Yell.com/property joins forces with asserta home and ihavemoved.com.

M2 PRESSWIRE-25 January 2001-Yell.com: Yell.com/property joins forces with asserta home and ihavemoved.com (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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Yell.com/property has entered into distribution agreements with home buying web site assertahome.com and the online change of address service - ihavemoved.com. As a result, visitors to the Yell.com/property site can access details on properties from over 3,500 estate agents in the UK, notify businesses of an address change, plus stop services like gas and electricity and connect to the best value services when they move.

Yell.com/property already provides extensive neighbourhood information for every postcode in the UK, including average house prices, council tax rates, details on local schools and local amenities, plus contact details for local estate agents, solicitors, surveyors and virtually anyone else connected with buying and selling homes.

Richard Duggleby, Head of External Relations, Yellow Pages Group said: "The agreement with asserta home and ihavemoved.com really complement the vast range of information already available on Yell.com/property and confirm our commitment to becoming the definitive online property information source."

"Yell.com/property provides asserta home with a valuable customer channel at a time when we are seeing increasing demand of our property service," added Andrew Doyle, Managing Director of asserta home.

Niko Komninos Marketing Director at Ihavemoved.com comments, "We see this agreement with Yell.com/property as an efficient way of offering consumers our unique service, alongside a well recognised property channel which offers a range of valuable information and advice to help ease the house moving process".

Notes to editors

About Yell.com

Yell.com (www.Yell.com) is the destination site from the Yellow Pages Group. It features approximately 1.7 million UK classified listings that can be searched by business type, name and location. Advanced search functionality, up to date information for leisure and business services and an increasing range of e-products and services are accessible through Yell.com.

About asserta home

asserta home launched in May 2000 and is an independent business funded by CGNU. asserta home (www.asertahome.com) aims to reduce the hassle of home buying by being the first to offer a comprehensive and personalised service. It provides access to the UK's largest up-to-date property database and thousands of homes for sale and rent from over 3,500 estate agency branches around the UK - covering around 50% of the entire market. The services offers tailored information on any particular area in the UK and immediate updates of newly available homes via e-mail, mobile phone text messaging or IDTV. Users can also search and rank properties on 16 different criteria, access photographs on-line, contact estate agents and organise the move itself over the net 365 days a year, 24 hours a day.

About CGNU

The merger of CGU and Norwich Union brings together two major organisations to create CGNU - the UK's largest insurance group and one of the top-five life insurers In Europe with substantial positions in other markets around the world.

CGNU's principal business activities are long-term savings, general insurance and asset management with world-wide premium income and retail investment sales of GBP26billion.

About Ihavemoved.com

Launched in November 1999, ihavemoved.com (http://www.ihavemoved.com) is a free online change of address service for home movers. ihavemoved.com can change address details for customers of companies as diverse as government agencies, utilities, including gas, water, electricity & telecommunications, loyalty card providers, financial service, leisure clubs and magazine publishers and will even send an email to their customers' friends informing them of their new address. Since launching, it has already attracted over 600 services including BT, British Gas, Virgin and PowerGen..

The site was founded by the following directors: - Niko Komninos, Francesco Benincasa, Onic Palandjian and E. David Anstee.

ihavemoved.com's cash investment has been sourced from financiers by N.M. Rothschild and include Professor Nicholas Negroponte.

ihavemoved.com has recently launched a new offline service to enable home movers, who don't have internet access, to benefit from their change of address service by calling 020 7799 3300.

CONTACT: Alison Fordham/Parm Evans/Cecile Stearn, Harrison Sadler Limited Tel: +44 (0)20 8977 9132 e-mail: hsl@harrisonsadler.demon.co.uk

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