Press Release
For Immediate Release
For Further Information Contact:
Bill Fowler, Chief Marketing Officer
Solid Earth, Inc.
800-335-0228 x106
Solid Earth, Inc. and Bridge Interactive Group
announce strategic partnership
(HUNTSVILLE, Ala.) MLS (Multiple Listing Service) technology company Solid Earth, Inc
and real estate technology firm, Bridge Interactive Group have reached an agreement to bring
Bridge Interactive Group’s industry-leading data products into Solid Earth client markets serving
approximately 50,000 real estate professionals from New York to the Florida gulf coast.
Solid Earth has positioned themselves as “The Clear Alternative” among MLS technology providers
by treating client MLS organizations as partners, bringing lasting value to the broker member as a
team with a common goal. Bridge Interactive shares this same “client as a partner” vision and the two
companies realized their combined impact was not only mutually beneficial to each other, but to the
clients they serve.
Together, Solid Earth and Bridge Interactive Group will offer three products, available immediately,
within the Solid Earth network of client MLS organizations.
What clients are saying:
Juli Pleitner, VP of MLS at the Birmingham Area MLS says, “I'm excited to see these two likeminded companies come together. When you find vendors that share your philosophy on service and
dedication to your success, it’s a plus. To know that these two companies are getting together just to
help me bring more value to my members is pretty special.”
Joseph Cullom, Technology Director of the Charleston-Trident Association of REALTORS® says,
“The technologies employed by both companies offer a new set of tools that could enable agents in
the Charleston market to effectively analyze and understand the complex nature of the current real
estate market.”
About the Companies:
Solid Earth, Inc. is a Huntsville, Alabama-based Real Estate Technology Company founded in 1998.
The company builds customized Internet database applications for real estate practitioners in the
United States and Canada. Solid Earth’s product, the LIST-IT Internet MLS system, is a single point
of entry, comprehensive tool-set for the real estate professional. LIST-IT Systems are presently in use
in 24 local REALTOR® Associations in 13 states serving approximately 50,000 end users.
Bridge Interactive Group is an Atlanta, GA. based company that specializes in providing cutting edge
technology and services to the real estate industry. Bridge offers solutions for listing syndication
control, RETS data usage and monitoring, account management and billing, and add/edit functionality
via its RETS IQ product suite. In addition, Bridge’s RealValuator Product Suite provides Search,
Analytics, and Market Share reporting tools which help clients better understand local market
conditions. Bridge technologies are used by MLS System Vendors, MLSs, Brokers, and more than
280,000 agents. For more information about Bridge Interactive Group, please visit www.retsiq.com.
Industry Background:
Real Estate professionals in every community across the country rely on the sharing of property
information between other REALTORS® in the market area through a MLS (Multiple Listing
Service). This information was originally distributed as a book sent to each participant (typically
bi-monthly) by the local trade association, the Board of REALTORS®. As telecommunications
advanced to the point where REALTORS® could easily access property data through a live database,
books gradually became obsolete. Beginning around 1995, the Internet began to render these dialup MLS systems obsolete. Internet access allows hundreds of users to perform searches supported by
a single, wide-bandwidth connection; a faster, cheaper solution. Plus, the Internet offers multimedia
tools, email integration, digital mapping, extensive customization and many other software
enhancements to REALTOR® organizations.