Realtor Desk and Lofty, compared for Canadian agents
Realtor Desk vs Lofty for Canadian agents: published CAD pricing, French per contact, database hosted in Canada. Lofty quotes its prices on request.
Native CREA DDF® sync is on the roadmap and is not live yet.
We build one of the products compared here, so weigh this accordingly.
What the AI in Realtor Desk does, and does not do
What it does
What it does not do
We make no claim here about what Lofty’s AI features do. Ask Lofty for a demo on your own leads and judge it there.
Detailed Feature Comparison
If you decide to switch
The trial runs 14 days. A card is collected up front and nothing is charged before day 14.
Risk-Free Switch
30-day money-back guarantee. Not satisfied for any reason, full refund.
A CSV import you run yourself
Export your Lofty contacts as a CSV file and import that file yourself. Nobody at Realtor Desk moves your data for you. It creates contacts only: no deals, history or consent. The import documentation lists the columns it reads, and the CASL guide covers the consent to record before you email a contact.
Transparent Pricing
$149/mo CAD on the Solo plan. Annual billing saves up to $789/yr.
Choosing between them
We build one of these, so weigh the framing accordingly. What follows is checkable: the Lofty facts come from lofty.com read on 28 September 2026, and ours come from our own pricing and product.
They sell a platform; we sell a CRM
Lofty bundles IDX websites, lead generation programmes and a CRM, with tiers for agents, teams, brokers and enterprise. If you want your website, your paid lead flow and your database from one vendor on one invoice, that is a real advantage and we do not offer it. Realtor Desk is the database and the follow-up, and expects your leads to arrive from wherever you already get them.
Cost is knowable on one side only
We are $149 CAD a month on Solo, or $999 a year, with no setup fee. Lofty does not publish prices — its pricing page asks you to request a quote and notes that cost varies with package, seat count, upgrades and lead-generation programmes. So ask for a written quote covering seats, setup, contract length and anything billed separately, and compare that total. Any number we printed for them would be a guess.
The Canadian specifics
Our production database is hosted in Canada, billing is in CAD, and the interface and client-facing email both work in French. Some outside services (SMS, email delivery, AI drafting) may process data outside Canada. The date and source of consent are recorded per contact and a send from the inbox or by SMS is refused when no consent is on file. Lofty’s site does not make statements about Canadian data residency, CREA DDF or French support — ask them if those matter to you rather than assuming either way.
Who should pick which
Take Lofty if you want lead generation and a website bundled with the CRM and are comfortable with quoted pricing, or if you need seats for a team: Realtor Desk is a single-agent product. Take us if you work alone, have lead sources already and want a CRM that works in two languages at a price you can read off a page. If you are still shortlisting, the buying guide sets out how to run the evaluation, and the page on moving from Lofty covers what a CSV import you run yourself brings across if you do switch.
Lofty vs Realtor Desk Comparison
Realtor Desk vs Lofty for Canadian agents: published CAD pricing, French per contact, database hosted in Canada. Lofty quotes its prices on request.
Pricing quoted on request; not published
$149 CAD a month for a single agent; French per contact; production database hosted in Canada