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Renovation Signals

Renovated and flipped homes in Canada, read from listing history.

A home comes back to market with a bedroom added or removed, a second bathroom, more floor area, a pool added or removed, or a price step no relist explains. That is a renovation, and this table is every home that shows one.

One row per property. Renovation count, the price uplift across it, and bedrooms, bathrooms, floor area and property type before and after. Since 2014, refreshed weekly.

Permits record a renovation late. Assessments record it later. Listings record it the week the home relists.
The problem

The renovation market has no register

Nobody files a return when they finish a basement. Permit data covers the work that needed a permit, in the municipalities that publish it, months after the fact. Assessment rolls catch up years later. A lender, an insurer or a building-supply retailer trying to find where renovation is happening is working from a map with most of the streets missing.

The data

What changed between two listings of the same home

BrightCat has watched every residential listing in Canada every week since 2014, and joins every listing of a home to the ones before it. When a home relists with a bedroom added or removed, a bathroom added, floor area changed, a pool added or removed, a change of property type, or a price step a plain relist does not explain, that is a renovation event on the property. The count, the uplift and the attributes on either side of it sit on the row.

No owner names. No contact details. The signal comes from the listing, not from anyone's records.

First listingBeds, baths, floor area, type, price
Later listingThe same home, relisted
Price historyEvery cut and every step up
→
Renovation SignalsBefore, after, count and uplift on one row.
What you get

Everything on the row

Standardized address, city, province, postal code and FSA. Renovation count and the asking-price uplift across the most recent one. Bedrooms, bathrooms, floor area and property type as first observed and as last observed. Whether the home is on the market now, sale and rental listing counts, campaigns, lifetime days on market, dark days, sale-side price cuts. Investor flags where the same home also behaves like an investment.

Full column list and definitions →

31
Columns
Before / after
Beds, baths, area, type
2014
History from
Weekly
Refresh
Who uses it

Five jobs it does

Home improvement and building supply
The neighbourhoods and streets where renovation is happening now, with the size of the change on each home.
Appraisal and lending
Catch a property whose recorded bedrooms, bathrooms or floor area have changed since the last valuation.
Insurance
Homes whose size or layout no longer matches the policy, before renewal.
Investors and researchers
What a renovation returns at resale, by city, property type and year, and how often the same home is renovated again.
Contractors and trades
Streets and buildings with repeat renovation activity, for targeting and for reading local demand.
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 Renovated Homes & House Flip Signals. 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
Works with

Joins to the rest of the estate

Further reading

More on renovation and resale

Renovation and flip detection →
Reading a renovation or a flip from what changed between two listings of the same home.
Investment property data in Canada →
How investor-owned homes show up in listing data, and what the flags catch.
Canadian home price index methodology →
Why renovated homes are held out of a repeat-sales index, and how the pairs are classed.
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