AMPRE
The BrokerFold Team — Product + Engineering
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AMPRE is the data-distribution platform through which the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board delivers MLS listing data to registered website and software vendors. It speaks the RESO Web API standard, and the licensing that governs it comes from PropTx, the data arm behind TRREB’s feeds. When a Toronto agent’s website shows a new listing minutes after it hits the board, AMPRE is the doorway it came through.
How the feed actually works
A vendor registers, gets credentialed, and then replicates: every few minutes it asks the platform for records that changed since its last checkpoint — new listings, price changes, status moves, photo updates — and copies them into its own database. Well-built websites serve pages from that local copy rather than calling the board on every page view, which is what makes fast search and map browsing possible at scale. Access isn’t one bucket, either. The paperwork splits into lanes — IDX for public display of active listings, VOW for the gated sold and off-market layer, and further lanes for internal brokerage tooling — and each lane carries its own permissions. The practical comparison lives in IDX vs VOW.
Why it matters for your website
Where a provider sits in this chain decides what your website can be. A platform consuming AMPRE first-hand as a registered vendor controls its own sync cadence, field coverage, and photo handling; one reselling somebody else’s integration inherits every upstream limitation and adds its own lag. BrokerFold replicates the TRREB feed directly on a five-minute cycle, mirrors photos to its own infrastructure, and serves listings from its own database — the full picture is on TRREB data feeds.
Common confusions
AMPRE is not a public website and has no consumer login — it exists only vendor-to-board. It is also not the licence itself: credentials move the data, but what a site may display is set by the agreement lane it holds, which is why two sites on the same platform can lawfully show different depths of data. And it is Toronto-flavoured plumbing, not a national standard: other Canadian boards distribute over their own platforms, so a website that covers more than one board has to speak each board’s dialect — same RESO grammar, different doors.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need my own AMPRE account to show TRREB listings on my website?
No. Vendor registration belongs to your website platform, and the data agreement behind it runs through your brokerage. You approve the paperwork; the vendor operates the feed. An agent never queries AMPRE directly.
Is AMPRE the same thing as the MLS?
No. The MLS is the board's system of record where members enter and manage listings. AMPRE is the distribution layer that copies that data out to approved websites and software. If a listing looks wrong on a website, the fix happens in the MLS — distribution just carries it.
Keep reading
- TRREB data feeds TRREB distributes listing data through three lanes — IDX, VOW and DLA — over the AMPRE RESO Web API. A vendor's first-hand map of what each carries.
- TRREB IDX website A TRREB IDX website with the board's live feed: 15-minute sync via RESO Web API, photos on our own CDN, and listings that publish only when complete.
- RESO Web API The RESO Web API is the modern standard for moving MLS data between boards and the platforms that display it. What it replaced and why it matters.
- IDX vs VOW IDX shows active listings to everyone; VOW adds sold and off-market data behind free registration. Most Ontario agents should run both. Where DDF fits.