aid: teranet
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/teranet/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Teranet
kind: company
description: >-
  Teranet Inc. is the private operator of Ontario's Electronic Land Registration System (ELRS) and the
  POLARIS land records database under a long-running concession with the Government of Ontario, and is
  the exclusive service provider for Manitoba's Land Titles System and Personal Property Registry. Founded
  in 1991, headquartered in Toronto and wholly owned by OMERS, Teranet sits at the base of the Canadian
  property value chain: it holds the authoritative title, parcel, writ and instrument record and resells
  it as commercial products — Teraview, OnLand, Teranet eXpress, GeoWarehouse, PurView, Teranet Xchange,
  DataConnect/ValueProtect AVM, TeraIntelligence — plus the Teranet-National Bank House Price Index. Its
  API posture is licensed access only. Teranet Connect is genuinely described by Teranet as an API (XML
  and web services over POLARIS and the Writs database), but it is licensed to legal-software vendors
  through an account manager, with no public documentation, no published base URL, no self-serve signup
  and no developer portal; Teranet's own support site states plainly that GeoWarehouse has no open API.
  No RESO certification was found — Teranet is a land registry, not an MLS — and the public record it
  stewards is sold back rather than published as open data.
image: https://www.teranet.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/cropped-teranet_favicon_512_512-192x192.png
tags:
- Real Estate
- Canada
- Land Registry
- Title
- Conveyancing
- Property Data
- Valuation
- AVM
- PropTech
- Government
- Geospatial
created: '2026-07-26'
modified: '2026-07-26'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
enrichment:
  round: '2026-07-26'
  contract_discovery: >-
    No machine-readable contract exists. OpenAPI/Swagger, GraphQL, MCP, AsyncAPI, WSDL and
    /.well-known/ paths were probed against every Teranet host including the API-host-root pattern;
    every HTTP 200 was a WordPress soft-404 HTML page. See well-known/teranet-well-known.yml and
    conformance/teranet-conformance.yml for the full evidence.
apis:
- aid: teranet:teranet-connect
  name: Teranet Connect
  description: >-
    Teranet Connect is described by Teranet as an application programming interface providing secure
    access to Ontario's POLARIS land registration database and the Writs database, using XML and web
    services interfaces with rules-based routing. It lets legal document creation and management software
    vendors embed property search (by name, address or PIN), writ search by debtor name, instrument image
    retrieval and map data into their own applications. Access is licensed commercially through a Teranet
    account manager; no public technical documentation, base URL, sandbox or self-serve signup is published.
  humanURL: https://www.teranet.ca/registry-solutions/province-of-ontario/teranet-connect/
  tags:
  - Land Registry
  - Title
  - Conveyancing
  - Ontario
  - Writs
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.teranet.ca/registry-solutions/province-of-ontario/teranet-connect/
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.teranet.ca/registry-solutions/province-of-ontario/
  - type: ProductSheet
    url: https://www.teranet.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Teranet_Connect_Product_Sheet_EN_2.pdf
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/teranet-conventions.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/teranet-authentication.yml
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/teranet-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/teranet-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/teranet-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/teranet-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/teranet-lifecycle.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://www.teraview.ca/en/system-status/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/teranet-changelog.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/teranet-sandbox.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/teranet-llms.txt
- type: Website
  url: https://www.teranet.ca/
- type: About
  url: https://www.teranet.ca/about-teranet/
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.teranet.ca/contact-us/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.teranet.ca/insights/
- type: PressReleases
  url: https://www.teranet.ca/press-releases/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.teranet.ca/terms-conditions/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.teranet.ca/privacy/
- type: LegalNotice
  url: https://www.teranet.ca/legal-notice/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/teranet
- type: Support
  url: https://www.teraview.ca/en/help/
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://teranetcommercialsolutions.zendesk.com/hc/en-ca
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.teraview.ca/en/teraview-pricing/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.teraview.ca/en/become-a-teraview-user/
- type: Login
  url: https://www.teraviewereg.ca/TvApp/Login.jsp?language=en
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.teraview.ca/en/teraview-training-environment/
- type: Training
  url: https://www.teraview.ca/en/teraview-video-guides/
- type: SystemRequirements
  url: https://www.teraview.ca/en/system-requirements/
- type: Policies
  url: https://www.teraview.ca/en/policies/
- type: Accessibility
  url: https://www.teranet.ca/accessibility/
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.teranet.ca/careers/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com