San Luis Obispo (July 28, 2004) - Inman News today named VREO Software, Inc. winner of the 2004 Inman Innovator Award in the Real Estate Transaction Applications category. Award winners were announced during "Real Estate Connect 2004," held at San Francisco's Palace Hotel and sponsored by Inman News.
Inman News is the nation's leading independent real estate news service and content provider to consumers and the real estate industry. Since 1997, Inman News has recognized companies that use technology to speed up the real estate transaction for consumers or advance business models, services or tools that help real estate and mortgage professionals.
"An Inman Innovator is a company that has demonstrated super-extraordinary powers of innovation through the use of technology or the Internet to positively influence the real estate industry and redefine key business models within the segment," said Bradley Inman, founder and publisher of Inman News. "VREO Software is a leader because it uses technology to improve the way real estate agents work and make the real estate transaction simpler and easier for agents and consumers."
"VREO Software designed a back-end system that allows every one of our 1,200 REALTY WORLD® Northern California brokers and agents to access their entire work and process flow," says REALTY WORLD Northern California Inc. President Scott LeForce, who nominated VREO Software, Inc. for the coveted award. "With a single secure login from their personal website or our corporate network, agents gain immediate access to a set of high-level transaction management activities. They can manage, track and edit all their traffic, transactions and content, including sophisticated marketing campaigns. No other real estate organization offers such a comprehensive suite of tools to its brokers and agents, thanks to VREO Software."
VREO Software also is known for its work with DeepGreen Financial and Ellie Mae to design a multi-level client generation and business transaction platform that drives tens of millions of dollars worth of loans to qualified mortgage brokers and their affiliated banks. VREO's HELOC System is a revolutionary platform that takes the back-end process usually performed by loan originators and delivers a consumer-friendly, easy-to-use front-end interface where consumers apply for loans and receive underwriting and approval status in minutes.
http://www.vreo.comSan Luis Obispo, Ca–based VREO Software, Inc. is a premiere web-based consulting and business solution firm with a reputed brand of innovative websites, intranet systems and consulting programs that appeal to everyone from real estate companies to individual agents.
http://www.inman.comFounded in 1983, Inman News is the nation's leading independent real estate news service and content provider to consumers and the real estate industry. Inman editorial content appears in over 250 newspapers throughout the country and is featured on over 10,000 Websites. Inman News reaches millions of consumers and industry professionals each day through clients and partners, such as the Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Washington Post, Denver Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google, The Wall Street Journal Online, CBS Marketwatch, and many more. Inman News Features also produces the annual Real Estate Connect Conference, which since 1997 has attracted thousands of industry leaders for a discussion of the real estate industry and emerging technologies.
Roger Cruzen for VREO Software, Inc.612-718-2219rogercruzen@yahoo.com