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 [...]

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 [...]

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,

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 [...]

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 [...]