eXp Realty International Corporation Announces Name Change to eXp World Holdings, Inc.

BELLINGHAM, WA--(Marketwired - April 07, 2016) - eXp Realty International Corporation (OTCQB: EXPI) announced today that it has changed its corporate name to eXp World Holdings, Inc. in order to reflect its broader commitment to utilizing cloud-based technologies in order to create opportunities for the most entrepreneurial professionals across a number of industries beyond real estate brokerage.

"Our achievements within our real estate brokerage division have demonstrated to us in a compelling way that entrepreneurial professionals are willing and eager to embrace the cloud to transform business, ownership, and collaboration and to avail themselves of new opportunities to earn, learn and grow that otherwise wouldn't be feasible," said Company Founder and CEO, Glenn Sanford. "This name change will allow us to continue to focus on the tremendous growth and achievements happening within our real estate brokerage division while delivering innovation and opportunity to other service industries without causing confusion among the investing public," Sanford said.

The Company's common stock trades under the symbol "EXPI" and the name change will have no impact on the Company's trading symbol.

About eXp World Holdings, Inc.

eXp World Holdings, Inc. is the holding company for a number of companies most notably eXp Realty LLC, the Agent-Owned Cloud Brokerage™ as a full-service real estate brokerage providing 24/7 access to collaborative tools, training, and socialization for real estate brokers and agents through its 3-D, fully-immersive, cloud office environment. eXp Realty, LLC and eXp Realty of Canada, Inc. also feature an aggressive revenue sharing program that pays agents a percentage of gross commission income earned by fellow real estate professionals who they attract into the Company.

eXp World Holdings, Inc. also owns 90.5% of First Cloud Mortgage, Inc. a Delaware corporation launched in 2015 and now licensed to originate mortgages in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas.

The corporate name change to "eXp World Holdings, Inc." has been approved by our Board and stockholders but is not yet effective, pending the mailing of a definitive information statement to our stockholders in accordance with applicable rules and a 20-day notice period thereafter.

As a publicly-traded company, eXp World Holdings, Inc. uniquely offers professionals within its ranks opportunities to earn equity awards for production and contributions to overall company growth.

For more information you can follow eXp World Holdings, Inc. on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, or visit investors.exprealty.com or www.exprealty.com.

The statements contained herein may include statements of future expectations and other forward-looking statements that are based on management's current views and assumptions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or events to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements. Such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof, and the Company undertakes no obligation to revise or update them. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements about the Company's expansion, revenue growth, operating results, financial performance and net income changes. Such statements are not guarantees of future performance. Important factors that may cause actual results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed in forward-looking statements include changes in business or other market conditions; the difficulty of keeping expense growth at modest levels while increasing revenues; and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including but not limited to the most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K.