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Real Estate & PropTech

Build on the market itself
— not a copy of it

Most real estate platforms are built on MLS feeds that fragment history, lag transactions, and lose the property thread across relists. BrightCat is the dataset underneath — continuous, structured, and lifecycle-complete.

Property data for real estate platforms, proptech applications, and investment analytics — structured for direct integration via Snowflake and MCP.

If your product depends on property data, this is the foundation layer.

The problem

MLS feeds weren't designed for what you're building

If you're building a proptech product, a valuation model, an investment platform, or a brokerage tool — you're probably working with MLS data. And you've probably noticed the problems.

MLS numbers reset on every relist

A property that lists, expires, and relists gets a new MLS number each time. Your system sees three different properties. It's one. The price history, the days on market, the listing trajectory — all fragmented across disconnected records.

Sold data arrives late and disconnected

Transaction prices appear weeks after closing. By then, your valuation model is already stale. Worse, the sold record often references a different MLS number than the listing — breaking the link between what was asked and what was paid.

No lifecycle continuity

Most feeds show you what's active today — a snapshot. What listed last month and was pulled? What relisted at a lower price? What sold privately without appearing in the listing feed? If you can't track a property through its full lifecycle, you're working with fragments.

Board-by-board access is a nightmare

Canada has dozens of regional MLS boards, each with its own data format, API, access agreement, and update schedule. Building national coverage means negotiating with each one individually — or paying an aggregator who normalises away the detail you actually need.

What BrightCat provides

The full Canadian property market — structured for integration

One dataset. National coverage. Weekly updates. Every property tracked with a persistent identifier across its full lifecycle. Delivered directly into your Snowflake account or accessible by AI agents via MCP.

5.8M residential properties

Every province. Every listing status. Every price change. 118 columns per property. Updated weekly since 2014.

918K+ sold transactions

Confirmed prices matched to listing history. 194K repeat-sale pairs for property-level appreciation. Not estimates — outcomes.

297K commercial properties

Sale and lease activity tracked together. 10,093 dual-listed properties. Transaction outcome inference in real time.

Repeat-sale Home Price Index

Built from confirmed transaction pairs. Property-level appreciation, not smoothed regional averages.

Pre-mover intelligence

Observed listing signals, not modelled predictions. Identify households entering a move cycle the week the property lists.

Snowflake + MCP delivery

No file transfers. No ETL. Query live data inside your Snowflake account. Connect AI agents via MCP. Build on it, not around it.

What you can build on this

Use cases for real estate and proptech teams

Automated Valuation Models
Build AVMs on confirmed transaction pairs, not comparable-sale estimates. 194K repeat-sale pairs provide property-level price trajectory data. Connect listing lifecycle context to understand why prices moved, not just that they did.
Lead Generation & Timing
Identify homeowners entering a sale cycle the week they list — not after the deal closes. Power agent matching, mortgage offers, and home service campaigns at the moment of highest intent.
Market Intelligence Dashboards
Build real-time dashboards showing supply, pricing pressure, days on market, and inventory turnover at the postal code level. Weekly data means your dashboard shows this week's market, not last quarter's.
Investment Analysis
Identify investor-owned properties by cross-referencing sold and rental data. Track sale-to-rent conversions. Detect portfolio accumulation patterns at the neighbourhood level. Analyse cap rates using actual transaction and rental pricing.
Property Search & Discovery
Power property search products with lifecycle-aware data. Show buyers not just what's active today, but how long it's been on market, whether it's a relist, and how the price compares to the original ask. Context that listing-only feeds don't carry.
AI-Powered Property Agents
Build AI agents that query live Canadian property data via MCP. Natural language access to listings, transactions, rental data, and market signals — no preprocessing, no transformation layer. Your agent reasons over the actual market.
The difference

MLS feeds vs. BrightCat

Typical MLS data feeds
MLS numbers reset on every relist
No cross-cycle property tracking
Sold data arrives weeks late
Board-by-board access and formats
Current snapshot only — no history
Separate commercial and residential feeds
vs
BrightCat
Persistent matchkeys across all cycles
Full lifecycle: list → relist → sell → rent
Weekly updates, national coverage
One unified dataset, all provinces
12 years of continuous weekly data
Residential + commercial + rental integrated
Building with AI?

BrightCat has an MCP connector

Connect Claude, GPT, or any MCP-compatible agent directly to live Canadian property data. No preprocessing. No transformation layer. Your model queries the actual market.

See how it works →
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Frequently asked questions

Common questions from real estate and proptech teams

What property data does BrightCat provide for real estate and proptech companies?
Six integrated Canadian property datasets: Listings (5.8M+ properties weekly), Sold (891K+ transactions), Rentals (139 cities), Commercial (297K+ properties), Core (unified layer with HPI), and PreMovers (observed pre-mover signals). All delivered via Snowflake Marketplace Secure Data Share or MCP connector for AI agents.
How is BrightCat different from MLS data feeds?
MLS numbers reset on every relist, fragmenting property history. BrightCat uses persistent matchkeys — standardised address plus validated postal code — that preserve full property lifecycle across relists, agent changes, and brokerage transfers. This enables true days-on-market calculation, renovation detection through relist gaps, and repeat-sale analysis that MLS-based systems cannot provide.
Can proptech companies build products on BrightCat data?
Yes. BrightCat data is delivered via Snowflake Secure Data Share — you query it directly alongside your own data inside your existing Snowflake account. For AI-powered products, the MCP connector enables direct model access to live property data. No file transfers, no ETL, no stale extracts.
What does BrightCat data cost for proptech startups?
Sample data is available for every product via Snowflake Marketplace. Professional plans are custom-priced per product with annual terms. Enterprise bundles include multi-product access, custom enrichment layers, dedicated support, and SLA. Contact us for pricing.
Does BrightCat cover all of Canada?
Yes. BrightCat tracks residential properties across all ten Canadian provinces and territories. Commercial coverage spans 297,622 properties nationally. Rental coverage includes 139 cities. All updated weekly from the same proprietary source files held under contract since 2014.
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