1. Pikeline: "CB Commercial Achieves 5-Star Rating." CBC is the first real estate service provider to achieve the top PikeNet rating. Great graphics, superb content, powerful search engine. If you want to see where the web is headed, read our headline and visit this site.

2. New and Notable. Premisys, the national asset manager, has put up an entry-level site with basic information. The Lipsey Company includes extensive background on their training programs. The Rubin Organization in Philadelphia describes their services in some depth. Use Text Search to find these sites ("Premysis," "Lipsey," "Rubin").

3. Reciprocal Links. If you have a site and are receiving this Dispatch, we have a link at PikeNet to your site. Reciprocal links are appreciated! Thanks to Bill Behr at CB Commercial's Fort Worth office for creating our first reciprocal link (at least the first one that we saw). Look up his 4-star site in Text Search under "Behr."

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