PropertySold.ca has set a new record for our company in terms of unique visitors looking for homes for sale on our website. On Monday November 8th we received 15,758 unique visitors to our website. This is a new all time record for us! We followed this record with another 15,599 unique visitors to our website [...]
Propertysold.ca has seen a great increase in online listings as well as website visitors in 2010. Our September stats are in and new listings have jumped from 41 new listings in 2009 to 183 new listings in 2010. More and more people are choosing PropertySold.ca as a way to advertise their home for sale. Propertysold.ca [...]
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26 Aug 2010Propertysold.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 numbers. In the past few [...]
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15 Jul 2010We 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.
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18 May 2010Propertysold.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 estate agent?
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30 Mar 2010Check out the latest addition to the PropertySold.ca Inc. family, our new real estate forum: Real Estate Forum
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.
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23 Feb 2010Later 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 no additional charge or configuration from [...]
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14 Feb 2010Now get off our website and take your mate out for dinner
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10 Feb 2010Some 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 and everyone to try it out. [...]
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8 Feb 2010http://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 the new “Support” [...]
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 the system. If you have problems loading [...]
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5 Feb 2010Our 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 steps to lighten the load on [...]
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.
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.
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3 Feb 2010We 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 will be online before the end [...]
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.
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2 Feb 2010In 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 the necessary information to make the [...]
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 their hit count instead of their visitor [...]
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.
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2 Feb 2010After 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 with new design features and enhancements. [...]
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2 Feb 2010We 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 new home purchase. Happy house [...]
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1 Jul 2009Dear 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
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6 May 2009Due 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 views per month. We apologize [...]
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5 May 2009Please 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 $10,000 using the PropertySold [...]
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27 Oct 2008The 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 said that the average sales price [...]
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29 Jul 2008A 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 turned to in combination with [...]
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9 Jul 2008Gabi 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“.
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