The Wall Street Journal Launches RealEstateJournal.com

Posted on September 5, 2001

Following on the launches of CareerJournal.com, StartupJournal.com and OpinionJournal.com, The Wall Street Journal has launched RealEstateJournal.com, a guide to buying, selling, leasing, managing and investing in residential and commercial properties.

RealEstateJournal.com is a free site that features news and feature articles from the editorial resources of The Wall Street Journal, the RealEstateJournal.com editorial team, and other resources. The site contains relocation, mortgage, and property reports, tools to research a new city, determine the best places to live, and track down the sales history of a particular home. Over 1.5 million residential properties for sale are listed on RealEstateJournal.com. The site also includes a commercial real estate section which lists commercial properties for sale and provides commercial real estate articles, resources and tools.

``RealEstateJournal.com brings accurate, trustworthy information to your desktop,'' says Tony Lee, General Manager and Editor in Chief of RealEstateJournal.com. ``Our content comes from the powerful editorial resources of The Wall Street Journal and RealEstateJournal.com's editorial team, which keeps the site current with news, features and reports on important changes in the real-estate market.''

RealEstateJournal.com features:

Home Seek Database, which allows users to search more than 1.5 million active home listings by geographic area, price range, type of house, lot size, and features, in alliance with Realtor.com.
City Profiles offers demographic, housing, economic, education, recreation, and community data for the nation's 100 largest cities.
Buying & Selling is a gateway to real-estate trends and mortgage information.
Relocation Issues is a collection of resources for researching school districts, comparing community crime statistics, estimating moving expenses, and more.
The House and Garden area provides ways to improve your existing residence, and make the most of your surroundings.
Regional Market Reports offer market statistics, graphs, comparative rankings, and narrative briefs on the top 50 metro areas for office, apartment, retail and industrial properties.
PropertySearch database, which allows users to search more than $130 billion of commercial properties for sale, and over two billion square feet of space for lease, in alliance with online commercial real estate company, LoopNet, Inc.
A construction cost calculator provides a way to estimate building costs by type of project, size and location.
Money & Rates offers financial statistics, including Treasury Bills and LIBOR plus Mortgage-Backed Securities and CMOs.

RealEstateJournal.com is published by Dow Jones & Company. Dow Jones also publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international and online editions, Barron's and SmartMoney magazines and other eriodicals, Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Indexes, and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones is co-owner with Reuters Group of Factiva, and with NBC of the CNBC television operations in Europe and Asia. Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC and radio stations in the U.S.