Continuing to extend the reach of Multiple Listing Services (MLSs), Interealty Corp., which provides real estate technology tools to more than one-in-three realtors nationwide, today announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with PocketRealEstate.com, giving thousands of Interealty's realtor clients access to home listing information through their handheld devices.

The agreement means Realtors using Palm OS®-based handheld devices can now take as little or as much MLS data with them as they want, anytime and anywhere. With Pocket Real Estate(TM), a realtor at a property showing can quickly search for other available properties, use financial calculators and market analysis tools, and save client property searches.

By exporting just the listings they want, realtors can access the MLS data they need without filling their handheld's memory with thousands of extra listings. Since Pocket Real Estate was originally designed to run on any Palm OS®-based handheld device, most users who already own a Palm(TM) device will not have to upgrade to take advantage of Pocket Real Estate.

Interealty's Web-based MLS system, Net.MLS, will be the first product to support Pocket Real Estate. Meanwhile, the company announced that an additional four of its existing MLS clients (with a combined membership of 7,000 realtors) are under contract to upgrade their services to Net.MLS. This will bring the total number of Interealty MLS organization clients using a Web-based MLS system to 33.

The four clients are the 1,100-member Maui Board of Realtors; the 700-member Savannah (Ga.) Multi-List Corp.; the 900-member Iowa Realty Co.; and the 5,000 member Centralized Real Estate Information Services (Akron, Ohio).

Published: May 8, 2001

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