoreLogic proprietary match logic to the company's extensive homeowner and property databases to characterize a homeowner's historical property ownership, home improvement, mortgage activity and transaction behavior over time—enabling improved consumer targeting strategies and more effective risk management decisions. The advanced linkage technology that is included in Homeowner Keys helps companies pinpoint the most viable prospects and high value consumers. For example, home improvement providers and lenders can identify within a specified timeframe the number of mortgage eventrelated times a homeowner has moved or improved their home – a significant variable bearing on new home services spending and the likelihood and timing of home equity line of credit. It can also distinguish property investment activity across multiple properties such as buy/flip or buy/hold patterns and be used by tax authorities to identify individuals filing for homestead exemptions on multiple properties. "Knowing a potential consumers current status is a good start, but gaining insight into their real estate activity and behavior over time provides even more intelligence that can help better inform acquisition and retention decisions," said Randy Wussler, vice president, Product General Manager at CoreLogic." By leveraging the breadth and depth of our property and homeownership data and combining it with our proprietary match logic engine, Homeowner Keys provide actionable insight that not only can improve marketing campaign performance, but can also minimize lender and mortgage stakeholder risk. About CoreLogic CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX) is a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled services provider. The company's combined data from public, contributory and proprietary sources includes over 4.5 billion records spanning more than 50 years, providing detailed coverage of property, mortgages and other encumbrances, consumer credit, tenancy, location, hazard risk and related performance information. The markets CoreLogic serves include real estate and mortgage finance, insurance, capital markets, and the public sector. CoreLogic delivers value to clients through unique data, analytics, workflow technology, advisory and managed services. Clients rely on CoreLogic to help identify and manage growth opportunities, improve performance and mitigate risk. Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., CoreLogic operates in North America, Western Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit www.corelogic.com. CORELOGIC and the CoreLogic logo are trademarks of CoreLogic, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.

Zapier: Making Happy Grasshopper Easier Than Ever
Happy Grasshopper is proud to be integrated with a pretty awesome list of of applications and tools that help you amp up your business. One of the newest (not to mention one of the coolest) is Zapier. What's Zapier, you might ask? Put simply, it's a free service that integrates the services you use with the other services you use. If you're a Gmail user, Zapier can connect it with DropBox. If you use HighRise, Zapier can connect it with Google contacts. And now, if you're a Happy Grasshopper user, Zapier can connect your account with other services you use, such as Follow-Up Boss. Pretty cool, right? SUPER-cool, actually. We had a chance to sit down and talk with Wade Foster, Zapier's co-founder and CEO, about how they started, what Zapier does, and why we're all really excited about the integration between Zapier and Happy Grasshopper. We mentioned it was cool, right? Zapier was founded in October 2011, in the same way lots of companies get started. They saw a need that the founders, themselves, badly needed to fill and that no one seemed to be doing anything about. Similar to IFTTT (if-this-then-that), a service that enables customers to connect channels with personally created or publicly shared profiles known as "recipes", but for business rather than personal use, Zapier allows you to take one of its integrated services and make a rule or a "Zap" for how it talks to another service. In the case of Happy Grasshopper, if you have contacts that are in your Follow-Up Boss database, you can have them sent directly to Happy Grasshopper, so those contacts get the nurturing attention they need and deserve (how it works is pretty awesome). Wade told us, "Yeah ... in my former life, I was working at a mortgage company and ran into problems like this all the time. I needed the various services I used to talk to each other, but there was no way to make that happen. I'd search through user groups and find comment after comment after comment–some that were as many as four years old–that showed people screaming out for a solution to this problem. So, we created Zapier and now have more than 250 services that we can connect for our users." Zapier makes sure data is where you want it, when you want it. "Our customers make what we call a Zap that says what they need to happen," Wade said. "From there, we do the rest. We make sure the data from one service is connected to the data in another. It's great because not only have we figured out how to make these connections and tap into the APIs of all these services, we've done something that saves our users a ton of time and, by extension, a lot of money, too." If you're looking for ways to make using Happy Grasshopper even easier, pay Zapier a visit. The service is free to use and its setup is super-easy. There are no developers to hire, no outrageous fees. Zapier is, put simply, an easy solution to a problem that plagues lots of people. Give it a try today and make your Happy Grasshopper happier than ever. To view the original post, visit the Happy Grasshopper blog.

Xplode Real Estate Conference Features 'The Website Shredder'
Atlanta, Ga June 29, 2011 - Xplode Conference announces our extended partnership with Eric Stegemann & Tribus, a leading technology provider in the residential real estate industry, to deliver the popular 'Website Shredder' sessions at upcoming Xplode Conferences in Chicago, Dallas & Atlanta. Xplode Founder Matt Fagioli says "The Shredder is always one of our most popular sessions at Xplode and we're really glad to have Eric with us for the rest of 2011 and beyond" "Xplode Conference is an amazing opportunity for improving performance for real estate professionals" said Eric Stegemann, VP of Business Development at Tribus. "We are proud to partner with Xplode to provide the latest tools, technology and education for real estate." In addition, Xplode is proud to welcome Eric Stegemann as a featured technology and marketing speaker. Stegemann joins Xplode's roster of nationally recognized experts for the ongoing series of Xplode real estate technology conferences in 2011. "In setting the content that I would provide for Xplode, I wanted something that was unique, and would provide immediately actionable material for attendees, I believe Shredder does all of that with a bit of humor mixed in," commented Stegemann. "The power of technology in real estate marketing is exploding," said Fagioli, "Eric's expertise and effective speaking style will be an invaluable addition to our efforts to equip and train conference attendees." Don't miss the very next Xplode Conference in Chicago, IL on August 19, 2011 About Xplode:The Xplode Conference Series on Real Estate Technology is coming to a city near you! ?Xplode Conference is a product of Helives, LLC based near Atlanta, Ga. ?Xplode builds great conferences for real estate in partnership with local associations and MLS organizations. ?After our super-successful launch event in Austin Texas on February 10, 2011, Xplode features real estate conferences on technology in a host of US cities in 2011. The spring series includes Destin (FL) on May 19th, Orlando (FL) on June 9th and Washington DC on June 23rd. Xplode plans fall 2011 events including Dallas (TX), Chicago (IL) and Atlanta (GA). Xplode Conference also highlights the most powerful real estate technology and marketing products. Sponsors include Market Leader, Mobile Real Estate ID, vScreen, RPR, Realtor.com, Zillow, Homefinder, NCI, Diverse Solutions and more. For more information, please visit XplodeThis.com About Tribus:Based in Orange County, CA, Tribus Real Estate Technologies offers a full suite of tools focused on the real estate brokerage and mortgage industries including custom websites, SEO, CRM, drip/blast email, customer insight and more. The company desires not only to provide the latest tools and technologies, but also assists with the implementation and long term usage to ensure an increase to client's bottom line.

BIRDVIEW Technologies Introduces 4-Step System
BIRDVIEW Technologies has introduced their 4 Step System™ designed to provide real estate agents and brokers with a systematic approach to internet success. The 4 Step System™ is the product of the experience we have gained from generating nearly 4 million leads for our clients in the past 9 years," said Bob Kehoe, National Director of sales. The fundamentals to internet success are the same whether you are practicing real estate in Florida, California, or anywhere else in between," added Kehoe. The 4 Step System™ is a proven guide that successful real estate professionals have employed to reach a high level of success on the internet. Executing on all 4 steps of the system has shown to significantly improve the return on the investment real estate professionals make on their online business. Agents and Brokers can receive information about The 4 Step System™ free of charge by visiting http://www.TheProven4StepSystem.com. In addition, BIRDVIEW clients receive free in-depth training on the system with the licensing of a BIRDVIEW solution. BIRDVIEW Technologies provides websites and related software to real estate offices and agents in 28 States and over 100 local MLS. The BIRDVIEW network of websites generates over 20 million Home Views per month.  

Market Leader Reports Revenue Rises for 5th Quarter
Online marketing and "software as a service" company Market Leader, Inc., posted a $4.3 million net loss during the first quarter, even as revenue grew by 25 percent from a year ago, to $7.2 million. Market Leader -- which closed out 2010 with a $14.3 million loss for the year -- is transitioning from selling leads generated by sites like HouseValues.com to providing customized websites and tools for agents and brokers. The company said in a regulatory filing Tuesday that revenue from its software-as-a-service products was up 61 percent from a year ago during the first quarter, and that the company has seen five consecutive quarters of revenue growth. That's due in part to the fact that Market Leader is now including revenue and expenses generated by real estate blogging network ActiveRain in its results, after becoming the majority stakeholder in the company in September. Before paying $450,000 to boost its ownership of ActiveRain's outstanding voting stock from 34 percent to 51 percent, Market Leader treated its stake in ActiveRain as an equity investment in its financial disclosures. Although most of ActiveRain's 200,000 users have free memberships, more than 5,000 customers use the company’s subscription-based blogging syndication software services, Market Leader said in its most recent annual report to investors. ActiveRain generated about $681,000 in revenue in the fourth quarter of 2010. Looking ahead, Market Leader CEO Ian Morris said Tuesday he expects even stronger revenue growth and diminishing losses in the months ahead, thanks in part to the five-year agreement the company signed with Keller Williams Realty to provide the lead management, contact management and marketing design components of Keller Williams' new eEdge platform. Market Leader had previously disclosed that the company will receive a minimum of $10 million from Keller Williams during the initial five-year term of the eEdge agreement. The company expects to generate additional revenue by "upselling" premium software and services to nearly 80,000 Keller Williams agents. Keller Williams agents pay the franchise $15 a month for eEdge, and can choose to subscribe to a Market Leader Professional Edition with additional capabilities for $99 a month. The eEdge payments and potential upselling "is expected to begin to significantly contribute to revenue growth" in the second half of 2011, the company said in its annual report. Morris said Market Leader added nearly 200 new broker customers during the first quarter. Company officials say customer acquisition is a key to becoming profitable, and that in 2010 Market Leader expanded its marketing programs through leading real estate franchise networks. Market Leader generates revenue by charging one-time setup fees and monthly fees for services, including personalized websites, customer relationship management (CRM) tools, marketing materials, training and support. The significant majority of new brokerage customers signed in 2010 were responding to offers that waive setup and software-as-a-service fees during a promotional period, Market Leader said in its annual report. "Initially, the acquisition of these customers has a substantial negative impact on our near term operating results as related expenses exceed the revenue that they contribute," the company said. The $23.9 million the company spent on sales and marketing in 2010 nearly equaled the $24.4 million in revenue those efforts helped generate. That trend continued in the first quarter, with $7.4 million in sales and marketing exceeding total revenue by $191,000. Additional expenses for technology and product development ($1.84 million) and general and administrative services ($1.6 million) helped push total first-quarter expenses up 28 percent from a year ago, to $11.7 million.  

Top 10 Zillow Tools for Real Estate Professionals
Guest contributor Sara Bonert: With more than 19 million people visiting the Zillow website and Zillow Mobile applications each month*, this is a huge audience for you to grow your business. Here are my favorite 10 tips to get started. Best of all, they are all FREE. 1. Create a profile. Want links back to your site? Great visibility to millions who visit Zillow every month? It all starts with creating a free account on Zillow. Start by clicking “Register” in the upper right-hand corner of the the site. Be sure to register using the same email address that you use as the contact address on your listings. Check out this video for more information on how and why to activate your account. Rate Your Agent 2. Get Reviews. Agent Ratings and Reviews (see screenshot) are a powerful way to help potential clients understand the high service levels an agent is able to provide. A Zillow Premier Agent with just 5 reviews tends to get about 150% more leads than one with 0 reviews. We offer great tools to help you get more reviews. 3. Zillow Advice. This is a question-and-answer forum that brings home buyers, sellers, owners, rent, landlords, lenders, and other real estate professionals together in a very helpful way. Answering questions helps build your online reputation of being knowledgeable about a particular region or subject matter. You can also subscribe to RSS feeds or get email alerts for any topic and specify your geographic location. 4. Zestimate Accuracy Chart. How many clients have said, “...But Zillow says…?” Equip yourself with the Zestimate Accuracy Chart so you can describe to your clients — using data — how accurate the Zestimate® home valuation is in your specific county. 5. Comment publicly on a Zestimate. As the homeowner or the listing agent, you can leave public comments on a listing on Zillow when the Zestimate is too high, too low, or just right on a particular home. It is yet another marketing opportunity to publicly demonstrate your expertise and explain how the Zestimate relates to the home’s listing price. 6. Local market data: Zillow has data on more than 100 million homes in the U.S. We aggregate all this data and package it up under the Local Info tab. Here you can easily create powerful trend graphs and use the import feature to place this information on your site or blog. Remember — content is king! 7. Zillow Widgets. Want free, relevant, interesting and dynamic real estate data for your website or blog — for free? Then look no further than the Zillow Widget page (see screenshot). We feature many great widgets, such as Most Expensive Local Homes, Local Mortgage Rates, Recently Sold, Agent Review Widgets and more! Zillow iPhone App 8. Zillow Mobile Apps. Download one of our free, popular iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry or Windows Mobile applications. They are all GPS-enabled, meaning that as you are out driving around with clients, you can easily see the estimated values of homes around you. 9. Zillow Profile. Yes, back to this one. Now that you’ve created the account, make sure to fully deck out your profile. This includes adding things like links to your Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts; including a video; adding marketing text; and, of course, uploading a photo. Here is a great example of a complete profile. 10. Zillow Academy. This is a lot, isn’t it? And there is much more! If you want to keep on top of all the ways to use Zillow AND learn about other online marketing techniques, please bookmark www.ZillowAcademy.com. We have awesome classes every week! *Source: Internal tracking by Omniture, March 2011.

SocialBios Launches Facebook App for Adding About Us Functionality to Fan Pages
DENVER, CO--(Marketwire - March 17, 2011) - SocialBios, the service that is revolutionizing business referral generation from a company's About Us page, has just launched the first Facebook App for adding its award-winning functionality to your company's fan page. Over 1.6 million business fan pages can now have a complete About Us page with a built-in social search for business referrals without any special programming. "We knew that the Facebook platform was a natural extension for our service. Businesses are recreating their Internet presence on fan pages and need applications for easily supporting their existing content," said Ernie Graham, SocialBios founder and CEO. "Our Facebook implementation also takes our social search technology to a whole new level for generating new referral business from existing relationships." All types of organizations are using SocialBios to upgrade their existing websites into powerful, referral generating social hubs. Without sacrificing the privacy of the individual user, the SocialBios system enables the aggregation of multiple social profiles for easy visitor discovery of common friends and interests with people at a company. The SocialBios search engine finds this commonality even if two people use different social networks. Currently supported networks include Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Foursquare, and Google. What can SocialBios do for you? Free individual About Me page that aggregates all of your Internet profiles and network status updates. Group About Us pages for organizations to display all of their users' profiles. Integrated social search engine for new business referrals. iFrame support for easy integration of all or select elements of SocialBios pages into existing websites and Facebook fan pages. Signup for your free account today. About SocialBios SocialBios is the only online service that allows individuals and companies to aggregate all of their disparate social network profile and connection data for generating new business referrals. The SocialBios "About Us" page allows your website or Facebook fan page visitors to discover social capital with your agents or employees. The SocialBios beta was launched in January 2011 and won the Inman Connect NYC "Best New Startup" award. SocialBios is based in Denver, Colorado. To view the original press release, please click here.  

Point2 and Proxio Sign Global Marketing Agreement
San Diego, – March 22, 2011 – Online real estate marketing solutions provider Point2 today announced a marketing agreement with Proxio, the international Multiple Listing Service (MLS) and global referral network. The partnership effectively expands market reach for both Point2 and Proxio, and creates new marketing and revenue channels for the real estate professionals who are clients of both organizations. Full system integration to support the two way marketing arrangement is planned for release within the next 90 days. Under the agreement, Point2 Agent platform users will gain access to Proxio's subscription-based Global Referral Network™ in over 100 countries, enabling them to market in areas typically beyond their reach. Proxio's 19-language translation technology will also allow participating agents to market in multicultural clients' own language, including through multilingual websites and social media. Proxio users around the world will be able to tap Point2's listing syndication network of over 60 third party real estate consumer websites, search engines, and auction and classified advertising sites in North America, giving them easy access to one of the largest markets worldwide and enabling them to generate leads at no added cost. "We continue to push the limits of real estate online marketing through technology innovation, partnerships and market expansion," said Saul Klein, senior vice president for Point2. "As we create new markets for our clients, we also look forward to expanding our footprint globally as Proxio's large user base gains exposure to our solutions." "Proxio's mission is to provide technology and tools to real estate professionals on every continent to help them grow their businesses," said Janet Case, chief executive officer for Proxio. "This new listing syndication opportunity through Point2 will further add to the value Proxio subscribers can deliver to their buyers and sellers." Proxio subscribers will also gain seamless access to the Point2 Agent online marketing and lead management platform, through their Proxio account, on a subscription basis. The solution allows agents to monitor online traffic activity, capture leads and engage in real estate prospecting through advanced predictive marketing and drip email lead conversion tools. Point2 today powers listing syndication for approximately 200 MLSs and Associations in the US and Canada. About Proxio Proxio, Inc. is a Silicon Valley-based technology company focused on the 21st century needs of the fast-evolving real estate industry globally. Proxio's platform integrates sophisticated property display technology with agent networking solutions to deliver high-value, mission-critical services that increase revenue for real estate professionals worldwide, and improve services for their clients. Proxio's services operate in 19 languages, and are used by MLSs, associations, brokerages, and agents in 100+ countries across five continents. About Point2 Point2, a Yardi Systems Inc. brand, provides inventory management and online marketing software solutions to the real estate and heavy equipment industries across 120 countries.  

The Hip Roof Launches This Week
I am so excited that The Hip Roof officially launched this week! This is a real estate educational community for, by and about real estate agents. Of course we do include industry partners as well. The purpose of this site is to create a place where real estate agents can receive coaching, education, interaction, masterminding and much more from the comfort of their own home, office, or marketplace. A peek inside the forums a few weeks ago I am so excited that The Hip Roof officially launched this week! This is a real estate educational community for, by, and about real estate agents. Of course, we do include industry partners as well. The purpose of this site is to create a place where real estate agents can receive coaching, education, interaction, masterminding, and much more from the comfort of their own home, office, or marketplace. When I travel to events, one thing I notice most often is that it is almost entirely the same group of people who are consistently attending. We refer to ourselves as “The RE.net”, that community is not defined as any specific group but anyone who swims in the circles, and it always welcomes others into its folds. I also notice that there are many others who are not able to attend, who follow along on the Twitter stream on the various hashtags. With a tough economy, and a variety of real estate market conditions across the country, a lot of agents are really going back to the basics of coaching, training, accountability, and more.  The classic tools in our arsenals are becoming more and more essential. The difference between a “mega agent” and an “agent” is how disciplined and studied they are in the techniques of the industry. The Hip Roof makes all of these things affordable and accessible to everyone, no matter where you are geographically or economically. It Takes a Community To bring together some of the top minds in the area, and we always welcome more, to provide the content to compliment the learning systems and upcoming eBooks and eCourses – we rely upon many minds. There is no single way to do anything in the social spaces, there are many ways and the techniques and success may vary from market to market. The availability of the live forums allows people to mastermind, post, and develop concepts collaboratively; sometimes the input of someone else makes all the difference. The ability to share personal experiences and have amazing resources in one place is the whole point. To have many contributors, including the members, makes the knowledge share even more powerful. Some people have strengths in areas that others do not. The Hip Roof brings them all together into one place. Premium not Freemium Some people might disagree with this being a membership based site. Everyone is allowed to have their own opinions, we respect that and realize this might not be the right place for everyone. You can not be all things to all people, The Hip Roof will be the best it can be for it’s members; so far the feedback has been very positive. So why premium? The Hip Roof does not have any advertising inside, nor are there any sales inside. The terms of service clearly state the requirements to be a member and the zero tolerance of any sort of platforming. Self-promotion of a business and selling of products are prohibited. The goal is for members to feel comfortable and at home, to be able to kick-off their shoes and share a story with a co-worker. There are things real estate agents can only say to other real estate agent; this is the place for that. The Sandbox is Large There is room enough in the sandbox for a variety of educational and coaching sites. In fact, I encourage agents to belong to more than one. If you only seek knowledge in a single place you might miss out on an opportunity. The Hip Roof gladly acknowledges many of the learning platforms that are already in existence and would be happy to collaborate, isn’t that the point of a community? When I approached my friend Ben Kinney a few months ago and told him what I was doing, knowing he has IMSD.net, I was hesitant to hear his reaction. Ben said “There’s plenty of room for everyone,” and that is the attitude we share. Flexibility The Hip Roof is built upon the vBulletin platform, this incredibly flexible and robust platform gives us nearly unlimited options in what we can do. We have a content management system, we have a blogging platform (currently only offered to “Expert Bloggers”, if you want to learn to blog we will have courses, but Active Rain is still a great place to start), and the forums. We have an amazing calendar of events (actually two calendars), and can create private forums for brands, offices, and more. The Hip Roof is light on its feet, it can be changed, modified, and tweaked easily. We might even add a consumer facing section without access to the real estate member side where consumers can post questions and the “member of the week” can be the forum moderator for the consumers. I am going to try to create a few “tours” of the inside in the coming week so people can get a taste of it. I'm so excited that the site is out there and growing!! I am incredibly grateful for the generosity of Chris Brogan and his company Human Business Works in helping develop and deploy the site. I'm also very thrilled at the caliber of agents who have already stepped up to be “expert contributors” and grow their own presence in the space and in their local market. The beauty for the contributors is that when the site gets contacted to have someone present in a local office, we will turn to our own experts, because The Hip Roof is only virtual, there will be no tours. We always welcome new expert contributors, it isn’t by invitation only. "Expert" is loosely defined as well. So, if you are interested in contributing, or have a great success story to share, feel free to email The Hip Roof and we’ll get back to you. Here’s to happy educational adventures and sharing!

Grow Real Estate Leads & Reach More Clients With eMerge
SLIDELL, LA — February 25, 2011 - “At eMerge, our goal is to optimize interactive marketing efforts and help realtors build engaged and lasting relationships with clients,” explains Bondilyn Jolly, CEO and President of NMD, Inc. and eMerge. “We know our realtors are busy and we want to provide them with a convenient solution that saves time and produces results.”   eMerge™ offers one of the most comprehensive interactive marketing solutions in one convenient interface, delivering a consistent message through all major online marketing channels - email, social media, mobile and web – and understanding what’s happening with real-time results.   “I’ve been using eMerge for quite a while now.  The eMerge team offers the best technical support I’ve experienced in any program. I highly recommend it. It’s one of the most unique programs I’ve used for my outreach.” says Jim Brown of Keller Williams Realty in Slidell, LA.   “Our goal is to provide high-level online engagement for our realtors with a “set it and forget it” mentality,” states Jolly.  “No other marketing solution allows such a comprehensive suite of services:  lead management, custom email templates, email and social media schedulers and reports and text messaging.  The best part is that our interface doesn’t require high tech knowledge in order to achieve results!  We make it simple and quick to reach out through multiple channels at once.”   eMerge offers more than just a marketing interface as well.  Complementing the eMerge solution are professional design and campaign services for realtors as well as training and education services.   Realtors can create a 30-day free trial account by contacting eMerge and selecting the red tab along the left-hand side.   Connect with Team eMerge today:  Facebook- http://www.facebook.com/eMergeNMD  Twitter -http://twitter.com/eMergeNMD  LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/eMergeNMD   YouTube -http://www.youtube.com/eMergeNMD  

DotLoop Joins Keller Williams Realty Family Reunion
 DotLoop is gearing up for the Keller Williams Family Reunion, Feb. 19-23 in Anaheim, Calif. for the much-anticipated launch of eEdge, the first lead-to-close business solution for real estate. Family Reunion attendees get an in-depth look at DotLoop’s features; designed to improve the transactional elements of their business.   As the myTransactions component of eEdge, DotLoop provides a collaborative workspace to send and share documents with the added convenience and security of electronic signatures.  It is designed to increase efficiency by eliminating cumbersome practices in traditional real estate such as printing, faxing and driving between appointments.   DotLoop’s collaborative workspace allows buyers, sellers and real estate agents to work together to close more real estate transactions.  Both buying and listing agents utilize a unique invitation process to initiate a loop.  From there, either party can share, electronically sign or revise the documents pertinent to the transaction with DotLoop’s unique “Version Now” software. Rather than drafting several copies of the same document, “Version Now” provides agents and their clients’ with the most recent version without printing a single page.   Once negotiations are complete, transactions are finalized using electronic signatures. When a deal is done, all parties can view a thorough record of transaction activity for improved accuracy and security.   Currently, new Keller Williams associates are experiencing the DotLoop difference in Austin, Texas, North Carolina and South Carolina as the result of a recent roll out in the region.   The DotLoop collaborative workspace helps to changes lives for brokers, agents and buyers/sellers.  How?   Brokers: More Confidence and control of their Brokerage by providing more transparency and visibility to all transactions.  Agents: Better time management with a faster, easier way to edit, review and sign documents with clients.  Buyers/Sellers: Buying and selling a home can change people's lives DotLoop helps this happen more often.    The official launch of eEdge at Family reunion begins the national rollout giving Keller Williams’ 80,000 plus agents to access to DotLoop.  Now, agents will close more deals in less time while building better relationships with customers.   Attendees of Keller Williams Family Reunion are encouraged to visit DotLoop at Booth 527 to view demonstrations of how the secure, collaborative environment is where deals get done.   About DotLoop   Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, DotLoop is transforming the real estate industry by providing a secure online platform where any real estate agent can share and sign transaction documents.  As the leading provider of collaborative negotiation services, DotLoop is available to service all real estate professionals throughout the United States and Canada.  The innovative DotLoop platform is a collaborative, wholly web-based negotiation platform that lets users add, adjust, approve, and electronically sign documents digitally - addressing the challenges of security, efficiency, and overhead costs in today's real estate industry.   For more information, please click here.  

Iris Mobile Enhances the Mobile Solutions for Today’s Real Estate Market
Rolling Meadows, Illinois – February 14, 2011 -  February 14, 2011 - Iris Mobile Corporation, announced today that it has released an enhanced version of its suite of real estate mobile marketing solutions that includes text-messaging, web-to-mobile, QR codes, branded mobile apps, and branded mobile web marketing. Iris Mobile’s real estate product, Iris Listings, is currently available to REALTORs in Northern and Central Illinois and is growing its MLS partnerships. The enhanced Iris Listings now offers QR codes mobile marketing built seamlessly into the existing text- messaging marketing platform. The branded mobile app lets homebuyers search listings on the go with a smart phone. Potential homebuyers can send a text message as stated on the sign code or scan a QR code. The homebuyer instantly receives a text message with property detailed info, crystal clear home pictures on any mobile. While the homebuyer receives the listing info, the agent receives the lead alert either via text message or email. “The most powerful lead capture and mobile solution I have seen! Hands down the best ROI out there,” claims Dave Ablin, RE/MAX. The Iris Listings web-to-mobile solution offers a unique web widget that allows any real estate web site to share property listings to users on any mobile phone. “In today’s mobile driven society, connecting with potential home buyers through allmobile marketing channels convenient to people on the go is a must,” cites Iris Mobile’s President and CEO, Cezar Kolodziej, PhD. “Rather than managing different mobile tools, agents now have one suite of products that applies all the latest mobile technologies to real estate. We are very excited to unveil the latest Iris Listings product suite” adds Kolodziej. About Iris Mobile Iris Mobile's rich media messaging platform delivers the audio, video and image contents to over 93% of the mobile phones on standard messaging rates regardless of carrier, device or plan. Iris Mobile enables marketers, agencies, brands to use the ubiquity of mobile messaging to deliver the most effective marketing ROI. Iris Listings is the company's leading product suite for real estate allowing real state agents to market properties via text-messaging, QR codes, mobile apps and mobile web pages. To learn more about Iris Listings, visit http:// www.irislistings.com.  

Previsite Presents Social Media Video
Social media. Is it a fad? Or is it here to stay? Previsite created an informative video for their consumer base to highlight the biggest shift in communication! If you would like to view the original video, please click here.  

Idaho Data Providers Market Report – February 2011
Idaho Data Providers Market Report – February 2011 More foreclosure paperwork court cases slow NOD filings. Treasure Valley starts 2011 with 568 Notice of Default filings. 4,046 Total Distressed Properties Currently Listed - Up 5.4% from January The foreclosure crisis continues into 2011 but its end looks to be delayed even further with new problems and complaints affecting the first step in the foreclosure process, the filing of the Notice of Default. The filing of the NOD starts the formal foreclosure process in non-judicial states, which means the foreclosure does not go through a court process. Idaho is one of 27 non-judicial states. The arguments by borrower's attorneys are that whoever signs the NOD must have knowledge of the facts of the default and also that many notices are invalid because the employees who sign them work for companies that do not have the standing to foreclose. In many cases the final individual who signs the document is working for a servicer who is an agent of another entity who is in turn an agent for another different agency and so on down the chain. In the past, these arguments slowed foreclosure filings in the judicial foreclosure states. Now, because these arguments are being raised in the non-judicial states, we are already seeing a significant decline in new foreclosure filings while the servicers and lenders review their procedures. "This will cause a delay in the filing of Notices until this process is cleaned up slowing and stretching out the foreclosure crisis even further," said Charlie Nate, president of IdahoDataProviders.com. Ada & Canyon County Notice of Default Statistics Ada County Filings down 13% from December with 328 Notices of Default Filed in January Ada County new defaults dropped 13% in January with 328 notices filed. January's 328 filings is lower than any monthly total in 2010 except for November which had 284 filings. As document procedures are cleaned up look for filings to rapidly increase in the coming months. Canyon County Foreclosures up 31% with 240 Notices of Default filed in January! Canyon County had 240 notices filed in January which is up 31% over December when 183 notices were filed. Canyon County defaults averaged 263 filings per month in 2010. January starts out 2011 well below this monthly average but it should pick up in the coming months. The Treasure Valley started 2011 with 568 NOD filings in January. Short Sales up 3.5% from December with 2,147 Short Sales Listed in January After a significant drop of 12.4% from November to December short sale listings have bounced back and are back up 3.5% in January. As Housing prices continue to struggle locally watch for short sale listings to increase as more homeowners realize their home is not worth what they owe on their mortgage. REO Listings Up 6.6% after Three Consecutive Months of Decline Banks are still taking back a record number of properties from foreclosure auctions and are now starting to release more of these properties into the market. There are now 1,899 REO properties listed in the IMLS. Total Distressed Listings Increase 5.4% after 6 month Consecutive Decline. With both Short Sales and REO properties increasing, total distressed listings have reversed the downward trend that lasted 6 months. There are currently 4,046 distressed properties listed. This is up from 3,838 total distressed listings in December. As springtime approaches and more sellers enter the market look for this number to increase as well. Idaho Data Providers.com is Idaho's and the Treasure Valley's local source for current, accurate and detailed foreclosure listings, with detailed profiles pages for each property in the foreclosure process. Our database is updated and tracked daily. For questions or inquiries about this report please contact Charlie Nate at 208-860-6786.  

Delta Media Webinars Cover SEO, CRM and Website Updates
This week Delta Media is hosting three webinars on key technology topics for real estate professionals. Topics will include SEO, website upgrades and customer relationship management (CRM). We invite you to click here to select a webinar and attend one of these online events: CRM, Customer Relationship Management: Tuesday, January 25, 2011, from 1:00PM – 1:45PM EST All The Things You Can Do With Your Upgrade Website: Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 11:00AM – 11:45AM EST Getting Started with SEO Homepage & Custom Pages: Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 1:00PM – 1:45PM EST Tuesday's webinar will cover the topic of customer relationship management software. Associates will become familiar with Delta's CRM structure, and supporting CRM features and functions. Topics include an overview of CRM features and functions (group, contact, campaign, email letters, blasts, etc.), followed by a live demonstration. This webinar is recommended for associates that have upgraded (gold) Delta sites and agents considering upgrading, as well as office and management users assisting agents. Wednesday Delta's Ray Lester will present two webinars on two topics: The first of these webinars deals with website upgrades. Associates will become familiar with the features and functions included in Delta's upgrade website. Topics include Property Pursuit Atlas Search, Atlas Search Map View Link, Lead Notification via Text Message, Responding to Leads with Your Smartphone, Site Design Expanded Template Library, 99 Custom Pages, E-Card System Expanded Library, CRM Campaigns, CRM E-Blasts, Capturing Customer Registration Detail, Exporting Customer Detail, and the Google Analytics Interface. This webinar is recommended for all agents using or considering the upgrade website, as well as office and management users assisting agents with their website. The final webinar this week will be focused on learning how to ramp up SEO on homepages and custom pages of real estate websites. Associates will become familiar with DeltaNet features and functions supporting Search Engine Optimization strategies. Topics include an overview of SEO terms, suggestions on relevant content and examples of how to enter content for your Delta Homepage and Custom Pages. This webinar is recommended for all agents interested in getting started with Search Engine Optimization using DeltaNet support tools, as well as office and management users assisting agents. To learn more about Delta Media, please click here.

Robot Workshop to Release Lifestyle Search Engine By March
NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina – January 7th, 2011 – Robot Workshop, a real estate technology provider announced a strategic partnership, today, with Onboard Informatics, the premier data services & technology company for top tier organizations in real estate, media and technology . Robot Workshop will release a lifestyle?based homesearch engine, allowing shoppers to select neighborhoods based on attributes such as: proximity to shopping and pet friendliness. The solution will be powered by millions of data points provided by Onboard Informatics. Seth Siegler, CEO of Robot Workshop, LLC, says that the search interface will be available to real estate professionals and brokerages, for use on their consumerfacing websites. “We are offering a product that homebuyers have craved for years,” says Siegler, “A lifestyle search option allows home?shoppers to search based on the way they live. People can search for neighborhoods based on school quality, average commute, local culture or many other attributes.” According to Siegler, the Robot Workshop Lifestyle Search Interface will cost $98 per month, making it less expensive than many standard (non?lifestyle) homesearches. “Robot Workshop understands the life and budget of most real estate agents. We want our Lifestyle Search Interface to be a superior technology that’s affordable for everyone in the industry.” “Our partnership with Robot Workshop allows a vital part of the real estate market to gain access to this innovative search engine, driving traffic to their site and increasing their business. We are excited to partner with companies that understand what homebuyers want in their very emotional purchasing process, and Robot Workshop is certainly one of those companies,” says Marc Siden, CEO,Onboard Informatics. The partnership with Onboard Informatics will also allow Robot Workshop to offer its renowned IDX solution, IDX Robot, to agents and brokerages in over 100 MLS’s and REALTOR® Boards.  

Market Leader® Provides End-to-End Business Platform for Agents
KIRKLAND, WA--(Marketwire - January 10, 2011) - Market Leader (NASDAQ: LEDR) (http://www.MarketLeader.com), an innovator in online marketing and technology solutions for real estate professionals, in conjunction with Keller Williams Realty International, and DotLoop, will launch the real estate industry's first single-platform business system to more than 80,000 real estate professionals next month. The new eEdge platform from Keller Williams, the third-largest real estate franchisor in the country, represents the first time that real estate agents will be able to manage all of their daily activities on one seamlessly integrated, easy-to-use business system. The eEdge system will provide agents with the ability to create and operate their website, including full MLS integration; generate traffic and leads; manage and engage with their contacts and clients; electronically manage their transactions; and design, create, and manage their marketing campaigns. Keller Williams Realty International is launching the innovative eEdge platform to its more than 80,000 professionals in the United States and Canada at its annual Family Reunion event next month. "The launch of this platform is a bold move by Keller Williams and a major product innovation for Market Leader," said Steve Murray, editor of REAL Trends, a leading source of analysis and information on the residential brokerage industry. "The real estate industry has talked for years about the need for integrated solutions, but to my knowledge, this will be the first time it's been done." Market Leader will also make available the Market Leader Professional Edition to all Keller Williams associates beginning at the company's annual Family Reunion event. The Market Leader Professional Edition integrates with eEdge while offering numerous valuable enhancements to agents that want to take their business to the next level. The Professional Edition will provide associates with systems that are proven to drive more leads, build and manage an active pipeline of prospects, and help convert those prospects into clients. Additionally, the Professional Edition provides everything an agent needs to stand out from the crowd with unlimited access to the finest library of customizable online and offline marketing materials, all fully integrated with MLS listings and a contact management system to save associates time and money. "Market Leader is proud to have been chosen by Keller Williams to provide a single, seamlessly integrated system to manage their associates' websites, lead generation, contacts, and all of their marketing materials," said Ian Morris, CEO of Market Leader. "This innovative solution will help tens of thousands of agents manage their business while also providing them with ongoing access to a wealth of other services designed to help them accelerate their growth and success." "Market Leader's technology leadership played a strategic role in helping bring our agents' vision of an integrated solution to reality. There is no doubt that these products will help our associates to achieve a new level of business success," said Mary Tennant, president and COO of Keller Williams Realty. The Market Leader Professional Edition will be presented live for the first time at the Keller Williams' annual Family Reunion next month. For a sneak preview, Keller Williams associates can visit http://www.marketleader.com/professional. For more information on Market Leader and its products, please click here.  About Market Leader Market Leader (NASDAQ: LEDR) provides real estate professionals with innovative marketing and technology solutions that enable them to grow and manage their business. Founded in 1999 by a second-generation real estate agent, Market Leader provides real estate agents, agent teams, and brokerage companies with subscription-based real estate marketing software and advertising products that enable them to generate a steady stream of prospects, as well as the tools and training they need to convert these prospects into clients. With a long history of innovation, Market Leader pioneered online lead generation for real estate professionals a decade ago and today is the leading marketing partner to the real estate industry. The company also provides consumers with free access to the information and tools they need throughout the home buying and selling process, such as determining house values by address and providing access to real estate listings, through its national consumer real estate sites. These websites enable Market Leader to provide its customers with access to millions of future home buyers and sellers while providing these consumers with free access to the information they seek throughout the home buying and selling process.

zipLogix Launches zipForm Spanish Language User Interface
Fraser, Mich January 4, 2011 — zipLogix, creator of zipForm®, the real estate industry's leading forms software, proudly announces that it has developed a user interface (UI) feature for Spanish-speaking real estate professionals and their clients. Just released to all zipForm® 6 software users across the country is the ability to change the UI language from English to Spanish by toggling between the two. zipForm® 6 is the first real estate forms software to offer a Spanish language interface feature designed to streamline the contract completion process and simplify navigation for many Spanish-speaking users.   zipLogix’s flagship products, the zipForm® 6 Professional (online) and zipForm® 6 Standard (desktop) versions, both feature the Spanish language option. This option allows the user to have a higher sense of transparency with their Spanish-speaking clients and helps clients understand the software interface. The ability to switch between the two languages provides convenience for thousands of Spanish-speaking real estate professionals and their clients during the sometimes confusing transaction process. zipForm® 6 along with zipLogix’s transaction management system, relay®, also includes a Spanish language interface.   Spanish is written and spoken by the second largest population group in the United States. For the segment of this community that practices real estate, using software with only an English interface sometimes presents a problem. This dilemma was identified by the zipLogix team and another industry-leading solution has been implemented into the zipForm® 6 software.   Innovating and improving products for the real estate industry is a priority for zipLogix. To understand and address the needs of users allows them to help move programs forward thus enhancing their software user’s experience. This latest user interface feature further solidifies zipLogix as the nation’s premier real estate form software provider.   For more information about zipLogix’s solutions for today’s real estate industry, contact Wendy Waldrep at 888-318-2660 X130 or [email protected].   About zipLogix The zipLogix family of tech-savvy products is the recognized industry standard for electronic real estate forms and transaction management currently used by more real estate professionals than any other real estate software program. zipForm® is the Exclusive and Official Forms Software of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®. zipLogix also offers relay®, the web-based transaction management solution that enhances the value of services delivered to clients while improving productivity and efficiency.   zipLogix is a subsidiary of Real Estate Business Services, Inc. (REBS) and is a joint venture between REBS and the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®. The NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®, "The Voice for Real Estate," is America's largest trade association, representing more than 1.1 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries. Real Estate Business Services Inc. (REBS) is a subsidiary of the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® and the leading provider of real estate products and services to practitioners in California.  

Sentrilock Showcases New Login Screen Features
Sentrilock recently created an educational video to show their customers the latest updates made to their online login screen platform. Three of the newest improvements you can see are right in front of you when you visit our login page at sentrilock.com.The login page now has three key sections, Did You Know, Login, and direct links to our social networking sites. To view the original Sentrilock video, as found on YouTube, please click here.  

Home87.com Launches Free Unlimited Single Property Sites & Virtual Tours
Bellevue, WA, Dec. 5, 2010/ FarFani.com, a Seattle based company that owns Fax87.com, has just launched Home87.com in a closed beta. This website provides unlimited, fully featured single property websites and virtual tours for free. The site Home87.com prides itself in having stunning design templates, smooth transition effects, and full screen slideshow along with all the bells and whistles that come with a property site: Lead generation form Click2Call, Live chat (As widgets) Social network sharing, following Google Map, Streetview, Walkscore Email and text message notification of leads, etc. “Why is it that GoogleDoc, DropBox, Facebook don’t cost a dime and yet yet a simple single property site, virtual tour or a transaction management software can cost an arm and a leg? Why do you have to pay $20 for a .com domain when you can get it for less than $12 on GoDaddy?” says Matt Johnson, while recalling his own experience as a real estate agent. Johnson, the founder and CEO of FarFani.com, was an agent in 2006 with Brier Realty. Home87.com plans to serve the real estate agent community by focusing on their strength, writing great software. This will be a free service. In keeping Home87.com free, there will be a direct relationship in the future between Home87.com and Fax87.com, a sister entity that provides affordable electronic fax service. As an optional service, you can get a .com domain for only $10. To ensure high quality Home87.com is now in closed invite-only beta release. The service will be rolling out incrementally to everyone. Registration is only available with a valid invitation key. The first 100 agents that use the code “retechnology” at www.Home87.com will be able to register and use the service immediately. About FarFani.com FarFani.com is located in Bellevue, Washington. It is a software company that focuses on keeping its employees excited and customers happy.

Trendgraphix Expands Relationship with Windermere Real Estate
Sacramento, CA – 12/3/10 Trendgraphix, Inc., one of the nation’s leading providers of MLS-based real estate reports, today announced its expanded relationship with Windermere Real Estate to cover the company’s Northern California region offices. Trendgraphix now services more than 4,300 Windermere agents and managers in 167 offices and four states with its online market reporting system and broker productivity reports. “Understanding your local market is critical to any broker and agents' success. Trendgraphix reports provide our team with in-depth data that can really help us better guide our clients in what can be a confusing real estate environment," said OB Jacobi, President of Windermere Real Estate. "Pricing a home in-line with market conditions is the key to a fast sale at the best possible price and these statistics really enable sellers and agents to collaborate on a winning pricing strategy. With short sales, our agents can even use these stats to support offers to banks. From a buyer's perspective, understanding how a listing stacks up against local trends can be critical to placing the offer that wins them their ideal home. Finally, from a management perspective, understanding our company's performance in all the regions we serve enables us to make strategic business decisions around recruiting and growth, to improve business performance and profitability." About Trendgraphix, Inc. Trendgraphix has been helping real estate brokers and agents interpret market trends for more than 15 years with simple-to-use and easy-to-understand market statistical programs. Trendgraphix currently works with more than 150 brokerages in 20 U.S. states.  For more information visit www.TrendGraphix.com or email [email protected]

HomeGain Launches New HOMEGAIN150 Promotion
Emeryville, CA - (PRWEB) November 30, 2010 - HomeGain®, a leading online real estate resource that connects home buyers and sellers with real estate professionals, today announced a new promotion where home buyers and sellers can now receive up to $150 for buying or selling a home through HomeGain’s Find a REALTOR® program, AgentEvaluator®. The HOMEGAIN150 promotion is available to eligible home buyers and sellers who register to compare REALTORS® on www.homegain.com between November 11, 2010 and June 30, 2011 and complete a home transaction on or before September 30, 2011. “The HomeGain Find a Realtor program has been connecting home buyers and sellers with HomeGain members for over a decade. We encourage eligible home owners and buyers to take advantage of this offer and to share the details of this promotion with their family, friends and colleagues,” said Louis Cammarosano, General Manager of HomeGain.    Visit www.homegain150.com for complete details on the HomeGain150 promotion. About HomeGain HomeGain is a leading provider of online marketing solutions that connect real estate agents and brokers with home buyers and sellers. HomeGain offers free services to find and compare real estate agents, research home values, and view homes for sale. Since 1999 REALTORS® have used HomeGain's real estate marketing programs to connect with consumers, promote their services and grow their business. HomeGain.com has been a top visited real estate website since 1999. HomeGain is your real estate connection.  

Realtor.com Launches Windows Phone 7 Real Estate Search App
CAMPBELL, CA -- (November 18, 2010) – Move, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOVE), the leader in online real estate, today announces the Realtor.com Real Estate Search app for Windows® Phone 7. This newest Realtor.com app, designed by Move in partnership with Microsoft, is the first real estate search app available for the Windows Phone 7, and is a premier launch app for the platform. “The Realtor.com search experience is now available on three major mobile platforms, giving millions of consumers real time, anywhere access to the freshest and most accurate collection of property listings available on Realtor.com,” said Move Inc., Chief Executive Officer, Steve Berkowitz. “We believe this is a very powerful tool to have regardless of whether you’re actively searching for a home or just interested in monitoring the local market. We’re pleased to have worked with Microsoft on the first Windows Phone 7 real estate search app, and remain committed to placing the search power of Realtor.com into the hands of every consumer with a mobile device.” This newest Realtor.com mobile search app delivers all of the popular search features offered by Realtor.com on other mobile platforms, while integrating Windows Phone 7's unique design capabilities including Panorama, which allows users to access content by panning left or right with the swipe of a finger. From the home panel, users can instantly swipe through the Local, Recent Searches and the Feedback panels, and browse a listing’s overview, photos, details, contact, and notes and ratings panels on the Listing Detail Pages. "Windows Phone 7 is backed by a rich developer ecosystem that is creating a variety of quality apps and games,” said Todd Brix, senior director, Windows Phone Marketplace, Microsoft Corp. “Realtor.com leverages the platform’s unique features and is a good example of the sort of apps that can be found on Windows Phone Marketplace, all of which are designed to help consumers get the most out of their phone.” Other notable features include Create Notes and Rate Listings, which empower buyers to better compare and consider each property by saving decision-making information within the app. Notes can be quickly retrieved and reviewed later when visiting a property again or for comparing properties at open houses. Personalized content features and powerful property-based search capabilities with refined search filters also make the application a versatile and valuable real estate search tool. Additionally, Realtor.com has included a surface feedback tool within the Windows Phone 7 app that makes it easy for users to provide feedback to Realtor.com specific to this newest mobile real estate search app. Similar to other Realtor.com mobile search apps, the Realtor.com Windows 7 app was designed so consumers can quickly connect with agents throughout the home search process. If a property looks interesting, the one-tap call capability effortlessly connects potential buyers with the listing agent for additional details or to arrange a tour. At the same time, buyers can also use their Realtor.com Windows 7 search app to instantly reach out to their Realtor to share a listing of interest they found that fits their search criteria. If time is short, simply touch the Ask a Question button, and buyers can instantly send an e-mail to an agent. “By expanding the Realtor.com search experience to the Windows 7 platform, we’re creating greater opportunities for today’s on-the-go buyers to search for homes at their convenience, and to connect with local real estate experts in real time to ask questions or perhaps schedule an appointment,” said Errol Samuelson, president of Realtor.com. “Based on the popularity of our other mobile search apps, we expect the Realtor.com Windows 7 app to become the most helpful and popular real estate search app available for the Windows platform.” The Realtor.com® Windows Phone 7 app is compatible with all Windows Phone 7 devices and can be downloaded by visiting the Windows Phone Marketplace at http://social.zune.net/redirect?type=phoneApp&id=61bf0d9a-61e1-df11-a844-00237de2db9e ABOUT MOVE, INC. Move, Inc. (Nasdaq: MOVE) is the leader in online real estate with 12.29 million monthly visitors to its online network of websites. Move, Inc. operates: Move.com, a leading destination for information on new homes and rental listings, moving, home and garden and home finance; Realtor.com(R), the official web site of the National Association of Realtors®; Moving.com; SeniorHousingNet; Top Producer Systems, and ListHub. Move, Inc. is based in Campbell, California. ABOUT REALTOR.COM® Realtor.com®, where the world shops for real estate online, is operated by Move, Inc., (NASDAQ:MOVE) and is the official web site of the National Association of Realtors®. Ranked as the #1 homes-for-sale site, Realtor.com® currently offers potential home buyers access to over four million property listings, as well as the most brokers and agents. It also provides Realtors® and the home sellers they represent with the Internet’s largest real estate marketplace, reaching more than 10.0 million consumers in October 2010. Agents and companies have the power to customize Realtor.com®resources to maximize their brand and productivity. REALTOR® and REALTOR.com® are registered trademarks of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®. REALTOR® is a federally registered collective membership mark, which identifies a real estate professional who is a Member of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® and subscribes to its strict Code of Ethics. All other trademarks appearing above are the property of Move, Inc., or of their other respective owners.  

Sentrilock Adds Three New Features
SentriLock is continuously looking to improve our customers' experience with our products. Three of the newest improvements you can see are right in front of you when you visit our login page at sentrilock.com.The login page now has three key sections, Did You Know, Login, and direct links to our social networking sites.  

TrendGraphix Launches New e-Marketing System
Trendgraphix, Inc., the developer of market reporting systems for real estate brokers and agents, today announced the launch of their new e-marketing tool, TRENDSend™.TRENDSend™ provides users with a fully-featured drip email system for sending automated e-mail campaigns with timely market statistics, graphs, and charts from Trendgraphix’s popular Facts & Trends™ application.“TRENDSend™ is the culmination of many years of listening to our clients’ feedback and learning from them about how they use our Facts & Trends™ application in their everyday business,” said Jean Li, President of Trendgraphix. “Many of our agent users are already importing our data and charts into their email campaigns to satisfy the public’s hunger for real estate data. Now TRENDSend simplifies and automates that process, saving agents time in writing, creating, and delivering timely and relevant content to their contacts on a regular basis.”TRENDSend’s reporting engine uses MLS data to generate its market statistics and is available to new and existing Trendgraphix broker clients in the company’s current MLS coverage areas with volume user purchases and on a monthly subscription basis. About Trendgraphix, Inc. Trendgraphix, Inc. has been helping real estate brokers and agents interpret market trends for more than 15 years with simple-to-use and easy-to-understand market statistical programs. Trendgraphix offers a full-suite of market trending, productivity and market share reports directly to brokers, MLS organizations, and their agents, currently working with more than 150 brokerages and more than 100,000 agent users in 18 U.S. states.   

New Features Added to SpatialMatch!
Home Junction just announced that it has added new features to SpatialMatch™! For the past few months, they have been busy setting up SpatialMatch™ on their first batch of websites. Having installed the platform on over 50 agent and broker websites, Home Junction says that the response has been incredible from their customers as well as the press. To learn all about these new features, sign up for one of their Product Demos. SpatialMatch™ is a "Lifestyle Search" engine that allows users to search for real estate by its proximity to coffee shops, schools, grocery stores, and hundreds of other lifestyle layers. Now with their latest release, users can narrow their searches to one or several specific brands. So, if you want to live 1/4 mile from a Whole Foods or a Trader Joe's, simply type in the names of the brands you love, and the map will update to display only those stores. Home Junction has also been working hard to deliver new ways to share with friends directly from the platform. Say you found a restaurant you're curious about while searching with SpatialMatch™. Users can now share that restaurant, or any other object, with their Facebook friends by posting a comment and a link to the search results on an agent or broker website right to their wall from within SpatialMatch™. And the best part for an agent is that, starting next week, they'll get an email alert when users on their website post search findings to their walls.  Another feature Home Junction developed to enable sharing is SpatialMatch™ Bookmarks. Say an agent has a potential client who is looking for a home close to their child's high school, while also wanting to be near a Starbucks and a gym. Now they can prepare a search for them and create an email containing a unique link to the search results right from SpatialMatch™. Or if they want to get really fancy, they can build specific searches for their local neighborhoods and post the pages on their website for anyone to view. There are endless possibilities for how agents and brokers can use SpatialMatch™ Bookmarks to help your users find their dream homes. Home Junction is looking forward to showing real estate professionals the incredible new functionality they've added to SpatialMatch™. Sign-up for a  Product Demo and Home Junction will show you around their platform, and in the meantime, you can check out this video to see some of their new features in action.

REALTOR® Association of Greater Fort Lauderdale, Inc. Syndicates with Point2 Technologies
Saskatoon, SK and Vancouver, BC – September 22, 2010 – Point2 Technologies (“Point2”) today announced that the REALTOR® Association Of Greater Fort Lauderdale, Inc. (RAGFL), www.R-World.com, one of the largest REALTOR® Associations in the State of Florida, has completed the roll out of a national online property listing advertising distribution program powered by Point2’s listing syndication solution for real estate MLSs (Multiple Listing Service) and Associations. Offered by RAGFL as a complementary benefit to its over 8,600 members, the new technology will automate the publication and advertising of approximately 20,000 Florida listings on Point2’s syndication partner network that covers 45 high traffic real estate consumer websites, major search engines and nearly 300 regional newspaper sites around the United States. “We are very excited about the competitive advantage syndication on the Point2 network will bring to our members and happy to be able to bring such value to our constituents,” said Richard W. Barkett, RAGFL Chief Executive Officer. “Florida is one of the most desirable places to live and today offers incredible real estate value never seen before. Locals and out of state buyers can now more easily find our members’ listings online whether they search on Google and Yahoo!, Zillow and Trulia, or Homefinder and Cyberhomes/AOL.” “RAGFL continues as a leader in this industry,” said Saul Klein, Chief Executive Officer, Point2 Technologies. “Major organizations are deploying Point2’s syndication solution at an accelerated pace to enhance member efficiency and for the unique built-in lead management and conversion tools to help users maximize revenue.” RAGFL members throughout Broward, Dade and Palm Beach Counties, can now select, publish and update their listings simultaneously to their MLS system and on the Point2 network, through a single, easy to use dashboard. A highly intuitive interface also gives users access to traffic reports detailing lead sources and browsing patterns, for more informed decision making. Optional subscription to the industry’s leading syndication and website solution, Point2 Agent (www.Point2Agent.com) also seamlessly puts the user in control of more detailed traffic reports and information, and automates lead management and predictive marketing to maximize conversion from browsing prospects to clients. Chosen by 154 MLSs and Associations in the United States, Point2’s enterprise solution today facilitates listing syndication for nearly 250,000 REALTORS®. About Point2 Technologies Point2 Technologies (www.Point2.com) develops, markets and supports inventory management and online marketing software solutions to the real estate and heavy equipment industries across 120 countries. More information about Point2 can be found at www.Point2.com. For ongoing news about Point2, please visit www.point2.com/news.asp. Point2® is a trademark of Point2 Technologies Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.    

Wise Agent Facebook Integration is Live!
Wise Agent is excited to release another new technology feature to tie its CRM program to Facebook, making likfe easier for real estate agents. The first phase of their integration with Facebook is now live. Tech Savvy Agent first broke the news last week in their blog, and we've been getting some great feedback so far. A few of the things a real estate agent can do right now from their Wise Agent: * View thier Wall and comment on their Friends' posts * Post their real estate listings, along with a slideshow, to their Wall in just a couple clicks * Add contacts from their Facebook Friends list to their CRM Client List * View a Client's most recent status update from the Contact Notes page, and save it with a date and time stamp Watch a video detailing these updates: Having a CRM integrated with a Facebook account eliminates having to switch between different programs, simplifying an agent's day. As John Novak mentions in his blog "Is Facebook In Your Business Plan?" it's becoming more and more critical for real estate professionals to connect with their client base on a more personal level. With more than 400 million active users, Facebook is a great way to connect with people real estate agents may never have been able to otherwise. Wise Agent always appreciates your feedback and suggestions, so feel free to comment in the comments section below. If you would like to learn more about Wise Agent, please click here.

New Direction - Roost Focuses More on Social Media, Less on Home Search
Roost.com, formerly known for their home search portal and their social media toolkit, have restructured their focus and are dropping the home search from their arsenal.  Without a doubt, Roost's Facebook application and other social media tools bring value to real estate; they will now be focusing on these solutions.  This morning Roost sent us the following report: "We are reaching out to inform you of some changes that will take place at Roost.com. Starting on September 1st, Roost will discontinue its home search business at Roost.com. This change will mean that any alerts you have set will stop. Roost’s new products and services will focus on providing tools for real estate professionals to build business using social networks like Facebook.  You can see our new social marketing tools offering here. We have enjoyed providing you with a home search, and we hope the experience has made your buying process easier. We apologize for any inconvenience this announcement might have caused and wish you success in your home search." We wish you the best Roost.com! Looking forward to other social media innovations!  

Supra eKey Now Available on iPhone and iPod Touch
After months of anticipation, Supra released it's eKEY Basic for iPhone and iTouches everywhere. With eKEY software, real estate agents can use their iPhone or iTouch as their lockbox key. eKEY updates wirelessly so real estate professionals can do business anywhere. There are two service levels available: eKEY Basic which provides basic keybox functions. eKEY Professional (coming late this year)adds MLS data saved to your phone, links Google maps to the listings, and delivers showing details to your phone.   eKEY Basic Features: (device shown to the right) Wireless Updates and Alerts Obtain Listing Keys Keep track of all the agent's key boxes right from their phone Manage and Program all keyboxes Easily place and remove keyboxes from listings using a phone Change shackle codes Supra eKEY Adapter (device shown to the right) They have created a Supra iPhone Adapter which plugs into the 30 pin dock connector.  It adds Infrared to the iPhone.  It is designed to hang from a key chain when not in use.  When an agent is ready to show a house, they can just slide it out of its cover, and plug it into their iPhone. When will eKEY for iPhone be available? eKEY Basic for iPhone is available now!  eKEY Professional for iPhone will be available in December of 2010. Will the Supra iPhone Adapter require batteries?   No!  The Adapter gets its power from the iPhone, thus no batteries to change and it will never need to be charged.  It only uses power when a box is opened, thus it has very little impact on the iPhone's battery. Will eKEY for iPhone work with the eKEY Fob (the one that works with the BlackBerry)? The eKEY fob used for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices will not work with the iPhone.  It was necessary to design an accessory specifically for the iPhone.  They decided to create an adapter that would plug directly into the phone.  In this way the eKEY for iPhone is a fully integrated solution. How do I get eKEY for iPhone? eKEY for iPhone is issued just like the other eKEYs.  The Supra iPhone Adapter is available for purchase directly from Supra and from most Boards and MLSs.  After an agent has their adapter, they can download the software from the App Store, and get an eKEY serial number and authorization code from their Board or MLS.  Once the authorization code is entered into the software, they are ready to open lock boxes with their iPhone. Moving from DisplayKEY or ActiveKEY is a very simple process.  It will only take a few minutes at an agent's local Board or MLS (whoever issued their current key), and they will be opening lock boxes with their iPhone. What models of iPhones will be supported? eKEY for iPhone will run on all current models of iPhone (2G, 3G, 3Gs).  It will also run on the new iPhone 4.  Note that for 2G, 3G, and 3Gs devices, you must have iPhone OS 3.1.3 or above. How do I get the software on my iPhone? The eKEY for iPhone app is on Apple App Store.  The download is free.  While the software itself is downloaded free, there will be an ongoing monthly charge for the key service. Download it now to check out the demo mode. Is there a way to see how eKEY for iPhone works before I buy it? Yes.  There is a demo version of the software.  It is on the App Store and it will let you check out all the eKEY Basic features.  To start using it to open lock boxes an agent will just need to speak to his/her Board or MLS and get an authorization code (once the Supra eKEY Adapter is available). If you would like to learn more about Supra's eKEY for iPhone and iTouch, please click here. If you would like to view a demo of the eKEY software, please click here.

Condo.com Auction Platform- A Valuable Marketing Vehicle
Miami, FL(August 19, 2010)– Condo.com, the world’s largest condo marketplace, has established a proven platform for promoting real estate auctions through a designated portal area on their site. Several auction houses and developers are turning to Condo.com to reach a greater pool of buyers - those searching for a condo, those searching for an auction or those simply looking for a great deal. The site effectively captures a larger audience beyond the auction-niche, yet offers an uncluttered, targeted experience for both the real estate verticals. Auctions are prominently advertised on Condo.com’s homepage and readily accessible on the Auction icon. Auctions are also featured in the homepage Hot Deals rotation, attracting all buyers in search of a deal. Auctioneers are realizing the impact of being in the front and center of the highest concentration of people actively seeking condos and upcoming real estate auctions online. Client testimonials and referrals are confirming the power of Condo.com’s platform.   Real Estate and Auction Company, Max Spann: “We have found Condo.com to be a great resource for referring potential bidders to our real estate auctions around the country" stated Bob Dann, Executive Vice President of Operations. “We are pleased to be associated with Condo.com…it's part of our strategic approach to marketing our auctions," adds Dann. “We have a strategic partnership with Condo.com and use them on all of our projects as we get the national, multinational exposure needed. In Orlando, for example we have tracked a substantial number of leads from advertising an auction on Condo.com," stated Jesus Castanon, Co-Founder of Real Estate Empire, a large Florida-based Real Estate firm who has auctioned off over 300 units over the past 8 months. Auctions on Condo.com and elsewhere are continuing to gain popularity. The real estate auction market has picked up momentum in recent years proving to be a viable solution for sellers to liquidate inventory quickly. Sellers are assured that their home will be sold on a said date and time which is especially attractive to those who have had their homes listed for over a year. Additionally, the real estate bust has placed a huge burden on banks and developers pressuring them to liquidate their properties as fast as possible and rid themselves of the financial burden incurred. As a result, many have chosen the auction route. According to the National Auctioneers Association (NAA), home auctions have increased 10% each year since the early 2000s. In the first quarter of 2010, auction sales have already grown by 17%.   As auctions persist, the need to effectively reach the auction buyer is becoming more critical.  Senior VP of Sales, Jason Mizrachi states: “Given we are the epicenter condo search for sales, rentals and several niche inventory types, we have also strategically partnered and positioned ourselves to the forefront of the auction space. We’ve noticed an uptick in the first half of 2010 with developers opting to promptly liquidate assets and using Condo.com as the prime avenue to do so. It’s a win-win for the developer and the consumer and we excel in connecting the buyers and sellers within the auction vertical.” Real estate marketing giant AcceleratedMP has been advertising on Condo.com for two years and most recently, within the auction platform. Marketing Director Deborah Stevens comments on the company’s experience stating: “We are aware of the typical home-buyer’s search pattern, first they search the internet. Therefore, we utilize Condo.com to get the web exposure needed so our clients’ products are seen best and first.” About Condo.com Condo.com (www.condo.com) is the world's largest condominium marketplace with over 800,000 listings valued in excess of $200 billion. The site receives over 1 million visitors monthly and is dedicated to the evolution and prosperity of the condominium real estate market. Condo.com improves and simplifies the way people buy, rent, sell, manage, market and enjoy the condo lifestyle. Condo.com lists condominiums for sale and for rent in the United States and 70+ countries around the world. The Company cost-effectively delivers exposure and qualified leads to developers, brokers and owners through the seamless distribution of its listings to a global network of real estate websites visited by over 15 million viewers per month.Condo.com is privately held and headquartered in Miami, Florida.

Premise or Hosted CRM- Which is Right for You?
With all the recent attention on on-demand, or software-as-a-service (SaaS) CRM solutions, it might seem like this is the future of software. Though many are jumping on the on-demand bandwagon, many are also jumping off. Churn rates for on-demand are as high as 30 percent while renewal rates with on-premise software stand in the 80 percent range. There must be a reason an increasing number of organizations that tried hosted on-demand applications have returned to an on-premise solution. In fact, we can think of 10.   Learn which approach is best for your needs, topics include: Total cost of ownership  Ease of customization  Control of data User-interface Disaster recovery Building the business case Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 11:00AM - 12:00PM Pacific Time * All attendees will receive a complimentary "Premise or Hosted CRM - Which is Right For You?- CRM Success Kit" and discover how you can realize these advantages. This webinar is sponsored by FrontRange Solutions. FrontRange Solutions manufactures GoldMine Software used by more than 130,000 companies and over 1.7 million users worldwide to optimize sales, marketing and customer service performance.

Property Minder Launches CMA Tool for Agents
San Jose, CA - August, 2, 2010- PropertyMinder is excited to launch the first generation of its Comparable Market Analysis (CMA) tool for listing agents. A CMA provides insight for a home seller to determine an appropriate list price for their home. The PropertyMinder CMA searches the MLS* to pickup comparables, creates charts, and is entirely web-based within the AccelerAgent™ Websites. “We have been working diligently this summer to allow agents the ability to create an easy to use, beautiful listing presentation tool to “wow” clients and win listing appointments,” said Vice President Jane Ellsworth-Purcell. There are many options within the CMA section of the website. Agents can create unlimited CMA’s, send, print, and have their visitor access it via a secure login area. Visitors on the website can even submit a Home Evaluation Request (CMA) on the agent’s website. Agents can modify the CMA report pages including the Cover Sheet, Table Of Contents, About Me, Marketing Plan, Closing Comments, and more. As mentioned earlier, the CMA is completely web-based which means no downloading of software and the agent can just login to the admin toolkit. To kickoff the launch, PropertyMinder will be hosting a webinar on Wednesday, August 4th at 10:30am PST (1:30pm EST) to breakdown the features of the CMA.  *Available in these MLS areas: MLSListings, ACTRIS, MRIS, MLSPIN, MRED, Sandicor, and SoCal MLS About PropertyMinder: PropertyMinder has been an innovator in the areas of Internet Marketing, Web Technology, Content Management, Post Sales Follow-up, SEO Marketing and Management. We have successfully partnered with Real Estate Agents and Brokerages through our superior products and unmatched Customer Service.    

DocuSign Hosts 2010 ESIGN Summit in San Francisco
07.27.2010 – SEATTLE – July 27, 2010 – On Wednesday, June 30, DocuSign®, the market leader and global standard for electronic signature, hosted the 2010 ESIGN Summit in San Francisco to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the Electronic Signatures in Global National Commerce (ESIGN) Act that President Bill Clinton signed on June 30, 2000 and to celebrate the Congressional Resolutions designating June 30 as National ESIGN Day. DocuSign CEO and president Steve King welcomed more than 300 attendees with the news that DocuSign led a coalition to make June 30 National ESIGN Day. Both houses of the U.S. Congress passed the resolutions to make this happen (see separate press release for details). The ESIGN Summit began with a special message from Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA) who commented on the transformation the ESIGN Act has had on how we conduct transactions and commerce today, and applauded DocuSign’s leadership in driving e-signature adoption to increase productivity and efficiency for businesses and government. In his address titled “Embracing Our Common Humanity,” President Bill Clinton greeted the attendees, citing a number of significant anniversaries that are observed by his foundation. Along with presenting a balanced budget to Congress and the Middle East peace process, he noted that the ESIGN Act will have one of the largest impacts over how people live and work. President Clinton spoke about the top challenges the world faces today, and the ways information technology can be used to better the lives of people around the world. He expressed his belief in the transformative power of the Internet and said he was concerned most about expanding its use worldwide to connect more people and remove additional barriers. “We’ve learned throughout all of human history that trust is the basis for all commerce...We have to work harder to get countries not to block it, than keeping bad apples out of it,” he commented. Next Gary Thomas, first vice president-elect, National Association of REALTORS® (NAR), discussed the importance of relationships in the real estate industry. The largest trade organization in America, NAR made a strategic financial investment in DocuSign in November 2009 through its Second Century Ventures fund. “NAR’s 1.1 million REALTORS® are helping people realize the American Dream of home ownership. Our alliance with DocuSign enables REALTORS® and their clients to track business from any place any time. Now real estate closings are radically faster, contracts don’t have to be faxed back and forth, and home buyers and sellers don’t have to come into the office to sign papers—they can even be signed from an airplane 30,000 feet in the sky,” he said, referring to a recent San Francisco Chronicle story about a couple who signed their real estate documents midflight with DocuSign. Kendall Collins, chief marketing officer at salesforce.com, shared the company’s vision for Cloud 2, collaboration that leverages mobility and social networking features popularized by Facebook and Twitter like profiles, status updates and real-time feeds to empower enterprises with a new level of productivity only possible in the cloud. In speaking how electronic signatures are moving to Cloud 2, Collins said traditional wet signatures are slow, provide no tracking and are not environmentally friendly. “I am happy to say that the last mile of every transaction is now done in the cloud. We are delighted today to be talking about our relationship with DocuSign, a leader in electronic signatures.” DocuSign founder and chief strategy officer, Tom Gonser, joined salesforce.com on stage to demonstrate how integrating DocuSign’s electronic signature platform with Salesforce Chatter can foster collaboration within an entire organization, sending alerts when a contract is opened, signed and when a deal is won in real-time. Aaron Levie, co-founder and chief executive officer of Box.net, described the new workplace that takes place outside the walls of a single organization between networks of vendors and partners and business, where content is centralized in the cloud to integrate, manage and access online. Levie announced, “We are excited about the ability to now easily transact business in the cloud through our partnership with DocuSign. The millions of documents on Box.net can now be signed and transacted with DocuSign.” In conclusion, DocuSign’s Tom Gonser spoke about the evolution of how business transactions have been signed through the ages and showcased DocuSign’s latest innovations that are adding new levels of flexibility, collaboration and mobility to core business processes of completing business transactions. Gonser related that electronic signature technology has moved beyond just signing documents and that DocuSign has created a platform that manages the entire document electronic signature process—with powerful collaboration and negotiation tools to accelerate business from anywhere, anytime. He demonstrated the first Apple® iPadTM electronic signature application, illustrating how easy it is to access documents for signature via handheld devices and the rich real-time reporting DocuSign offers. Attendees praised DocuSign for driving the National ESIGN Day resolution and taking the industry lead on raising awareness of the key role of electronic signatures in the growth of commerce trend toward more environmentally friendly and efficient business practices. DocuSign chairman Keith Krach commended the event for bringing together industry luminaries and leaders in markets such as finance, e-commerce and real estate. “DocuSign is not only leading the industry with the most advanced product, the most strategic partnerships and the greatest number of customers, by creating the industry discussion about the future of business transactions, DocuSign is validating its position as the market leader and global standard in electronic signature.” About DocuSign, Inc. DocuSign, Inc. is the market leader and global standard for electronic signature. DocuSign provides the world’s largest and fastest growing electronic signature platform, empowering businesses to complete transactions online quickly and securely while improving compliance and dramatically reducing costs. DocuSign is the only cloud computing-based electronic signature platform that entirely replaces slow, expensive paper transactions with a fast, efficient and completely digital solution. Accessible from any Internet-connected device, DocuSign supports virtually any document and form type in simple and complex workflows, and provides broad user authentication options, data collection, secure document/data storage and retrieval, as well as real-time negotiation and collaboration tools. DocuSign employs the industry’s only multi-site enterprise class, SAS-70 data centers delivering 99.9% uptime for customers over the last four years. With more than 5 million unique signers processing millions of transactions per year, DocuSign is trusted by more people, more companies, more times than any other electronic signature provider in the world. In addition, DocuSign is the official and exclusive provider of electronic signature for the National Association of REALTORS® 1.1 million members, under the REALTOR Benefits® Program. To learn more about DocuSign, please click here.