Melissa Data Announces Home Sales Alert

Weekly e-bulletin lets real estate professionals, buyers and sellers monitor home sales activity by ZIP Code.

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (March 9, 2005) – Melissa Data, a leading provider of data management software and services, today announced the availability of Home Sales Alert, a weekly email bulletin of recent home sales and trends.

Want to know the selling price of every home on every street in most any ZIP Code? Home Sales Alert has these answers, and they will be delivered right to the e-doorstep of opt-in subscribers.

Real estate agents, brokers, property managers, home buyers, home sellers and curiosity seekers can benefit from this up-to-date free resource that allows subscribers to choose the areas they want monitored.

The newsletter provides useful information covering a seven-day period, such as the number of homes sold in the ZIP Code, the selling prices, the street names, date the transactions were recorded, and the Zip Code’s average home sales price.

“Our fast, easy resource will help real estate industry professionals and home buyers & sellers make better decisions,” said Raymond Melissa, president and founder of Melissa Data. “The Home Sales Alert lets users know what the value of homes are in the area they’re monitoring, which is useful when purchasing a home or researching a neighborhood. All they have to do is subscribe online and select a ZIP Code to be watched.”

Melissa Data specializes in ZIP Code-related data. The company’s Online Lookups site features 28 specialized databases to search. Visitors can use this Internet site to verify mailing addresses, update phone numbers and access the latest demographic data on states, cities and counties. Every day more than 60,000 people visit this Web resource.

Users also can find information about public schools, look up climate averages, find campaign contributors, get statistics on income taxes and labor, and learn about U.S. place names. One popular search is the phone number lookup. With this feature, a user can easily trace the origin of a phone call from a caller ID service.

Editors are invited to register for the Home Sales Alert by visiting the company’s Web site at www.melissadata.com/homesalesalert.

About Melissa Data
Celebrating its 20th year in business, Melissa Data, the Data Superstore, helps companies manage and optimize their contact data. Melissa Data provides solutions for address and phone number validation, postal coding, data enhancements and sales leads. Every day more than 70,000 people visit the company’s Web site. A powerful line of software, databases, programming tools, and hygiene services has made Melissa Data a recognized leader in the data quality industry. For more information, or to request trial software, contact Melissa Data at 1-800-800-6245 or visit www.melissadata.com