Released on = June 23, 2007, 1:09 am

Press Release Author = Realacres.com

Industry = Real Estate

Press Release Summary = RealAcres.com a venture of Horizon InfoVentures Pvt. Ltd.
soon after the launch of satellite map search announced the beta version of simply
ask, Q & A Community Web 2.0 forum.

Press Release Body = RealAcres.com and new smart filtering features now make it
easier than ever for consumers to search the site\'s more than 1 lakh home listings
and make smarter decisions about buying or selling a home.
Want to get familiar with a new city or neighborhood?
According to the company, with "Simply Ask", the 5 lakh monthly home buyers, sellers
and real estate professionals on RealAcres.com can post questions and offer answers
in real time. This expanding collective of passionate advocates, real estate
advisors and professional will help home buyers get answers to their most pressing
questions.
Answers rated best by the community will receive the most visibility, allowing
contributors with the highest-rated content to become recognized, trusted experts
and will be called as "REAL GURU". Users can set up robust profiles and email alerts
to get notified when locations and issues they care about are discussed.

Smita Thorat, CEO of RealAcres.com adds that "After providing localized information
through the mashup technology of real time satellite map like neighborhood
information, local market, nearest railway station and other important place it was
time for people to get information from the local people and professional people,
thus we came up with the idea of interactive platform where members can ask anything
and get answered". An email notification can be set up if any particular home comes
on the market, is sold, or has a price change.
Smita Thorat said" Perhaps the most innovative enhancement, which was in the works
for a long time, is the Mashup(Map) technology and Simply Ask feature. Its an eBay -
like experience which allows users to ask questions and provide answers, get rated
and seek out experts. Agents and other real estate professionals like lawyers,
architects have the opportunity to become known as experts in their particular
market, which is what they are really trying to do in their own blogs, but benefit
from the high influx of traffic that RealAcres.com generates.


Web Site = http://www.realacres.com/

Contact Details = 101, Mahinder Chambers, W.T.Patil Marg, Opp Dukes, Chembur
Mumbai, Maharashtra 400071
India


Phone: +91 22 25214122
Fax: +91 22 25207283
Email: info@realacres.com