I’ve been wondering who are the real estate magnates in Montreal for a while. I have spent a few weeks this Summer scraping data and I have some interesting results that I want to share with you today.
Data We use two data sources:
The shape of all the lots in Montreal (more than 500 000) are available as open data on Montreal’s open data website. This is awesome and we will use it to build maps.
![](https://old.simoncoulombe.com/post/2019-09-23-who-owns-montreal_files/top8_mtl.png)