century21.ca Adds Chinese

Century 21’s Canadian website, century21.ca, is now available in Chinese as well as English and French.
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realtor.ca Offers Mobile Snapshots

Adding to a string of mobile-based releases from property portals over the past week, Canada’s realtor.ca has released an application it says will allow users to access a “snapshot” of property listings wherever they are.
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Street View Arrives in Canada

This week Google expanded its Street View function on Google Maps to include imagery from eleven cities across Canada.
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New Partners for reservemyhome.com

reservemyhome.com, a portal for private vacation rental owners, has announced partnerships with rentalavenue.com and skipjump.com as well as a new “all-in-one” booking system.
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Century 21 Sues zoocasa.com

Last week we reported that Canadian real estate search engine zoocasa.com came out of beta testing with a huge media launch. Reports in the Canadian press now indicate that Century 21 Canada is suing Zoocasa Inc. for scraping information from sites provided by Century 21 brokers and representatives without seeking permission.
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zoocasa.com Comes Out of Beta

Canadian real estate search engine zoocasa.com came out of beta testing last week with a media launch that would make any property website jealous.
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kijiji.com Moves to the iPhone

eBay owned kijiji.com has released a free iPhone and iPod touch application that will allow users to search its classifieds, reply to listings, create a watch list, and post items.
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Metroland Buys Canadian Portals

Four Canadian rental property portals – gottarent.com, gscrentals.com, apartmentcorner.com and 247apartments.com – have been acquired by Metroland Media Group.
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Can zoocasa.com Upset Market Leader realtor.ca in Canada?

zoocasa.com, a new (and free) Canadian real estate search engine crept quietly onto the web a few months ago.

Will it be able to do what no other property site in Canada has been able to do, and present itself as a potential competitor to the long established realtor.ca (formerly mls.ca)?

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