Terms of Use
Operating rules for live listings, the agent dashboard, and sold-data access.
Effective date: October 17, 2026. Last updated: October 17, 2026.
1Eligibility and accounts
HousePeek's publishing and Studio features are designed for licensed real estate professionals, authorized brokerage staff, and approved service providers acting with proper authority.
Users must provide accurate account, identity, and brokerage information and keep it current. This includes valid RECO registration (or equivalent provincial registration) for licensed professionals publishing listings.
housepeek.ca may suspend, reject, or re-review accounts where verification fails, information is inconsistent, or platform risk is unacceptable.
2Studio-designed listing content
HousePeek Studio generates unique listing page designs, layouts, copy, and visual treatments based on property details and instructions provided by the listing professional or brokerage.
Studio-designed content is created to serve the listing professional's property marketing. The agent or brokerage is responsible for reviewing Studio-designed content for accuracy, compliance with provincial advertising rules (including TRESA and RECO requirements), and consistency with brokerage standards before publishing.
Published pages show the listing professional's name and title and the brokerage's name with the word 'Brokerage', as entered by the agent. The agent confirms these match their RECO registration. applicable advertising rules.
Studio-designed pages are unique to each listing and are not reused across different properties or teams. The agent or brokerage may edit, regenerate, or replace any Studio-designed element.
HousePeek retains the right to moderate Studio-designed content to ensure compliance with platform policies, applicable laws, and regulatory advertising standards.
3Publishing rules
Users may only publish listings they are authorized to advertise, market, or manage.
Listing content, whether manually entered or Studio-designed, must be accurate, lawful, non-deceptive, and consistent with applicable provincial advertising rules, human rights obligations, and brokerage requirements.
Content that is discriminatory, misleading, infringing, unauthorized, abusive, or non-compliant may be removed, rejected, or archived without notice.
4Lead capture and data handling
Buyer inquiry information captured through listing page gates must be used only for legitimate real estate follow-up, support, and relationship management in compliance with applicable privacy and electronic communications laws.
Agents and brokerages are responsible for how they contact leads once data is delivered to them, including compliance with CASL (Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation) for any commercial electronic messages.
housepeek.ca preserves inquiry records and consent text as evidence of platform operation and for dispute handling.
5API and dashboard usage
The dashboard and API exist to manage an agent or brokerage's own listing inventory, Studio interactions, and connected workflows.
API keys must be kept secure and may only be used by approved agents, brokerages, or their authorized automation runtimes.
housepeek.ca may rate-limit, revoke, or restrict API capabilities where usage creates operational, legal, or competitive risk.
6Intellectual property and data rights
Users retain responsibility for ensuring they have the rights to upload listing photos, floor plans, descriptions, logos, and other materials.
For HousePeek presentations prepared from listing materials, users and approving brokerages must ensure the materials supplied to HousePeek, including property facts, descriptions, photos, logos, and documents, are authorized for the intended public display.
Users grant housepeek.ca the rights reasonably necessary to host, display, index, cache, distribute, and promote submitted listings, including Studio-designed variations, within the platform and related search surfaces.
Studio-designed listing pages are created as a service to the listing professional or brokerage. They may use the generated page for the listed property. The underlying models, design system, and platform code remain the property of HousePeek.
housepeek branding, software, interface design, documentation, and platform content remain the property of housepeek or its licensors.
7Moderation, suspension, and takedown
housepeek.ca may review, edit, refuse, flag, suspend, archive, or remove listings, Studio-designed content, accounts, assets, or API access to address policy, legal, safety, fraud, or trademark issues.
housepeek.ca may respond to rights-holder, regulator, consumer, brokerage, or board complaints without prior notice where immediate action is reasonable.
Repeated or serious violations may result in permanent loss of access.
8Compliance and regulatory cooperation
HousePeek is committed to operating in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations governing real estate advertising in Canada, including TRESA, RECO advertising requirements, PIPEDA, CASL, the Ontario Human Rights Code, and applicable provincial equivalents.
HousePeek cooperates with regulatory bodies including RECO, provincial real estate councils, and privacy commissioners in connection with complaints, audits, or investigations related to listings on the platform.
Agents and brokerages are responsible for their own compliance with brokerage policies and regulatory requirements. HousePeek provides tools and safeguards but does not replace professional judgment.
9Disclaimers and liability boundaries
housepeek.ca does not guarantee that Studio-designed listing pages are free from errors, that listings will generate leads, or that platform availability will be uninterrupted.
The platform is not legal, financial, tax, appraisal, health, brokerage, or title advice.
Where permitted by law, use of the platform is at the user's risk and liability is limited as set out in the HousePeek Listing Services Agreement (fees paid in the three months before the claim), subject to non-excludable legal rights. If these Terms and the Listing Services Agreement conflict, the Agreement governs.
Questions about these terms? Contact us at js@housepeek.ca