Acquisition intelligence for commercial real estate investors and developers.
Deal sourcing, ownership intelligence, and development signals from land registry data across the US and Canada. Free to start, no credit card, no sales call.
US and Canadian markets · Pre-built property signals · Free to start
Used by real estate professionals at firms across Canada and the United States.
Source acquisition targets across the US and Canada.
Every acquisition starts with the same question: who owns what, for how long, and what are they doing with it. VIREC answers it with signals built from verified public records.
Confirmed ownership transfers across US counties and Canadian provinces, including address, asset class, sale date, and buyer and seller owner IDs.
Verified owners who completed commercial acquisitions or dispositions in a selected time window. See who is accumulating in your target submarket this quarter, and who is exiting positions.
Commercial property owners holding the same asset for 10+ consecutive years. Most likely to entertain an acquisition conversation.
Owners holding several properties in one market. A concentrated local portfolio points to owners with the scale to sell a package or bring in a joint venture partner.
Active sellers, building and demolition permits, distressed properties, and more, assembled from registry, permit, and ownership data.
Track development activity by market and quarter.
Permits are the earliest public signal of what is getting built, torn down, or converted. For investors and developers, permit data validates a market thesis and reveals competitor activity before the construction fence goes up.
See where construction is concentrating before it's obvious.
Commercial building permits organized by market and quarter. See where activity concentrates and how volume trends. Validate a development thesis with data, assess supply-pipeline risk before committing capital, and track how fast a submarket is changing.
The earliest signal of incoming vacant land.
A demolition permit appears in the public record before any site plan, before any rezoning application, before any listing. A cluster on adjacent parcels signals a larger assemblage may be underway, or that an area is being cleared for redevelopment.
Either way, the signal arrives months before anything else in the market confirms the trend. Tracking commercial demolition permits by submarket and quarter gives you that lead time.
Ask a question. Get an answer.
AI Search lets you query the full database in plain language. Type a question. Get a researched answer, with cited sources, that combines VIREC's property and ownership data with live web intelligence.
Queries investors are running today
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interchangeable: they differ in either asset scale, valuation mix, or the relative concentration of higher- and lower-value buildings within Montreal.
Key Metrics
| Owner | Filtered Value | Filtered Units | Value per Unit | Avg Units / Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GESTION IMMOBILIÈRE ROUVRAY | $1.35B | 7,295 | $184,515 | 46.46 |
| FONCIA CAPITAL MONTRÉAL | $1.29B | 6,713 | $192,069 | 55.02 |
| PORTFOLIO HÉRITAGE QC | $511.91M | 3,126 | $163,753 | 28.94 |
Analytical Insights
This sample is highly concentrated in mission-driven housing ownership. That matters because ownership behavior in this group is typically shaped by housing policy, affordability mandates, and long-term stewardship rather than short-horizon value-add turnover. If your goal is to identify acquisition-minded private buyers, this preview suggests the current filter is surfacing the largest holders in the category, not necessarily the most transaction-active private capital. There is also a meaningful difference between filtered…
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Build acquisition target lists. Manage your portfolio.
From research to working list in minutes. From working list to managed portfolio in one platform.
Turn a market thesis into a working target list.
Filter VIREC's full property database by geography, asset class, transaction type, time window, owner type, and tenure.
Save the result as a named working list in My Data and hand it directly to your acquisitions team. Enterprise pushes lists into Salesforce or HubSpot through native integrations. What used to take a day of fragmented research takes minutes.
Property Explorer
Your portfolio workspace inside VIREC.
Track the properties you own, monitor market conditions around your holdings, and manage your positions from a single view.
For investors running a portfolio across multiple markets, My Data turns VIREC from a research tool into an ongoing operating layer. You see your properties alongside the same market signals, ownership data, and permit activity that you used to find them in the first place.
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When your team outgrows the UI.
Everything above is available on Pro at $49 per seat per month (USD). For teams that need programmatic access, deeper integrations, or custom data, Enterprise extends the platform.
Build the data into your underwriting stack.
Direct access to VIREC's commercial property and ownership datasets, feeding underwriting models, internal dashboards, and deal pipeline tools, including an MCP server for AI agents. Bulk data feeds deliver large-volume extracts on a schedule.
Salesforce. HubSpot. Native push.
Push acquisition targets, owner records, and property data directly into your deal management workflows. No manual exports, no broken CSV imports.
Layer VIREC data onto records you already have.
If you already have a list of owners or properties, enrichment fills in the gaps: tenure, portfolio size, permit activity, transaction history.
Account enrichmentDatasets outside the standard catalog.
If your firm needs a specific signal, geographic slice, or data combination that is not available as a pre-built package, the VIREC data team will source and assemble it.
Custom data sourcingSSO/SAML, dedicated onboarding, custom reporting.
Team access management for firms with compliance and audit requirements. Includes custom analytics and reporting tailored to your investment process.
Custom analyticsQuestions investors and developers ask about VIREC.
Specific to acquisition workflows and off-market sourcing.
VIREC identifies off-market acquisition targets by filtering commercial property owners in Property Explorer by tenure, portfolio size, and capital activity. Long-tenure owners holding 10+ years and multi-property owners holding several properties in one market represent the highest-probability off-market opportunities.
VIREC compiles confirmed ownership transfers from land registry records across US counties and Canadian provinces. The Sales Comps signal covers confirmed commercial transactions each quarter, with property address, asset class, sale date, and buyer and seller owner IDs.
VIREC's Active Buyers signal identifies verified owners who completed commercial acquisitions in a selected time window. Filter by market, asset class, and time period to see who is accumulating properties in your target submarket.
Multi-property owners are commercial property holders who own several properties in the same market. A concentrated local portfolio points to an owner with the scale to sell a package, consolidate holdings, or enter a joint venture, so one conversation can cover more than one asset.
Commercial building permit data reveals where construction activity is concentrating by market and quarter, validating development theses and tracking competitor projects. Demolition permits specifically signal incoming vacant land and redevelopment opportunities before any other public indicator.
Yes. VIREC provides commercial property data across US and Canadian markets, sourced from land registry records. All signals are accessible through the same platform.
Property Explorer builds filtered property and owner lists on every plan; Pro adds mail-merge export of contact names and mailing addresses. Full export (CSV, Excel, PDF), API access, bulk data feeds, an MCP server, and direct Salesforce and HubSpot integrations come with Enterprise, along with account enrichment and custom data sourcing.
VIREC starts at $0 with the free Discover plan: AI Search, Property Explorer map search, and no credit card. Pro is $49 per seat per month (USD), or $499 per seat per year. Enterprise pricing is custom and includes API and MCP server access, CRM integrations, and dedicated onboarding.
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Free to start. No credit card. No demo call. Across the US and Canada, from land registry records.