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Zoliath.com Press Release

Boise, ID (August 17, 2011) – Zoliath.com Founder & CEO Tim Thornton announced today that after an 18-month beta test period with more than 800 original members, the search-based and members-only website – Zoliath.com, is now officially open to commercial real estate practitioners nationwide.

Zoliath.com is the nation’s premier directory of commercial real estate providers and its website is dedicated to connecting property owners, investors and tenants with businesses and professionals that work within the commercial real estate industry. Zoliath Founder Thornton has worked in commercial real estate for more than two decades beginning in San Diego as a rookie broker with CBRE specializing in retail and office commercial brokerage. Thornton is currently a partner in the Boise, ID brokerage firm, Intermountain Commercial Real Estate, LLC.

The core categories and industries Zoliath enables businesses to promote their firms within are: Aerial Photography Companies, Appraisal Companies, Architectural Firms, Banks, Building Inspection Companies, Commercial Real Estate Brokerages and Property Management Firms, General Contractors, Insurance Companies, Law Firms, Mortgage and Lending Companies and Signage Companies. Zoliath.com “mines” the major search engines with well placed, industry specific advertisements in order to deliver your potential client to its website. Zoliath.com is set to allow visitors to search for service providers at a city or regional level, and to filter these searches according to exacting specifications.

A typical Zoliath member has a detailed online profile which will enable commercial property owners, investors and tenants to find and review the specialists they need by state, city and category, using search technology that is similar, but more targeted, than major search engines (including Google, Yahoo and Bing). Zoliath membership and a basic site profile are free, though members go through a vetting process prior to membership acceptance to ensure specialization. Members can opt to enhance their profiles using pay-per-click campaigns with set monthly budgets, with each click only $1.99.

“We’ve created a format that connects industry specific people and the way they find companies by geographic locations these days,” said Zoliath CEO Tim Thornton, adding that in June of this year there were more than 40,000 searches in Google for the phrase “commercial real estate broker” followed by a city or state.

For more information, contact Tim Thornton, Founder & CEO of Zoliath.com at
(208) 345.6550 or email info@zoliath.com and visit www.zoliath.com

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Zoliath.com – new video explains the vast reach of its commercial real estate website

Zoliath.com has just produced a new video that clearly explains how this commercial real estate industry website works and how it brings together potential clients and customers with professionals nationwide.

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Ten Reasons to Hire a Commercial Real Estate Broker

In today’s challenging economy, Owners and Investors are seeking out the best values available in commercial real estate and attempting to negotiate the optimum terms to lease or purchase real estate.  In order to achieve such goals and objectives Owners and Investors should utilize a qualified and experienced professional.  Following are ten simple reasons to hire a commercial real estate broker.

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Innovative Friday – May 7, 2010

For the second installment of our new Friday blog feature, we are once again highlighting a website for a retail brokerage companyMore

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Innovative Friday – New blog column starts today

Since Zoliath.com is in the business of helping companies in the commercial real estate industry market themselves, we are constantly reviewing company websites.  More

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CMBS delinquencies continue to rise

According to the attached article, CMBS delinquencies are up 268 percent from their low point in March 2007.  Retail loans topped multifamily loans as the sector that contributed the most to the overall delinquency.  The image below courtesy of Realpoint illustrates the steep climb and it appears as though we will still climb higher, at least through 2010 and possibly into the middle of 2011.

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Link to article in Retail Traffic

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Legal Aspects – Commercial Real Estate

By John Highman

A major pitfall for Commercial Real Estate Agents and Brokers when they first begin to list the property is that they inadvertently find themselves delving into aspects of law without the necessary deep experience. More

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Short Sale Basics

By Christopher Horlacher, Esq.

What is a Short Sale?
A Short Sale occurs when a Lender approves the sale of a property for less than the amount that is owed on a mortgage or mortgages. The name, Short Sale, comes from the fact that the Lender’s payoff is coming up “short”. In fact, the lender will also be paying the real estate commissions and other closings costs. The sellers in a short sale typically cannot receive any funds from the sale. More

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