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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
If you haven’t already heard of Twitter , you will start hearing about it everywhere after reading this post. Twitter as described by a co-founder, “The messaging system that we didn’t know we needed until we had it.” In 140 characters you can announce what you are doing to your followers. Check out HomeZilla’s [...]
Welcome to the HomeZilla Real Estate Trends. As in previous months, we list the most searched provinces, top 10 most searched cities and top 10 most searched amenities.
HomeZilla’s Most Searched Provinces
1
Ontario
2
British Columbia
3
(+1)
Nova Scotia
4
(-1)
Alberta
5
Manitoba
6
(+1)
New Brunswick
7
(-1)
Quebec
8
(+2)
Newfoundland
9
(-1)
Saskatchewan
10
(-1)
Prince Edward Island
HomeZilla’s Most Searched Cities
1
Toronto
2
(+1)
Ottawa
3
(+1)
Mississauga
4
(-2)
Vancouver
5
(-)
Quesnel
6
(-)
Oshawa
7
(-2)
Calgary
8
Brampton
9
(-)
Winnipeg
10
(-)
Whitby
HomeZilla’s Most Searched Amenities
1
Schools
2
(-)
elementary schools
3
(-1)
grocery stores
4
(+3)
child care services
5
(-1)
coffee shops
6
(-)
high schools
7
(+2)
banks
8
(-3)
pubs
9
(-6)
parks
10
(-)
jr high schools
We hope you [...]
Advertising for real estate agents is fact of life. The leading edge agents embrace new technology such as Facebook, Twitter, Google AdWords, and many more; not to mention HomeZilla Local Advertising for Real Estate Agents. The price for these options can be much lower then ‘traditional’ advertising but old habit die hard. On Thursday [...]
