Archive for the 'Open Data' Category

CREA, Competition Bureau, and Buyers

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

March 22nd is coming up fast and it is going to bring excitement to the Canadian real estate market. Unfortunately, the Competition Bureau, while actively “encouraging” CREA to change, is only trying to make changes that help the seller. Why is nobody looking our for the home buyers?
At CREA’s AGM on March 22nd, members are [...]

Awkward CREA Interview!

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

It is an exciting time for the Canadian Real Estate industry. The Competition Bureau is looking at making some big changes to the industry. So, why does CREA have such BAD messaging to the press? It seems CREA wants to lose the fight with the Competition Bureau. How do real estate agents feel about CREA [...]

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. [...]