RealBird.com Sends Real Estate Listings to the 'Edge of the Internet'

RealBird, the Redwood City-based provider of interactive, online maps for the real estate industry and Map-based Search with MLS (Multiple Listings Service) listings, announces today the release of wide-scale distribution of real estate listings.

Redwood City, CA - (March 20, 2006) – RealBird, the Redwood City-based provider of interactive, online maps for the real estate industry and Map-based Search with MLS (Multiple Listings Service) listings, announces today the release of wide-scale distribution of real estate listings. This capability is now available in the RealBird Publisher™ and RealBird Map-based Search™ services and is designed to significantly enhance the market exposure of RealBird member agents and their featured listings by reaching a huge potential worldwide homebuyers market. Syndicated distribution will “push” the listings to 1000s of classifieds directories and search engines. The syndicated distribution will be in addition to the Google Base uploading service, which the company released in November 2005.

The RealBird Publisher is available to real estate agents and brokers in the U.S. Brokers and agents can choose from a sponsored, free subscription and a low-fee, ad-free membership. The company’s flagship RealBird Map-based Search service with IDX listings data from MLSs (Multiple Listing Services) is now available in over 10 MLS areas, and new MLSs are being added on-going.

Keith Byrd, a real estate broker in San Luis Obispo, CA said “The newly released RealBird “push” distribution service is a tremendous value to me, it has the potential to increase my listings’ exposure by orders of magnitude. It complements my web marketing efforts very nicely and the combination of interactive mapping with RSS is a great innovation in the real estate industry.”

Zoltan Szendro, EVP and CTO of RealBird, says: “ Listing marketing is a “numbers game”. Sellers need as much visibility for their listings as possible. RealBird Publisher has a true dollar value payback for real estate professionals – we estimate that a listing agent would spend hundreds of dollars every month in search engine and newspaper advertising to get a comparable exposure.

About RealBird
RealBird develops and markets Internet based tools for marketing listings and for gaining exposure on the Internet for brokers and agents. RealBird’s Publisher service at 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. RealBird’s Map-based Search service couples the traditional, form-based search with the ability to browse listings on interactive street or aerial maps. Full integration with Google Maps and the Google Earth are also included.

® RealBird is a registered trademark of RealBird Inc.

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