Patent ID: 7343348

Claim:
A computer-assisted real estate transaction system comprising: a server, a plurality of client computer systems coupled to the server, a plurality of participants using the clients, the participants each having one of a plurality of predetermined roles in a real estate transaction; a real estate transaction software application stored on the server and operable to selectively display real estate transaction data to and receive real estate transaction data from the participants; at least one real estate transaction database coupled to the server and coupled to the real estate transaction software application for storing real estate transaction data; and the real estate transaction software application being logically segmented into a plurality of cobrand sites with each of the plurality of cobrand sites having at least one set of real estate transaction templates for managing information about particular real estate transactions and controlling the business rules and functionality of the last said real estate transactions, the at least one set of real estate transaction templates including all three of transaction types templates, data forms templates, and transaction data templates, the transaction types templates each being provided for a respective type of real estate transaction and determining which of the data forms templates are available for the associated type of real estate transaction, the data forms templates each defining core transaction data pertaining to a particular transaction and specifying field-level access rights by the participants to the data in accordance with a participant's role in the transaction.