Data Sources & Attribution

Property zoning, land use designations, lot dimensions, and assessment data from the City of Vancouver Open Data Portal.

GIS parcel data including lot dimensions, zoning classifications, and assessment values from Burnaby’s Open Data portal.

Based on version 2.0 of the Open Government Licence – British Columbia.

Parcel data including lot area, zoning codes, lane access, and assessment values from Coquitlam’s Open Data portal.

Coquitlam has adopted version 2.0 of the Open Government Licence – British Columbia.

Property data including lot size, zoning codes, assessment values, and Transit Oriented Area status from Kelowna’s Open Data portal.

GIS datasets including parcel boundaries, zoning, and property attributes from DNV’s GEOweb open data portal.

Based on version 2.0 of the Open Government Licence – British Columbia.

Property zoning, OCP designations, lot area, and environmental data from CNV’s GIS system.

The City of North Vancouver publishes GIS data through its CityMap application. No formal Open Government Licence has been identified for this data.

Property data including lot area, zoning, RSM sub-zones, transit-oriented area status, and assessment values.

Richmond publishes GIS data through its Richmond Interactive Map (RIM). No formal Open Government Licence has been identified for this data. Richmond’s terms are governed by a separate disclaimer document.

Property assessment values (land, improvements, total) used for feasibility analysis and market comparisons. Assessment data published in the BC Data Catalogue is available under an open licence. Some assessment values are also embedded in municipal GIS datasets published by municipalities under their own open data licences.

The Open Government Licence applies specifically to records published in the BC Data Catalogue. BC Assessment also offers commercial data licensing agreements for bulk data products.

The 10 BC Standardized Housing Designs Catalogue concepts (renderings, floor plans, and specifications) referenced in VanPlex’s Design Guidelines section. These designs were created by Leckie Studio Architecture + Design and four partner firms under contract to the Province.

The design firms (Leckie Studio, BCollective Homes, Christine Lintott Architects, Carbon Wise Consulting, and Wiser Projects) are not affiliated with VanPlex. VanPlex provides a web-based presentation of the catalogue for informational purposes.

Various provincial datasets including ParcelMap BC, zoning information, and legislative references used for property analysis across BC municipalities.

MLS® listing data including active, pending, and sold comparable properties across British Columbia. Used for market comparisons and comparable sales analysis in proforma calculations.

VanPlex accesses MLS® data through Bridge Data Output under a commercial API agreement. Data display complies with MLS®/VOW (Virtual Office Website) rules.

The City's official address point list. PlexCheck Toronto resolves every address against it, and the coordinate used for the zoning lookup is the City's own address point rather than a geocoded guess.

The zoning layer PlexCheck reads at the City's address point. An address is only shown when exactly one zoning polygon matches it; anything ambiguous is left unstamped rather than approximated.

The parcel record behind the lot area PlexCheck uses. The area shown is the City parcel's stated area, matched one-to-one to the address.

The permit register behind the Toronto Multiplex Permit Tracker: every multiplex, fourplex, triplex and sixplex filing since January 2024, joined to the One Address Repository on the City's own address point id.

Refreshed manually rather than on every deploy. The snapshot date is shown on the tracker.

Average rent by bedroom type for the CMHC survey zone an address falls in, used as the income side of the PlexCheck model. These are averages of existing purpose-built rental stock, so a new build typically rents above them, which keeps the model conservative on income. The survey date is shown alongside the figures.

Geocoding, mapping, and Street View imagery used for property location, mapping displays, and address lookup throughout the application.