Real Estate FSBO Website Franchiser HomesbyOwner.com Partners with RealBird Inc for Map-based Search Tool

Partnership Gives HomesByOwner.com Customers Cool Maps and Interactive Map-based Search for Property Listings

Redwood City, CA / Memphis, TN (PRWEB) April 28, 2005

In a deal that will give home buyers more informative ways for buying a house, HomesByOwner.com today announced an alliance with RealBird, Inc., a leading provider of online maps and GIS tools tailored for the real estate industry.

HomesByOwner.com provides national exposure and a customizable website for For Sale By Owner businesses to serve the local FSBO market. In business since 1994, it provides a platform for many of the largest local FSBO businesses in the US.

RealBird’s online mapping service offers street, aerial and topographical maps and various visualized data layers, with interactive hotspots linked to photos, websites or virtual tours and driving directions.

“With RealBird Maps we have raised the perceived value of our service, and will attract more homebuyers and sellers because they have now a better way to sell or buy a home. Realbird is the only affordable, fully customizable online mapping service that was also very easy to integrate with our website and database of listings.” Remarked Wayne Strobel, President of Homesbyowner.com

About HomesByOwner.com:

HomesByOwner.com provides a local FSBO magazine publisher, mortgage broker, entrepreneur, or ‘non-traditional’ real estate broker the exclusive rights to a metropolitan area. New affiliates can start a FSBO oriented business in a matter of days with little overhead. With over 120 of its 370 metro areas being run by local affiliates, HomesByOwner.com is the largest network of for sale by owner affiliates in the world. HomesByOwner.com provides a strong national presence, while its affiliates provide the consumers the local assistance they need.

About RealBird.

RealBird Inc. (http://www.realbird.com) is headquartered in Redwood City, CA. The company provides a unique, hosted mapping and GIS solution to the real estate industry. Vast amounts of location related data are available in databases scattered throughout private and public governmental agencies, but homebuyers need to expend a lot of effort to search for and then interpret and understand the information that relates to a particular property that they might consider purchasing. By displaying various types of maps with real estate relevant, pictorial data layers, the RealBird service becomes a valuable complement to any real estate website and helps ultimately homebuyers make better informed decisions.

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