Terms & Conditions

1. Binding Agreement & Privacy Acceptance

Welcome to bcrealestatemarket.com (the “Website” or “Platform”). By creating an account, authenticating your credentials, or otherwise accessing or using any part of this Website, its mapping systems, school databases, parcel data, or historical listing systems, you (the “Participant,” “Registrant,” or “User”) explicitly affirm your acceptance of and agreement to these Terms of Use ("Terms") and our Privacy Policy.

This agreement constitutes a legally binding contract governing your interaction with the Platform. If you do not agree entirely with these Terms, you must immediately stop using the Platform and close your browser window. Continued use constitutes absolute acceptance of these Terms and any future revisions made by us.

⚠️ Critical Notice: No Financial Obligation or Agency Created

This Terms of Use agreement does not impose any financial obligation on you, nor does it establish a formal real estate brokerage client relationship or representation agreement between you and the Platform operators. Any agreement that creates a financial obligation or formal client representation must be established completely separately from these Terms, must be prominently labeled as a separate contract, and cannot be accepted solely by a standard website registration or mouse click.

2. Eligibility & Account Security

Age of Majority: You must be at least 19 years old (the legal age of majority in British Columbia) to register an account and access restricted market intelligence data on this Platform
Credential Responsibility: If you are provided with a username, password, or verification code to access historical sold data or proprietary maps, you are solely responsible for maintaining its absolute confidentiality. You agree not to share your access credentials with any third party.
Access Restriction: We reserve the absolute right, at our sole discretion and without prior notice, to restrict, suspend, or permanently terminate access to certain areas or data layers of the Website for any user suspected of violating these provisions.

3. Strict Prohibitions Against Scraping & Data Manipulation

This Platform provides a high-utility provincial property intelligence engine. To safeguard our custom code, layout design, compiled boundaries, and database investments, you are strictly granted a limited, revocable, non-exclusive license for personal, non-commercial use only.

You are explicitly and legally prohibited from performing, or assisting others in performing, the following actions:

Automated Data Extraction: You will not scrape, crawl, spider, harvest, or extract data from bcrealestatemarket.com, whether manually or through automated software tools. The prohibited uses expressly include "screen scraping," "database scraping," "data mining," or any other mechanism intended to collect, store, re-organize, summarize, or manipulate our property intelligence or listing information.
Systematic Redistribution: You will not, directly or indirectly, display, post, disseminate, distribute, publish, broadcast, transfer, sell, or sublicense any part of the data, school catchment borders, parcel metrics, or listing information to another individual, entity, or public forum.
Commercial Exploitation: You may not use any data obtained from this Platform to build secondary databases, commercial valuation tools, or consumer real estate search engines.

Note: This restriction does not apply to authorized, secure AI integrations, such as an approved Model Context Protocol (MCP) server configuration deployed and certified explicitly by the operators of bcrealestatemarket.com for your personal use.

4. Consent to Personal Information Collection & Board Auditing

By registering an account to view protected real estate tracking metrics or historical data, you provide your explicit consent for the Platform operators to collect, use, and securely process your personal information (including your first and last name, phone number, and email address).

Board Audits & Compliance: You expressly acknowledge and consent to the fact that your registration data and personal information may be shared securely with regional real estate boards, as well as their legal representatives, for auditing, monitoring, and legal compliance verification purposes.
Platform Tracking: We utilize advanced monitoring systems to evaluate API call frequencies and user behavior to detect unauthorized commercial data scraping.

5. General Disclaimers & Limitation of Liability

General Information Only: All contents of this Website—including historical trends, property boundaries, and neighborhood analytics—are provided for general information and consumer evaluation purposes only. They do not constitute formal investment, legal, or professional real estate advice.
No Warranties: This Website and all data streams are provided strictly on an "as is" and "as available" basis. No parties involved in the creation or maintenance of this site guarantee the absolute accuracy, timeliness, performance, completeness, or suitability of the content. You acknowledge that data errors, lagging updates, or system inaccuracies may exist.
Exclusion of Liability: Your use of any information, maps, or analytics on this site is entirely at your own risk. The platform owners and any contributing real estate board or data provider hold zero liability for financial choices, investment outcomes, or transactional consequences arising from the use or performance of this Website.

6. MLS® VOW (Virtual Office Website) Terms of Use & Regional BC Board Disclaimers

A. Core Property Data Disclaimers & Territorial Scope

The real estate listing data, historical market analytics, and sold records displayed on this Virtual Office Website (MLS® VOW) originate in part from the MLS® Systems and Reciprocity programs of the participating real estate boards across British Columbia and Canada.

By utilizing this Platform, you acknowledge that the data is subject to the unique rules of cooperation, regulations, and copyright protections of the respective regional jurisdiction where the property is located, specifically:

Greater Vancouver REALTORS® (GVR): Governing data across the Greater Vancouver metropolitan area.
The Fraser Valley Real Estate Board (FVREB): Governing data across Surrey, North Delta, Langley, Abbotsford, and surrounding areas.
The Chilliwack and District Real Estate Board (CADREB): Governing data across Chilliwack and surrounding Fraser Valley regional pockets.
The Vancouver Island Real Estate Board (VIREB): Governing island-specific property data layers.

Real estate listings held by participating brokerage firms are uniquely marked with the MLS® Reciprocity logo or data tags, which explicitly include the identity of the listing brokerage.

Information Notice for Properties Shown: This representation is based in whole or in part on data generated by Greater Vancouver REALTORS®, the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board, the Chilliwack and District Real Estate Board, the Vancouver Island Real Estate Board, or the Canadian Real Estate Association, which assume no responsibility for its accuracy. This information is deemed highly reliable but is not guaranteed accurate by those organizations or the platform operators.

B. Mandatory Consumer Commitments & Restrictive Covenants

By registering an account, verifying your email address, and creating secure access credentials on this Platform, you (the "Registrant") solemnly swear, acknowledge, and agree to the following terms mandated by FVREB, GVR, CADREB, and VIREB:

Consumer Disclosures: You confirm that you have received, read, and understand the Privacy Notice and Consent brochure published by the British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) and the Disclosure of Representation in Trading Services (DORTS) document published by the BC Financial Services Authority (BCFSA).
Lawful Consumer Relationship: You acknowledge that these Terms establish a lawful, regulatory REALTOR® / Consumer relationship between you and the platform operators, and not a binding client representation agency agreement or financial obligation.
Bona Fide Real Estate Interest: You certify that you possess an authentic, bona fide interest in the personal purchase, sale, or lease of real estate of the type being browsed or tracked on this Platform.
Absolute Prohibition on Data Exploitation: You will not yourself, and will not permit, assist, or code workflows for others to, directly or indirectly:
- Copy, redistribute, retransmit, reformat, disseminate, publish, broadcast, transfer, sell, or sublicense any part of the MLS® VOW Data, historic sold records, or listing information to any other person, entity, or public forum.
- Engage in automated or programmatic "Scraping" (including screen scraping and database scraping), "data mining," or any other activity intended to collect, store, re-organize, summarize, or manipulate any MLS® VOW Data or any related property indices.
Validation of Board Intellectual Property: You explicitly recognize and validate the respective regional Real Estate Boards' absolute ownership of, and the validity of the Boards' proprietary rights, database rights, and copyrights in the MLS® VOW Data, MLS® Systems, and listing compilations.
Explicit Board Authorization to Audit: You expressly authorize the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board, Greater Vancouver REALTORS®, the Chilliwack and District Real Estate Board, and their duly authorized compliance representatives to log into, monitor, and access this VOW platform and the information you provide to the platform operator for the strict purposes of verifying systemic compliance, tracking listing display privileges, and ensuring the structural enforcement of these Terms of Use, board bylaws, and provincial laws.

7. Intellectual Property, Trademarks, and Copyrights

Platform IP: The entire contents of this site—including custom text components, map interfaces, graphics, brand layouts, data indexing frameworks, and backend source code—belong strictly to the owners of bcrealestatemarket.com and are guarded under intellectual property and copyright laws. Copying, distributing, or modifying this content for free or commercial gain is fundamentally illegal.
CREA Trademarks: The trademarks REALTOR®, REALTORS®, and the REALTOR® logo are controlled and owned by REALTOR® Canada Inc. and licensed exclusively to The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA). These marks pinpoint real estate professionals who are active members of CREA and adhere to its rigorous Code of Ethics. The terms Multiple Listing Service®, MLS®, and their associated logos are owned by CREA and denote the quality of professional real estate services provided under license.

8. Dispute Resolution, Governing Law, and Open Data Acknowledgements

Governing Law: This agreement, its interpretation, and any technical or legal friction arising from the Platform are governed strictly by the federal laws of Canada and the provincial laws of British Columbia.
Binding Arbitration: Any dispute that cannot be sorted out through amicable discussion shall be resolved exclusively through final and binding arbitration in the City of Vancouver, BC, under the provincial Arbitration Act.
Open Government Licensing: To build our extensive property intelligence framework, this site safely integrates public datasets licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia, as well as localized municipal and regional open data frameworks courtesy of the following jurisdictions:

Integrated Municipal & Regional Data Registries

City of Surrey
City of Vancouver
Township of Langley
Sunshine Valley
City of Abbotsford
City of Burnaby
City of Delta
City of Chilliwack
City of Kelowna

9. Regulatory Disclosure & Corporate Operator Identity

This real estate property intelligence platform, located at bcrealestatemarket.com , is proudly presented, maintained, and operated exclusively by:

Harjit Sidhu Personal Real Estate Corporation (PREC)

Representing The Sidhu Team at Planet Group Realty Inc.

Office Location: Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

In accordance with British Columbia real estate advertising regulations and licensing rules, the Participant acknowledges that by using this VOW (Virtual Office Website) platform, they are interacting with services overseen by the licensed brokerages and professionals identified above.

All communications, data inquiries, opt-out requests for matched-audience marketing, or licensing questions regarding our custom mapping and automated features must be processed directly through our Surrey administration team. Unauthorized use of this website or its contents may give rise to a substantial claim for monetary damages and/or be treated as a legal offense enforceable by local and federal jurisdictions.