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Real estate

Search US property records, listings, valuations, and owner information. RentCast charges per request. RealEstateAPI charges per record and offers detailed ownership and property filters. Both cover US properties only.

When to use which

Not covered by either vendor: commercial real estate, short-term/vacation rental rates, HOA data, non-US properties. For those, fall back to web search or scraping.

RealEstateAPI

Pricing model

metered per property record returned

Method

POST

Coverage

US only

On this service the record count is the cost, not the call count. Two habits follow: survey before you buy, and ask for the fewest records that answer the question.

Actions

• realestateapi/autocomplete (1¢): messy address/city/zip string → canonical values + the RealEstateAPI id. Run it first whenever the address is partial or unformatted, then pass the id downstream. Cheap enough to never guess an address format.
• realestateapi/property-search (5¢ + 15¢/record): compound criteria → filtered list, 110+ fields per record. Location is required: state, zip, address, latitude+longitude+radius, or polygon.
• realestateapi/property-detail (20¢): the full record for one property. Owner + mailing address, mortgages with balance/rate/lender, tax + deed history, equity, flood zone, MLS status. Deliberately no comps flag; use property-comps.
• realestateapi/property-comps (5¢ + 15¢/comp): subject, a derived AVM, and ranked comparable sales. max_results defaults to 10, caps at 25; 3–5 comps usually answers the question at a third of the price.
• realestateapi/avm (25¢): avm, avmMin/avmMax, confidence 0–100. strict: true refuses a fuzzy match rather than valuing the wrong house.
• realestateapi/skiptrace (25¢): owner contact data. Only for genuine owner outreach.
• realestateapi/address-verify (5¢ + 15¢/address): batch up to 10 addresses to normalized records + ids; matches only at confidence ≥ 0.88. Priced on addresses submitted, so send only what needs resolving; for a single messy string prefer autocomplete at 1¢.
• realestateapi/parcel (20¢): parcel boundary as GeoJSON for mapping.

Survey first, then pull records

property-search with count: true returns the matching total, summary: true the lead-type aggregates, ids_only: true the IDs. Each costs 2¢ and bills no records. Only then pull records with size (default 5, max 25), paging with resultIndex. A 25-record page is $3.80, so know the count before running it.

# 1) survey: 2¢, no records billed
curl -X POST https://vaaya.ai/api/run/realestateapi/property-search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VAAYA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"zip": "78244", "high_equity": true, "absentee_owner": true, "count": true}'

# 2) pull the first 10 records: 5¢ + 10 × 15¢
curl -X POST https://vaaya.ai/api/run/realestateapi/property-search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VAAYA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"zip": "78244", "high_equity": true, "absentee_owner": true, "size": 10}'

curl -X POST https://vaaya.ai/api/run/realestateapi/avm \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VAAYA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"address": "5500 Grand Lake Dr, San Antonio, TX, 78244", "strict": true}'

Request gotchas

• Identify one property by id (best, from autocomplete/search), a formatted address ("5500 Grand Lake Dr, San Antonio, TX, 78244"), house+street+state, or apn+fips. Requests that name no property are rejected.
• Filters are snake_case with _min/_max pairs (beds_min, value_max, equity_percent_min), not range strings like RentCast.
• Lead-type flags are booleans: absentee_owner, out_of_state_owner, corporate_owned, high_equity, free_clear, vacant, pre_foreclosure, foreclosure, auction, reo, tax_lien, inherited, cash_buyer, investor_buyer, mls_active/mls_pending/mls_sold, pool.
• Skip-trace address inputs travel in peers: address needs city+state or zip alongside it, or the call 400s.
• For “what’s listed” questions, use RentCast; listings are its lane.

RentCast

Pricing model

flat per request; 1 row or 100, same price

Method

GET-style params

Coverage

US only

• rentcast/properties (30¢): property records by address. Attributes, tax assessment + history, sale history, owner names. Not listings.
• rentcast/value-estimate (35¢): estimated price + low/high range + the ranked comps used.
• rentcast/rent-estimate (35¢): monthly rent + range + rental comps.
• rentcast/sale-listings / rentcast/rental-listings (30¢): active listings; status: "Inactive" for historical listings.
• rentcast/market-stats (30¢): avg/median prices and rents, price per sqft, days on market, listing counts, by property type and bedroom count, with monthly history.

curl -X POST https://vaaya.ai/api/run/rentcast/market-stats \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VAAYA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"zipCode": "78704"}'

Request gotchas

• address format is strict: "Street, City, State, Zip".
• Area searches need zipCode, city+state (both, case-sensitive: "Austin", "TX"), or latitude+longitude (+radius in miles, max 100). Location-less searches are rejected; upstream would silently default to Austin, TX.
• market-stats requires a 5-digit zipCode; it cannot aggregate a whole city.
• Numeric filters take range syntax as strings: bedrooms: "2-4", price: "300000-500000", yearBuilt: "2015-2026"; comma lists work too ("2,3"). Plain numbers are exact-match.
• Value/rent estimates: pass bedrooms/bathrooms/squareFootage only to override the auto-looked-up subject attributes (e.g. after a renovation); bedrooms: 0 means studio. compCount 5–25.
• Listings and records page via limit (default 50, max 100) + offset.
• Market history lookback: sale stats from Jan 2024, rental stats from Apr 2020. Don’t promise longer.