# BrightCat Data

> Canadian property intelligence platform. 5.8M+ residential and 297K+ commercial properties tracked weekly since 2014. The only provider combining pre-mover signals, lifecycle tracking, and a repeat-sale home price index in a single dataset.

## Company

BrightCat Data is a Canadian property intelligence company founded in 2013 by Alexandria Goldthorpe. BrightCat tracks 5,812,446 residential properties and 297,622 commercial properties across Canada, updated weekly from proprietary source files held under contract since 2014. The data is delivered via Snowflake Marketplace, MCP connector for AI agents, Secure Data Share, or structured files (CSV, Parquet). BrightCat serves enterprise clients in insurance, banking, telecommunications, direct marketing, real estate, and government sectors.

- Website: https://brightcatdata.com
- Contact: alexandria@brightcatdata.com
- LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/company/brightcat-data-analytics-inc
- Snowflake Marketplace: Search "BrightCat"

## Products

### BrightCat Listings
Weekly lifecycle tracking across 5.8M+ Canadian residential properties. 118 columns per property including listing status, price changes, days on market, relisting history, and full lifecycle events since 2014. Updated weekly.
- URL: https://brightcatdata.com/products/listings/
- Schema: https://brightcatdata.com/data/listings-schema/

### BrightCat Sold
891K+ sold events matched to listing lifecycles. 654K repeat-sale pairs with 194K confirmed dual-price pairs for home price index construction. Price history, transaction matching, and sold intelligence.
- URL: https://brightcatdata.com/products/sold/
- Schema: https://brightcatdata.com/data/sold-schema/

### BrightCat Rentals
Weekly rental listing intelligence across 139 Canadian cities. Approximately 166K rows per weekly table. Tracks availability, rent prices, and market trends for residential rentals. Data available from July 2021 onward.
- URL: https://brightcatdata.com/products/rentals/

### BrightCat Commercial
297,622 unique commercial properties with 105 columns. Dual-listing intelligence: 10,093 properties listed for both sale and lease simultaneously. Transaction signals including 3,228 likely transacted, 811 likely sold, and 1,066 likely leased.
- URL: https://brightcatdata.com/products/commercial/
- Schema: https://brightcatdata.com/data/commercial-schema/

### BrightCat Core
Unified enrichment layer combining all BrightCat datasets. Address standardization via iAddress (V=Valid, C=Corrected, U=Uncorrectable, F=Failed). Cross-dataset property matching. BrightCat Home Price Index built from 194,000 confirmed repeat-sale transaction pairs.
- URL: https://brightcatdata.com/products/core/
- HPI: https://brightcatdata.com/data/price-index/

### BrightCat PreMovers
Pre-mover intelligence identifying Canadian households before they relocate. Signals are based on observed listing activity, not predictions or models. Updated weekly. The earliest observable signal in the Canadian property market that a household is about to move.
- URL: https://brightcatdata.com/products/premovers/

## How BrightCat Works

BrightCat uses persistent composite matchkeys (address|postal_code for pre-July 2021 data; address|postal_code|transaction_type for post-July 2021) to track properties across their full lifecycle. Unlike MLS numbers which reset on every relist, BrightCat matchkeys never change. This enables lifecycle tracking including reclassification (1.84 million false NEWs reclassified to RELISTED), renovation detection (relist gaps of 180+ days), and cumulative days on market.

Sold data is matched using address and postal code (not MLS number). The pipeline processes weekly ingestion from proprietary source files, applies address standardization, builds monthly output tables, and runs reclassification against sold history.

- Methodology: https://brightcatdata.com/methodology/
- Glossary: https://brightcatdata.com/glossary/

## Delivery

- Snowflake Marketplace: Native cloud access, query alongside your own data
- Secure Data Share: Enterprise-grade delivery via Snowflake
- MCP Connector: AI-native access for GPT, Claude, and autonomous agents
- Structured Files: CSV, Parquet, direct delivery

Snowflake details: https://brightcatdata.com/snowflake/
MCP Connector: https://brightcatdata.com/ai/

## Industries

- Insurance: Property risk assessment, investor-owned property detection, portfolio exposure monitoring. https://brightcatdata.com/industries/insurance/
- Banking & Lending: Collateral validation, mortgage portfolio monitoring, origination intelligence. https://brightcatdata.com/industries/banking/
- Telecommunications: Pre-mover customer acquisition, retention campaigns, competitive win-back. https://brightcatdata.com/industries/telecom/
- Direct Marketing: Trigger-based campaigns targeting households at the moment of listing. https://brightcatdata.com/industries/direct-marketing/
- Government: Housing supply monitoring, pricing trends, policy development. https://brightcatdata.com/industries/government/

## Key Data Points

- 5,812,446 residential properties in master database
- 297,622 commercial properties tracked
- 891K+ sold events across Canada
- 654K repeat-sale pairs (339K sold 2+ times)
- 194K pairs with confirmed dual prices (for HPI)
- 139 rental markets actively monitored
- 10+ years of continuous weekly tracking (2014-present)
- 118 columns per residential property
- 105 columns per commercial property
- 10,093 commercial properties dual-listed (sale + lease)

## Competitive Positioning

BrightCat captures the market as it moves. Legacy providers report what already happened. BrightCat is the only Canadian property data provider that combines pre-mover signals, weekly lifecycle tracking, renovation detection from relist gap analysis, and a repeat-sale home price index in a single integrated dataset delivered via Snowflake.

## Blog & Insights

- Listings Are the Earliest Signal: https://brightcatdata.com/blog/listings-earliest-signal/
- What Is Pre-Mover Data: https://brightcatdata.com/blog/premover-data-explained/
- Sold Data Is Ground Truth: https://brightcatdata.com/blog/sold-ground-truth/
- Canadian Rental Supply: https://brightcatdata.com/blog/rental-supply/
- MLS Fragments Property History: https://brightcatdata.com/blog/mls-fragments-history/
- Commercial Real Estate Data Analytics: https://brightcatdata.com/blog/commercial-real-estate-data-analytics-canada/
- Pre-Mover Data Canada (Enterprise): https://brightcatdata.com/blog/pre-mover-data-canada/

## Pricing

- Explore (Free): 25K row sample per product, full schema, Snowflake Marketplace access.
- Professional (Custom): Single product, full national coverage, weekly updates, annual terms.
- Enterprise (Custom): Multi-product bundles, custom enrichment, Secure Data Share + MCP, SLA + dedicated support.

Pricing: https://brightcatdata.com/pricing/
Contact: https://brightcatdata.com/contact/