2010 will be an important year for Canadian Real Estate as many forces come together to change the industry. This is HomeZilla’s Top 10 things to look forward to in 2010.
Google’s will move into Canadian Real Estate – Google already has 10K+ Canadian real etate listings (ex:Halifax listings) and they don’t promote their service [...]
Today, the Toronto Open Data Lab was held at Toronto’s City Hall. The lab talked about Toronto’s Open Data Catalogue which makes the HomeZilla team very excited.
We have already integreated Toronto’s Open Data for Parks and Toronto’s Open Data for Child Care. Both of these data sets have increased the quality of HomeZilla’s data. [...]
Open data is coming to Canada, being lead byOpen Data Vancouver and Open Data Toronto. Osh from 5 Blocks Out has a fantastic post about Open Data: What’s on Your Wish List? and inspired HomeZilla to voice our desires for open data.
The first ‘wish/tenant’ that 5 Blocks Out mentioned was:
If you’re publishing it for humans, [...]
HomeZilla has launched a new feature this week to make it easier to see Tweets about Real Estate in Canada. For 20 top cities, by population, we will show a map of only real estate related tweets. Twitter is fantastic service but with so many messages it is hard to find topics you want. Our [...]
The HomeZilla team is pleased to annouce our partnership with Sutton Group Realty Serivce Inc. Sutton has added our Hoody to their listings. Ex: Check out the ammenities around a $17,000,000 house. Sutton has been increasing their web presence steadily in 2009 our Hoody is just the latest step.
“Adding HomeZilla’s neighbourhood intelligence to Sutton’s listings [...]
Real estate agents will tell you, if people see a few ‘iffy’ things during an open house then those home buyers start thinking ‘what else is wrong?’. Little details in a house can make a huge difference.
This month the HomeZilla team would like to share an example of a small change making a big difference. [...]
One of the most interesting trends we see at HomeZilla is the most popular neighbourhoods across Canada. Here is a quick list of the most searched neighbourhoods in Canada for April 2009.
Downtown Neighbourhood Toronto
St. James Town Neighbourhood Toronto
Granview-Woodland Neighbourhood Vancouver
East Credit Neighbourhood Mississauga
Downtown Neighbourhood Kelowna
Fairview Neighbourhood Vancouver
King-Spadina Neighbourhood Toronto
Heart Lake East Neighbourhood Brampton
Bristol Neighbourhood Milton
Halifax Downtown Neighbourhood Halifax
For people [...]
Today, we have launched a ‘Browse Neighbourhood’ feature for visitors to HomeZilla. This will allow people to quickly see all of the neighbourhoods, and their bounds, for cities across Canada.
Back in December, HomeZilla started displaying the neighbourhood associated with a given address. Now visitors can find the surrounding neighbourhoods by simply clicking one [...]
About 30 days ago we launched a feature that allowed you to create a ‘hoody‘ widget to give neighbourhood information to your listings. We received quite a bit of negative feedback from people using WordPress, as their blogging software, because they couldn’t paste the Hoody html code in their post.
Today, we are happy to annouce [...]
If you haven’t already heard of Twitter , you will start hearing about it everywhere after reading this post. Twitter as described by a co-founder, “The messaging system that we didn’t know we needed until we had it.” In 140 characters you can announce what you are doing to your followers. Check out HomeZilla’s [...]
