Well, not exactly.
I got juicy little piece of information from Move Smartly:
There’s a new way to search for houses online in Canada, and it’s not Realtor.ca.
Zoocasa, a Canadian real estate search site backed by Rogers Communications Inc, is now online. The site is currently in Beta which is tech talk for “they’re not quite done yet”.
Zoocasa allows users to search for homes by neighbourhood and offers a very slick and intuitive user interface. Unfortunately the site appears to have just a fraction of the available listings in Canada. A quick search for Toronto reveals that they have roughly a third of all listings. Hopefully more brokerages will start feeding their listings to Zoocasa in the near future.
It seems that micasa and realtor.ca has a little friend coming to play in the park with them.
Online browsing getting more interesting.
Let’s just hope they maintain good behaviour and compliant to the Canadian Real Estate Association’s policy to stay in the game, like micasa has. And not run into the same problems as previous players.
After all, MLS has crushed upstarts before. Two Toronto-based sites, Realtysellers Ltd. and Realestateplus.ca, shut down in the past two years after run-ins with the Canadian Real Estate Association, which owns the MLS trademark. Housing123.com is accused of using its information without permission. ( The Globe and Mail )
After doing a search for Montreal properties, I was ecstatic to see that they actually have listings appearing in the results. So Montreal is game too.
We’ll be keeping an eye in the development of this site, and see it grow from there.
Best of luck Zoocasa team.
Posted by: Deya Bautista - Real Estate Broker working as part of the McGill Immobilier team. Specializing in high end condos in downtown and Old Montreal. For buying or selling contact Deya at: 514.917.7889 
“Let’s just hope they maintain good behaviour and compliant to the Canadian Real Estate Association’s policy to stay in the game, like micasa has. And not run into the same problems as previous players”
It is not looking good so far – Zoocasa are crawling the web for their information. A good chunk of their listing data is coming from Realtor.com which is in breach of their terms of use. Also, they do not provide any info on the listing brokerage or salesperson…not sure if they are allowed to do this.