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Investor Signals

Investor-owned homes in Canada, read from listing history.

Rental exits, rapid relists, marked-up flips, failed sales that went to rent, homes listed for sale and rent at once.

One row per property. Seven flags, the listing counts behind them, and asking yield where the numbers exist. Since 2014, refreshed weekly.

Ownership records say who owns a home. Listing history says how it is being used.
The problem

Investor activity is invisible in the records people usually check

Land registries record the owner's name, not the reason they bought. A numbered company can be a landlord or a family trust. A person can own three homes and rent two. The rental market, the mortgage book and the neighbourhood all move on that difference, and none of the usual sources show it.

The data

Behaviour on the market, one row per home

BrightCat has watched every residential listing in Canada, for sale and for rent, every week since 2014. A home that sells and comes back on the market within months, or is listed for rent the week after it closes, or was rented for years and is now for sale, leaves that pattern in its history. This table is every property that carries at least one such pattern, with the pattern named on the row.

No owner names. No contact details. The flag comes from what the property did, not who holds the title.

Sale listingsEvery listing since 2014
Rental listingsEvery listing since 2014
Confirmed salesSold dates and prices
Price historyEvery cut, every relist
→
Investor SignalsOne row per property. Seven flags.
The flags

Seven patterns, each with a plain meaning

A property can carry more than one. The flag is a column value you can filter on.

Rapid relist
Sold and back on the market for sale within a short window.
Rapid relist, marked up
The same, at a higher asking price than it sold for.
Likely investor rental
Listed for rent shortly after a sale.
Rental exit
Was listed for rent, now listed for sale.
Failed sale to rent
A sale listing ended without a sale; the home was then listed for rent.
Dual listed
Listed for sale and for rent at the same time.
Distressed campaign
A long sale campaign with repeated asking-price reductions.
Asking yield
Not a flag: where a home has both an asking price and an asking rent, the row carries the gross yield and price-to-rent.
What you get

Everything on the row

Standardized address, city, province, postal code and FSA. The flags. Whether the home is on the market now. Sale and rental listing counts, campaigns, lifetime days on market and dark days between listings. Sale price cuts and the deepest cut as a share of peak. Property type, bedrooms, bathrooms and floor area as last observed. Asking gross yield and price-to-rent where both prices exist.

Full column list and definitions →

7
Flags
25
Columns
2014
History from
Weekly
Refresh
Who uses it

Four jobs it does

Lending
Find investor-owned collateral in a mortgage book from behaviour: rapid relists, rentals after purchase, dual listings, distressed campaigns.
Insurance
Flag homes in rental use, or moving in and out of it, for occupancy-based pricing and policy review.
Property management and brokerage
Reach landlords who are exiting while the home is listed, and investors buying to let, by city and postal code.
Research
Investor share, rental exits and asking yields by city, FSA and year, from behaviour rather than ownership records.
Coverage

Every province, every week

National
All provinces and territories
2014
Listing history from
Weekly
Refresh
1 row
Per property
Postal
Code and FSA on every row
None
Owner names or contact details

No owner names and no contact details. Data handling is consistent with PIPEDA.

Delivery

Where to get it

Snowflake Marketplace
Canada Investor Property Signals & Rental Exits. Free trial table, full file from BrightCat Data Ltd.
Secure Data Share
Private share to your Snowflake account
MCP Connector
Query it from an AI agent or assistant
Structured Files
CSV or Parquet, weekly
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Further reading

More on investor and seller signals

Investment property data in Canada →
How investor-owned homes show up in listing data, and what the flags catch.
Distressed seller signals →
Long campaigns, repeated cuts, and the difference between a motivated seller and a stale listing.
Renovation and flip detection →
Reading a renovation or a flip from what changed between two listings of the same home.
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