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Coldwell Banker becomes first national real estate firm to create its own Internet web site.


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A community of southern California southeast of Irvine. It is mainly residential. Population: 96,300.
, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 1, 1995--In a move that will make its hundreds of thousands of property listings even more accessible to consumers, Coldwell Banker Corporation has become the first national real estate company to introduce a proprietary World Wide Web site on the Internet.

In addition to serving as a national database of properties for sale that are accessible to a worldwide audience of more than 40 million people, the Coldwell Banker Web site also uniquely serves as an internal communications This article's grammar usage needs improvement. Please edit this article in accordance with Wikipedia's .  platform that can link its more than 2,400 company-owned and franchised offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. .

The address of the Coldwell Banker Web site, also known as a "home page," is http://www.coldwellbanker.com

The Coldwell Banker home page will allow computer users worldwide to instantly access home information, color photographs, and send messages to sales associates, from the comfort of a home or office, seven days a week, 24 hours a day.

Consumers visiting the Coldwell Banker home page are encouraged to "Find the Home of Your Dreams" simply by entering specific criteria, such as city, state, number of bedrooms, or price range. The easy to use, interactive system provides home buyers with immediate property information that matches their criteria.

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 send an electronic message directly to either the company or listing sales agent.

"Consumers want information on their own terms in a time frame that fits their busy schedules," said Chandler B. Barton, president and chief executive officer of Coldwell Banker Corporation.

"With the Internet, Coldwell Banker listings are more accessible to home buyers, while home sellers receive additional exposure for their properties at no additional cost," said Barton.

The Coldwell Banker Web site currently contains more than 2,000 property listings of homes for sale in Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern . In coming weeks, the company will put its Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region,  listings on-line; by the year's end, listings from other markets will be accessible. In 1994, Coldwell Banker listed more than 425,000 homes.

Not a newcomer to the world of on-line communications, in 1993, Coldwell Banker implemented its SCOOP SCOOP - Structured Concurrent Object-Oriented Prolog.

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(TM) Information Exchange, a closed-user system that enabled its offices to send e-mail, obtain industry information and list upper-tier and resort properties.

Later this year, Coldwell Banker will introduce its own Internet software start-up packets, developed by a leading software developer. The software, specifically licensed to Coldwell Banker, will enable consumers and the company's 57,000 sales associates and employees, easy access to the Internet.

Coldwell Banker Corporation operates companies that supply a complete range of residential real estate services, including: brokerage, franchising, relocation RELOCATION, Scotch law, contracts. To let again to renew a lease, is called a relocation.
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, mortgage, title and escrow escrow

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CONTACT: Coldwell Banker Corp., Mission Viejo

Hugh Siler, 714/367-2486
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