Archive for the 'Neigbourhoods' Category

The Beaches, a video tour of the neigbhourhood

Monday, March 1st, 2010

We have slowly been producing neighbourhood videos for Toronto. Each version gets better and this video about The Beaches video is our best yet. (Hear are the older videos: Roncesvalles Video, Rosedale and Cabbagetown Video. This video integrates Google Earth to help give viewers a sense of place while watching the video.
Please take a look…

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Best 5 Winter Neighbourhoods in Canada

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

It’s freezing cold outside. Every time you open the door, a draft of nose-hair-freezing air reminds you of the salt you forgot to put on the steps and the ice you have to scrape off the windshield before you can hop in the car – in the dark – and get to work. [...]

Roncesvalles neighbourhood, a video tour

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Last week, we showed you a video about Rosedale. This week we are going to the other end of the city to show you a residential neighbourhood, Roncesvalles. Over the coming months, we will be releasing new video of different Toronto neighbourhoods.
Today we want to present you with a video of Roncesvalles. A beautiful [...]

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 [...]

Schools in your city…

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

are easier to find then you think. With less then two weeks before the start of another school year, HomeZilla is still seeing an increase in the number of people heavily researching schools.
Schools are almost always the most searched amenities when people are researching a neighbourhood. The exception being some neighbourhoods in Toronto and Vancouver [...]

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 [...]

HomeZilla’s search now offers Canadian neighbourhood information

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Starting today, when you search a house address on HomeZilla you also get the name of the neighbourhood.

Our neighbourhood data comes from DMTI Spatial. It is a fantastic amount of neighbourhood and community boundries and our current neighbourhood feature is only the start.
In the coming months, look forward to seeing:

a neighbourhood browser – [...]

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,