LoopNet Extends and Enhances Exclusive Commercial Real Estate Listing Distribution Partnership With American City Business Journ
February 23 2009 - 10:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
- LoopNet Showcase Listings Receive Expanded Reach and Exposure to
All 40+ BizJournals.com Markets Online - SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LoopNet, Inc. (NASDAQ: LOOP), which
operates the largest commercial real estate marketplace online,
announced today that the company has extended and expanded its
exclusive partnership with American City Business Journals. In
addition to powering the commercial property listings for all 40+
online markets covered by American City Business Journals, LoopNet
will now distribute Showcase property listings on each of the
online market web sites of BizJournals.com and BizSpace.com. "We
are very excited that American City Business Journals has selected
LoopNet to exclusively power its commercial property listings. The
Business Journals and their online web sites are one of the most
respected and trusted sources of business information online," said
Thomas Byrne, LoopNet's President and COO. "With this new
partnership, LoopNet clients can now utilize LoopNet's Showcase
service to deliver unparalleled distribution and exposure for their
listings including exclusive distribution to BizJournals web
sites." In addition to the American City Business Journals,
LoopNet's Showcase listings receive distribution to more than 125
leading online newspaper web sites and all major search engines
including Google, Yahoo! and MSN. LoopNet Showcase listings also
receive top of search placement on LoopNet, the most heavily
trafficked commercial real estate marketplace. The partnership with
American City Business Journals covers both for-sale and for-lease
listings in all geographic markets covered by BizJournals.com and
BizSpace.com. Among others, these include: Austin, Albuquerque,
Charlotte, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Louisville, Milwaukee,
Nashville, Honolulu, Phoenix, Seattle and St. Louis. The
partnership also provides for inclusion of BizJournal news stories
within LoopNet's LoopNews email newsletter, the largest weekly
commercial real estate email newsletter distributed to more than
855,000 opt-in LoopNet members. "We look forward to expanding our
collaboration with LoopNet to deliver even more content to our
members," said Tim Bradbury, President of BizJournals. "LoopNet's
products and services complement BizJournals' very well. We are
confident that this relationship delivers significant enhanced
value to our online audience and will help them better manage their
businesses." The LoopNet marketplace, available at
http://www.loopnet.com/, is the most heavily trafficked commercial
real estate web site. With 970,000 monthly unique visitors during
January 2009 according to comScore Media Metrix, LoopNet generated
nearly 10 times the traffic of the nearest competing service. The
LoopNet marketplace covers all commercial property categories,
including office, industrial, retail, multifamily (apartment
properties for sale), hotel, land, specialty properties, and
businesses for sale. About LoopNet LoopNet, Inc. is the leading
online marketplace for commercial real estate and businesses for
sale in the United States. The LoopNet.com online marketplace
enables commercial real estate agents, working on behalf of
property owners and landlords, to list properties for sale or for
lease by submitting detailed property listing information in order
to find a buyer or tenant. Commercial real estate brokers, agents,
buyers and tenants use the LoopNet online marketplace to search for
available property listings that meet their commercial real estate
criteria. By connecting the sources of commercial real estate
supply and demand in an efficient manner, LoopNet enables
commercial real estate participants to initiate and complete
transactions more cost-effectively. LoopNet also delivers
technology and information services to commercial real estate
organizations to manage their online listing presence and optimize
property marketing. LoopNet customers include virtually all of the
top commercial real estate firms in the U.S., including CB Richard
Ellis, Century 21 Commercial, Coldwell Banker Commercial, Colliers
International, The CORE Network, Cushman & Wakefield, First
Industrial Realty Trust, Grubb & Ellis, Jones Lang LaSalle, Lee
& Associates, Lincoln Property Company, Marcus & Millichap,
NAI Global, ONCOR International, Prudential CRES, RE/MAX, Sperry
Van Ness, Staubach Retail and TCN Worldwide. Forward-Looking
Statements This release contains forward-looking statements
regarding LoopNet's online commercial marketplace, our customers,
our strategic alliances, the continuing adoption of the Internet to
market and search for commercial real estate and the value we
provide to our members. These statements are based on current
information and expectations that are inherently subject to change
and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual events or
results might differ materially from those in any forward-looking
statement due to various factors, including, but not limited to,
economic events or trends in the commercial real estate market or
in general, our ability to introduce new or upgraded products or
services and customer acceptance of such services, our ability to
integrate service partners into our systems and platforms, our
service partners' ability to expand and manage growth, our ability
to continue to attract unique visitors to our web site, our ability
to continue to attract new registered members, convert them into
Premium Members and retain such Premium Members, our ability to
obtain or retain listings from commercial real estate brokers,
agents and property owners, competition from current or future
companies, our ability to receive timely and accurate sales data
from our partners, seasonality and our ability to manage our
growth. Additional information concerning factors that could cause
actual events or results to differ materially from those in any
forward-looking statement is contained in our filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Copies of filings made by
us with the SEC are available on the SEC's web site or at
http://investor.loopnet.com/sec.cfm. LoopNet does not intend to
update the forward-looking statements included in this press
release that are based on information available to us as of the
date of this release. For more information contact: Cary Brazeman,
310-205-3590 DATASOURCE: LoopNet, Inc. CONTACT: Cary Brazeman of
LoopNet, Inc., +1-310-205-3590, Web Site: http://www.loopnet.com/
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