Patent ID: 8140443

Claim:
A method for referring a real estate agent comprising the steps of: receiving information from a buyer or seller of a real estate property, wherein the information received from the buyer or seller comprises the geographic area of the property to be purchased or sold, the price range of the property to be purchased or sold, and personal information of the buyer or seller; receiving performance data for two or more real estate agents from a MLS database, said performance data comprising volume of sales, listing time for properties, and listing price versus selling price for the properties handled by said one or more real estate agents; ranking by a computer two or more real estate agents based on the information received from the buyer or seller and performance data of the two or more real estate agents, wherein the rankings of the two or more real estate agents are refined by a computer by calculating a performance matching value for each ranked real estate agent indicative of how well the characteristics of the ranked real estate agent match the information from the buyer or seller and refining the ranking of each real estate agent with the performance matching value to provide a new ranking of real estate agents; and providing a referral to the buyer or seller for the highest ranking real estate agent based on availability.