Next Generation RealNet Information Services:

The Informed Advantage

Because "Hope" is not a Strategy

RealNet's next generation information services for consultants provides the following five key features and capabilities:

1. New Map Content

This new service will integrate customized mapping of RealNet records onto DMTI base maps, updated quarterly, that include the following nationwide features:

• Addition of Toronto underground walkway ("The Path")
• Street centerline road network, names and address ranges
• Roads look-up table including alias name, highway numbers and names, road numbers and more
• 6 cartographic road classifications
• Major roads and highways layer
• Highway exit numbers
• Bridges, tunnels, ferry routes and ice roads
• "Points of Interest" including golf features, healthcare, education, toll booths and car pool lots
• Transportation points
• Over 1,800 parks nationwide
• Approximately 700 rail stations and stops
• Approximately 2,000 rail bridges
• Verification of rail in the GTA, Vancouver, Calgary
• Over 20,000 populated placenames
• Municipal boundaries and amalgamations
• Canada/US border crossings linking Canadian and US Roads
• Land-use classifications
• Road network casements
• Railway and utility features
• Topographic features and named geographic features including vegetation, wetlands, physiography and hydrography
• Named Infrastructure features such as transportation systems and building points

2. New Form Search Tool

With the new Form Search, you can analyze multiple markets and sectors within specific parameters. The following are a few of the ways RealNet is helping savvy consultants improve their precision when searching for relevant market data:

Valuating The Real Estate

You have the information — with RealNet's detailed property sale information at your fingertips within days of closing. It's easier than ever before to build and save precise searches that let you find the true comparable sales that will help you form your opinion of value.

Preliminary Estimation

You are asked to form a preliminary estimate of value. You need to get up to speed on a number of market dynamics that are relevant to the subject property, the client, identify the level of difficulty in completing the work assignment.

Get ready to do the impossible. RealNet's new set of powerful and easy to use tools will help you get the job done better and faster than ever before. With the help of the new search forms, map views with polygon select capability, stakeholder Profile Search, and RealNet market statistics — you're looking good! Once you've performed your quick search, you can now run the investment parameters report to give you a high level summary (Low, High, Average, Total) of the following:

• Date of Sale
• Total Price
• Total Size
• Unit Price
• Cap Rates

Talking To The Right People

Who should you speak to in a market to confirm on the ground details about a specific market? Who are the owners? Who are the brokers? RealNet's new Form Search and Profile Search are at your service. Now you know who to call and what to ask.

Highest Return And Best-use Decision-making

Does the subject property have a higher and better use? Did you miss a major point? This is easy to do when residential development markets are at a very active level. Now you can determine highest and best use with high degree of confidence using the very same information tools that power the decisions of builders and developers responsible for over 70% of the activity in the new home market.

Report Production

You have the research complete, now need to prepare the Consulting Report. As a RealNet user, your new service class licence agreement will allow you to use the comparable sales right in your consulting report, helping you reduce time to get the consulting report to the client.

Improve your efficiency and service delivery to your clients.

Consulting Business Growth

With access to the most comprehensive and detailed information, unprecedented analysis and production capability, now focus on your business. Who are your clients? What other ways (markets, sectors, services) can you help them? Are there other market stakeholders that you can also help with your new capability? Research the same market, identify potential new clients and begin your growth. Savvy consultant — here comes your best year.

Performance Measurement

Are you involved in opinions of value? How often do you check your opinion against the actual selling price. Use RealNet's saved searches to keep track and help you keep a better log that can be a good way for your to improve your process or communicate your performance to future clients.

3. New Profile Search Tool

Imagine being able to search the name of a person or company against over 33,000 researched transactions across the country in complete anonymity. The new RealNet Profile Search will quickly identify them as a vendor, purchaser, broker, agent, builder or lender. Who should you really be talking to? What transactions have they done in which Canadian markets? How have these transactions been structured? Who have they worked with in the past?

Powerful research in total anonymity — the savvy negotiator has arrived!

4. New Search By Map Tool

You are faced with the need to become an expert on the details and dynamics of the a specific area. RealNet's new mapping utility allows you to quickly and easily zoom in the area you are interested in, view multiple property layers, draw a polygon around an area, select records from any property layer (residential land sales, serviced lot sales, ICI land sales, even retail properties, industrial properties etc.), view the details, summarize the results and leverage a new and powerful opportunity or create your own. It's simpler than ever to find the answers you are looking for to make a better decision!

Mapping features include:

• Zoom in, Zoom out, Pan
• View Multiple Layers
• Select sales records, projects or other spatially displayed information off the map
• Use powerful GIS features such as Polygon select to select all areas in a completely customizable area.

5. New And Improved Reports

Commercial Real Estate

New, improved summary reports — summarize the low, high, average, and total value of the key parameters of selected records including number of records, date of sale, total price, size, unit price, cap rate and more.

New Homes

a) Sales Absorption Analysis Report — a new report showing total, low, high and average monthly sales of selected records along with annual totals and current remaining inventory.

b) Proforma Report — a new powerful two-part report. The first part summarizing key proforma input variables such as number of product offerings, last month's sales, remaining inventory, average size, average price and average 12 month absorption by product type (detached, link, semi-detached, townhouse, stacked townhouse, apartment, loft); the second part listing the models contained in the selection by inventory number, builder, development name, municipality, tenure, product type, lot size, home type, home size, total price, price per sq. ft. and availability status.

c) Competitive Analysis Report — an insightful comparative table, displaying the model offerings from selected projects by size and product offering (builder/development name/tenure/lot type/lot size).

d) New Residential Land and Residential Serviced Lot Analysis Reports — New, improved summary reports — summarize the low, high, average, and total value of the key parameters of selected transaction records including number of records, date of sale, total price, size, unit price, and more.

RealNet also provides comprehensive review and analysis of trends in the residential development market including sales, remaining inventory and pricing of high rise and lowrise projects, sales volumes and pricing of residential as well as detailed analyses on a monthly basis of new home sales and remaining inventory.