AGOURA HILLS, Calif. / Jan. 3, 2000-- RealtyOnline.Net, Inc. and WorldRes.com have entered into a strategic co-branded business relationship to offer consumers visiting the RealtyOnline.net site access to a wide range of more than 10,000 worldwide bed and breakfast, independent hotel, resort, vacation rental and hotel chain properties.

According to Kurt A. Swauger, President and Director of RealtyOnline.Net: "We are very excited to bring together our technology and marketing to the WorldRes.com Internet space. Our partnership will benefit the millions of viewers who search our site for vacation property as well as a variety of other related real estate content and products.

"Added to the many relationships that we have developed with other strategic partners, we feel that our branding strategy is very strong. As the brand is strengthened, so is our ability to serve our target markets of consumers and real estate professionals," continued Swauger.

"A consumer can come to the RealtyOnline.Net site and find a home, find an agent to sell their home, find a new location for their business, find an apartment, find a retirement center for their parents and secure a vacation rental on the North Shore of Hawaii for two weeks in July – all from one easy-to-search national database.

"The RealtyOnline.Net system is truly consumer orientated being a one-source real estate and property network – and that is an extreme benefit to the thousands of real estate professionals who utilized our system to promote their properties."

Charles H. Anderson, Chief Executive Officer, also noted: "From a click of a mouse, our customers can make online vacation reservations worldwide. This is the business model that we set out for when RealtyOnline.Net was created – The Global Real Estate and Property Search Engine, a one-source network for all property types.

"RealtyOnline.Net was designed to be a data management company. We provide a system that is quick, simple and easy to use which contains extensive real estate content. Our customers will now have access to the thousands of quality worldwide vacation properties."

RealtyOnline.Net launched its unique listing service in August 1999. The company currently provides access to more than a million properties, and plans to provide access to more than 5 million properties by mid-January 2000. RealtyOnline's business concept is to provide a one-stop shop where consumers, professionals and businesses can go to find real estate content, services and products.

About RealtyOnline.Net, Inc.

RealtyOnline.Net is a one-of-a-kind real estate system for online property listings and promotion. Unlike traditional "listing aggregators" RealtyOnline.Net draws from its own pool of listings and combines that with listing data of other industry players to benefit the real estate professional and consumer alike. RealtyOnline.Net, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Agoura Hills.

About WorldRes.com, Inc.

WorldRes.com operates the online distribution network that connects hotels to leisure travelers through a broad range of Web-based partners, including portals, travel and destination Web sites, convention and visitor bureaus, tourism authorities, online city guides, call centers, and travel agents. For hotels, WorldRes.com offers an efficient, low-cost means for marketing and selling accommodations online.

For distribution partners, WorldRes.com provides detailed information and booking capability for a wide range of properties, from bed and breakfasts and independent hotels to resorts, vacation rentals and hotel chains. WorldRes.com was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Mateo, Calif.; WorldRes.com Europe is based in Duesseldorf, Germany; and WorldRes.com UK offices are located in Staines, Middlesex.

WorldRes.com employees collectively possess an extensive knowledge of hotel marketing, systems and operations as well as Internet-based transaction technology.

Elizabeth Ripley
Marketing Communications Manager
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