REALTOR® Associations of Philadelphia Launch RPR

Philadelphia — December 21, 2011 — REALTOR® Associations of the Philadelphia regional marketplace have announced that Realtors Property Resource® (RPR™) was launched today for all their 28,000 REALTOR® members.

Anne Marie Matteo is CEO of Suburban West REALTORS® Association, which covers the southern and western suburbs of Philadelphia. She said, “We know that easy access to rich market information and innovative tools are a key part of making our members successful in their business. RPR is a tool that will do just that, while also further adding to the value of REALTOR® membership.”

In addition to the Suburban West REALTORS® Association, the other Associations that launched RPR today were:

• · Bucks County Association of REALTORS®

• · Burlington Camden County Association of REALTORS®

• · Gloucester/Salem County Board of REALTORS®

• · Greater Philadelphia Association of REALTORS®

• · Kent County Association of REALTORS®

• · Mercer County Board of REALTORS®

• · Montgomery County Association of REALTORS®

• · New Castle County Board of REALTORS®

• · Reading-Berks Association of REALTORS®

TREND, the MLS for the Philadelphia region, facilitated the transfer listings to help create a robust catalog of properties.

“RPR is extremely proud to partner with the Philadelphia area REALTOR® Associations and TREND to bring its member benefit to the 28,000 professionals in the area," said RPR CEO Dale Ross. "RPR's core mission is to ensure that the REALTOR® remains central to the real estate transaction by providing one-stop, high value search, analytics and reporting functions to brokers and agents to help them save time and money, be more productive, and create opportunities to service their clients and customers with the latest technology.”

RPR is a technology initiative developed by the National Association of REALTORS® for the exclusive use of its 1.1 million REALTOR® members.  For more information on Realtors Property Resource, go to: blog.narrpr.com.

About the Philadelphia area REALTOR® Associations and TREND: The Philadelphia area real estate community encompasses 28,000 professionals in Delaware, Southern New Jersey and Southeastern Pennsylvania. As partners in the business of real estate and technology, these REALTORS® contribute to the TREND MLS database of approximately 2.6 million active and off-market listings, and participate in the sale of more than 70,000 properties a year. For more information, visit www.trendmls.com.

About Realtors Property Resource® (RPR™): RPR, a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Association of REALTORS® incorporated in November 2009, is a nationwide database providing REALTORS® with extensive property data and analysis as an exclusive member benefit of NAR. RPR’s goal is to aggregate and deliver to its users a comprehensive database of information about all 147 million parcels of residential and commercial property in the United States. RPR is 100 percent owned, operated and controlled by the members of NAR. For more information about Realtors Property Resource, visit: blog.narrpr.com or contact Jeff Young, Senior Vice-President of Operations, 312-329-8255.