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Lighthouse Log ads HomeZilla powered real estate

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

We are proud to annouce that a 3rd Nova Scotia newspaper has choosen HomeZilla to power their real estate section; both online and in print.
The Lighthouse Log is the newspaper for Lunenburg County in Nova Scotia; their website is SouthShoreNow.ca. You can check out thier list of Pictou County Real Estate For Sale to see [...]

HomeZilla has 5000 registered REALTORS ®!

Friday, June 24th, 2011

Today is an exciting Friday at HomeZilla. We have just passed our 5000 registered REALTOR. That presents about 6% of REALTORS in Canada and that is a testiment to the quaility of our data. Who was the 5000th REALTOR you ask?
It was Deborah Armitage of Coldwell Banker Essential Realty.
HomeZilla also works with another 1000+ [...]

Top 10 Prediction for Canadian Real Estate in 2010

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

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 [...]

Open Data comes to Toronto! YAY!

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

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. [...]

HomeZilla’s Open Data Wish List

Monday, September 28th, 2009

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, [...]

TweetLens on Canadian Real Estate

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

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 [...]

Sutton enhances listing with the HomeZilla Hoody

Monday, July 6th, 2009

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 [...]

Little details can have big impacts… on real estate and websites.

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

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. [...]

Top 10 most searched Canadian Neighbourhoods

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

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 [...]

Canadian neighbourhoods get promoted…on HomeZilla

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

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 [...]