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F O R I M M E D I A T E R E L E A S E
VisualTour.com®
Contact: J. L. Winn, TRF Systems, Inc. Prudential
Florida WCI Realty Announces CORAL SPRINGS, FL - May 25, 2000 - Prudential Florida WCI Realty, the fastest growing real estate brokerage firm in the southeastern U.S., has selected VisualTour.com® as their virtual tour provider for immediate corporate wide implementation. Prudential Florida WCI has grown from a small, one office agency in Bonita Springs last year, to 18 offices with 650 affiliated agents across southern Florida. As part of their rapid expansion, Roger Herman, Vice President and Broker for Prudential Florida WCI said, "We believe that virtual tours provide a huge benefit for today's home buyers and sellers, and we're committed to providing this service for all of our clients. We thoroughly evaluated all of the virtual tour options. Our choices for creating virtual tours were to use either an outside service provider such as iPIXä, or create the tours ourselves using the VisualTour.com® service. We chose VisualTour.com® because our agents can take property photos with a digital camera during a listing appointment and create the virtual tour in substantially less time than by using an outside service. This strategy will also help us to recruit, train, and retain top agents who can communicate effectively with today's Internet savvy consumers." VisualTour.com® is software and Internet based enabling technology that allows real estate agents to create virtual tours of their listings quickly and easily instead of having tours created by an outside service provider. The agent uses a digital camera and the VisualTour® tools and services to create an online virtual tour including still, panoramic and 360º images, text descriptions and even a voice narration in minutes.. J. L. Winn, Vice President, Business Development for VisualTour.com® added, "We're very pleased that Prudential Florida WCI Realty has chosen VisualTour.com® as their virtual tour service. This enables Prudential WCI to market an owner's home using virtual tours on the Internet the same day as their listing appointment! VisualTour.com's® services also allow WCI to fully integrate their print promotions with their website marketing." Steve Jarrell, CEO of TRF Systems said, "With our recently announced strategic alliance with MGI Software, we'll now be able to provide even more power, flexibility and features to our real estate clients than ever before. Currently MGI's PhotoVista photo stitching software is included with all VisualTour® products enabling the agent to create stunning panoramic photos from still images, and we plan to implement MGI's Zoom Server™ in the future to create high-resolution zoomable images. Forward thinking brokers and agents realize that today's home buyers and sellers are expecting virtual tours. VisualTour.com® enables the broker to provide this service quickly and economically." About Prudential Florida WCI Realty, Inc. Prudential Florida WCI Realty (www.prudentialflwci.com) is headquartered in Bonita Springs, FL and became an affiliate of Prudential Real Estate Affiliates in July 1999, with exclusive territories in Palm Beach, Collier and Lee Counties, eastern Dade County, and portions of Martin, Manatee, Charlotte and Hillsborough Counties. The company, a full-service real estate brokerage, also offers seasonal rentals, property management, mortgage and title services through its affiliated operations. Prudential Florida WCI Realty is dedicated to offering superior and advanced technological real estate services to our customers while maintaining a strong commitment to old-fashioned ethics, professionalism and personal attention. The company's expanded service includes 650 agents in 18 locations throughout the state of Florida and anticipates growing to over 1,000 agents and two dozen locations by the end of this year. About
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