Archive for September, 2008

Launch Day for HomeZilla!

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

We are proud to announce the official launch for HomeZilla. HomeZilla is a a one-stop shop for Canadian home buyers to find neighbourhood information. Our goal is to fundamentally change the home buying experience in Canada.
We help Canadians answer common home buying questions such as:

Where is the closest school, subway, bakery, dog park, etc.?
What is the average [...]

Neighbourhood Video for Cabbagetown!

Monday, September 29th, 2008

If you use our site and follow our lightly used blog, you know we are all about data on a map. But every company must grow and change. We want to add some neighbourhood videos to our site. So we started by creating a video for my neighbourhood,

HomeZilla, how do you get your data?

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

We are asked that question often. Unfortunately, there is no easy answer because our data comes from a wide variety of sources.  Much of the data, especially non-business data, is collected in-house because no other company has taken the time to collect and geocode not-for-profit locations. We also purchase some of our data; if we [...]

Canadian Real Estate Trends, August 2008

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Welcome to the third HomeZilla Real Estate Trends. Each month, we will share the search trends for Canadian real estate research on HomeZilla. This month, we see Canada’s largest province lose top spot in our most searched list to Canada’s oil capital. We list the most searched provinces, top 10 most searched cities and top [...]