remax.com Named Top Ten Website

Prestigious Hitwise(R) Award Honors Most Visited U.S. Sites

DENVER, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- A Hitwise Top Ten Award has been presented
to http://www.remax.com, based on the number of U.S. visits to the site in the
last quarter of 2007. The site ranked second overall in the Real Estate
industry category. However, remax.com is the most visited website of any real
estate brokerage brand, averaging more than 2 million unique visitors each
month. Also, remax.com features a search engine with more than 90 percent of
all homes and property for sale in the U.S ... more listings than any other
real estate brokerage brand.
The Hitwise U.S. Top 10 Awards Program recognizes the most successful U.S.
websites in more than 160 industries. The program records the usage and
search behavior of more than 10 million Internet users, which is the largest
online sample of its kind. The awards single out excellence in online
performance through public popularity.
RE/MAX International, Inc. is a global real estate network, based in
Denver, Colorado. remax.com is designed to help buyers search listings in
cities and states all across the country, and to help sellers with valuation
questions. "We're pleased that our website provides tools that benefit
millions of families," says Margaret Kelly, RE/MAX CEO. "Not only can you
find your next home, but you can also see what homes in your neighborhood are
selling for."
In Addition to being named to The Hitwise Top 10, RE/MAX has recently
been named to other prestigious rankings, including The 29th Annual
Entrepreneur Franchise 500 Survey, where RE/MAX was the highest ranking real
estate franchise, and was named to the elite Top 10 in four separate
categories. RE/MAX was also among the Top 25 Franchise Opportunities in a
national ranking by Hispanic Enterprise magazine.
"There's no substitute for an experienced real estate agent when it comes
to buying or selling your home," says Dave Liniger, Chairman and Co-Founder of
RE/MAX International.
"But homeowners should be educated and involved in the process, and the
popularity of remax.com demonstrates that RE/MAX is the company most consumers
turn to."
About RE/MAX
RE/MAX was founded in 1973 in by Dave and Gail Liniger. From a single
office in Denver, Colorado it has grown into a global network of nearly
115,000 Sales Associates in more than 65 countries. Today, all home listings
in thousands of U.S. cities and towns can be found on http://www.remax.com. No
one sells more real estate than RE/MAX.
Premier Community Citizenship is highly valued at all levels of the RE/MAX
organization. RE/MAX Affiliates have raised tens of millions of dollars for
deserving organizations like Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Children's Miracle
Network and The Sentinels of Freedom Foundation.
About Hitwise (R)
Hitwise is the leading online competitive intelligence service. Only
Hitwise provides its 1,400 clients around the world with daily insights on how
their customers interact with a broad range of competitive websites, and how
their competitors use different tactics to attract online customers.
Since 1997, Hitwise has pioneered a unique, network-based approach to
Internet measurement. Through relationships with ISPs around the world,
Hitwise's patented methodology anonymously captures the online usage, search
and conversion behavior of 25 million Internet users. This unprecedented
volume of Internet usage data is seamlessly integrated into an easy to use,
web-based service, designed to help marketers better plan, implement and
report on a range of online marketing programs.
More information about Hitwise is available at http://www.hitwise.com.
SOURCE RE/MAX International, Inc.

Ronda Scholting, Public Relations Manager of RE-MAX International, Inc.,
+1-303-796-3504, rscholting@remax.net