Jackie McQuaide,
Virtual Homes Real Estate

Virtual Homes is a residential real estate company dedicated to being responsive to today's internet savvy consumer. Our staff and real estate agents focus on customer service, establishing confidence, trust, and offering client level services representing your best interests. Through the integration of technology, innovative strategies and well-trained agents, our synergistic organization is proud of the quality of our customer service.

PRESS RELEASE

RE/MAX Country Properties & RE/MAX Innovations Transitions to
Virtual Homes Real Estate — An Independent Real Estate Agency

Technology Driven Agency Responds to Internet-Savvy Customers,
Combines Innovative Technologies & Experienced Agents

AMHERST, NH — June 29, 2009 — Virtual Homes Real Estate today announced its transition to become an independent real estate agency — previously operating as RE/MAX Country Properties in New Hampshire and RE/MAX Innovations in Massachusetts. A technology provider since 2000 and an early Internet marketing adopter, Virtual Homes is emerging as an individual full-service real estate company, branding itself with a distinct identity to match its innovative business approach.

Responding to today's Internet savvy consumers, Virtual Homes uses a unique business model different from most real estate franchises. It combines the most sophisticated technologies, innovative strategies and experienced agents to take the real estate industry into the future.

Virtual Homes offers a variety of online tools, including a virtual community website that provides local community information, "virtual visits", school, demographic, home buying and selling information. Consumers may use this tool to search for properties, request relocation guides, and access a variety of other resources. Virtual Homes also offers its MLS Map Search Tool, an interactive online solution that allows people to quickly research properties by location and refine their search by price and other personal criteria. Consumers can evaluate properties by aerial view, as well as exterior and interior pictures — without having to visit the property. Virtual Homes has the only map-based search tool in New Hampshire and Massachusetts that provides access to the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) in both states.

"Today's real estate buyers are an extremely technology-oriented audience and average around age 31," said Fred Doleac, Owner/Broker of Virtual Homes Real Estate. "Our approach and technologies are attracting this younger demographic because we're making the real estate process so much easier. We've incorporated the most cutting-edge — yet user-friendly — components into our business to effectively communicate with them through email, instant messaging, and text messaging. This differs from the mode of communicating with consumers, primarily face-to-face, from 10 years ago."

About Virtual Homes

Virtual Homes is a full-service real estate agency that has integrated technology into the real estate process, providing innovative tools for their customers. Virtual Homes provides the highest levels of customer service, establishing confidence and trust, and ensuring that the clients' best interests are represented. The agency's team members have extensive industry experience, having worked at other leading real estate agencies for many years, and bring extensive depth and breadth of knowledge to their clients. Learn more at www.virtualhomes.com.

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Jackie McQuaide

Virtual Homes Real Estate