This Friday we are happy to annouce a new, fun and informative feature on HomeZilla.
The ‘Best and Worst’ of listing photos from our Nova Scotia feed.
On each slide show HomeZilla puts a ‘thumbs up/thumbs down’ button for visitors to cast their vote.

Each visitor gets a single vote per pictures. We tally the votes [...]

Everyone starts their home buying process online. That means listing photos are one of the first things people will use to ‘judge’ your home. Are these photos good? bad? just ugly? Well HomeZilla has launched a new feature to find out what people think of listing photos.
When you view a slideshow of listing photos on [...]

We are very happy to annouce the itegration of Google Street View for Canada into our site. After researching the closest schools, parks, subway stops, and liquor stores (they won’t admit it but home buyers search for them) you can quickly get a good look at the street as well.
(Look for the ‘Street View’ button [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Our great press coveage continues with a piece on Real Investments TV featuring HomeZilla as Canada’s Neighbourhood Experts. The start of the video has the TV intro and then the HomeZilla story; the video is three minutes in length.

We have received a great response from agents. Most of the emails we received are about being [...]

One of our most popular features is also our least promoted. Everyone doing real estate research on HomeZilla can quickly print a free neighbourhood report. More and more people are using this feature; especially on Thrusday. We aren’t 100% sure why people do most of their printing on Thursdays but we are guessing it has [...]

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 – [...]

We have just pushed live a couple of new features and improvements; which have been the most requested. HomeZilla has updates to the site every two weeks but we don’t always talk about the process. This week is different because we have added two small but great features.
The first feature is the ‘link’ feature which [...]