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0 pointsverelo3y ago0 comments

It's a tool (focused on the Toronto market only for now) that provides detailed reports on the history of a building / area for realtors and/or buyers (and i guess maybe renters or self sellers).

Trying to bring together a lot of open data sources such a building permit history for the property in question and the neighbours, nearby proposed development activity, schools, hospital, police, fire service locations, lead pipe replacement status, legality of any on premise parking etc. Essentially all the "due diligence" related items that come up when you're trying to transact and typically take a fair while to get to the bottom of. A report takes about 1 minute to pull, planning to have the service be a yearly subscription for the customer of around $300/year

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pards3y ago

This sounds similar to what Core Logic [0] provides to realtors in Australia. The majority of realtors use it, and I'm sure they pay a lot more than $300/year

[0] https://www.corelogic.com.au

vereloOP3y ago

Interesting. Some of this data isn’t easy to access for me in Canada but yep, they’re in a similar space.

Funny because I’m from Australia, but never transacted property over there.

SuoDuanDao3y ago

Interesting. Not sure you're looking for well-meaning suggestions from uninformed strangers, but have you thought about narrowing down even more to the tax-sale market? Tax sales can be profitable but hard to access because there's often a minefield of liens, cleanup costs, etc. in the kind of data you're compiling.

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