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RealEstate.Com Partners With Smarter Agent(R) to Provide 50 Million Mobile Phone Users Access to National Database of Real Estate Listings

Posted on: Monday, 8 September 2008, 09:00 CDT

CHARLOTTE, N.C. and PHILADEPHIA, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- RealEstate.com today announces it will begin providing consumers access to its national database of real estate information through Smarter Agent's mobile application called Homes for Sale. The relationship will allow more than 50 million mobile phone subscribers to browse homes for sale from anywhere in the country.

RealEstate.com homes for sale listings data will be fed through an application programming interface (API) allowing consumers to view results on the RealEstate.com Web site using the Smarter Agent mobile phone application, Homes for Sale. More than 50 million mobile phone subscribers from AT&T and Sprint will have access to nearly two million real estate listings from anywhere in the country via a GPS-enabled phone or through their phone's keypad.

"Our partnership with Smarter Agent marks our entry into the mobile arena, which is very exciting for the company," says Bret Violette, president of RealEstate.com. "Smarter Agent created a vehicle that allows us to provide millions of mobile phone subscribers with Internet access our powerful database of home listings. From house hunters to real estate professionals, the venture between the Smarter Agent mobile application and RealEstate.com's data allows us to feed America's real estate obsession while on the run."

"We selected RealEstate.com to power a portion of our mobile application with real estate data because of their significant national reach, as well as their great depth of listings information," says Brad Blumberg, CEO of Smarter Agent. "With their help, our mobile phone application provides a better user experience and allows subscribers to access nearly two million real estate listings available nationwide."

Smarter Agent combines mobile location technology, such as GPS, with information about real estate. By delivering location-relevant content to mobile devices and the Internet, consumers and professionals can learn, interact and transact with the world around them as never before possible. Smarter Agent is the inventor of mobile location-triggered real estate search and has been granted 4 patents.

About RealEstate.com

RealEstate.com gives consumers a better way to buy or sell homes through a comprehensive suite of real estate services, tools and helpful advice. The site provides access to nearly 2 million home listings, 97 million home values and a unique deep-dive view into more than 22,000 cities reaching every metropolitan area in the U.S.

RealEstate.com is a business of Tree.com, Inc. . About Smarter Agent ( http://www.smarteragent.com/ )

Smarter Agent(R) combines mobile location technology, such as GPS, with information about real estate and neighborhoods around you. Smarter Agent is the inventor of the mobile location-triggered real estate search -- and has been granted four patents. By delivering location-relevant content to mobile devices, consumers can learn, interact and transact with the world around them as never before possible. Smarter Agent was named BEST GPS Application by the CTIA (Cellular Telecom Industry Association), BEST COMMERCE Application at Navteq Global GPS Challenges in the US and Europe, and has been featured as a leader in mobile innovation at Dow Jones and DEMO conferences.

Contact: Allison Vail Allison.vail@realestate.com 704-943-8339

RealEstate.com

CONTACT: Allison Vail of RealEstate.com, +1-704-943-8339,Allison.vail@realestate.com

Web site: http://www.lendingtree.com/http://www.smarteragent.com/

Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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