CRIC And Baidu Announce Expanded Strategic Cooperation

Haoyu Shen, Baidu's senior vice president of business operations, commented, "Search has become an increasingly important information source for China's home buyers. The cooperation with CRIC over the past year has confirmed our view about the market potential for online search-related products through vertical real estate channels. As a result, we will continue working closely to expand this market."

Mr. Shen continued, "We hope that the strategic cooperation with CRIC will help accelerate Baidu's real estate vertical channel development, and provide better user and client experiences in online real estate information search."

The expanded strategic agreement will take effect in August 2011. Under the terms of the agreement, CRIC will pay Baidu a total of RMB180 million over the three-year term ( RMB40 million in the first year, RMB60 million in the second year and RMB80 million in the third year), in addition to RMB200 million over four years under the 2010 agreements. These agreements will give CRIC the exclusive right to sell Baidu's real estate brandlink product to all real estate developers in China during the contract period. CRIC will continue building and operating the Baidu real estate and home furnishing related channels. CRIC will retain all associated revenues from these agreements.

About CRIC

China Real Estate Information Corporation ("CRIC") (NASDAQ: CRIC) is a leading provider of real estate information, consulting and online services with a presence in over 140 cities across China. CRIC, a subsidiary of E-House ( China) Holdings Limited (NYSE: EJ), merged with the online real estate business of SINA Corporation (NASDAQ: SINA) upon the completion of CRIC's initial public offering and listing of its ADSs on the NASDAQ Global Select Market in October 2009. Leveraging its proprietary, advanced and comprehensive real estate information database and analysis system, CRIC provides a broad range of real estate-related services to all participants in the real estate value chain, including developers, suppliers, agents, brokers, service providers and individual consumers. CRIC's services include subscription-based information services, customized consulting services and online services through several real estate websites that provide region-specific real estate information and access to online communities. For more information about CRIC, please visit http://www.cric.com.

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