Abstract: By gathering information regarding the total number of sales, total number of pending listings, total number of active listings, and total number of expired listings in a time period, a market index may be derived. This market index can then be charted over a plurality of periods, giving an indication of any temporal trends. The market index can further be used to guide and determine the action of a service provider such as a lender or title insurance company in a proposed real estate transaction.

Abstract: A directory of group physicians for a health care provider service is disclosed in which the directory is tailored to a particular customer of the provider service. Relational databases of physician information, customer information, geographic mapping information, and images and/or advertising information are used to select those physicians, health care providers and health care businesses that are local to a specific customer and are to be printed in a directory for that customer. The selection of physicians from the database may include physicians having specialties that had been used by the customer, or physicians having specialties that correspond to the health care needs of a customer, e.g., customers having young children tend to use pediatricians. In addition, a mapping software program generates a local map for the customer that plots the addresses of the physician to be listed in the directory.