Property data API for municipal planners and public-sector analysts
Built for city data teams, provincial housing-policy analysts, federal stats researchers, and emergency-management mapping groups
One uniform schema across every Canadian region
Public-sector analysts lose weeks reconciling public, government, and crowdsourced property data sources that all use different field names, units, and address formats. That reconciliation work is what we sell. Houski has ingested hundreds of sources across Canada, normalised every field down to a single definition, and ships them as one schema with daily updates and model-filled estimates where the training data supports it. Policy briefs and council reports get answered in hours instead of weeks because the standardisation has already been done.
Why partner with Houski?
- Extensive real estate database: Zoning, assessment values, and listing history, kept current.
- Model-filled estimates where it helps: For fields with strong training signal, modelled values fill gaps so screening and ranking workflows still function.
Benefits for municipalities and governments
- Strategic urban planning: Inform zoning, infrastructure, and renewal projects.
- Improved property tax assessment: More accurate assessments lead to fairer taxation and better revenue collection.
- Data-driven policy making: Reliable data on property trends, market values, and community needs.
- Enhanced public services: Understand community needs and improve services.
How it works
- Consultation: Contact us to discuss your needs.
- Integration: We help you wire our API into your stack.
- Transformation: Apply our data to municipal planning, management, and services.
Key features
- Comprehensive data: Property specifics, listing history, and assessment values (where the city publishes them). Model-filled estimates on the fields where the training data supports it.
- Seamless integration: Developer-friendly API with flexible customization.
- Research and policy tool: Granular data for property research and data-driven decisions.
- Uniform coverage: Consistent data quality across Canada.
- Robust support: Thorough docs and dedicated support.
Frequently asked questions
• Is Houski's data accurate?
No real estate data source is 100% accurate, but Houski's data keeps improving as more sources are added. For maximum precision (such as a specific property valuation), hire the relevant professional, such as an appraiser.
• Where does Houski get its data?
We pull property data from public and government sources, then combine it all and make sense of it, which is the hard part. Like Wikipedia, anyone can contribute too, and that crowdsourced input helps fill the gaps.
• How does Houski make money?
We sell property data, which is fully anonymous (not personal data). For example, a home insurance app can use Houski to pre-fill a quote form with square footage and other property features.
Ready for data-driven decisions?
Join municipalities using Houski to enrich planning and governance. Let's build more informed, efficient, and sustainable communities.
Want more information?
Our team can answer questions and demo the impact our data can have on your municipality.