Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal
4-5-2002
Quicken becomes online mortgage provider
for Yahoo! Real Estate
Agreement brings together popular online real estate site and
leading online lender to create an invaluable home-buying resource
   Quicken Loans Inc., a leading online mortgage lender, has announced that it is now offering online mortgage services and content on Yahoo! Real Estate (realestate.yahoo.com).

Yahoo! Real Estate brings information and services together on a wide variety of home-related topics, offering consumers fast and easy tools to buy, sell or improve a home.

Under the terms of the agreement, Quicken Loans, the mortgage lending subsidiary of Intuit Inc., which make the popular small business accounting software QuickBooks, will integrate Quicken Loans’ educational content and mortgage tools into Yahoo! Real Estate. The agreement offers Yahoo! Real Estate consumers access to Quicken Loan’s home loan programs and tools, including various calculators and content to help educate people on the home buying and mortgage process. For example, Quicken Loans’ Mortgage Payment calculator is built in to each individual property listing, enabling customers to quickly estimate the monthly payments for that particular home.