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2026 Real Estate Brokerage Data Call Instructions

2026 Real Estate Brokerage Data Call Instructions

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Listing brokerages are required to report data on:

  1. Residential Real Estate Transactions – All sales of residential property* with a firm date between February 15, 2026 and March 14, 2026 where the brokerage provided services to the seller.
  1. HBRP – All rescissions occurring in 2025 (January 1 – December 31, 2025) where the brokerage provided services to the seller.

Exemption:

Brokerages that are members of the GVR Board and their managing brokers are exempt from providing residential real estate transaction data for transactions involving property located within the geographical area served by the GVR Board. ​

Brokerages and managing brokers that are members of the GVR Board and who list or sell properties outside of the GVR Board area are still required to submit real estate transaction data for those transactions. This includes reporting transactions for all offices located outside of the GVR Board area (i.e., branch offices).​

All brokerages (regardless of being members of the GVR Board) and their managing brokers are still required to report data on the use of the HBRP for the 2025 calendar year. If a brokerage does not have any relevant information to provide, the brokerage/managing broker(s) must make a NIL submission reporting no rescissions on the IRIS portal.

  • For the purpose of this Data Call, residential property refers to existing and newly built dwellings including :

    • Detached houses;
    • Semi-detached houses (e.g., duplexes);
    • Townhouses;
    • Apartments within a duplex or other multi-unit dwelling;
    • A residential strata lot (condos);
    • Manufactured homes that are affixed to land; and
    • A cooperative interest that includes a right of use or occupation of a dwelling.

    (This does not include property that is on lease hold land or the sale of property under the Real Estate Development and Marketing Act i.e. presales)

Data must be reported by completing the following workbooks:

For expediency and accuracy, BCFSA highly recommends that brokerages complete the Transaction Data Workbook in real-time throughout the Data Call period (i.e., as transactions are completed) and that submissions are entered manually (as opposed to copy and paste).

Learn how to make a 2026 Data Call submission and how to troubleshoot common errors in the step-by-step guide.

If you have any questions on completing the workbook, please contact datacall@bcfsa.ca.

How to Submit the Workbooks

  1. You will receive two email notifications with links to the HBRP and Transaction Data service requests in IRIS. There will also be a link to the service requests on your brokerage’s dashboard in the IRIS portal.  
  2. Download the HBRP and Transaction Data workbooks, or from within the service request itself.  
  3. Save the workbooks to your system.  
  4. Complete the workbooks. Please reference the Instructions and Definitions tabs located within the workbook as needed.  
  5. Log into IRIS.  
  6. Upload the completed HBRP and Transaction Workbooks to the corresponding service request on the submission page and then submit the service requests.  

You will receive an email notification via IRIS informing you if your submissions are complete or if corrections or additional information are required. The deadline for submitting complete submissions is April 17, 2026.

For more information on how to navigate IRIS, please visit Navigating IRIS | BCFSA. If you have any questions or issues with IRIS please contact 1-866-206-3030 or datacall@bcfsa.ca.

Mandatory Compliance Required

Response to the 2026 Data Call is mandatory for all trading services brokerages. Section 93.1 of the Real Estate Services Rules (“Rules”) requires licensees to provide records and information pursuant to requests by the Superintendent and in accordance with the requirements specified by the Superintendent.

Section 93.1 is a Category A designated contravention pursuant to section 26 of the Rules, and is subject to an administrative penalty of $1,000 for a first contravention and $2,000 for any subsequent contravention under section 27 of the Rules.

Failure to respond to the 2026 Data Call may result in the issuance of an administrative penalty to the brokerage and its managing broker(s).