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LIVEDEAL.COM AND HOMES & LAND ANNOUNCE RELATIONSHIP
TO FEATURE HOMES & LAND MAGAZINE LISTINGS ON LIVEDEAL.COM

Relationship Expands LiveDeal.com’s Online Classifieds Real Estate Listings
by 300,000 Available Properties across the U.S.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. and SANTA CLARA, Calif., – Oct. 11, 2006 – LiveDeal.com (www.livedeal.com), one of the nation’s leading free local online classifieds sites, and Homes & Land Magazine (www.homesandland.com), one of the nation’s premier real estate publications, today announced that LiveDeal.com will begin featuring the more than 300,000 property listings that are highlighted in Homes & Land Magazine each week as part of LiveDeal.com’s real estate marketplace.

The relationship will provide real estate agents who advertise in Homes & Land Magazine with the opportunity to connect with more home buyers and sellers in their local area. LiveDeal.com is one of the top 10 most visited online classifieds sites in the U.S. and has more than 1.4 million unique users visiting its site each month. Real estate is one of LiveDeal.com’s fastest growing categories and the site features a broad array of homes, apartments and vacation properties for sale and rent.

“Homes & Land Magazine’s commitment to our advertisers is to help them build a larger than life presence not only in print but on the Web,” said Robert Wicker, chief marketing officer of Homes & Land. “That’s why we strive to take our listings beyond our magazine and Web site to innovative online services like LiveDeal.com. By working with LiveDeal.com, we are helping our advertisers build a presence everywhere it counts.”

“LiveDeal is dedicated to building a rewarding online classifieds experience for both buyers and sellers across the U.S.,” said Rajesh Navar, founder and CEO of LiveDeal.com. “We couldn’t be more pleased to be adding the high-profile listings of Homes & Land Magazine to our real estate marketplace as it helps satisfy our users’ need for a rich inventory of available properties in one convenient place. We look forward to helping Homes & Land Magazine advertisers make more connections with interested home buyers from their local communities.”

About LiveDeal

LiveDeal is one of the leaders in the free local online classifieds market with more than $5 billion worth of goods listed for sale, in every city and zip code across the U.S. Buyers and sellers come together through the vast LiveDeal.com marketplace, which is ideal for trading items you want to see or try before you buy, such as automobiles, furniture, appliances, real estate and more. LiveDeal is also the perfect place for sellers seeking to place pets in loving homes and for buyers to find the pet of their dreams. LiveDeal partners with online and offline media to quickly and cost effectively power their classifieds via its dynamic LiveDeal classifieds platform. LiveDeal was founded in 2003 by Rajesh Navar, an original member of eBay’s engineering team, with executives from other pioneering Internet companies. As part of its global expansion, LiveDeal recently launched LiveDeal Canada (livedeal.ca) in partnership with Torstar Corporation and Gesca Ltd. For more information about LiveDeal, see www.livedeal.com.

About Homes & Land Affiliates, LLC

Homes & Land Affiliates, LLC is a franchise organization that publishes more than 330 magazines across the United States and Canada. Each year Homes & Land publishes approximately 60 million magazines covering thousands of communities across the United States and Canada. Headquartered in Tallahassee, Florida, Homes & Land has been serving real estate professionals as well as homebuyers and sellers since 1973. In addition to Homes & Land Magazine, the company also publishes Home Guide Magazine, Estates & Homes Magazine and Rental Guide Magazine (serving the apartment community). The company has a tradition of innovation and has posted real estate listings online since 1992. For more information about Homes & Land, see www.homesandland.com

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