In a bold effort to cut the cord that tethers real estate agents to their
desktops, Royal LePage Real Estate Services (Royal LePage) announced today it
will launch the real estate industry's first fully mobilized, bilingual
Marketing Centre.


Canadian real estate agents for the first time will be able to create and
distribute all their English, French and bilingual online and print homebuyer
and seller marketing programs on iPads and Android tablets. Royal LePage,
Canada's leading real estate company, made the announcement today in San
Francisco at a meeting of The Realty Alliance, a network of real estate firms
that serves nearly every major market in the continent.


"This breakthrough technology will further free Royal LePage real estate agents
from the ties that bind so many real estate agents to an office desk," said Phil
Soper, president and chief executive, Royal LePage. "Clients in today's
marketplace expect information in real-time. We're thrilled to be able to
provide our people with these innovative, mobile-enabled tools, which will
enable them up to devote valuable found hours in the field to working directly
for homebuyers and sellers."


Canadians have been quick to shift to mobile and 80 percent believe that this
year mobile devices will surpass desktop computers as the primary tool used to
access the web.


With this new technology, a Royal LePage agent will be able to sit at the
kitchen table with a couple looking to sell a home, pull out his or her iPad,
and create a website for the property, a feature sheet, even an online slideshow
that can be posted to Facebook and Twitter. Agents will have the ability to
develop all types of marketing materials right in front of the seller.


"It creates a 'wow' factor that will help our agents win the battle for a
client's listing and loyalty," said Soper. "This unique toolset gives Royal
LePage agents a clear marketing advantage over their competitors."


The new Royal LePage Marketing Centre features a bilingual user interface, as
well as both English and French language promotional material. It centralizes
all of an agent's social, mobile, online and traditional print marketing in one
place.


The Marketing Centre also features hundreds of design options for more than a
dozen buyer, seller and agent promotional marketing products, including
slideshows, web commercials, feature sheets, eCards, eNewsletters, as well as
designs to create printed postcards, brochures, property cards and more. Agents
can distribute their marketing projects directly to their social media and other
channels including Facebook and Twitter, as well as post to any website.


Created by real estate technologies firm Imprev, the Marketing Centre was
introduced in 2005 as the first of its kind in Canada and adds to Royal LePage's
history of inventive technology. In 1995 the company launched Canada's first
real estate web site, and in 2000 it offered the first property search and
neighborhood information through interactive mapping technology. Yesterday, it
was the first website in Canada to give consumers the opportunity to search for
properties near their favorite local landmarks such as the famed CN Tower in
Toronto or the Olympic Stadium in Montreal.


The new mobilized version will work on iPads and Android tablets and is
scheduled for release to Royal LePage agents this summer.


Renwick Congdon, CEO of Imprev, which created the radically innovative
technology, notes that the new Royal LePage Marketing Centre "is always on,
always available" to the company's network of over 14,500 real estate
professionals in over 600 locations nationwide. "There is nothing to download,
install or update -- everything an agent needs is online, all the time."


Last year Imprev became the only real estate marketing technologies firm to
eclipse the coveted "5-nines" -- 99.999% reliability -- achieving a remarkable
100% stability, with no unplanned outages during 2012.


"Imprev is the only firm that has the necessary breadth of marketing tools and
the sound technological capabilities to deliver the level of service and
performance our agents have come to expect," noted Carolyn Cheng, Senior Vice
President, Strategic Business Services, Royal LePage.


About Royal LePage
Serving Canadians since 1913, Royal LePage is the country's leading provider of
services to real estate brokerages, with a network of over 14,500 real estate
professionals in over 600 locations nationwide. Royal LePage is the only
Canadian real estate company to have its own charitable foundation, the Royal
LePage Shelter Foundation, dedicated to supporting women's and children's
shelters and educational programs aimed at ending domestic violence. Royal
LePage is a Brookfield Real Estate Services Inc. company, a TSX-listed
corporation trading under the symbol (TSX: BRE).


About Imprev
Imprev, Inc. provides the real estate industry's most advanced Marketing
Centers, serving more than 150,000 real estate agents worldwide. Known for
creating beautifully designed and elegantly written marketing content, Imprev
now offers the industry's first mobile-ready Marketing Center that works great
on a desktop, iPad or Android tablet. Real estate firms can lower agent
marketing costs, maintain brand standards and increase recruiting effectiveness
with an Imprev Marketing Center, which offers a broad set of solutions for
brands, brokers, agents and teams. Established in 2000, Imprev is headquartered
in Bellevue, Washington and online at www.imprev.com.




FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: 
Royal LePage Contact:
Gwen McGuire
Kaiser Lachance Communications
Mobile: 416-948-6500
Direct: 416-725-2520 x204
gwen.mcguire@kaiserlachance.com


Imprev Contact:
Kevin Hawkins
VP Communications & Marketing
Imprev, Inc.
206.866.1220
kevin.hawkins@imprev.com

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