{"slug":"real-estate-valuation-stack","title":"Real Estate Valuation Stack","published":true,
 "description":"Tools for appraisal and property-market research in Québec and beyond: public registries and assessment rolls, listing portals, spatial analysis, cost data for the cost approach, and the statistical libraries behind hedonic and comparable-sales models.",
 "items":[
  {"tool":"role-evaluation-fonciere-quebec","blurb":"Municipal assessment rolls, the backbone of mass-appraisal datasets in Québec."},
  {"tool":"registre-foncier-quebec","blurb":"Deeds, mortgages and transfer prices from the provincial land register."},
  {"tool":"centris","blurb":"Listing portal of Québec real-estate brokers; the reference for asking prices."},
  {"tool":"realtor-ca","blurb":"The Canada-wide MLS listing portal."},
  {"tool":"qgis","blurb":"Desktop GIS for neighbourhood delineation, buffers and map output."},
  {"tool":"postgis","blurb":"Spatial SQL for joining sales to parcels, zones and distances."},
  {"tool":"openstreetmap","blurb":"Open map data for amenities, roads and footprints."},
  {"tool":"geopandas","blurb":"Spatial DataFrames for Python-based modelling."},
  {"tool":"rsmeans-data","blurb":"Construction cost data for the cost approach and depreciation analysis."},
  {"tool":"statistics-canada","blurb":"Census and housing statistics at the dissemination-area level."},
  {"tool":"statsmodels","blurb":"Hedonic regressions with robust standard errors."},
  {"tool":"scikit-learn","blurb":"Machine-learning baselines and cross-validation for automated valuation models."},
  {"tool":"duckdb","blurb":"Fast local SQL over years of transactions exported to Parquet."}
 ]}