- Address-Level Data
- Data tied to a physical property address, not a person. BrightCat data is address-level — no PII.
- Commercial Data
- Sale and lease activity across commercial properties. Includes dual-listing detection for properties marketed for both simultaneously.
- Persistent Property Identifier
- A stable identifier BrightCat uses to track properties persistently across time, surviving relists, MLS number changes, and agent transitions. The foundation of lifecycle tracking.
- Cumulative Days on Market
- Total time a property has been listed across all cycles. Standard DOM resets on relist; cumulative DOM does not.
- Dual-Listing Detection
- Commercial intelligence identifying properties listed for both sale and lease at the same time. Used to infer transaction outcome from which track drops first.
- DROPPED
- Lifecycle status indicating a property that was listed in the previous weekly snapshot is no longer present in the current one.
- HPI (Home Price Index)
- BrightCat's price index built on the repeat-sales method. Measures price change on the same property across two verified sale events, not across different properties.
- Investor Flag
- Derived signal identifying properties sold to an investor, inferred from sale followed by rental listing within a short window.
- Listing Lifecycle
- The full observable sequence from first listing through sale, including price changes, status events, relists, and any prior listing history.
- Listings Data
- Active property records and lifecycle events. Includes new listings, price changes, status updates, and relists tracked weekly.
- MCP (Model Context Protocol)
- An AI query interface that allows language models and agents to query structured datasets directly via natural language.
- NEW (lifecycle state)
- Status indicating a property has appeared in a weekly snapshot for the first time, or returned after being absent long enough to qualify as fresh.
- PreMover
- A property observed entering an active move cycle. The earliest signal of household movement — derived from listing activity, not predicted.
- PRICE_CHANGED
- Lifecycle status indicating a property's asking price differs from the prior weekly snapshot.
- Property Lifecycle
- The complete history of a property as tracked by BrightCat: every listing, price change, status event, relist, and sale linked via BrightCat's proprietary property identifier.
- RELISTED
- Lifecycle status indicating a property has returned to market after a prior drop or sale. Distinguished from NEW by prior property-level history.
- Relist Gap
- The time between when a property drops off market and when it returns. Used as a factor in BrightCat's renovation signal detection at the property level.
- Renovation Signal
- Derived indicator that a property has likely been renovated. Inferred from property-level changes observed across listing cycles.
- Rental Data
- Unit-level rental listings tracked weekly across Canadian cities. Includes price changes, status, and week-over-week lifecycle events.
- Repeat-Sale Pair
- Two confirmed sale events on the same property at different points in time. The building block of the Home Price Index.
- Snowflake Marketplace
- Snowflake's public catalogue of data products. BrightCat datasets are published here for direct query inside the client's Snowflake environment.
- Snowflake Secure Data Share
- Direct data delivery into the client's Snowflake account without copy or ingestion. Updates propagate automatically.
- SOLD (lifecycle state)
- Lifecycle status indicating a property has a confirmed sold event in the weekly transaction file, linked back to its listing history.
- Sold Data
- Confirmed transaction outcomes. Actual sold prices recorded at closing, matched to the full listing lifecycle that preceded the sale.
- STILL (lifecycle state)
- Lifecycle status indicating a property is listed and unchanged from the prior weekly snapshot.
- Transaction Signal
- Commercial inference indicating the likely outcome of a dual-listed property based on dual-track listing behavior. Signals are inferred from listing patterns, not confirmed registry records.
- Weekly Snapshot
- A complete capture of all tracked properties and their current state, taken every week. The atomic unit of BrightCat's time-series data.