Source transparency

Data sources

BestRealEstateAgents.ca is built around source logs. Every market, neighbourhood, profile, claim, review excerpt, and ranking state should be traceable to submitted information, legitimate public sources, licensed data, or editorial verification notes.

Market geography

Official or public population and geography datasets, starting with Statistics Canada 2021 census subdivision data.

Neighbourhoods

Municipal, provincial, open data, or other legitimate public geography sources, stored with source name and source URL.

Agent profiles

Agent-submitted, brokerage-submitted, public-source, licensed, authorized third-party, or editorially verified records.

Licensing references

Regulator or licensing body references where available and legally usable.

Reviews and testimonials

Only permission-aware records with rights status, display permission, source URL, date accessed, and attribution details.

Rankings

Ranking records only when enough comparable verified data exists for a specific market, category, or submarket.

Launch market dataset

The current market index contains 429 Canadian markets with population 10,000+ from Statistics Canada Table 98-10-0015-01.