We are happy to annouce a new feature for all the real estate offices in Nova Scotia who share their listings with us. Each month, agents will get intelligence on their listings. These reports will show detailed information about each individual listing. It will include:

Number of people viewing the listings
Where the visitors are from
Search terms [...]

HomeZilla is excited about the changes coming to the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA). More options for Canadians trying to buy and sell a home is always good and CREA has certainly come out strong in favour of change.
CREA’s membership has spoken,” says Georges Pahud, incoming president of the group. “CREA accepts the results [...]

Today is the day for CREA’s vote on changes to satisfiy the Competition Bureau claims that the industry is a ‘monopoly’. Over 300 representatives are in Ottawa for the voting. If the boards line up along provincial boundries, which they often do, then a “No” vote by Ontario and Quebec could make for a quick [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to Free Ad Friday!
Come one, come all (well, the first 100) to HomeZilla and request your FREE ad creative!
You send us a tweet or comment on this blog post and say “Please make me a FREE advertisement”. And include, your name, real estate office, phone number, and website…we will take care of the rest!
Here [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Open data is coming to Canada, being lead byOpen Data Vancouver and Open Data Toronto. Osh from 5 Blocks Out has a fantastic post about Open Data: What’s on Your Wish List? and inspired HomeZilla to voice our desires for open data.
The first ‘wish/tenant’ that 5 Blocks Out mentioned was:

If you’re publishing it for humans, [...]

HomeZilla has launched a new feature this week to make it easier to see Tweets about Real Estate in Canada. For 20 top cities, by population, we will show a map of only real estate related tweets. Twitter is fantastic service but with so many messages it is hard to find topics you want. Our [...]