Know every house on the North Shore.
Not just the listed ones.
Deep intelligence on every parcel on the North Shore — 200+ data attributes, AI-driven market analysis, and insights you won't find on MLS, HouseSigma, or anywhere else. Walk into every showing, every listing appointment, and every door knock armed with more knowledge than anyone in the room.
The Problem
Realtors deserve better tools than a spreadsheet and a gut feeling
Your clients are Googling sold prices and scrolling HouseSigma before they even call you. MLS gives you what's listed. Assessment rolls tell you what BC thinks something's worth. Neither tells you the full story.
What's the permit history on that “renovated” home? What do sun exposure, slope, and walkability actually add to the price? Is this neighbourhood in a teardown wave or a renovation cycle? Which streets are flipping? What's the real absorption rate for this price band?
That's the information that wins listings, sharpens offers, and earns referrals. Groundwork puts all of it in one place — for you and your clients.
Why Groundwork
Your unfair advantage
Be the most informed agent in every conversation
Click any parcel and see everything: assessed value, lot dimensions, year built, building footprint, floor area ratio, permit history, listing history, room-by-room breakdowns. When your client asks "what’s the story on this house?" — you already know.
Win listings with data nobody else has
Show sellers exactly how their neighbourhood is performing. Quantify what their flat lot, mountain view, or south-facing exposure is worth in real dollars. Calculate the right list price using real comps and spatial premium analysis — not just "what the neighbour got."
Give your clients superpowers
Invite your clients into Groundwork. They explore the map, filter by what matters to them, save favourites, and collaborate with you on narrowing the search. Instead of sending MLS links, you send them a platform that makes you the most data-driven agent on the North Shore.
How Realtors Use It
Built for every part of your business
Catch what others miss
Before a showing, pull up the parcel: check the permit history, see if the renovation was actually permitted, understand the lot’s slope and drainage profile, know the school catchment and walk score. Walk in ready to point out things the buyer would never have known.
Find opportunities before they hit the market
Colour the map by assessment-to-sale ratio and spot undervalued pockets. Filter for aging homes on large lots where owners have held for 20+ years — ideal door-knocking targets. See ghost inventory that might be ready for a new approach.
Help clients think through the decision
Groundwork’s AI can suggest different paths: should they buy the dated house and renovate, or hold out for turnkey? What would a teardown-and-rebuild look like? What’s the renovation ROI data saying? You become an advisor, not just a search portal.
The Map
Your new command center
Every parcel on the North Shore. 200+ data attributes. One map.
See everything at once
Colour parcels by price per square foot, building age, renovation status, lot size, walk time to transit, school score, assessment-to-sale ratio — whatever angle you’re working. Patterns that take hours to research become instantly visible.
Filter to exactly what your client wants
“Flat lot, at least 6,000 sqft, walkable, under $2.5M, built after 1990.” Apply the filters, see what’s left. Share the filtered view with your client.
Go deep on any property
Click a parcel for the full picture: building footprint, floor area ratio, permit history, BCA assessment breakdown, HouseSigma listing history, room-by-room data, sun and slope analysis.
Market Insights
Analysis that doesn't exist anywhere else
Ten intelligence engines, each surfacing something you can actually use.
Construction Economics
Permit investment trends, teardown rates, renovation ROI by category.
Repeat Sales Index
True appreciation from 1,194 same-property resale pairs. Real returns, not headline medians.
Spatial Premiums
What sun exposure, slope, walkability, and views are actually worth in dollars.
Days on Market by Price Band
Which price tiers sell fast and which sit. Calibrate client expectations.
Building Lifecycle
Age distribution, teardown wave curves, percentage of original stock remaining.
Sale-to-List Patterns
Over-asking rates, price reductions, withdrawal rates by neighbourhood and year.
Supply Signals
Months of inventory, absorption rate, ghost inventory, ownership duration.
Seasonal Patterns
Best and worst months to buy or sell based on historical sale-to-list ratios.
Assessment Accuracy
How well BC Assessment predicts actual sale prices by tier.
Flip Activity
33 active flips tracked with average markup and holding periods.
Trends
Monthly time-series data
Median price, sales volume, days on market, absorption rate, and sale-to-list ratio — all trended over time so you can see where the market's been and where it's going.
AI neighbourhood narratives — one-paragraph briefings for each neighbourhood, comparing local performance to the broader market. Pull these into listing presentations or buyer consultations.
Active listings view with full filtering — see what's on the market right now alongside all the data Groundwork layers on top.
Directory
Local intelligence
Brokerages
Local brokerage performance data. Know the competitive landscape.
Contractors
Permit history by contractor. Know who’s doing work in the area.
Builders
BC Housing Registry data and builder track records.
Schools
Rankings, scores, and catchment areas. For families, this is the decision.
Collaboration
Your tool. Your client's tool. One shared view.
Shared access
Give your client their own login. Same data, same map, same saved properties.
Favourites & organization
Save and organize properties together. Build a shortlist collaboratively.
AI Chat
"Which streets have the most teardowns?" "Compare Upper Lonsdale to Pemberton Heights." Answers in seconds.
Our Plan
Buyer profile, preferences, design style, build cost estimates — strategy aligned from first conversation to closing.
A note from the founder
I started building Groundwork while my wife and I were buying a home on the North Shore. Even with MLS, HouseSigma, BC Assessment, and hours of Googling, I kept feeling like I was missing most of the picture. What's the permit history on that “renovated” house? What does the slope actually look like? Is this street in a teardown wave?
So I started pulling data together — parcel records, GIS layers, assessment rolls, permit databases, listing histories, school rankings, walkability data — and layered AI on top to surface the patterns that matter. What started as a personal project turned into something much bigger when I realized that the agents I was working with didn't have access to this kind of intelligence either.
Groundwork is the tool I wish I'd had as a buyer, and the tool agents keep telling me they've been wanting for years. It's built for people who take the North Shore market seriously — and want to know more than anyone else in the room.
If you have questions, ideas, or just want a walkthrough, email me directly. I read every message.
Matt Helm
matt@groundwork.soOne plan. Everything included.
No feature gates, no usage limits on the platform. Every agent gets the full intelligence suite.
Professional
For individual agents
$379/mo billed annually ($4,499/year)
- ✓200+ data attributes on every parcel
- ✓AI Chat — natural language queries across the entire dataset
- ✓AI-Powered Reports — comprehensive property intelligence
- ✓AI Offer Strategy — data-driven bidding recommendations
- ✓Spatial premium analysis, repeat sales index, market trends
- ✓PDF parcel reports with full GIS data
- ✓Client collaboration — invite buyers into your workspace
- ✓Email support (1 business day response)
Team & Brokerage
For teams of 2 or more agents
$299/seat/mo billed annually · minimum 2 seats
- ✓Everything in Professional, for every seat
- ✓Shared workspace — team-wide favourites, notes, and client lists
- ✓Team analytics — agent activity and coverage insights
- ✓Onboarding call — 30-minute kickoff with your team
- ✓Priority email support
The math is simple. The average North Shore agent commission is $40–75K per deal. If Groundwork helps you win one extra listing this year, it pays for itself 10–15x over.
Give your team an unfair advantage
Groundwork is built for North Shore realtors who want to know more, serve their clients better, and win more business with data.
See your own neighbourhood in a way you've never seen it.