Real estate agents will tell you, if people see a few ‘iffy’ things during an open house then those home buyers start thinking ‘what else is wrong?’. Little details in a house can make a huge difference.
This month the HomeZilla team would like to share an example of a small change making a big difference. [...]
About 30 days ago we launched a feature that allowed you to create a ‘hoody‘ widget to give neighbourhood information to your listings. We received quite a bit of negative feedback from people using WordPress, as their blogging software, because they couldn’t paste the Hoody html code in their post.
Today, we are happy to annouce [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
…but not over the concerns about the economy and decreasing homes sales. Instead this group has the environment front and centre in their minds. It is no surprise that some real estate agents have turned to branding themselves green. The National Association of Green Agents and Brokers is a Canadian organization dedicated to educating [...]
This week Toronto’s tech community can add another organized group to the list of tech focused social groups. Planet Eye is hosting the first GeoSocial downtown Toronto at The Charlotte Room. I am very excited to attend this event. Geography/Location based Internet companies are coming out of the wood work and we are in the [...]
Realtor.ca (website formerly known as MLS.ca) has received mixed reactions since its launch. When a popular website changes their UI people always complain because it is ‘new and strange’. Now month later, we don’t see many bloggers complaining about the UI. Maybe they gave up or maybe they have moved onto the next story.
The [...]
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 [...]
Welcome to the second HomeZilla Real Estate Trends. Each month, we will share the search trends for real estate research on HomeZilla. We list the most searched provinces, top 10 most searched cities and top 10 most searched amenities.
The categories will grow and change every month; please send us suggestions for next month’s HomeZilla Real [...]
