Archive for the 'Corporate Update' Category

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 [...]

HomeZilla’s Sandy Ward on Talk 820

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

For those of you who just can’t get enough of the new media – old media mashups (and for those of you who just want to hear more about what kind of mischief we’re up to), be sure to listen for HomeZilla founder Sandy Ward as he drops in on the John Biggs radio show, tomorrow (October 3rd) at 11am EST. … Anyone outside of the Talk 820 broadcast area can listen to the show at 11am EST streamed live from the Talk 820 web site – just look for the “Listen Now” button under under the Talk 820 logo.

New feature, Search By Postal Code, by popular demand

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Thanks to everyone for the feedback on HomeZilla. The launch has been a great success and we appreciate everyone using the site especially the people who took time to send us comments/questions.
The main feature in this release is: Search By Postal Code.In the first hour, most of the requests were to allow searching by postal [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

HomeZilla’s Real Estate Search Trends for June 2008

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Welcome to the first installment of HomeZilla’s Search Trends. Each month, we will share the real estate search trends HomeZilla is tracking. This first month we are going to list the top 10 most searched cities and the top 10 most searched amenities.
The categories we cover will grow and change every month; please send us [...]

List of Halifax Schools: New Data

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

HomeZilla knows when you are house hunting that the location of schools be very important. We have added a list of Halifax schools to our database. All of the schools have been geocoded (position on a map by address) and seperated into lists of elementary, junior high, and high school.
If you want to find a [...]

HomeZilla selected to present at CIX!

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Yay! We just found out HomeZilla will be presenting at the Canadian Innovation Exchange to be held in Toronto on April 29th and 30th. Presenting to and network with the folks attending the Canadian Innovation Exchange is going to be exciting. They have an excellent list of speakers; personally, I am looking forward to seeing [...]

The Alpha passed the test!

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Well our friends and family love the Alpha and that is a good sign. We do have a couple of industry experts testing for us but they are still very friendly with us. The next step is to find unbiased testers.
Next, we will need to get real users to test the site and provide their feedback. [...]