Technology Leaders Realigent and RealBird Partner to Provide Map Based Services for Real Estate

RealBird, Inc., a leading provider of online maps and GIS tools tailored for the real estate industry and Realigent Inc, a leading technology solutions provider to the real estate industry and operator of the Homeseekers.com real estate portal announced today their partnership to provide RealBirds online maps to Homeseekers.com users.

Redwood City, CA and Irvine, CA (PRWEB) August 23, 2005 -- RealBird, Inc, a leading provider of online maps and GIS tools tailored for the real estate industry and Realigent Inc, a leading technology solutions provider to the real estate industry and operator of the Homeseekers.com real estate portal announced today their partnership to provide RealBirds online maps to Homeseekers.com users. The companies will also cooperate in developing better map-based search solutions for the real estate industry.

"HomeSeekers.com is a major source of leads for the agent and broker community, and we seek to add the best technologies to maintain our leadership position," said Thomas Chaffee, CEO of Realigent. "Mapping is a hot technology in real estate, and we feel that we have chosen an innovative and reliable partner with RealBird."

Gabe Gross, Founder and President of RealBird said: Our partnership with Realigent will help us take a significant step further towards "putting us on the map" so to speak. We are very pleased to be associated with such a leading company in the real estate space and this partnership will help us develop our mapping service towards better meeting the needs of home buyers."

About Realigent:

With headquarters in Irvine, Calif., Realigent Inc. is the developer of rDesk and Homeseekers.com, and is a leading technology solutions provider to the real estate industry. The company offers numerous products, applications, services and custom solutions serving brokers, agents, multiple listing services (MLS), builders, lenders, consumers and all constituents involved in a real estate transaction. Detailed product and service offerings can be viewed at the company's primary Web site at http://www.realigent.com.

About RealBird

RealBirds service (http://www.realbird.com) includes street, aerial and topographical maps, broker-branded driving directions 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. RealBirds map-based search service couples the traditional, form-based search with the ability to browse listings on a street or aerial map. Full integration with Google Maps and the Google Earth Viewer are also included. RealBird was a 2005 Inman Innovator Awards Finalist.

RealBird is a trademark of Realbird Inc.

Contact for RealBird, Inc: Gabriel Gross, gabe@realbird.com (866) 771-2570   
Contact for Realigent, Inc: Jennifer Harris, Chaffee Group, 312-377-7401, jharris@chaffeegroup.com

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