Dream Town Realty Voted "Favorite Web Site" for Chicago Real Estate

Chicago, IL, November 13, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Chicago-based brokerage and leader in online real estate technology, Dream Town Realty, is the winner of Chicago Agent magazine's 2009 Agents' Choice Award for "Favorite City Brokerage Web Site". The award was presented to Dream Town at an awards ceremony last week and the company is featured in the November 9th issue of the publication.

Dream Town beat out runners up @properties and Wichert Realtors, Frankel and Giles for the designation. Nominees were chosen by an online poll of area realtors who were asked to pick their "favorites" for 17 different real estate related categories. Agents from all over Chicagoland participated in the survey with thousands of responses. It is the first year Chicago Agent announced the top nominees prior to acknowledging the winners of each category, who were honored at an event at The Merchandise Mart on Tuesday, November 3.

"We are delighted to have won the award for Favorite Web Site because online innovation is an area where we have always worked hard to excel," said Yuval Degani, president and co-founder of Dream Town Realty. "It's great to be recognized by our peers in this category. And it was before the new version of our site was even rolled out."

The 4th version of DreamTown.com went live on Tuesday, November 3 – same day the company received the award for its previous 3rd generation site, which also offered ground-breaking home search tools when it launched in early 2008. Dream Town's recently redeveloped site has a number of new features using brand new technology and proprietary applications that are not available anywhere else (www.DreamTown.com).

"Dream Town's Interactive Map Search is a whole new way to look for listings," Mr. Degani said. "Now users can simply draw a search area on a Chicago map and find homes in their price range within that area. This is revolutionary technology home buyers can only get on DreamTown.com."

The next generation Dream Town web site also has a new Mobile Property Search for cell phone users, including a special iPhone App that is still in development (www.dreamtown.com/mobile-search.jsp). The first ever "real time" Chicago real estate stats are also accessible to consumers on DreamTown.com. Users can get average home sale prices, listing prices, price per square foot, market times and total number of sales for the entire city, individual neighborhoods and specific condo buildings (www.dreamtown.com/stats).

Yehuda Cohen accepted the "Favorite Web Site" nomination for Dream Town Realty at the awards ceremony, which had more than 150 guests in attendance. Mr. Cohen is a real estate specialist with Dream Town. A photograph of Mr. Cohen accepting the award is printed in the November 9th issue of Chicago Agent magazine along with the other category winners.

Other Agents' Choice Awards were given for Favorite Overall New Development, Favorite Eco-Friendly Project, Favorite Brokerage, Favorite Value, Favorite Developer, Favorite Luxury Real Estate Services, Favorite Model Units, and Favorite Mortgage Company. All categories have separate designations for city and suburban winners except Favorite Mortgage Company.

About Dream Town Realty
Dream Town is largely recognized as the leader in online Chicago real estate. Their top-ranked website receives tens of thousands of unique visitors weekly. The company has developed proprietary technology and applications to empower online house hunters and offer the most advanced Internet home search available for Chicago buyers today. Dream Town Realty provides residential buyer and seller services, in addition to commercial, international and REO sales, and Veteran Relocation Services. The company also has a new home construction and renovation division called Dream Town Builders and Remodeling (www.dreamtown.com/buy/chicago-home-builder.htm).

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