YASNIFY

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How to Research Edmonton Properties Before Buying: Complete Guide

Traditional property due diligence in Edmonton takes hours: checking City portals for permits, cross-referencing EPS crime maps, hunting for 311 complaints, verifying flood zones, looking up school ratings. Yasnify automates this entire pre-purchase property check into a single 5-second report. Here's how it works — and what you get.

How Yasnify property reports work (4 steps)

  1. 01

    Enter Any Edmonton Address

    Type a street address in the search bar. Yasnify resolves it against the City of Edmonton address registry with autocomplete — no typos, no ambiguous matches. Works for houses, condos, vacant lots, and commercial properties across Edmonton.

  2. 02

    Yasnify Pulls 13+ Live Data Sources

    In under 5 seconds, Yasnify aggregates official datasets from Edmonton Police Service, the City of Edmonton, Alberta Education, and Edmonton Transit Service — replacing hours of manual portal-hopping.

    • EPS crime incidents — daily refresh, 1 km radius
    • Building permits since 2009 — 236,000+ City of Edmonton records
    • 311 service requests — neighbourhood complaints by block
    • Flood zones — 100-year floodplain + surface ponding tiers
    • Fire protection — hydrant proximity + fire station district
    • School ratings — Alberta Education PAT scores
    • Transit access — ETS stops within 800 m, LRT proximity
    • Zoning overlays — current zoning + permitted uses
    • Property assessment — latest City of Edmonton assessed value
  3. 03

    Get a Transparent 0–100 Yasnify Score

    Every property receives a composite Yasnify Score (0–100) combining crime & safety, 311 complaint volume, school quality, transit accessibility, greenery, traffic exposure, and fire protection. Every +/- point is explained in the report — drill into raw incidents, permit history, and neighbourhood benchmarks.

  4. 04

    Share, Export, or Set Alerts

    Export a branded PDF, share a secure dashboard link with clients, set property alerts for new permits / crime incidents / 311 complaints, or compare properties side-by-side on the Pro plan.

Schools & transit data

School quality and transit access are two of the largest drivers of long-term Edmonton property value. Yasnify surfaces both in every report.

What's included

  • Public and separate schools within 1.5 km — elementary, junior high, senior high.
  • Yasnify school score (0–10) — calculated from Alberta Education Provincial Achievement Test (PAT) results.
  • Grade ranges — K–6, 7–9, 10–12, derived from the school type.
  • ETS transit stops within 800 m — bus routes serving the property.
  • LRT station proximity — distance to nearest Capital Line or Metro Line station.

Data sources

  • Schools: Alberta Education + City of Edmonton schools GIS layer.
  • School ratings: Alberta Education Provincial Achievement Test results.
  • Transit: Edmonton Transit Service (ETS) GTFS feed + LRT station locations.

Illustrative example

St. Joseph · Catholic K–6 · 123 m

Yasnify School Score: 7.2 / 10

Generic illustration of the school display format — not a real address.

Yasnify Score (0–100) explained

The Yasnify Score is a composite 0–100 metric. Unlike simple walk scores or raw crime counts, it combines multiple livability factors into one number — and shows you exactly which factors moved it up or down.

Scoring factors

  • Crime & safety — EPS incident density and severity within 1 km (violent vs property vs disorder)
  • 311 complaints — Service-request volume and category mix on the block
  • Schools — Proximity and Alberta PAT-based ratings for nearest public and separate schools within 1.5 km
  • Transit access — ETS bus stops within 800 m and LRT station proximity
  • Greenery — Park access and tree canopy coverage
  • Traffic exposure — Distance to major roads (noise + air-quality proxy)
  • Fire protection — Fire hydrant distance and fire station response district (affects insurance)

How the breakdown looks

Every report shows how each factor contributed to the final score. Positive factors (low crime, strong nearby schools, good transit access) add points. Negative factors (high traffic exposure, recurring 311 complaints, distant fire hydrant) subtract points. Full transparency — no hidden calculations.

Methodology

Yasnify's scoring is calibrated against Edmonton-specific data patterns. We publish the factor list above for transparency. Exact normalization curves are proprietary to prevent gaming, but every score in every report is decomposed into per-factor contributions you can audit.

How Yasnify works: common questions

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