Access to reliable and comprehensive location data is key to making informed decisions in the real estate industry. However, with vast amounts of data available from various sources, it’s challenging for companies like myAbode to sift through the noise and focus on the insights that matter most. Aggregating and maintaining data from multiple platforms can be time-consuming and prone to inconsistency, making it difficult to ensure precise, up-to-date information for users.

myAbode recognized this challenge and looked for a solution that would: 

• Streamline real estate data aggregation – Reduce reliance on multiple sources
• Consolidate critical neighborhood insights – Combine key data points into a single, reliable source
• Improve quality and accuracy – Ensure up-to-date and precise location insights

By partnering with Local Logic, they discovered a powerful one-stop solution that consolidates continuously updated data in one place. This eliminates the need for manual updates while delivering comprehensive, high-quality insights. As a result, real estate professionals and consumers can make better-informed decisions and enjoy an enhanced user experience.

Company

myAbode Empowers Real Estate Professionals with Integrated Tools At Every Stage of the Homebuying Journey

myAbode is a fully integrated real estate technology solution built to help real estate professionals grow and manage their businesses more effectively. Through its custom platform, myAbode provides lead generation and streamlined deal processing while leveraging data-driven insights to foster growth.

Despite being a new entity, myAbode’s foundations are robust, built upon its ownership of prominent search platforms: Condos.ca, Property.ca, and MrLOFT.ca. These platforms have been instrumental in assisting thousands of Canadians in finding houses for sale in Toronto and GTA:

• Condos.ca specializes in the condominium market, offering comprehensive search and analysis tools for Toronto condos for sale and condos for rent. 
• Property.ca focuses on a broader spectrum of residential properties, providing detailed listings and market insights. 
• MrLOFT.ca caters to niche markets, showcasing Toronto’s most sought-after lofts.

By developing integrated tools to build high-performance REALTORS®, myAbode simplifies each step of the homebuying journey for consumers and agents alike. This approach enables real estate professionals to focus on their core mission: guide people home.

Challenge

Overcoming Data Fragmentation to Deliver Comprehensive Insights

As a real estate marketplace, myAbode’s goal is to provide users with in-depth insights, including information about nearby amenities and services such as transit, schools, parks, cafes, and more. 

Previously, they relied on multiple data sources to gather and aggregate this information, which proved to be both time-consuming and challenging to maintain over time. This fragmented approach made vendor data integration challenging, prompting them to look for a more efficient and reliable solution.

One major hurdle was ensuring data accuracy and real-time updates since much of the information required manual sourcing across multiple platforms. This process quickly became labor-intensive due to:

• Data fragmentation – Information spread across multiple vendors
• Lack of real-time updates – Delays in reflecting changes like new businesses or school ratings
• Limited public access – Some critical datasets, like transit accessibility and school performance, were not freely available
• Scalability issues – Keeping up with growing data demands required excessive resources

myAbode initially experimented with Yelp data to gather information on local amenities. However, Yelp’s data was inherently subjective, relying on user-generated reviews rather than objective insights, and it lacked essential categories, like transit and schools, which would have provided a fuller picture of the neighborhood. With myAbode handling over 1 million API calls per month, the steep cost of using Yelp’s API at their scale further drove them to seek a more robust and affordable alternative.

Solution

Simplifying Data Integration with Local Logic’s One-Stop Shop for Powerful and Flexible APIs

To tackle their challenges, myAbode turned to Local Logic, a leader in location intelligence dedicated to improving real estate decision-making. With its extensive dataset of over 100 billion data points, Local Logic provides unmatched insights that have influenced billions of dollars in real estate transactions. Its solutions power better decisions for more than 15 million monthly users across 8,000 websites in the U.S. and Canada.

Through Local Logic’s powerful location APIs, myAbode consolidated relevant neighborhood data — such as transit options, schools, parks, and nearby amenities — into a single, reliable source. By integrating several APIs, including Demographics, Schools, and Points of Interest, across its platforms (Condos.ca, Property.ca, and MrLOFT.ca), myAbode replaced its previously fragmented system with a streamlined, accurate, and easily maintained solution.

Demographics API

Local Logic’s Demographics API provides detailed demographic data for specific locations, offering insights into a community and its characteristics such as:

• Household composition
• Age distribution
• Income levels
• Education
• Languages

This robust dataset unlocks a comprehensive picture of neighborhoods and enhances property listings with valuable insight, which helps users make better decisions and improves engagement.

Schools API

The Schools API offers a rich dataset on educational institutions, providing detailed information such as school names, websites, educational levels, grade ranges, languages of instruction, and special programs. With its customizable boundaries, this API proved to be the most valuable for myAbode, enabling the introduction of a “Search by School Catchment” feature on their website. This new tool significantly improved the user experience by allowing consumers to set up listing alerts based on schools.

Points of Interest API

The Points of Interest (POI) API provides extensive information on various amenities and services surrounding a specific location, including restaurants, parks, shops, and more. This API helps present relevant context for any location across the U.S. and Canada, offering homebuyers a thorough understanding of the area’s lifestyle for more informed decisions. POI searches can also be refined using category, brand, and tag filters, which provide highly relevant and engaging neighborhood data to users.

Results

myAbode Reduces Operational Complexity While Delivering Better Insights

With Local Logic as a one-stop shop data partner, myAbode reduced the operational burden of aggregating data from multiple sources by integrating a robust set of location APIs that provided the essential neighborhood data they needed. This integration streamlined their process and significantly improved the quality of their location insights.

Streamlining Data Aggregation for Higher Efficiency

myAbode previously had to juggle multiple data vendors or face exorbitant fees to manage over 1 million API calls each month. Integrating Local Logic’s scalable and cost-efficient real estate APIs simplified their data acquisition process, allowing them to obtain all the datasets they need from one single, reliable source. By doing so, the company frees up valuable resources that would have otherwise been used for manually sourcing and maintaining this information.

Elevating the Quality of Insights with Critical Location Data

Partnering with Local Logic, myAbode has significantly improved the quality of its real estate market insights, giving users access to accurate, meaningful neighborhood data — including demographics, schools, and nearby amenities — and empowering consumers to enjoy a more informed and personalized homebuying experience.