Archive for the ‘Company News’ Category

PropertySold.ca Website Visitors Reach An All Time High

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Propertysold.ca, Canada’s premier real estate advertising web site, has been experiencing tremendous growth in listings and website visitors over the past 4 months. In June and July we reached a record of more than 400 new listings. Buyers are coming to our website to see these new listings in record ...

Post To Twitter

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

We have now integrated our blog to automatically ping our twitter page with updates. Follow along with us at Twitter.com. Our user account is Propertysoldca. You can easily access our tweets by clicking on the Twitter box located in the right column throughout the blog.

Do You Need A Real Estate Agent?

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

Propertysold.ca Inc. was recently mentioned in an article by the Globe and Mail. We're not sure we totally agree with the tone of the article as we know plenty of real estate agents who earn every penny they make. Readers's are left to judge for themselves: Do you need a real ...

PropertySold Launches Real Estate Forum

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Check out the latest addition to the PropertySold.ca Inc. family, our new real estate forum: Real Estate Forum

PropertySold.ca Mentioned in Canadian Real Estate Magazine article

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

In the latest issue of "Canadian Real Estate Magazine" our company has been mentioned in an article entitled "Dropping the Agent" by Kit Kadlec. Please click on the thumbnails below to read the article in it's entirety.

PropertySold Adding Sharing to Property Listings

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Later on today users of Propertysold.ca will notice that each listing will now include popular sharing options with each listing (like facebook, twitter, myspace and over 200 more). We are allowing web users to bookmark your listings which will bring more exposure to your real estate for sale at ...

Happy Valentine’s Day To You From PropertySold

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Now get off our website and take your mate out for dinner :)

Real Estate Question & Answer Section Online

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Some of you may have noticed we have a new section on the website where you can ask real estate questions and get real answers from real estate professionals. We have been running this system for a week now in trial mode but would now like to encourage anyone ...

Helpdesk Online – Submit Your Tickets

Monday, February 8th, 2010

http://help.propertysold.ca Please submit your trouble tickets at this address. Our customer support staff has been trained and is ready to man the battle stations. We are going to keep it in a trial this week. If you are reading this feel free to submit a ticket but we will not be adding ...

PropertySold Customer Helpdesk Finalized & Online Monday

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Our engineering team has finalized the helpdesk installation along with a new FAQ system. The official launch of these systems will be next Monday but customers may get a sneak peak at these systems by following the links below. Please bear with us as we continue to tweak ...

Internet Explorer Problems Resolved

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Our engineers have solved the problem with some pages not displaying in some versions of Internet Explorer. There was a problem in areas that had many listings where the page would not completely load because there was too much data being passed to our Google maps. We have taken ...

Internet Explorer Problems with the Site To Be Resolved Today

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Our engineers are working to solve a problem some of you are having viewing the website in internet explorer. Still some pains to work out on the new server but we should have a solution in today. Thank you for your patience.

PropertySold Website Passes $350 Million in Real Estate Sales

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

In our 5th year of operation we have surpassed over $350 million in real estate sales through the PropertySold.ca website. That is a lot of real estate sold and we look forward to helping even more of our customers with a smooth home sale in 2010.

PropertySold Customer Support Center Installed

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

We are doing the final testing on a new customer support ticket system. We have the system completely installed and are just testing the email capabilities of the scripting to make sure there are no bugs (so we can receive all of your emails and support requests). This system ...

PropertySold Starts the New Year With A Quarter of a Million Visitors

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

We are on pace for 3 million visitors this year if the current crisp pace to start the new year continues. Please view our sites statistics for January. A little hiccup at the end of the month during our server move has distorted the results a little.

PropertySold Acquires Canadian Mortgage News

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

In our efforts to improve and expand our real estate network PropertySold.ca Inc. has acquired the Canadian Mortgage News magazine. The Canadian Mortgage News is the premier site for information on the Canadian mortgage industry and shopping for mortgages. The mission of this magazine is to provide you with ...

PropertySold.ca Website Receives Over 2.5 Million Visitors in 2009

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

A word about website statistics. Be wary of any website that advertises "hits". Hits are not visitors. If one webpage is loaded this can literally generate 100's of hits. The true measure of how many people have visited a website is the "Unique Visitors" count. Websites that advertise ...

PropertySold Partners with EasyRate to Bring Full Mortgage Services

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

PropertySold.ca has partnered with Easyrate.ca to provide our clients with all of their mortgage needs. Easyrate.ca is a licensed mortgage broker capable of providing loans and financing Canada wide. Visit the EasyRate.ca website to get more information or look for their banners throughout the PropertySold.ca website.

PropertySold Upgrade Commences

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

After moving to new servers and fixing a few bugs with our image upload feature we are prepared once again to continue with our new site design project. Our development team has been busy at work for over 2 years now with this upgrade. It will be jam packed ...

Real Estate Activity is picking up Canadawide

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

We have had a fast correction in real estate in Canada. No evidence that we are going to have the collapse currently going on in the United States. Canada is currently running at record low interest rates so everyone needs to pay attention to interest rate announcements before contemplating a ...

Happy Canada Day!!!

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Dear Customers, Propertysold.ca would like to wish everyone a Happy Canada Day! Stay safe and if you are having a few beverages please take extra care :)

PropertySold.ca Website Upgrade

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Due to the high volume of visitors to our website some parts of the day the website slows down noticeably. The Propertysold.ca technical team lead by Vic is working on a new system that will be coming in the new year. Currently PropertySold.ca receives 240,000 Unique Visitors with 1,500,000 pages ...

PropertySold.ca On CTV

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Please click here to view the segment. One in four Canadians are now selling their homes privately and the trend is growing, according to a recent CTV consumer report, which featured PropertySold.ca as a leading FSBO website. The CTV segment called Consumer Report followed homeowner Khalid Ahmed, who saved an estimated ...

PropertySold Releases Web Statistics for Advertisers

Monday, December 15th, 2008

For those companies interested in advertising with PropertySold.ca, Inc. please download and view our 2008 Website Statistics package. We put this package together for advertisers so they can verify our traffic and pageload statistics as well as get an idea of the geographic areas where our service is the ...

PropertySold.ca Adds Banner Advertising Service

Monday, December 15th, 2008

After popular demand we have added a banner advertising service for real estate related businesses in Canada. Several advertising options are available depending on what area of the site you want to advertise on. Please see the details of our banner advertising packages including options and rates: PropertySold Banner Advertising Service

Halloween Website Statistics Roundup

Monday, October 27th, 2008

The entire real estate industry has been in turmoil for several months now due to the sub prime mortgage meltdown and the credit crunch that followed it. While the National Association of Realtors® said September home sales are up by 5% over the same period last year they also ...

PropertySold.ca Inc. To Sponsor Python Development

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

A large part of the success that PropertySold.ca Inc. has achieved has come from the efforts of the Open Source Community. When we began our business in 2004 we needed to find a low cost way to quickly develop and test our website ideas. Python was the development tool we ...

PropertySold Mentioned in Ottawa Business Journal

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Gabi Fish our likeable Vice President has been busy lately making the rounds in the media helping to spread the word about the private sale industry. Recently, Gabi was interviewed for an article in the Ottawa Business Journal titled: "Remodelling the Real Estate Agency".

Gabi Fish Interviewed by the Prince Albert Herald

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Gabi Fish, Vice President of PropertySold.ca Inc. was recently interviewed for an article in the Prince Albert Herald entitled "Housing market still strong in P.A., says Realtor". Please find the entire article on the Prince Albert Herald website.

For Sale By Owner Guide – Updated and Moved

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

We have finally taken the long overdue step of upgrading our Free For Sale By Owner Guide. Please find links to the new Guide sections below: For Sale By Owner GuideFSBO Guide Section 1: Understanding the Task at Hand FSBO Guide Section 2: Preparing Your Home For Sale FSBO Guide Section 3: ...