Archive for January, 2007

Room dimensions

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

ByTheOwner customers now have access to a new tool that allows them to detail their room dimensions to the potential buyers. This option is available in the Your account section under the Room dimensions link. Those informations will appear in the listings right above the mortgage calculator.

Here’s an example of how it’ll look like in the listings.

Room dimensions sample

New tool for the cottages for rent

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

A new tool has been made available to our customers advertising a cottage or tourism property for rent. They are now able to enter a detailed price list in their listing. This option is available into Your account, under the modify your listing link. Once completed, the price list will appear in the listing under the Description box.

CITQ's classification and price grid

You’ll also notice the addition of a line called CITQ Classification. This information tells you about the classification granted to this tourism establishment by the Corporation de l’industrie touristique du Québec. To display this information in your listing, visit the section Modify my description in Your account.

Frédérick Dubois
Programmer, ByTheOwner.com

Detailed statistics

Friday, January 19th, 2007

A new tool was released this week in the Your Account sections of our customers.
The detailed stats page provides to the owners all the infos concerning the number of visits on their listing, the number of times their property is displayed in the search results and the number of unique visitors coming to their property. When a potential buyer visits a property for the second time, it is not counted as being “unique”.

Stats example

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New search results

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

An important update took place today in the search results section on bytheowner.comThe new layout, which was tested for a couple of months on the rental website was adapted and adopted for the main website. Visitors can now consult short paragraphs of introduction about the properties without having to enter their detailed descriptions.

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Online Property Value Reports

Friday, January 5th, 2007

An online property value report option has been added this week in the homes for sale’s descriptions. It’s available for most of the properties in Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and Nova Scotia.

Home Evaluations Canada

This online tool, from Home Valuations Canada, provides an instant online estimated value of your home based on market sales and trends in your area.

link to Home Valuations CanadaA link located in the I’m interested! box of each property’s description will take you to the homevaluationscanada.com website, where you can order your report.