About Us

A Brief Overview of SURREALestate.com

SURREALestate.com, based in St. Paul, Minnesota, is an online services website that has been in operation since 1998 as a provider of free webmail, and it is the flagship site of Transit Gloria Media. In addition to e-mail services, the site offers premium blog hosting services through a partnership with the Dumfries, Scotland-based company Blog-City Ltd. SURREALestate.com is also part of the AdBrite advertising network, one the largest independent networks on the internet.


SURREALestate.com—an Award-Winning Site

SURREALestate.com has been awarded the coveted Gold Web Award by The American Association of Webmasters. The site was evaluated according to four categories: Design and Creativity, Content, Navigation, and Scripting and Technical.

"The American Association Of Webmasters Awards are primarily designed to supply formal recognition to webmasters and designers who have shown outstanding achievement in web design, content and creativity." — The American Association of Webmasters


What are the Origins of "Surreal Estate"

Michael Leggs (former lead singer/songwriter/bassist of 1990s, Kansas-based, alternative rock band The Moving Van Goghs), composed a song titled "Surreal Estate" in 1993 and subsequently published it via Transit Gloria Music (BMI). A year later, he enlisted the services of producer/musician Paul Sebastien (TVT Records, WaxTrax! Records, Psykosonik) and recorded it at The Tracking Station in Minneapolis.

Parcel of the Collective Unconscious Anyone?

During the 1990s, SURREALestate.com gained popularity from its novelty offering of title deeds to parcels of "the collective unconscious," which culminated in an eBay auction of a "major" parcel—at a starting bid of $500,000 USD.