Handshake.com Launches a Virtual Community for Real Estate and Commercial Real Estate Professionals

Santa Monica, CA (PRWEB) January 31, 2014

Today, Handshake.com, launched its Internet based “Business Network” and “Virtual Community” dedicated to providing a “State of the Art” forum for the ethical and beneficial exchange between Real Estate Customers (Renters, Buyers and Investors) and the Professionals that serve them. Handshake’s goal is to establish itself as the pinnacle in Consumer and Professional confidence, from its logical and user friendly navigation, to its cutting edge informational and educational features. Bottom line, Handshake intends to produce industry leading results in the sale, rental, construction and development of “Real Estate” world wide.

“The handshake is commonly done upon meeting, greeting, parting, offering congratulations, expressing gratitude, or completing an agreement. Its purpose is to convey trust, respect, balance, and equality” explains CEO Torsten Kunert. “We acquired this premium domain name Handshake.com because it understood in every language” says Kunert.

Increasingly, people are participating in a wide range of online virtual communities. Interests range from sharing information to personal and business networking. Environments such as Facebook, YouTube and Linkedin are prime examples of exponential viral growth.

With 85% of first-time buyers and renters using the Internet to find apartments, vacation rentals, houses and commercial properties, Handshake.com, the first virtual community customer-centric site, is primed to step in as an intermediary to facilitate the buyer-seller, renter-landlord and location manager-relationships. With the industry's cutting-edge technology, the latest instruments to reach customers, and a superlative management team, Handshake.com will quickly position itself as the premier website to search when its time to move, buy, sell or invest.

Handshake.com has its foundation and inception in the formation of RentWave.com in 1999 by Torsten Kunert. Mr. Kunert founded the National Apartment Rental Company with $50,000.00 and it grew it into an enterprise that grossed $3.5 million dollars over a five year period. Handshake.com is the refinement, extrapolation and progenitor of this successful “Rental Market” search platforms. The premium domain alone was recently evaluated at $750,000.

At this juncture, Handshake.com has been self-funded by Mr. Kunert and his business partner, a USC Professor, Mr. Brian Olson. The company boasts connection with a nationwide network of over 130,000 residential apartment and commercial property managers. Most importantly Handshake.com has over 15 million custom sorted contacts that incorporate 55 different real estate related professions on a world-wide scope.

Handshake.com is unique in that it offers “State of the Art” Management and Marketing Tools and Apps to its subscribers. It offers the greatest convenience and largest data base for Consumers to find the right properties and the right professionals to facilitate their search and ultimately their transaction. Handshake offers the “Management Expertise” and “Technological Know-How” to utilize the latest search developments and marketing techniques available on the Internet to make sure that both sides of the equation can be brought together with expedience and satisfactory result.

Handshake.com’s main income stream is the package of marketing and management tools and Apps it offers its members. The tools and Apps vary in price. Handshake estimates that 500,000 members will be using these services by the end of 2015. The Handshake.com founders welcome potential investors and joint venture partners.