Realigent, Inc., formerly known as HomeSeekers, and Realty Times have signed a multi-year agreement designating Realigent as a preferred distributor of Realty Times' lead generation and customer contact/lead retention products for real estate professionals.

"Market Conditions Reports(TM) are developed by local professionals and provide time-critical information to the prospective homebuyer," says Steve Crane, president of Realigent, Inc. "We see a great benefit for our HomeSeekers.com Website visitors by providing them with a valuable tool for their home search needs, and that is what makes it such a great lead generation tool for real estate professionals."

Realigent has recently consolidated its holdings, and sold some assets so that it can better focus on agent success through its consumer portal HomeSeekers and beyond. The company has been a leading real estate portal for consumers and a provider of agent and broker Web sites since it launched in the early 1990s.

"At Realigent, we are always striving to provide our home buying consumers with the products and services they need most to aid in their decision making process," says Crane. "While the quantity of content is important to any consumer-oriented Internet site, our care and selectivity has made us the favorite for millions of consumers who use our site as their preferred real estate portal. We believe Market Conditions Reports will quickly become a valuable asset to this tremendous audience."

More than a content tool for portals, Market Conditions Reports(tm) provides consumers with valuable local perspective on the market. The reports are provided by agents who are members of Realty Times or through partnerships with companies such as Realigent. Realigent's agent customers get extra benefit as Web site subscribers with the ability to push their Web sites via their Market Conditions Reports to additional real estate and search engine portals such as MSN HomeAdvisor, Yahoo! and Lycos, as well as being featured on HomeSeekers.com.

John Giaimo, vice president of business development for Realty Times, says, "Realty Times is committed to provide the highest level of exposure to our reporting agent customer on Market Conditions. Realigent's HomeSeekers.com site has always been a significant leader in consumer traffic, and they have proven themselves in the industry to produce quality agent products and services. We welcome their participation."

Published: April 4, 2002

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