Real Estate Leader ForsaleByOwner.com Partners with RealBird Inc. to Provide Detailed Maps for Real Estate Listings

Partnership Gives ForSaleByOwner.com Customers Better Maps for Property Listings

Redwood City, CA and New York, NY (PRWEB) April 13, 2005 -- In a deal that will give independent home buyers better tools for locating and evaluating the property listings, real estate services leader site ForSaleByOwner.com today announced an alliance with RealBird, Inc., a leading provider of online maps and GIS tools tailored for the real estate industry.

ForSaleByOwner.com is Americas leading no-commission marketplace, bringing buyers and sellers together online. Since 1999, ForSaleByOwner.com has saved consumers billions of dollars by cutting out the middleman and giving people the freedom to sell their homes without a transaction fee.

RealBirds service includes street, aerial and topographical maps and various visualized data layers, with interactive hotspots that can be linked to photos, websites or virtual tours leading to a superior home buying experience.

Giving buyers the tools to more easily evaluate homes they find on our site is right in line with our mission of providing options," said Colby Sambrotto, COO of ForSaleByOwner.com. Not only do buyers have access to the virtual tours and comprehensive listings we already provide, but with RealBirds services, theyll now also have access to aerial photos that will provide them with a better sense of the neighborhoods layout and the size and shape of the home."

Gabriel Gross, founder of RealBird remarked: We are truly very pleased that ForSaleByOwner.com, a premier brand in the real-estate industry, chose to work with us. I believe that this agreement is a clear win-win situation and a perfect fit."

About ForSaleByOwner.com:
With the largest database of homes for sale without a broker, ForSaleByOwner.com is committed to cutting out the middleman and connecting buyers and sellers online. Founded in 1999, ForSaleByOwner.com has created an online marketplace that offers aggregated information, resources and research in one location.

Independent sellers can find resources for real estate listings on ForSaleByOwner.com and applications for discount mortgage and refinancing services on YourLoanHelper.com.

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.

RealBird is a trademark of Realbird Inc.

Contacts for ForSaleByOwner.com
Jill Feldman (jill@mkpr.com)
Michael Kaminer (Michael@mkpr.com)
Michael Kaminer PR, 212-627-8098

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