Simon-Pierre Boucher
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Rent·Ka

Residential rentals across Canada outside Quebec

The English-language sister of Lou·Ka: platform-generator connectors turn each property-management platform into hundreds of sources — adding a manager anywhere in Canada is one registry row.

~9,000

Listings at launch

8

Provinces covered

81

Connectors

53

Platform generators

12

National landlords

Overview

Rent·Ka continuously aggregates rental listings published by Canadian property managers, REITs and national portals — Ontario first, national expansion in progress. Every listing keeps its photos, price, availability and a direct link to the original ad. It launched 2026-08-27 with roughly 9,000 published listings across eight provinces.

Forked from Lou·Ka, it organizes 81 connectors into three families. Platform generators (53) cover LiftSystem/Rentsync, RentCafe, Buildium and AppFolio — one JSON client registry per platform, so adding a property manager anywhere in Canada means appending a single client row with its province. National landlords (12) bring whole portfolios: Boardwalk, CAPREIT, Minto, Morguard, Killam and more. National portals (5) — Rentals.ca, Zumper, Kijiji, Apartments.com, Facebook Marketplace — cover major metros in every province.

Canada-wide enrichment kept from Lou·Ka: KA Scores (walk/transit/bike/quiet/services from OSM), fair rental value, building passports, listing history, re-listed-unit detection, a Winter Score, photo audits and manager profiles. Everything Quebec-only was removed, and a central French-to-English label funnel keeps the database uniformly English — Quebec's “n½” unit notation converts automatically.

Key Features

Platform-registry expansion

Find a property manager on LiftSystem, RentCafe, Rentsync, Buildium or AppFolio and add one client row — the platform connector does the rest.

National landlord portfolios

Dedicated connectors for Canada's biggest residential owners pull their full inventory outside Quebec, AB/SK/BC/MB/NS/NB included.

KA Scores across Canada

Walk, transit, bike, quiet and services scores computed from OpenStreetMap for any Canadian address — no Quebec dependency.

Fair rental value & unit history

Market-value badges, building passports, listing history and re-listed-unit detection carried over from the Lou·Ka engine.

Uniformly English data

A FR→EN label funnel in the schema finalizer translates amenities and availability coming from fr-ca templates; canonical unit types from Studio to Room.

Winter Score

A Canada-appropriate metric grading each building for winter livability.

Tech Stack

Backend

Python (rentka)
FastAPI
SQLite
Nominatim geocoding

Frontend

React
Vite
English (en-CA)
cobalt skin
Ka Maps

Platform

PM2 (web / sync 60 min / ngrok)
snapshot tests on recorded fixtures

Rent·Ka is live

Residential rentals — Canada outside Quebec — part of the Groupe Ka ecosystem.

www.rent-ka.com