Local pages · Neighbourhoods

The areas you know, with pages to prove it.

A page for every neighbourhood you work in, at its own address on your site: your photos, your words, a video if you have one, and a button that searches the listings there. On every listing in that area, a census profile from Statistics Canada says who actually lives there.

Each page
Its own address, title and description
You add
Photos, a written guide, a YouTube video
Census
966 neighbourhoods across 106 cities, 2021 Census
Plans
Included in every plan

Neighbourhood and figures shown are an example.

What a page holds

The part a visitor cannot get anywhere else.

Portals have the listings. What they do not have is someone who has walked the streets. A neighbourhood page is where that goes, in your own photos and your own words, on an address that belongs to your brokerage.

photo_libraryYour photos and your words

Photographs up to 2 MB each, shown as a hero and a gallery with a full-size preview. A written guide with headings, lists and links. A YouTube video, embedded on the page when you add its address.

linkIts own address

Every page lives at /neighborhoods/ followed by a slug made from its name, which you can change. Its search title and description are yours to write; without them the page uses its name.

searchA way to search it

Turn on Search and the page carries a button that opens your listing filters for that area: for sale or lease, property type, price, bedrooms, bathrooms. One tap later the visitor is looking at what is on the market there.

Neighborhoodsbrokerage portal
NeighborhoodSlugStatusOrder
LeslievilleleslievillePublished1
RiverdaleriverdalePublished2
The Beachesthe-beachesPublished3
Danforth Villagedanforth-villageDraft4
Home page · Neighborhoods sectionCardsMosaic
LeslievilleRiverdaleThe Beaches
Published guides only, in the order you set. Turn on Learn more for a link to the guide, or Search for the listing filters, on each tile.
Building it

Add the area, write the guide, set it live.

Neighbourhoods are managed from the brokerage portal by an admin. Each one is edited a section at a time: Basics for the name, status and address; Photos; Description; and SEO & video. Save when you are done.

  • Draft until you say otherwise. A draft is invisible to visitors and to search engines. Published is the switch that makes the address real.
  • An index of all of them. Your site's neighbourhoods page lists every published guide, with its own hero image, headline and introduction from Site edit.
  • On the home page too. Turn the Neighborhoods section on, choose cards or a mosaic, and the published guides appear there in your order.
  • Ordered by you. The list's Order column decides the sequence on the index and the home page, not the alphabet.
Who lives there

A census profile on every listing in the area.

When a visitor opens a listing, its Neighbourhood section shows the people around it: how many, what households earn, who owns and who rents, ages, household types and first languages. The figures come from the 2021 Census of Canada, aggregated to each neighbourhood's mapped boundary.

  • 966 neighbourhoods, 106 cities. Served from RealViu's own database, matched to the listing's city and neighbourhood as the MLS names them. No third-party call sits between a visitor and the panel.
  • Honest when it cannot speak. Fewer than 100 residents, or empty distributions, and the panel says "Too few residents to describe" instead of printing an average. An area without a mapped boundary says so and shows nothing.
  • Languages in full. The top five first languages are shown with their share; a disclosure opens every language recorded, with counts.
  • Attributed. Every panel names Statistics Canada, the census year and how many census areas were combined, as the open licence requires.
  • Asked and answered. The AI Assistant reads the same profile, so "who lives around here?" on a listing page gets the real figures.
Neighbourhoodon a listing at 41 Boston Ave, Leslieville
Population24,150
Average household income$118,400
Who owns, who rents
58% own42% rent
Age
Under 2020–3435–4950–6465 and over
Households
Families61%Living alone31%Shared, unrelated6%Multiple families2%
First language spoken · top 5 of 41 recorded
English71%Cantonese4%French3%Mandarin2%Greek2%All others18%
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census · Aggregated from 6 census areas
Too few residents to describeunder 100 people, or no distributionsProfile isn't available hereno mapped boundary for this area
On the map

Outlines that mean the same place.

The listings map draws neighbourhood outlines from the MLS feed's own location data, not from a geocoder. The name on the shape is the name the feed files listings under, so a boundary on the map and a neighbourhood filter always agree.

polylineFrom the feed, not a guess

Outlines from another source would have to be fuzzy-matched onto MLS naming, and the mismatches would land on your visitors. These come with the same names the listings carry.

layersDecoration, not search

The outlines show where neighbourhoods are; they do not decide what is listed. A viewport over water, or a city whose neighbourhoods carry no boundary, simply draws nothing.

travel_exploreThe same names everywhere

The census key, the map outline, the listing's neighbourhood field and the Search button on a guide all use the feed's naming, so one place is one place across the site.

Being found

Pages search engines can read.

A neighbourhood guide is the kind of page people search for by name. Each one is rendered on the server as ordinary HTML at a stable address, with the title and description you wrote.

titleYour title, your description

Set both under SEO & video. Left blank, the page is titled by its name, so nothing ships untitled.

visibilityPublished only

A draft returns nothing at its address, not a half-built page. Unpublish a guide and it disappears the same way.

homeLinked from the home page

The Neighborhoods section and the index page link every published guide, so crawlers and visitors reach them from the front door.

Plans

In every plan.

Neighbourhood pages are part of the brokerage site on every RealViu plan. The census profile and the Search button need listings to attach to, so they appear once your MLS feed is connected.

Neighbourhood pages · included
Every plan Presence, Growth and Dominance AI

Unlimited neighbourhoods, managed by a brokerage admin from the portal.

  • checkA page per area at /neighborhoods/{slug}, published or draft
  • checkPhotos up to 2 MB each, a written guide and a YouTube video
  • checkSearch title and description per page
  • checkIndex page and home page section, cards or mosaic
  • checkCensus profile on every listing with a mapped neighbourhood
  • checkMLS neighbourhood outlines on the listings map

Census figures: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census, aggregated by neighbourhood boundary. Coverage today is 966 neighbourhoods across 106 Canadian cities.

Questions

Before you add the first area.

Do I have to write the census part?

No, and you cannot. The census profile is not part of the guide you write; it appears on listing pages, matched to each listing's city and neighbourhood from the 2021 Census. Your guide is the part only you can write: the photos, the description and the video.

Where does the census profile appear?

In the Neighbourhood section of a listing page, for any listing whose city and neighbourhood match a mapped census area. Coverage is 966 neighbourhoods across 106 cities today. Where there is no match, the section explains that a profile is not available rather than showing a blank.

What is the address of a page?

Your site's domain followed by /neighborhoods/ and the slug. The slug is generated from the name, lower case with hyphens, and you can change it before publishing. The index of all published guides is at /neighborhoods.

Can visitors see a draft?

No. A draft returns nothing at its address, and it is left off the index and the home page. Set the status to Published and save; from then on the page is live and search engines can find it.

What does the Search button do?

It opens your listing filters with the neighbourhood already chosen: for sale or lease, property type, price or lease amount, bedrooms and bathrooms. Applying them takes the visitor to your listings page. Turn it on or off for all guides under Site edit.

How do neighbourhoods get onto the home page?

Turn the Neighborhoods section on under Site edit, choose cards or a mosaic, and write a headline and introduction if you want them. Only published guides appear, in the order set in the portal. If you have not published any yet, leave the section off.

Who can edit them?

Brokerage admins, from the portal. Agents' own sites use the same published guides; they do not keep separate copies.

Ready when you are

The areas you know, with pages to prove it.

Neighbourhood pages are part of every RealViu site. Add the areas you work in, put your own photos and words on them, and set them live at their own address.

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