Patent ID: 7152037

Claim:
A system for facilitating a real estate transaction, the system comprising: a facilitator arrangement for providing a service to at least one buyer arrangement and at least one seller arrangement, providing the service including providing information relating to at least one of at least one buyer arrangement or at least one seller arrangement, wherein one of the buyer arrangements or seller arrangements comprises an initiating party, and one of the other of the buyer arrangements or seller arrangements comprises an initiated party, the initiated party being selectable from the provided buyer information or seller information, wherein the facilitator arrangement is adapted to engage the initiating party in communication with the initiated party regarding a property, the facilitator arrangement engaging the parties for an engagement period, and wherein the facilitator arrangement is adapted to restrict the engaged parties from communicating with other parties during the engagement period to thereby facilitate the engaged parties concluding a real estate transaction regarding the property, the other parties comprising at least one of at least one other buyer arrangement or at least one other seller arrangement, restricting the engaged parties comprising at least one of restricting the other parties from accessing or removing, from the service, at least some information relating to at least one of the engaged parties.