Zealty Online Search Inc.

What Zealty Online Search Inc. does

Zealty Online Search Inc. is a privately held Canadian corporation, founded in 2018 and headquartered in Sechelt, British Columbia, that operates a consumer-facing real estate search and market data platform focused exclusively on the British Columbia market. The platform combines an interactive map-based search (Map Search), a filterable list-based search (List Search), and a suite of research tools — including Housing Market analysis, Sales Reports, a Strata Browser for condominium buildings, and Statistics in monthly, daily, and table formats — alongside supporting services such as free mortgage advice, home evaluations, and an agent directory. Its technical foundation is an interactive real estate map that founder Gary Little created in July 2006 and which the company describes as the first of its kind in Canada; this map remains the core of the current Zealty software and is delivered across web (zealty.ca), iOS, and Android.

The platform is positioned around access to data that is typically gated on public portals due to privacy rules — namely sold prices, expired listings, and historical pricing data — covering 50+ BC regions spanning Metro Vancouver, Vancouver Island, the Okanagan, the Kootenays, and the Sunshine Coast. Users sign up free to access basic features, with sign-in required for the premium pricing-history datasets; this freemium gating also serves the company's stated legal and privacy compliance posture. The Zoned weekly newsletter extends the platform into a content/media surface covering BC and Canadian real estate.

Zealty monetizes through an affiliate/referral model: the company works with affiliated brokerages (with Holywell Properties, a BC brokerage, publicly identified as the presenting partner) who refer platform users to independent REALTORS that facilitate actual property transactions. The platform itself is non-transactional — it does not list, broker, or escrow properties — and there is no disclosed subscription, advertising, or enterprise data licensing revenue stream. The company operates with 1-10 employees and has no disclosed institutional funding, M&A activity, or AI/ML capabilities.

Name

Zealty Online Search Inc.

Legal name

Zealty Online Search Inc.

Website

https://zealty.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Zealty Online Search Inc. operates a freemium real estate search and market data platform for British Columbia, combining interactive map and list search with sold-price, expired, and pricing-history data across 50+ BC regions, monetizing via referral commissions to affiliated brokerages such as Holywell Properties.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Real Estate Search Platform

NAICS

Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (51929), Other Activities Related to Real Estate (531390)

SIC

Real Estate (6500)

akta.pro primary industry

Vertical/Specialty Search (e.g., jobs, real estate, travel, products) (BPAMAAAD)

Keywords

• Real estate search
• Property listings
• Sold prices database
• Interactive property map
• BC housing market

Headquarters

HQ city

Sechelt

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Revenue model

1. Referral Commissions: Works with affiliated brokerages who refer users to independent REALTORS for property transactions. Revenue derived from referral relationships with brokerage partners.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Zealty is an online property information and search platform focused exclusively on British Columbia residential real estate. The platform offers interactive map-based and list-based property search with access to for-sale, sold, and expired listings plus pricing history, and it refers users to independent REALTORS through affiliated brokerages such as Holywell Properties.

Product overview

Zealty is a unified online property information and search platform focused on British Columbia real estate. The core offering is the Zealty Software Platform, which provides interactive map-based search (Map Search) and filterable list-based search (List Search) as the primary property discovery tools. These core search capabilities are complemented by supporting services including mortgage advice (Mortgages), home evaluation (Home Evaluation), and an agent directory. The platform also offers a suite of research tools including Housing Market analysis, the Zoned newsletter, Strata Browser for condo buildings, Sales Reports, and Statistics (Monthly/Daily/Table) for market data. The company, founded in 2018, operates in partnership with affiliated brokerages and Holywell Properties to connect users with independent REALTORS.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Map Search Interactive map-based property search tool that allows users to visually explore for-sale, sold, and expired residential listings across British Columbia. Built for individual home buyers, sellers, and researchers in BC.
• List Search

Segments1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Holywell PropertiescoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorHolywell Properties, a British Columbia Brokerage, presents Zealty. The company works with affiliated brokerages who refer users to independent REALTORS that act exclusively in users' best interests to buy and sell property.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Emerging players

• Zoocasa: Canadian real estate search portal with sold-price data, neighborhood insights, and agent-matching tools — overlapping functionality with Zealty's pricing history and research tools.
• Local Logic: Canadian location-intelligence and property-data vendor serving real estate portals with neighborhood insights — adjacent to Zealty's research-tools and market-statistics offering.
• Livabl: Canadian new-construction and resale real estate search platform with map and list views — comparable product surface and audience to Zealty.
• Point2 Homes: Real estate network (formerly Point2) operating cross-Canada listing search with map-based discovery — similar vertical search and map UX to Zealty's core product.

Broad incumbents

• Houseful: Zillow Group-owned Canadian real estate portal (formerly Zolo), headquartered in BC with deep sold-price history and broad consumer brand recognition — directly competing for Zealty's core BC audience with much larger funding.
• Zillow Group: The US real estate vertical-search incumbent that defines the category playbook Zealty's interactive map pioneered — referenced as the analog business model and competitive benchmark for vertical real estate portals globally.
• Realtor.ca: The official CREA-operated national real estate portal with MLS-cooperative listing data across Canada — the dominant Canadian real estate search destination that Zealty's sold/expired history complements rather than replaces.
• Trulia: Zillow Group-owned real estate search portal — same vertical-specialty search category as Zealty with maps, list views, and pricing history as core features.

Direct peers

• REW (REW.ca): BC-based real estate search portal with sold-price data, market stats, and agent referral flows — operates in the same geographies as Zealty with an overlapping audience of BC buyers and sellers.

Others

• BC Assessment: Provincial property data authority that publishes assessed values and transaction records across BC — a key upstream data source that any BC-focused real estate portal (including Zealty) relies on for valuation context.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/zealtysearch
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/zealty-ca

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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