Foreclosure.com Founder, President and CEO, Brad Geisen, was today a featured speaker at the 2008 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Domain Conference & Expo at Brooklyn Bridge Marriott in New York City, N.Y., discussing his landmark acquisition of Property.com earlier this year.

Brad, of course, is a successful real estate investor, developer, broker and property asset manager who has launched multiple businesses in the real estate, banking and Internet technology sectors throughout a career that spans more than two decades.

Throughout his prestigious career Brad has also acquired countless domains, building a virtual portfolio empire that includes several of the stickiest online real estate destinations available.

He made his first foray into the Internet fray with the purchase of ForeclosureFreeSearch.com in 1998, which quickly emerged as the premiere distressed real estate listings site on the Web. Brad then purchased Foreclosure.com in 2003 and shifted his core distressed real estate listings business to the new and improved URL.

Foreclosure.com now dominates the Internet search engine landscape as a leading industry authority.

Brad also purchased other domains outside the foreclosure realm, including TaxLiens.com and Preforeclosure.com. His monster deal to acquire the rights to Property.com will perhaps be one of the richest URL buys ever recorded.

That’s because it provides Brad with the opportunity to go after 98 percent of the real estate market — Foreclosure.com’s market represents just 2 percent of all available real estate inventory.

“For the past several years, I’ve built and run one of, if not ‘the,’ most successful Internet foreclosure businesses, but the business was always exclusively distressed real estate. I’ve achieved in Foreclosure.com what I set out to accomplish and I am ready for a new challenge in a different market,” Brad said in a recent press release. “I intend to shift my focus on developing my new ideas that will revolutionize how homes should be listed, viewed and purchased. I’ve developed the critical skills that I intend to apply to this new market.”

Property.com will include all listing types, including those indexed in the Multiple Listing Service (MLS), creating a database that could surpass more than 15 million homes, but not including distressed properties, which will remain the business of Foreclosure.com. The best part is that it will be totally free to search for potential buyers and visitors, and sellers will be able to upload and edit their own personal listings at no charge.

The Web site is currently being redeveloped and is expected to relaunch sometime in 2009.

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Foreclosure.com Founder, President and CEO, Brad Geisen (pictured above on right), announced today that he has reached an agreement with “Domain King” Rick Schwartz to acquire the domain name “Property.com,” paving the way for his entry into a new market.

With Property.com Geisen intends to create a one-of-a-kind — and convenient — one-stop online real estate marketplace that is easy-to-use and navigate. The Web site will serve as an easily-accessible national real estate classified that is going to be free to all visitors, providing sellers, buyers and investors with a whole new concept of marketing and finding homes on the Web.

According to Geisen, the acquisition of Property.com will allow him to focus his efforts on a different and potentially much larger segment of the real estate market. In fact, in Geisen’s opinion, the niche foreclosure market, which is Foreclosure.com’s market, represents just 2 percent of all available real estate inventory.

Here’s a snip:

“I’m going after the 98 percent of the real estate market outside of the foreclosure business. For the past several years, I’ve built and run one of, if not ‘the,’ most successful Internet foreclosure businesses, but the business was always exclusively distressed real estate. I’ve achieved in Foreclosure.com what I set out to accomplish and I am ready for a new challenge in a different market. I intend to shift my focus on developing my new ideas that will revolutionize how homes should be listed, viewed and purchased. I’ve developed the critical skills that I intend to apply to this new market.”

Property.com will include all listing types, including those indexed in the Multiple Listing Service (MLS), creating a database that could surpass more than 15 million homes, but not including distressed properties, which will remain the business of Foreclosure.com.

The best part is that it will be totally free to search for potential buyers and visitors, and sellers will be able to upload and edit their own personal listings at no charge.

It’s a wide-open model that Geisen knows will create an invaluable resource for just about anyone interested in real estate.

Here’s more from Brad:

“I’m raising the stakes and pushing all my chips to the center of the table. Foreclosure.com and my related companies have been leaders in their spaces for nearly a decade. I’ve seen what’s been wrong with the way things were done and I’ve developed the methods to fix them. I have the knowledge and resources to take this to a whole new level … and that’s what I plan to do.”

Geisen revealed the new Property.com will be unveiled sometime in 2009. The specific terms of the deal to acquire Property.com were not disclosed. However, Geisen indicated that the value of the deal is one of the largest URL purchases to date.

That’s a deal that has the seller Rick Schwartz -– who is known as the “Domain King” — smiling from ear-to-ear. He purchased Property.com for $750,000 in 2005 and was recently introduced to Geisen through Kevin Leto of BigTicketDomains.com about a possible re-sale.

Rick had this to say on the landmark deal:

“My job is to acquire prime, industry-specific domain names with large volumes of natural type-in traffic and eventually develop them to their fullest potential by partnering with leading companies in their respective fields, which I have been doing for more than a decade.”

Stay tuned for frequent updates and milestones for the new Property.com. Feel free to visit the Web site in its current form. However, as mentioned earlier, the complete re-launch will not be official until sometime in 2009.

Foreclosure.com today announced that it has entered into a first-of-its-kind partnership with Lenders Clearing House and First Universal Lending, creating a dynamic collaboration that will purchase, market and auction high volumes of distressed real estate through an online sealed-bid auction process.

That means that Lenders Clearing House will exclusively soon feature thousands of the very best real estate deals on Foreclosure.com that you can purchase at rock-bottom prices.

It’s a streamlined operation referred to as “Quick Sales” that brings lenders, sellers and buyers to the negotiating table to help reduce foreclosures and create amazing real estate investment opportunities for owner-occupants and investors.

Foreclosure.com Founder, President and CEO, Brad Geisen, has this to say about our latest industry-leading move:

“This idea has been in the works for sometime now. Finally, all the pieces are in place to really make a difference in people’s lives in particular and the economy in general. Put simply, we have the ability and resources to truly revolutionize the industry in so many different areas. It’s remarkable.”

Geisen revealed that three companies have their own responsibilities and areas of expertise, which together creates a one-stop shop for successful real estate transactions. It’s a fine-tuned automated process that helps distressed homeowners avoid foreclosure situations, lenders liquidate properties fast and brokers sell more homes to new buyers … lots of them.

Initial plans are to introduce the proprietary auction system in South Florida via Foreclosure.com and then quickly expand into additional markets nationwide over time. It’s a strategic alliance that creates a true power in the industry that is capable of providing innovative solutions to a declining housing problem that has seeped into just about every corner of the United States.

Lenders Clearing House Spokesperson, Becca Shaffrey, added this:

“We will soon become the number one resource for lenders, brokers, buyers and distressed homeowners. This not some fly-by-night operation – this collaboration comprises major players in the industry that have the resources and connections to spark change and carry us into the 21st century.”

Shaffrey indicates that the key component to success is that Lenders Clearing House is able to move fast, which allows the company to turnaround and market and sell real estate quickly on Foreclosure.com at significant discounts. It’s a quick and easy process that cuts out the middlemen and allows buyers to close on homes lightning fast for pennies on the dollar.

Brokers, buyers and distressed homeowners who are interested in learning more about Lenders Clearing House should visit www.LendersClearingHouse.com or call (954) 239-4200.

Foreclosure.com today announced that it has struck a data deal with LiveDeal.com, providing the online classified leader and its site visitors with access to millions of nationwide real estate and foreclosure listings.

Visitors can access the listings online right here.

As part of the partnership, LiveDeal.com will integrate Foreclosure.com listing into its existing database, providing future homebuyers with seamless access to the most comprehensive database of foreclosure listings in the nation through an innovative co-brand site creation.

In particular, site visitors can now search an additional 1.8 million real estate listings without ever leaving LiveDeal.com.

“Our focus is to provide our visitors with the best local products and services on a nationwide scale,” said Mike Edelhart, CEO of LiveDeal. “Foreclosure.com is a natural partner to help us achieve this objective within our real estate channel. Through this new partnership, LiveDeal is adding valuable local foreclosure content to the site and enabling its new partner to reach its target consumers in every neighborhood in the country.”

The data from Foreclosure.com includes property information and in-depth details such as exclusive tax roll information, property photos, as well as seller/listing contact information.

“Foreclosures are hot and getting hotter,” said Foreclosure.com Founder, President and CEO, Brad Geisen. “There are tremendous investment opportunities for homebuyers and investors to choose from right now. This partnership ensures that we will be able to pass these great deals along to millions of people and save (or make) the money.”

To view the site or to search more than 1.8 million real estate listings right now click here.