Creates largest real estate brokerage in HRM by number of listings and agent count

BEDFORD and DARTMOUTH, [October 13, 2010] – EXIT Realty Optimum and EXIT Realty Metro today announced they are joining together under the banner EXIT Realty Metro. This new partnership will be effective October 14, 2010 and joins two of the top five real estate offices¹ in the province to create a premiere real estate brokerage in Nova Scotia.

“We are partnering to become the largest² and most effectively run real estate organization in the HRM,” said Jeremy Cowan, owner EXIT Realty Metro. “We will be unmatched in our ability to serve the real estate needs of our clients and our agents.”

“Our decision to come together in partnership will allow us to combine our services to support our agents,” said Broker / Owner Wayne Cochrane of EXIT Realty Optimum. “We will have one of the best administrative support teams the industry has to offer.” Metro’s 100 plus licensed sales people will continue to operate from two strategic locations in Bedford and Dartmouth.

“This partnership creates a brokerage that will be the largest and most productively successful in the HRM real estate market. The new corporate mandate will provide agents with industry leading training and state of the art technology which will translate into unparalleled customer service” said Joyce Paron, President Canadian Operations, EXIT Realty Corporate International. “EXIT Realty Corp. International is 100 per cent supportive of this strategic decision to join forces.”

About EXIT Realty: Founded in Canada in 1996, EXIT Realty is a proven real estate business model that supplies multiple sources of income - for agents, security, stability and direction; for agents' families, security in the form of beneficiary and retirement residuals. Taking the U.S. by storm starting in 1999, EXIT Realty sold over half of the regional rights by population in under 365 days, was named as one of the Top 10 Trendsetters of 2007 by the Swanepoel Trends report, and Steve Morris was named one of REALTOR® Magazine’s 25 Most Influential Thought Leaders.

In 2010, EXIT Realty was awarded a Distinguished Honoree Medal by the “Stevies” International Business Awards in the category of Most Innovative Company in North America. A portion of every transaction fee collected by EXIT International is applied to its charitable fund and to-date, $1.68 Million has been pledged to Habitat for Humanity in both Canada and the U.S. Please visit http://www.exitrealty.com/ for more information.

For media inquiries: Wayne Cochrane, Broker / Owner - 902.830.4761

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