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New flat-fee real estate company offers leads

A new flat-fee real estate company offers services for buyers and sellers, and lead-generation services for other real estate agents.

Lawrence Bunnell, who was a co-founder of national real estate company homebytes.com Inc., is principal broker for IHS Realty.

For buyers, the company offers flat-fee services and rebates for home purchases. Buyers can request information about properties, schedule showings, make offers, and schedule home inspections, closings and moving services using the IHSRealty.com Web site.

Real estate agents can sign up for seller and buyer referrals to their market area at http://www.ihsrealty.com/realtors. Mortgage, appraiser, home inspectors and other Web site owners can register as affiliates at http://www.ihsrealty/affiliate.

The company offers property searches for Southern California, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., and map-based searching is available at the site. Home buyers who register at the site can save their searches and receive e-mail updates when new properties matching their criteria hit the market.

For sellers, the company offers Web sites with unique addresses. Sellers can upload up to 16 photos, print color fliers of their home listings and purchase real estate services online on an