Show sold prices BC

A BC agent can show sold prices on their own website. The route is a VOW: visitors create a free account, click through terms of use, and then see the sold and off-market layer of the tri-board MLS that stays hidden from anonymous traffic. Because British Columbia has no public sold-data lane at all, this is not one option among several — it is the route, and the practical questions are what your visitors will experience, what paperwork stands between you and a live wall, and who runs the compliance clock afterward. Here is the whole path, start to finish.

What your visitor experiences

Anonymous visitors browse your active listings freely, under the public display rules. The moment they reach for sold territory — a sold search, a price history, a sold detail page — they meet the wall: a locked card over a blurred preview and a free-account prompt. Registration is deliberately light: name, email, a real click on the terms of use (which include BCREA’s privacy notice acknowledgment), then a confirmation email they acknowledge receiving. From that point they see sold prices, expired and withdrawn listings, and the deeper field set — dimensions, flooring, zoning — the feed licenses to signed-in visitors. Their password runs on a 30-day clock with no automatic renewal; when it lapses, sold content re-locks until a fresh code-verified confirmation, while their account, saved homes and searches stay intact. Done well, the recurring confirmation is a monthly touchpoint with a warm lead. Done badly, it looks like your site is broken — which is why the lifecycle belongs to software.

The paperwork path

Three parties are involved, and none of them is optional.

1. You and your board. VOW access rides on your membership in one of the three Lower Mainland boards. The display agreements — Reciprocity for the public side, VOW for the registered side — are signed with the board, and your brokerage approves them.
2. The board and your site. The board is notified of your site’s URL before the VOW operates, holds a compliance login to inspect it, and can audit the registrant records your platform keeps.
3. Your platform. The vendor side — the feed, the licensing enforcement, the lifecycle machinery — is BrokerFold’s half of the work. Our data plane handles the tri-board feed natively today; the board relationship stays yours, and we carry the technical chain under it.

Elapsed time is mostly signatures and processing, not engineering. Warning your managing broker before the forms arrive is the single best accelerator.

The clock nobody should run by hand

After launch, the obligations are continuous, and every one of them is automated in the platform: expiry warnings before each 30-day deadline, code-verified renewal, re-locking on lapse, registrant records retained past validity on the board’s schedule, an append-only access log that can face an audit, and a visible last-updated stamp on data that refreshes far inside the daily minimum. The full rule set — including what may never display even to signed-in visitors, and why estimates built on sold data are gated too — is laid out on BC sold data rules. The point of this page is narrower: every item on that list is a platform job, and if a provider hands any of it back to you, that is your answer about the provider.

Why the wall is worth building

The 30-day rule sounds like friction, and it is — but look at what sits behind it. In BC, sold data is the single strongest registration incentive a member website can offer, precisely because no public page anywhere may carry it. Every visitor who crosses your wall becomes a named contact with visible behaviour: which sold records they studied, which neighbourhoods they return to, what their saved searches say about budget and timeline. The general VOW model explains the machinery; the Vancouver-specific case makes the market argument. The BC version of the story is simply sharper than anywhere else in the country: the rules that make sold data hard to show are the same rules that make showing it worth something.