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Homescape® Now Available through Threewide’s ListHub
CHICAGO, IL (September 18, 2007) – Homescape®,
a leading online provider of local real estate property listings and
rich content, and Threewide Corporation announced today that Homescape
is now available through ListHub, Threewide’s broker-controlled
Internet marketing tool which syndicates listings for brokers and Multiple
Listing Services nationwide. ListHub customers include brokerages such
as RE/MAX Greater Atlanta and Michael Saunders & Company of Florida
as well as more than 45 MLSs. More than 1.5 million listings are now
available to appear on the Homescape site via ListHub.
“With this partnership, brokers and MLSs across the country can
use ListHub to easily post their listing inventories on Homescape to
drive consumer traffic and leads back to the brokers,” said Frank
Breithaupt, Vice President and General Manager of Homescape. “This
agreement is another example of our commitment to grow our customers’
businesses by providing listing exposure to qualified, local homebuyers.”
ListHub provides a seamless flow of data from an MLS system to popular
Internet sites like Homescape, without any re-entry of data, where consumers
search for property information. Brokers control which sites display
their listings and monitor the traffic and leads generated from those
sites back to their own Web sites. ListHub keeps the data up-to-date
in order to provide today’s homebuyers with the most accurate
information available.
Homescape is a division of Chicago-based Classified Ventures, LLC, a
strategic joint venture owned by Belo Corporation, Gannett Co., Inc.,
The McClatchy Company, Tribune Company and The Washington Post Company.
In addition to more than two million homes for sale and eight million
property photos, Homescape simplifies the home search for buyers by
allowing them to find resale, new construction, newspaper classifieds
and open house properties from across the country. Homescape offers
consumers one simple search with multiple options to view and manage
results. The site also provides advertising opportunities with unlimited
text and photos for real estate professionals, offering rich content
and exposure to serious, local home buyers.
“We are excited about the partnership with Homescape and the opportunity
to provide additional exposure for our broker and MLS customers,”
said Luke Glass, CFO and COO of Threewide. “Homescape shares our
passion to provide innovate products and solutions to help make our
customers more efficient and profitable.”
About Homescape®
Homescape provides local, comprehensive property listings and
rich content to consumers nationwide, while delivering a suite of advertising
solutions that offer choice and results to meet the individual needs
of real estate agents, brokers, builders and private party advertisers.
Homescape also serves a network of over 125 local online newspaper Web sites nationwide with a full suite of online advertising solutions.
Our network includes The Arizona Republic (www.azcentral.com), Chicago
Tribune (www.chicagotribune.com), The Dallas Morning News (www.dallasnews.com),
The Miami Herald (www.miamiherald.com) and The Washington Post (www.washingtonpost.com).
About Threewide Corporation
Threewide Corporation was founded in July of 1999 and has specialized
in solving data management issues in the real estate vertical since
its inception. In mid-2000, the company began to focus on the digital
capture, packaging, and transport of data for brokerages, Multiple Listing
Services, and other industry vendors. In 2007, Threewide launched ListHub,
a broker product that pushes MLS listing information to an array of
online marketing sites.
About Classified Ventures, LLC
Classified Ventures is a strategic joint venture among five
media companies, including Belo Corp. (NYSE: BLC), Gannett Co. Inc.
(NYSE: GCI), The McClatchy Co. (NYSE: MNI), Tribune Co. (NYSE: TRB)
and The Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO), whose objectives are to collectively
capitalize on the revenue growth in the online advertising categories
of automotive, real estate and rentals. To execute on its objectives,
Classified Ventures has four leading businesses: Apartments.com, Cars.com,
HomeGain and Homescape.
This press release contains various forward-looking statements within
the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
regarding future results of operations and market opportunities that
are based on Threewide’s current expectations, assumptions, estimates
and projections about the company and its industry. Investors are cautioned
that actual results could differ materially from those anticipated by
the forward-looking statements as a result of the success of Threewide’s
branding and consumer awareness campaign and other marketing efforts;
competition from existing and potential competitors; and Threewide’s
ability to continue to develop and integrate new products, services
and technologies.
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