How the Ecuadorian market works
The short answer is no — and not because nobody tried. The data those platforms run on does not exist in Ecuador. Here is what that changes for you, and what we are building instead.
Underneath, Zillow and Redfin are a good interface on top of public data: the MLS, which requires every broker to list properties in a shared database, and county records, which make every closed sale price public. Ecuador has neither. There is no MLS, no public record of sale prices, and no single database every listing flows into. Without that data, the same interface cannot be built.
In the US you can see the closing price of every house on the block. Here sale prices are not public, and the figure declared on the deed is usually below the real one for tax reasons. The only number you will find published is what someone is asking.
With no shared database, the same house can appear on three portals with three agents and three different prices. There is no way to tell which one is current without calling all three.
Most listings drop an approximate marker, sometimes blocks away from the actual lot. From abroad you have no way to check until you fly down.
An automated valuation needs closed sales to learn from. None are published in Ecuador, so any figure you see is computed from asking prices, not from what people actually paid.
It is the one open dataset Ecuador does have, and it is good: we draw the real lot polygon from Cuenca's municipal cadastre onto the map. Not an approximate pin — the actual boundaries. It is the Ecuadorian equivalent of the parcel records you are used to.
We publish a reference range for each sector, so you can compare what you are being offered against what the area is worth instead of taking someone's word for it.
We chain the history by cadastral key — the parcel's ID — rather than by listing. If the same house is put back on the market years later with a different agent, its history carries over instead of starting from scratch.
Since nobody publishes them, we are gathering them ourselves: the buyer claiming their cashback reports what they paid and backs it with a document. They are the only person in the whole chain with a financial reason to tell the truth.
livoW is new and still has few published properties. We are not going to tell you we are the Zillow of Ecuador while the catalog is just getting started. What is built is the part above: the cadastral lot, the per-sector reference and the per-parcel history. And if you are looking for something we do not have yet, we will go find it for you.
