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Another community newspapers partner!

admin — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:22:21 +0000

We are proud to annouce a new partnership with the Truro Daily News to power their new real estate section.

TheTruro Daily News real estate section includes a majority of the real estate for sale, by REALTORS, in Colchester County.
The partnership between the newpaper, the REALTORS, and technology company produces a great product for the consumers that benefits all parties involved.

Thanks to all the real estate offices that are participating in this new product:
Royal LePage Truro
Prudential Woods Realty
Century 21 Market Realty
Exit Realty 1st Call
Tradewinds Realty
HLM Realties
Sunrise Brokerage and Sales

HomeZilla now has five newspaper partners in Nova Scotia with more coming on board in the next few months.

HomeZilla technology invades Amherst, Nova Scotia

admin — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:42:02 +0000

We are proud to annouce a new partnership with the Amherst Daily News to power their real estate section.

The Amherst Daily News real estate section includes 100% of the real estate for sale, by REALTORS, in Cumberland County.
The partnership between the newpaper, the REALTORS, and technology company produces a great product for the consumers that benefits all parties involved.

Thanks to all the real estate offices that are participating in this new product:
RE/MAX County Line
Coldwell Banker Performance
Royal LePage Cumberland Realty
Royal Lepage Preview Realty
Sunrise Brokerage and Sales
Mystic Coast Realty Limited

HomeZilla now has four newspaper partners in Nova Scotia with more coming on board in the next few months.

Nova Scotia REALTOR flock to HomeZilla

sandy — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:36:44 +0000

Nova Scotia, by far, HomeZilla’s top market for real estate listings in Canada. We now have over 7100 Nova Scotia real estate listings this is over 50% of all listings. All listings are provided via NSAR .

This past week, we have added three new offices to our feed:

Anne Thomson Realty Ltd, in Liverpool, NS
RE/MAX South Shore Realty Ltd., in Bridgewater, NS
Coldwell Banker Supercity , in Bridgewater and Halifax

Thanks to these new partcipating offices we have added over 500 new listings to our website.

There are quite a few cool listing in their feed but here are three of my favorites:

In Vancouver, this would probably cost you $12 million dollars!

Welcome aboard to our new offices and thanks to all our existing offices!

Lighthouse Log ads HomeZilla powered real estate

sandy — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:36:28 +0000

We are proud to annouce that a 3rd Nova Scotia newspaper has choosen HomeZilla to power their real estate section; both online and in print.

The Lighthouse Log is the newspaper for Lunenburg County in Nova Scotia; their website is SouthShoreNow.ca. You can check out thier list of Pictou County Real Estate For Sale to see how HomeZilla has integrated into their website.

HomeZilla powering their print section is key to a succesful partnership because in small communities print is still king.
Check out the Lighthouse Log PDF .

As a testiment to the product, every real estate offices servicing Lungenburg County has joined to help produce this innovative product.

What do you think? What would you change about the print page? What about the website?

HomeZilla has 5000 registered REALTORS ®!

sandy — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:35:11 +0000

Today is an exciting Friday at HomeZilla. We have just passed our 5000 registered REALTOR. That presents about 6% of REALTORS in Canada and that is a testiment to the quaility of our data. Who was the 5000th REALTOR you ask?

It was Deborah Armitage of Coldwell Banker Essential Realty.

HomeZilla also works with another 1000+ REALTORS in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland who share their listing with us each month.

To all the REALTORS who help make us a success… thank you!

Nova Scotia’s South Shore and beyond

sandy — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 23:39:11 +0000

Nova Scotia is still one of HomeZilla’s top market for real estate listings in Canada. We now have over 5900 Nova Scotia real estate listings. All provided via NSAR .

This past week, we have added three new offices to our feed:

Costal Winds Realty, in Musquodoboit Harbour, Lunenburg, and Tantallon (HRM)
Walt MacDonald Real Estate Ltd, in Liverpool
Holm Realty, in Bridgewater

Thanks to these new partcipating offices we have added over 290 new listings to our website.

There are quite a few cool listing in their feed but here are three of my favorites:

In Vancouver, this would probably cost you $12 million dollars!

Welcome aboard to our new offices and thanks to all our existing offices!

More Nova Scotia growth…

sandy — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:53:57 +0000

Nova Scotia has always been one of HomeZilla key test markets. Over 2 years ago, we started working with NSAR to get a 3rd party agreement so we could display MLS listing from participating offices.

This past month, we have added five new offices to our feed:

The Real Estate Store, in Yarmouth
Victory Realty, in Yarmouth
RE/MAX Park Page, in Sydney
Coldwell Banker David Butts, in Sydney
Kennedy Realty and Appraisals, in Glace Bay

Thanks to these new partcipating offices and to all our existing partners.

Newfoundland here we come…

sandy — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:29:00 +0000

We are happy at annouce that HomeZilla has started receiving listing from the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of REALTORS! Newfoundland becomes HomeZilla’s second province where were accept listing from real estate offices.

The first office to share listing with us is Sutton Newfoundland and Labrador. We send a big thanks out to them for being our first in Newfoundland.

Now that all the bugs are worked out of the process, we are going to start getting listing from other Newfoundland offices as well.

Check out our Newfoundland Homes for sale or the St. John’s homes for sale to see examples of our listings search pages.

Moving into New Glasgow Real Estate

sandy — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:04:50 +0000

Our goal of being Canada’s #1 website for doing real research has never changed and our neighbourhood information continues to grow. In Nova Scotia, we also work closely with individual real estate companies to promote their listings on HomeZilla. We do by working with the Nova Scotia Association of REALTORS; NSAR has been fantastic over the years.

This month, we have added a number of offices from New Glasgow. Please welcome them to the HomeZilla website.

Visit our website to see all of the New Glasgow Homes For Sale.

UPDATE Jan 14/2011:
Another New Glasgow office has started sharing listing with HomeZilla, RE/MAX New Style Realty.

Nova Scotia Listing Intelligence

sandy — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:15:50 +0000

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 used to find their listings

REALTORS ® have said lots of good things about this report but the most common comment:

“This helps my clients understand how I market their property online.”

At HomeZilla, we deal with lots of data about marketing and researching real estate online. Making our data more useful for consumers and REALTORS is alway one of our top goals. If you are an office in Nova Scotia that wishes to share listing with HomeZilla just drop me an email: sandy [at] homezilla [dot] com and say “Please share my listing with HomeZilla”.