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:

• 3000 feet of water fron in Hubbards, Nova Scotia
• Amazing, off the grid house that is almost all windows looking at the ocean.
• In Vancouver, this would probably cost you $12 million dollars!

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!

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:

• 3000 feet of water fron in Hubbards, Nova Scotia
• Amazing, off the grid house that is almost all windows looking at the ocean.
• In Vancouver, this would probably cost you $12 million dollars!

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.

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

• Coldwell Banker M.B. Green Realty
• Blinkhorn Real Estate
• H.L.M. Realties

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.

• 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”.

My talked was titled, ‘Neighbourhood Experts: not just Realtors ® any more’ and focused on how Realtors could help home buyers find more information about neighbourhoods; specifically in the days of iPhones and mobile search. The main part of the discussion focused on the Realtor being the ’source of the source’ (that line was suggeseted by one of the participants). Instead of just telling people where the best coffee shops, parks, etc are in the neighbourhood they can tell people where to go and find the information. Site like, of course, HomeZilla, Yelp, The Fraser INstitute for Ontario, etc.

It was great to meetup with some long time Twitters like: @oakvillerealtor (who is WAY taller than expected), @HeyAddy and @RichardWontorra . It was also good to catch up with some of the usual suspects like: @GeorgeONeill, and @chrisnewell, and BuzzBuzzHome .

Overall, the biggest surprise at #rebcto was the level of openness by Realtors. People were completely honest with the problems they had with social media. The result was fantastic as many people share their stories of success and failure which allowed everyone to learn a lot.

I can’t wait for the next Toronto RE BarCamp…

On each slide show HomeZilla puts a ‘thumbs up/thumbs down’ button for visitors to cast their vote.

Each visitor gets a single vote per pictures. We tally the votes and create our list of the best and worst listing photos. Real estate agents have said ‘get rid of the Worst Listing Photos’ but my question to you is…. which link do you want to click first:

• Best of Nova Scotia Listing Photos
• Worst of Nova Scotia Listing Photos

Please give us lots of feedback…it is a new feature so we wants lots of it.