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RealPage Press Release
RealPage, Inc. Completes $19.75 Million
Private Placement of Convertible Participating Preferred Stock
DALLAS, TEXAS, January 6, 2000 – RealPage,
Inc., a leading provider of property management software and services to the
apartment housing industry, today announced completion of a $19.75 million
private placement of convertible participating preferred stock. Proceeds from
the investment will be used to fund Internet-based applications under
development at the company.
"RealPage will soon release a comprehensive
eBusiness solution for apartment owners and managers. Over 125 designers and web
application programmers are working to finish the initial launch of the system,"
says Jim Melson, president of RealPage. "The initial portion of the new system
will be launched in the first quarter of 2000 and will allow our clients to
manage large distributed portfolios of apartment properties as if they were one
site. This is a true web-native application designed from the ground up to
embrace and exploit the capabilities of the Internet."
Funding also will
be used to launch a new product from RealPage’s wholly owned subsidiary, M/PF
Research, called M/PF Online. "M/PF Online will work in conjunction with
RealPage’s web-based property management system to capture the largest real-time
database of market research information in the apartment housing industry," says
Ron Witten, president of M/PF.
RealPage is the leading provider of
software and services to the apartment housing industry with nearly 24,000
apartment sites across the United States using its products. Its software and
services handle the entire management process for both affordable and
conventional properties, including applicant screening, market intelligence,
accounting, budgeting, property management, facilities, marketing, and
compliance reporting.
RealPage is headquartered in Carrollton, Texas, a
suburb of Dallas. It is the combination of three industry leaders: Rent Roll,
Inc., the largest developer of property management software and services;
RealPage Communications, Inc., a premier designer of custom web sites to the
real estate industry; and M/PF Research, Inc., a leading provider of market
research to the apartment housing industry.
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