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revolution underway in the real estate business, and the revolution is
being driven by the phenomenal increase in the use of the internet by
real estate consumers," said Ray Whitmer, CEO and founder of
www. Internet savvy home sellers want to find and review local
agents online, list their home online, find mortgages online, and find
new homes online.

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Why have so many decided to forgo renting in favor of
owning? With all of the information available on the Internet, it has never
been easier to get educated about buying a home.
"From finding a home right through to closing their transaction , Internet
users typically save themselves and their agent time and effort.

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About RealEstate.com is owned and operated by LendingTree, LLC, which is part of
IAC Financial Services and Real Estate, an operating business of
IAC/InterActiveCorp (Nasdaq: IACI), which also owns or operates LendingTree
Loans, LendingTree Settlement Services, LLC, GetSmart Lending(R), Domania , and
iNest. "Home Sellers are clearly demanding change in the
traditional real estate process , from the listing of the home through
the closing.
"One of the biggest ongoing challenges for real estate
professionals is generating solid listing leads.

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Additional survey findings:
- Tech-savvy consumers have information at their fingertips: 27 percent
of respondents located their real estate agent online, while 18 percent
used the Internet to research home values.
- Personal connections remain important -. The incredible rise in the usage of the internet may be
ignored by some, but the facts cannot be denied.

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"Internet shoppers are shaping up to be more efficient customers for real
estate professionals," said Jeff Lyons, general manager of RealEstate. There is considerable
loss of time and money in the pursuit of listings.

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"There are many real estate brokers and agents around the nation
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com, 40 percent of homeowners said they used the Internet to
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found a real estate agent by word of mouth. This one-stop-shop
offers a personalized roadmap , access to more than one million home listings,
exclusive Find-a-REALTOR(R) and Find-a-Builder matching services, free home
valuation tools, dedicated customer care representatives available nearly
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little or no benefit at all," Whitmer said.

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According to a recent survey of 2,000 homeowners conducted for
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, In 2004, 69 percent of American
households lived in a home they owned, according to the Census Bureau, making
it a record year.

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hope to lease this website to a national real estate firm such as
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As these brokers and
agents go out of business, it will provide more business for the
astute . "Those who are first to best serve the
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listathome. Only 2% of home
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- They're also going into the transaction more prepared: 63 percent of
respondents said they had already saved for a down payment when they
began to look for a new home.