Coverage

National Canadian property coverage

5.8 million residential and 297,000 commercial properties tracked weekly across all ten provinces and three territories. Continuously since 2014.

The coverage map

BrightCat's pipeline captures Canadian property activity across every province and territory. The map below shows where the pipeline is live, organized by coverage tier. Detail follows in the tier table.

Coverage · All 10 provinces and 3 territories

5.8M residential · 297K commercial

Coverage tiers explained

BrightCat groups coverage into three tiers based on pipeline depth and data volume. All three tiers are live and licensed. The tier structure reflects how much historical and weekly volume each jurisdiction produces, not whether the pipeline operates there.

Tier 1 — Major markets
Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Alberta. Deep pipeline coverage with millions of properties each. High weekly volume. Full twelve-year historical depth. Primary markets for enterprise use cases across insurance, banking, telecom, and PropTech.

Tier 2 — Full coverage
Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland & Labrador, Prince Edward Island. Full pipeline operation with weekly capture and historical depth. Property volumes scale with provincial housing stock. Same schema, same cadence, same methodology as Tier 1.

Tier 3 — Presence
Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut. Pipeline presence is established and live. Property volumes are low by population, and activity is intermittent week to week. Included in national coverage claims and available to clients whose use case requires territorial data.

What "coverage" means in practice

Coverage is not a single number. It's the combination of three things BrightCat delivers on every licensed record:

Weekly capture — new listings, price changes, relists, and sold events captured on a weekly cadence across all tiers
Historical depth — continuous twelve-year history since 2014 for Tier 1 and Tier 2, with depth proportional to pipeline age in Tier 3
Cross-track unification — residential, commercial, and rental tracks joined at the property level through the BrightCat matchkey, not stitched across provincial board schemas

This is the combination that matters for enterprise use cases. A single weekly snapshot is not useful on its own — AVM training, HPI construction, pre-mover detection, and retention modelling all require the depth and the unification together.

Coverage by product

National coverage is consistent across BrightCat products. Every product family operates across the same tier structure, with Tier 1 and Tier 2 fully populated and Tier 3 scaling with local activity:

Listings — 5.8 million residential properties tracked weekly across all tiers
Sold — unified sold events with matchkey linkage across all tiers
Rentals — national rental coverage from July 2021 forward
Commercial — 297,000 commercial properties with dual-listing intelligence, national
Core — unified enrichment and Home Price Index across the national property master
PreMovers — mover intelligence derived from national listing activity

The implication for enterprise buyers: a licensed product is a national product by default. There are no per-province SKUs and no provincial gating inside a licensed product family.

Methodology and honest limitations

Coverage claims are only useful when they're paired with honest limitations. BrightCat documents coverage constraints rather than papering over them:

Off-market transactions (private sales that never appear in listing data) are not captured in any tier
Quebec rental coverage is lighter than other provinces due to the Quebec rental market's off-platform behaviour; rental product quality is correspondingly best in Ontario, B.C., and Alberta
Pre-2014 history is not available; continuous coverage begins in 2014 for Tier 1 and Tier 2
Rental data coverage began in July 2021; pre-2021 rental history is not available for any province
Tier 3 territories are included in national coverage but produce low weekly volume; clients with territory-specific use cases should request a coverage-depth review

The full methodology is documented on the methodology page, which covers the property identity resolution, cross-cycle reconciliation, and HPI construction that make the coverage usable in practice.