by Sohini Bhattacharya | Jun 6, 2018 | Featured, Products
The real estate industry has been ripe for change for the past few decades. While virtually every other industry has seen sweeping impacts of technological determinism, Canadian real estate has been slow on the uptake, says William C. Strange, professor of economic...
by REM Editorial Team | Jul 6, 2015 | News
Rogers Communications has sold the Zoocasa website to a group of real estate and technology investors led by Lauren Haw, a broker at Keller Williams Referred Urban Realty in Toronto. “Zoocasa.com is an important Canadian asset, backed by unique technology and a brand...
by Danny Kucharsky | Jun 22, 2015 | Featured, News
The shutdown of Zoocasa should come as no surprise because it was operating with a business model that was unsustainable, say top executives at Canada’s largest real estate brokerages. “We thought (the closure) was inevitable,” says Gurinder Sandhu, executive...
by REM Editorial Team | Jun 9, 2015 | Featured, News
Zoocasa, the Rogers-owned brokerage that began life as a controversial web portal that was successfully sued by Century 21 for scraping listings from its website, and evolved into a referral network of agents, is being shut down. In a statement, the company says,...
by Tony Palermo | Jan 28, 2015 | Featured, Guest Columns, News
Zoocasa’s broker of record Darryl Mitchell wants to set the record straight. Since it launched in 2009, the Rogers-owned site has created a lot of controversy in the real estate community. It began when Century 21 successfully sued Zoocasa for scraping listings from...