Archive for the 'Community' Category

Rosedale Neighbourhood Video!

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Last year, we created a video about Cabbagetown which received a lot of good feedback. For the past year, we have been collecting footage for other Toronto neighbourhoods. Over the coming months, we will be releasing new video of different Toronto neighbourhoods.
Today we want to present you with a video of Rosedale. Rosedale is one [...]

Free ads for real estate agents!

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Welcome to Free Ad Friday!
Come one, come all (well, the first 100) to HomeZilla and request your FREE ad creative!
You send us a tweet or comment on this blog post and say “Please make me a FREE advertisement”. And include, your name, real estate office, phone number, and website…we will take care of the rest!
Here [...]

Real Estate Flyers: Community Newspapers VS Online Advertising

Monday, September 7th, 2009

The daily newspaper in Canada, and elsewhere, is under going a rapid shift in their business model as advertisers move money online. Real estate agents and companies are some of the last advertisers to leave newspapers. As stuff gets tougher for newspapers, real estate agents can expect some huge benefits as newspapers try and keep [...]

Real estate agents and Realtors turning green…

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

…but not over the concerns about the economy and decreasing homes sales. Instead this group has the environment front and centre in their minds. It is no surprise that some real estate agents have turned to branding themselves green. The National Association of Green Agents and Brokers is a Canadian organization dedicated to educating [...]

HomeZilla attending PlanetEye’s GeoSocial!

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

This week Toronto’s tech community can add another organized group to the list of tech focused social groups. Planet Eye is hosting the first GeoSocial downtown Toronto at The Charlotte Room.  I am very excited to attend this event. Geography/Location based Internet companies are coming out of the wood work and we are in the [...]

New feature: past election results!

Monday, October 6th, 2008

The Federal Election season is in full swing. With only seven days left before the big day (Oct 14th) HomeZilla decided to add some new data, past election results. Do a search on any Canadain address then click the “election” icon. You will see a list of the elected MPs since 2004.

Do you know what [...]

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,

The 2008 Pug Award winners is…

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

The winner is Argyle Authentic Lofts, which was my second favorite.  Check out this building and the other winners on the HomeZilla Pug Map.  According to the National Post, Argyle Lofts brought in more than 91% of the popular vote.  The six storey Edwardian building houses 86 lofts, 11 of which are two-storey penthouse units. [...]

Plug for a Pug… Awards that is…

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

If you live in Toronto, you need to know about the Pug Awards; the 4th annual people choice awards for architecture. They give Torontonians (actually, anyone with a web connection) a chance to give a ‘tip of the hat’ or ‘wag of the finger’ to Toronto buildings completed in the last year. HomeZilla loves events [...]