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Development Tracker Analytics Guide

How to read city-level development market snapshots, source highlights, filter-aware commentary, and agent-facing JSON outputs.

what it does

What this tool does

Summarizes the curated Development Tracker into a market snapshot with natural commentary, status mix, type mix, known-value totals, largest known-value records, and source highlights.

best use cases

Best use cases

Use it to quickly understand visible development activity in Halifax, Moncton, Fredericton, Saint John, a province, a status slice, or a subject-property radius before deeper research.
Use `/development/halifax`, `/development/moncton`, `/development/fredericton`, and `/development/saint-john` when a crawlable city narrative is more useful than a map filter state.

inputs

Inputs needed

Use province, city, status, type, or address-radius filters. For AI agents, call `/public-api/developments/analytics?province=NS&city=Halifax` or the focus-city index.

outputs

Output explained

Commentary is generated from the filtered records. Known value totals include only parseable public value text, and source highlights prioritize value-driving records with useful public links.
The city snapshot pages present commentary, status mix, type mix, source highlights, and API links as regular HTML so the same market read is available to people, Google, and browser-based AI agents.

limitations

Limitations

The snapshot is not a permit census, construction census, or complete market forecast. It is a curated development-research layer that must be checked against returned public sources.

common mistakes

Common mistakes

Do not compare city totals as if each city has equal tracker coverage. A lower count can mean fewer curated records, not necessarily less market activity.

faq

FAQ

Why are some values missing? Many public notices and project pages do not disclose a usable construction value, so the snapshot separates known value records from unknown value records.

related tools

Related tools and APIs

Use Data Sources to locate municipal planning portals and `/public-api/developments/search` to retrieve capped project records behind a snapshot.

Related surfaces

Tools

Development Tracker, Data Sources, AI Agent Access

APIs

/public-api/developments/analytics, /public-api/developments/city-snapshots, /public-api/developments/search

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Best use cases

Use it to quickly understand visible development activity in Halifax, Moncton, Fredericton, Saint John, a province, a status slice, or a subject-property radius before deeper research.

Use `/development/halifax`, `/development/moncton`, `/development/fredericton`, and `/development/saint-john` when a crawlable city narrative is more useful than a map filter state.

Output explained

Commentary is generated from the filtered records. Known value totals include only parseable public value text, and source highlights prioritize value-driving records with useful public links.

The city snapshot pages present commentary, status mix, type mix, source highlights, and API links as regular HTML so the same market read is available to people, Google, and browser-based AI agents.