Next Generation RealNet Information Services:

The Informed Advantage

Because "Hope" is not a Strategy

RealNet's next generation information services for builders and developers provides the following five key features and capabilities:

1. New Map Content

This new service will integrate customized mapping of RealNet records onto DMTI base maps, updated quarterly, that include the following nationwide features:

  • Addition of Toronto underground walkway ("The Path")
  • Street centerline road network, names and address ranges
  • Roads look-up table including alias name, highway numbers and names, road numbers and more
  • 6 cartographic road classifications
  • Major roads and highways layer
  • Highway exit numbers
  • Bridges, tunnels, ferry routes and ice roads
  • "Points of Interest" including golf features, healthcare, education, toll booths and car pool lots
  • Transportation points
  • Over 1,800 parks nationwide
  • Approximately 700 rail stations and stops
  • Approximately 2,000 rail bridges
  • Verification of rail in the GTA, Vancouver, Calgary
  • Over 20,000 populated placenames
  • Municipal boundaries and amalgamations
  • Canada/US border crossings linking Canadian and US Roads
  • Land-use classifications
  • Road network casements
  • Railway and utility features
  • Topographic features and named geographic features including vegetation, wetlands, physiography and hydrography
  • Named Infrastructure features such as transportation systems and building points

2. New Form Search Tool

With the new Form Search, you can analyze multiple markets and sectors within specific parameters. The following are a few of the ways RealNet is helping savvy builders and developers improve their decision-making capabilities:

Finding the Right Broker

Who should you really be talking to? Search RealNet for all residential land sales or serviced lot transactions in the markets you are interested in.

Find out:

  • Who is really involved in the markets you are interested in?
  • Who has achieved top performance in the sector you are interested in?
  • Who has the relationships that will help you achieve the results you are looking for?

Mining for New Opportunities

Not all opportunities find you. Is redevelopment an option? Why not identify underperforming retail, industrial, hotel or other improved properties located in the areas in which you are interested? Review the opportunities one-by-one and develop your strategy on how you want to execute the plan.

Diversifying the Development Risk

You have a presence in a market. You have a core capability. How do you grow your future development opportunity without being over exposed in a changing market? Diversify your product offering to RealNet's new Form Search tool has the capability to help you find the information that may help you make a better decision.

Valuating the Real Estate

You have the information - with RealNet's detailed property sale information at your fingertips within days of closing. It's easier than ever before to build and save precise searches that let you find the true comparable sales that will help you form your opinion of value, whether you are looking at buying or selling, financing, dealing with tax matters or simply reporting values to investors or partners.

Analyzing Residential Development

Is redevelopment an option? Is residential redevelopment of a commercial or industrial property to townhouses or apartments the property's highest and best use? Find the answer to your questions with the most timely, accurate information on the new home market used by over builders and developers responsible for over 70% of the market activity.

3. New Profile Search Tool

Imagine being able to search the name of a person or company against over 33,000 researched transactions across the country in complete anonymity. The new RealNet Profile Search tool will quickly identify them as a vendor, purchaser, broker, agent, builder or lender. Powerful research in total anonymity - the savvy negotiator has arrived!

4. New Search By Map Tool

When you are presented with an investment opportunity, you are often required to move quickly. You need to get up to speed on the details and dynamics of the property's immediate area. RealNet's new mapping utility allows you to quickly and easily zoom in the area you are interested in, view multiple property layers, draw a polygon around an area, select records from any property layer (residential land sales, serviced lot sales, ICI land sales, even retail properties, industrial properties etc.), view the details, summarize the results and leverage a new and powerful opportunity or create your own. It's simpler than ever to find the answers you are looking for to make a better decision!

Mapping features include:

  • Zoom in, Zoom out, Pan
  • View Multiple Layers
  • Select sales records, projects or other spatially displayed information off the map
  • Use powerful GIS features such as Polygon select to select all areas in a completely customizable area.

5. New And Improved Reports

RealNet offers new, improved interactive reports that provide the answers you are looking for quickly and easily:

System Level Commercial Reports

New, improved summary reports — summarize the low, high, average, and total value of the key parameters of selected records including number of records, date of sale, total price, size, unit price, cap rate and more.

a) Sales Absorption Analysis Report — a new report showing total, low, high and average monthly sales of selected records along with annual totals and current remaining inventory.

b) Proforma Report — a new powerful two-part report. The first part summarizing key proforma input variables such as number of product offerings, last month's sales, remaining inventory, average size, average price and average 12 month absorption by product type (detached, link, semi-detached, townhouse, stacked townhouse, apartment, loft); the second part listing the models contained in the selection by inventory number, builder, development name, municipality, tenure, product type, lot size, home type, home size, total price, price per sq. ft. and availability status.

c) Competitive Analysis Report — an insightful comparative table, displaying the model offerings from selected projects by size and product offering (builder/development name/tenure/lot type/lot size).

d) New Residential Land and Residential Serviced Lot Analysis Reports — New, improved summary reports - summarize the low, high, average, and total value of the key parameters of selected transaction records including number of records, date of sale, total price, size, unit price, and more. RealNet also provides comprehensive monthly review and analysis of trends in the residential development market including sales, remaining inventory and pricing of high rise and low rise projects, sales volumes and pricing.

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