Housing123 Blog

Re-open?

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin Lai) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:00:00 +0000

Due to overwhelming amount of feedback from the press and our loyal users, we are now seriously considering opening up housing123 for user contributed property listings. We would also like to welcome content from real estate agents and brokers.

The revised website will strive to focus on quality, integrity, and as always, "make Toronto housing easy".

If you are interested in such a service, please contact us for more information.

Stay tuned!!

Kevin and Travis

info@housing123.com

Site's Closing

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin Lai) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:44:00 +0000

We regret to inform our loyal users that we have received notice to cease and desist our operations from MLS/CREA Legal Counsel. Unfortunately, we do not have the time or money to fight this legal battle and will be closing down access to housing123.com as of today.

Our little project was initially conceived due to frustrations with browsing through property listings on the MLS.ca website. Just for kicks, we decided to make a more user friendly site -with a map- and share it with the public. It turns out we were right. The steady stream of daily users have poured into housing123.com, proving its usefulness!

We do hope that the lessons learned here over the last 10 months can be carried forward and applied to the MLS website with whatever plans they may have.

Thanks for using our site!

Kevin and Travis

Site's updated again

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin Lai) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:26:00 +0000

Many of you might notice that a lot of properties are no longer available and housing123 is not up-to-date. We have had some technical issues and gladly that they're all resolved :)

Added starting point feature

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin Lai) — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:43:00 +0000

On the map page, we've have added the ability to save a starting point:

This means that in the future when you come back to the map page, the system will automatically default the view to this location. See below:

Improved sortable tables

noreply@blogger.com (Travis Fielding) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:32:00 +0000

In the recent properties list, you can now sort by multiple columns. For instance, if you wanted to sort by amount of bedrooms in descending order and then by price in ascending order:

To select multiple columns, hold down the shift key while clicking on the column headers to toggle the sorting direction and to select more columns.

Blog opening!

noreply@blogger.com (housing123) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:30:00 +0000

The official housing123.com blog is now open! We will use this space to share our ideas on upcoming features and general news about housing123.com.

Here is an archive of our previous announcements:

2007-08-29 - On Google Maps Mania - "Simple and Effective"

2007-08-29 - On CP24 - Housing123.com mentioned on CP24. See Radiant Core's blog here.

2007-08-19 - On CTV News - Housing123.com mentioned in the news on CTV's webMANIA show.

2007-08-16 - In the news - Torontoist article BlogTO article

2007-08-14 - Version 1.3 - You can now hover over a property on the map screen to quickly see the price and a picture (if available).

2007-08-13 - Version 1.2 - News link and RSS feed now available.

2007-08-12 - Version 1.1 - You can now filter properties by price (via a dropdown menu) on the map screen. Please see the Filters tab on the map screen for more details. The recent property list on the home page is now sortable. Click on the column headers to toggle sorting.

2007-08-10 - Feedback/Suggestions - We are getting lots of great comments/suggestions and just wanted to thank everyone for that. Please keep the feedback coming! :)

2007-08-08 - Version 1.0 - Official Launch Date