Sydney - Tuesday - February 27: (RWE Aust Business News)...

Sydney - Tuesday - February 27: (RWE Aust Business News) -
realestate.com.au Ltd (ASX:REA) reported a net profit of $5.68 million
for the half year to December 31 2006, compared with $2.86m in the prior
corresponding half.
Revenue was $48.12m against $24.71m previously.
Traffic across all sites averaged 4.7 million unique browsers per
month during the six months.
This represents a 65pc increase.
In January 2007, traffic increased to a historic high of 6.1
million unique browsers.
Property Listings across all sites increased to 731,002 listings
in December.
This represents 43pc growth since December 2005.
"We are extremely pleased with the continued strong growth of the
company," managing director Simon Baker said.
"... we continue to deliver strong revenue and profit growth in
our existing businesses, with the Australian business delivering
strong revenue and gross profit growth and the UK business continuing to
capture market share... we continue to enhance our product range with the
new release of our commercial sites and the acquisition of additional
products for our agent office solutions business.
"Finally we are advancing our international expansion with the
acquisition of casa.it, the leading site in Italy and the atHome group
based out of Luxembourg."