RE Buz, Inc. and RealtyRates.com Form Strategic Alliance

Commercial Real Estate Web Sites In Joint Content Enhancement and Marketing Effort

CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS and BRADENTON, FLORIDA - October 31, 2001

Internet-based commercial real estate firms RE Buz, Inc. and RealtyRates.com have formed a strategic alliance to enhance the content and marketing of both operations.

According to RealtyRates.com president Robert Watts, "...this alliance reflects a current trend among specialized service providers to join forces in order to meet the growing demand for and use of commercial real estate data and information on the Internet."

Portions of RealtyRates.com's award-winning quarterly Investor Survey will now be available directly from the RE Buz Web site and RE Buz's wealth of industry news, directory and search engine will be directly accessible from RealtyRates.com. A joint marketing effort has also be mounted to synergistically increase traffic to both sites which provide related but non-competing products and services.

Based in Concord, MA, RE Buz, Inc. (http://www.REBuz.com) is the premier real estate industry search engine and directory. REBuz also provides a wide array of resources designed to help users up their Internet learning curve and assist in the development of successful Web business strategies. It was founded by Tom Meagher, Bob Wong and Jeffrey Street who together have nearly 60 years of commercial real estate experience.

With its proprietary market research, Bradenton, Florida-based RealtyRates.com (www.RealtyRates.com) supports commercial property appraisers, brokers, developers, investors, and lenders nationwide. Its flagship quarterly Investor Survey provides mortgage terms and capitalization and discount rates by property type, data essential to the evaluation and marketing of income producing property. Its Web site also serves as an online research center with many freely available tools and resources.

For Further Information, contact

Tom Meagher
RE Buz, Inc.
meagher@rebuz.com
321.223.7788

Robert Watts
RealtyRates.com
rgwatts@RealtyRates.com
941.795.6219