Free, hashed, citation-ready BC real estate data

Name: BC Real Estate Codex — Fact Bank
Creator: Bronson Job PREC
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: BC real estate, Property Transfer Tax, BC PTT, CMHC, OSFI B-20, foreign buyer ban, BC Home Flipping Tax, Speculation Vacancy Tax, BCFSA, Bill 44, designated agency, strata

The Bronson Job Codex — 48 versioned facts covering BC residential real estate taxes, mortgage rules, legal requirements, foreign-buyer regulations, strata frameworks, and rental rules. Verified quarterly against primary government sources. Every deploy stamped with a SHA-256 content digest. Free under CC BY 4.0. Use it in your reporting, your research, your AI assistant.

Last reviewed June 3, 2026 by Bronson Job PREC, REALTOR®Sources: gov.bc.ca, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, Canada Revenue Agency, BC Financial Services Authority, Canadian Real Estate AssociationCC BY 4.0How we verify

Quick start

Three URLs cover most use cases:

GET /api/v1/facts/index.json: Catalogue — every fact with id, domain, headline, effective_iso, expires_iso, retrieved_iso. Use this to discover what's available.
GET /api/v1/facts/by-id/{factId}.json: Full fact detail — current value, primary-source citations, full version history. Replace {factId} with any catalogue id (e.g. bc.ptt.brackets, bc.bill44_2022_strata, cmhc.insurance_cap).
GET /api/v1/facts/llms.json: LLM-optimized bundle — every fact in a single JSON, compact representation for context-window-constrained AI agents.

What you can do with this

Journalism. Cite the current BC Property Transfer Tax brackets, foreign-buyer ban exemptions, BC Home Flipping Tax mechanics, or CMHC insurance cap reforms in your reporting without re-deriving from gov.bc.ca. Every fact carries its primary source.
Academic research. Reproducible facts for urban-planning, housing-economics, or real-estate-finance papers. Cite the SHA-256-stamped snapshot date so reviewers can verify your numbers were current as of submission.
AI assistants. Wire the MCP server (SEP-1960 discovery card) into Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP-aware client. 7 tools cover fact lookup, PTT calculation, mortgage payment math, foreign-buyer eligibility, and Codex URL resolution.
Civic tech. Build BC-tax calculators, relocation tools, or buyer-cost estimators against a primary-source-cited dataset that you don't have to maintain yourself.
Reproducible analyses. Every fact is versioned; the diff endpoints (/api/v1/facts/diff/{factId}/v{from}-to-v{to}.json) show exactly what changed between versions and when.

Every endpoint

Full machine-readable surface. All URLs are stable; none require authentication; CORS is permissive for cross-origin use.

Path	What
/api/v1/facts/index.json	Catalogue: every fact id + headline + dates
/api/v1/facts/by-id/{factId}.json	Single fact with full provenance
/api/v1/facts/quote/{factId}.json	Ready-to-cite quote block (journalism/academic format)
/api/v1/facts/{domain}.json	Domain bundle (tax, mortgage, legal, foreign-buyer, strata, rental)
/api/v1/facts/diff/index.json	Index of every fact-version-pair diff
/api/v1/facts/diff/{factId}/v{from}-to-v{to}.json	What changed between two versions
/api/v1/facts/feed.xml	RSS 2.0 of fact updates
/api/v1/facts/llms.json	LLM-optimized compact bundle
/api/v1/facts/manifest.json	Manifest with hashes for integrity verification
/.well-known/openapi.json	OpenAPI 3.1 spec
/.well-known/codex-signature.json	SHA-256 content-digest attestation (Ed25519 signing provisioned, not yet active)
/.well-known/keys.json	Public verification key endpoint (currently status: "no_keys_provisioned")
/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json	MCP server discovery (SEP-1960)
/llms.txt	Curated machine-readable site manifest

License + citation

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Use freely in commercial or non-commercial work; attribute with a link.

Suggested citation

Job, B. (2026). BC Real Estate Codex — Fact Bank. Momentum Realty Inc. https://www.bronsonjob.com/data. CC BY 4.0.

For a specific fact, also reference its version and retrieval date, both available in every fact response.

Provenance + integrity

Every Codex snapshot ships a SHA-256 content digest. The /.well-known/codex-signature.json attestation lets anyone re-compute the digest of /api/v1/facts/index.json and confirm the bytes match what we published. Ed25519 signing is provisioned in the pipeline (scripts/sign-codex.mjs) but not yet active: /.well-known/keys.json reports status: "no_keys_provisioned" until a keypair is registered.

Re-verification is quarterly: every fact is re-walked against its primary source on the same cadence as the BC budget cycle, with diff endpoints documenting what changed and when.

See /methodology for the full research + verification process, /corrections for the public log of every change, and /sources for every primary citation aggregated in one place.

Journalists, academics, civic tech

If you're writing about BC real estate and need a fact verified, a quote attributed, or a custom data pull for a story — send me a note. Bronson Job PREC, REALTOR® at Momentum Realty Inc., has both Greater Vancouver REALTORS® (#6015742) and Fraser Valley Real Estate Board (#FJOBBR) memberships, so the comparables can be pulled from either side of the board line.

bronson@bronsonjob.com · (778) 867-2766

Reporters: see /press for bio, headshot, brand assets, quote-attribution conventions, and the custom comparable-pull turnaround promise.