Reference entries (19)
- reference Ontario has no substantially-similar private-sector privacy law → PIPEDA applies in full to MLS personal info (only BC, AB, QC have substantially-similar laws)
- reference Commissioner of Competition v. Toronto Real Estate Board (2011-2018) — full 7-year timeline; SCC denied TREB's final leave Aug 23 2018
- reference Durable member edge has shifted from headline sold price to the deeper structured layer (relisting chains, sub-market absorption, list-vs-sold spreads, off-market, ListTrac analytics)
- reference Consumer portals commoditised the "just-sold" edge — practitioner consensus; portals cannot capture local nuances, off-market activity, or hold-offer strategies
- reference HouseSigma — "first in Canada to make sold prices publicly available"; inflection point came shortly after the 2018 SCC-final outcome opening sold data on VOWs
- reference HouseSigma — self-reported "2M+ registered users / 5M+ monthly visits" + "1.9M Active Users / $500M+ Yearly $ Volume"; internally inconsistent across pages — flag
- reference Cumulative DOM now displayed in Toronto / Hamilton / Niagara MLSs — eroding the reset tactic
- reference Cancel-and-relist resets DOM to zero — Pasalis-adjacent practitioner (Globe & Mail); condo relistings hit 163pct of sales in mid-October in the 416; GTA condo months-of-inventory 3.1 in September
- reference Months of inventory (absorption) = active listings ÷ monthly sales; 0-4 seller / 4-6 balanced / 6+ buyer (Ontario practitioner framing)
- reference Ontario MLS data divide — PropTx (TRREB-led) vs ITSO holdouts; Cornerstone (Waterloo Region) on ITSO with Cotality; single-membership agents must search multiple boards; client-facing duplicate listings + double-counted stats
- reference ITSO (Information Technology Systems Ontario) — not-for-profit, established 2020, Matrix™ on CoreLogic/Cotality; Super Subscribers vs Standard Subscribers tiers
- reference PropTx MLS Rules — operative version effective Dec 2 2024 (primary PDF)
- reference PropTx Innovations Inc. — TRREB's wholly-owned for-profit/taxable MLS subsidiary; REALM front-end merges land-registry and MLS data; ~70,000 members
- reference TRREB monthly Market Watch — includes "Month's Inventory" (absorption)
- reference TRREB / PropTx REALM — bundles ListTrac listing analytics, HoodQ 450+ GTA neighbourhood guides, SkySlope forms
- reference ITSO Matrix — "more than 500 fields across property types, plus CMA tools, land registry data, neighbourhood insights, Authentisign, AnswerLink, and live market statistics"
- reference PropTx / MPAC appraiser product — 3-year residential / 5-year commercial PropTx MLS sales history with full listing details and photos
- reference Competition Bureau (Canada 2014) — TRREB MLS "much more detailed than… REALTOR.ca," holds previous prices, comparables, time-on-market
- research-notes Research notes (capture-layer): inside the MLS box — what an Ontario member agent's account exposes, what goes unused, and what they're licensed to do with it (June 2026)
