Real Estate

Where Neighbourly started — and goes deepest.

Real estate is our founding vertical. We've built specific integrations, schema alignment, and data depth for MLS platforms, listing portals, brokerages, and agent tools. RESO-aware APIs, listing-ready neighbourhood data, and energy disclosure layers built for the Canadian real estate industry.

Neighbourly · Real Estate
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Real estate products live and die on location context. Stitching listings to boundaries, demographics, schools and permit history from a dozen sources is slow, brittle and expensive to maintain.

The data layer that turns a listing into a complete property story.

A raw listing record — address, bedrooms, bathrooms, price — tells buyers almost nothing about the place the property sits in. The neighbourhood character. The permit history. The energy cost. The walkability. The schools. This is the information that drives real purchase decisions, and it's the information that U.S. listing platforms have been surfacing for a decade while Canadian platforms lag behind.

Neighbourly is the API that closes that gap. Connect any Canadian listing address and get back a full property context layer: RESO-aligned neighbourhood data with boundaries and character tags, building permit history with type and status, energy efficiency scores and annual utility cost estimates in Ontario, census-derived neighbourhood demographics, walkability and transit scores, and nearby points of interest.

The integration is a single API call per listing address. The output maps directly onto listing page components. And the data is maintained from live municipal, provincial, and federal sources — so it stays current without your team managing any of it.

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Relevant data layers
  • Real Estate Listings — Connects to your MLS/CREA listing feed and resolves each listing to an address, with agent and office lookups through a live partner integration.
  • Location Boundaries — The verified boundary hierarchy behind viewport search, neighbourhood pages and consistent context across every template.
  • Neighbourhood Data — Human-curated neighbourhood names, descriptions, and character tags aligned to how Canadians actually describe where they live.
  • Demographics — Forward Sortation Area demographics that attach to every listing and neighbourhood.
  • Schools Data — Resolves the catchment an address falls within, with catchment geometry and school attributes.
  • Address Standardization — Normalize and verify listing addresses at ingestion, tied to authoritative boundary IDs for consistent cross-platform data.
  • Building Permits — Permit history at the address — relevant for condition disclosures, renovation signals, and listing context.
  • Energy Data — Available as an add-on: verified utility data and efficiency scores ready for listing disclosure, buyer-facing display, and green mortgage qualification.
  • Points of Interest — Walkability, transit, and nearby amenities — structured and API-ready for listing enrichment.

What Neighbourly gives real estate teams.

The specific, production-grade capabilities behind real estate on Neighbourly — not features on a slide, but data and tooling you can ship on.

One-call listing hydration

Resolve a listing by MLS-format address or coordinate and receive the neighbourhood, boundary hierarchy, Forward Sortation Area demographics, catchment schools and permit history pre-joined onto the record. Because the geographic hierarchy is denormalized onto each result, there are no runtime spatial joins between listings and their context.

Verified viewport search

Query listings inside a bounding box against pre-computed Location Boundaries rather than raw radius math, so a search UI returns the properties a buyer would consider part of the neighbourhood on screen. Property-attribute filters run alongside the spatial query in a single request.

Programmatic neighbourhood pages

Combine the location-by-slug endpoint with Neighbourhood Data, Demographics and boundary geometry to generate clean, slug-based URLs for thousands of areas. Each page draws from the same graph, so market context, schools and demographics stay consistent across your entire site.

School catchment resolution

The Schools layer resolves the catchment a given address falls within, not just the nearest school, so a listing page can answer the question buyers actually ask. Catchment geometry is returned alongside school attributes for display or filtering.

Permit-driven property signals

Attach normalized Building Permits history to a listing or neighbourhood to surface renovation activity, additions and development nearby. This gives a listing page a signal of recent investment that raw listing feeds do not carry.

Agent and office graph search

Search agent and office profiles with fuzzy name matching and geographic filtering, returning structured profiles that link back to listings and boundaries. This supports find-an-agent tools and office directory pages without a second data source.

How real estate teams use Neighbourly.

Map & viewport search

Return every listing inside the current map view against verified neighbourhood boundaries.

Neighbourhood guide pages

Programmatic, SEO-ready location pages with demographics, schools and market context.

Listing enrichment

Attach neighbourhood, demographics, permits, schools and energy to any listing in one call.

Agent & office search

Fuzzy name and geo search across agent and office profiles.

See an example listing

See every Neighbourly data layer assembled onto a single property page — boundaries, demographics, schools, permits, energy and more, all from one address.

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Why real estate teams choose Neighbourly.

Ship location context in days

One key and one schema replace the multi-vendor stitching that usually stands between an idea and a working neighbourhood or listing page.

Consistency across every page

Every listing, guide and map view draws from the same boundary hierarchy and demographics, so context never contradicts itself between templates.

SEO surface area at scale

Programmatic, slug-based location pages built on real boundaries and demographics let you cover markets you could never author by hand.

Predictable performance under load

Pre-computed geometry and pre-joined hierarchy keep responses fast for map panning and search, even as viewport queries scale.

Three ways to put Neighbourly to work for real estate.

Use the data yourself, have us build the whole thing, or bring in our team for strategy and analysis — whatever fits how you work.

Build on the Neighbourly API

Wire standardized real estate data straight into your product or workflow — REST and GraphQL, one key, Canada-wide.

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A custom solution, built for you

No engineering team? We design and build the real estate tool, dashboard or platform on our data — you bring the idea, we ship it.

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Data services & advisory

Strategy, enrichment, analytics and measurement from our team, so your real estate data turns into decisions and results.

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Canadian data residency

Hosted in Canadian data centres, end to end.

PIPEDA-compliant

Privacy-first by default, with provincial compliance built in.

One consistent schema

Every layer shares a spine, so data joins cleanly.

Always current

Live, maintained data — never stale snapshots.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this data and how to use it.

How does Neighbourly enrich real estate listings?

With RESO-aligned neighbourhood data, energy disclosures, permit history, and demographics for MLS platforms, brokerages, and listing portals. One call attaches neighbourhood, demographics, permit history, schools and energy to any listing, with no runtime reconciliation.

Is it RESO-aligned?

Yes. Fields follow RESO conventions, so the data maps cleanly into listing schemas and IDX feeds.

Will it work with our existing platform?

In most cases, yes — it is delivered through standard APIs and can flow into existing listing templates without UI changes.

What coverage does it have?

Address and neighbourhood layers cover all of Canada; permit layers roll out by region, and energy data is available in Ontario.

What real estate data does Neighbourly provide?

Neighbourly connects to your MLS/CREA listing feed and resolves each listing to an address, then attaches the data we own — boundaries, demographics, schools, building permits and energy. We connect to listing data rather than store it; agent and office lookups run through a live partner integration, and all of it is queryable by coordinate, address or map viewport.

Can I build a property search on the Neighbourly API?

Yes. Viewport search returns listings inside a map view against verified boundaries, with property-attribute filtering, ready for a search UI.

Can I create neighbourhood guide pages for SEO?

Yes. Curated neighbourhood content, demographics and boundaries let you build programmatic, SEO-ready location pages with clean, slug-based URLs.

Does it include school catchments and demographics for listings?

Yes. The Schools layer resolves catchment boundaries for any address, and FSA-level demographics attach to every listing and neighbourhood.

Which data layers matter most for real estate?

The listing connector, Location Boundaries, Demographics, Schools and Building Permits are the core layers, with Energy available as an add-on.

Can I filter listings and enrich them in the same request?

Yes. A viewport or address query can carry property-attribute filters and return the listing with its neighbourhood, demographic, school and permit context attached, so there is no second round trip to hydrate the result.

Do you offer both REST and GraphQL for a search UI?

Yes. The same data is available over REST and GraphQL under one API key, so you can use GraphQL to fetch exactly the listing fields a card needs and REST where a simple endpoint is easier.

If we would rather not build the front end, can Neighbourly help?

Yes. You can build directly on the Neighbourly API, commission a custom build, or use our data services to deliver enriched listing or neighbourhood datasets to your team.

How current is the listing and permit data?

Listings follow MLS/CREA format and are refreshed on an ongoing basis, and Building Permits are normalized across supported cities. We can walk through refresh cadence for your specific markets during onboarding.

How do we get started?

Contact us for API access and a coverage report for your markets.

Ready to enrich your listing platform?

Tell us about your platform, your listing feed, and the data you want to surface. We'll show you what's possible.