BC residential real estate · primary-source dataset
Free, hashed, citation-ready BC real estate data
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.
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. Royal LePage Ben Gauer & Associates. https://www.bronsonjob.com/data. CC BY 4.0.For a specific fact, also reference its version + 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 Royal LePage Ben Gauer & Associates, 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.