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Spain's Housing Crisis Is Boiling Over. Is America Approaching the Same Tipping Point?
An 87-year-old woman's eviction ignited protests across Spain. But the underlying housing crisis bears a striking resemblance to America's. With housing shortages and home-price appreciation at remarkably similar levels, are we approaching our own tipping point?
Salesforce Is Trying to Price Something SaaS Has Never Had to Price Before
Salesforce has built a new meter for AI-agent activity — but hasn’t said what the meter is worth yet. Its evolving Headless 360 rate card offers a glimpse at what may come after seat-based SaaS pricing.
5 Weird Real Estate Facts For Your Labor Day
From a bear that hasn't been seen in 100 years to a tree that took a cannonball and a tax system that goes left, here are five surprising real estate facts from across the US (Labor Day edition).
AI Agents Won't Kill SaaS. But They May Kill the Seat.
AI agents may not kill SaaS. But they could kill seat licenses. CoStar’s new AI restrictions reveal how agents are forcing software companies to rethink users, pricing, and consumption.
Zillow Lost Traffic and Grew Revenue 18%. Here’s What That Tells Us About the Future of Real Estate
Zillow’s traffic fell 2%. Revenue rose 18%. Rocket is converting nearly half of Redfin buyers into mortgage customers. A year after I argued brokerages would become platforms, Q2 earnings show the bigger shift...
Wall Street Isn't “Buying Up All the Homes” Anymore — Mega Investors Just Hit a 14-Year Low, and Small Investors Own 63% of What's Left
Institutional homebuyers have fallen to their smallest share since 2011, while small investors now account for nearly two-thirds of investor purchases. The 2025 data reveals a housing market that looks very different from the one still dominating the headlines.
The Tax Bill Is Frozen. The Market Isn’t.
We started with a simple question: what happens when property taxes fall decades behind the market? Delaware gave us the answer. Then we looked at Pennsylvania—and found something worth paying attention to.
Your Database Says The Deal Is Dead. The Documents Say Otherwise
Weekend warriors throw these deals away because the surface record looks impossible. But is the deal actually dead, or has no one done the curative work required to bring it back to life?
Redfin Says Buyers Have Leverage. Here’s the Hidden Supply They’re Missing.
Redfin says 630,000 more sellers than buyers. We pulled the data on what's behind that number — and the latent supply pool will surprise you.
February Already? Only right we show you love...
January was about depth, not breadth. We leaned into property history, identity resolution, and workflow context — shipping new transaction fields, personIDs, and a faster DIY console. Here’s what we built, why it matters, and the operator conversations that shaped it.
🎉 2025 Year in Review: Building the Property Intelligence Layer for Humans and AI
More than 2B API calls later, RealEstateAPI reflects on building an AI-native property intelligence platform for proptech, fintech, and home services.
7 Practical Reasons to Convert Data to CSV Format (With Real-World Examples)
Teams convert data to CSV because it’s simple, portable, and works everywhere. Here are seven practical reasons CSV remains the go-to format for exporting and sharing data—plus real-world examples.
RealEstateAPI Ranked #1 for Ease of Admin on G2 — Why It Matters for Developers and Data Teams
G2 users ranked RealEstateAPI the #1 platform for Ease of Admin in Property Intelligence, reflecting our commitment to fast onboarding, intuitive tooling, and a frictionless developer experience
Insights from Inman Connect 2025: The Rise of the Brokerage-as-a-Platform
At Inman Connect 2025, a single quote summed up the shift in real estate: “It doesn’t make sense to run a brokerage without ancillary services.” The old model is cracking—and a platform-based future is here.
Surviving the SaaS Extinction-Level Event
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that CRUD-based SaaS apps are doomed in the AI era. We analyzed 100+ platforms to find out which will survive—and why. The results surprised us.
Innovation is fueling a new era in real estate, and RealEstateAPI is at the center of it
RealEstateAPI is solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology to help the Real Estate industry move forward faster than ever before.
Close More Deals with Assumable Mortgage Property Data
Discover the $2T secret weapon in today's high-rate market: 10M+ assumable mortgages at rates as low as 3-4%. Learn how to find and use them to close more deals.
Beyond Trigger Leads: Future-Proof Your Mortgage Prospecting
As trigger lead legislation tightens, smart lenders are turning to property data signals that reveal mortgage opportunities before competitors even know they exist.
Top 10 Enterprise Use Cases for Property Data APIs
Property data APIs offer enterprises powerful ways to enhance operations, improve customer experiences, and drive innovation. From address autocomplete to AI applications, these 10 use cases demonstrate how to use property data to gain competitive advantages and deliver measurable ROI.
Address Autocomplete: What it is & how to use it
Discover why your applications need address autocomplete to improve user satisfaction and eliminate property data errors—and how to add it fast.
G2 Winter 2025 Rankings
RealEstateAPI received top honors in the most recent slate of G2 Reports
What is a Real Estate API? A Guide to Real Estate Data Integration
A real estate API (Application Programming Interface) is a digital tool that enables developers to access and integrate comprehensive real estate data into applications, websites, or services. These APIs provide real-time, on-demand information on properties and parcels.
G2 Fall Rankings
RealEstateAPI received top honors in the most recent slate of G2 Reports
Proptech’s Golden Moment: How You Can Capitalize on Post-NAR Settlement Disruption
Proptech will fix the mess wrought by the NAR settlement. Here's how...
Top 5 reasons most data warehouse projects fail
The Hidden Costs of Bulk Data Licensing Data is like oxygen for a SaaS company–especially in the real estate industry. Proptech companies have become experts at using property data to design customer journeys that are smooth as glass. Home services companies use the data to examine the age and stage of a house to figure out which consumers are likely to need their services. More than 50% of data warehouses fail to make it to user acceptance. - Gartner Group A product manager with visions of m
Housefolios saves six-figures with REAPI
Housefolios is a residential real estate analysis platform that enables investors to evaluate opportunities with red-light, green-light simplicity. Beneath the intuitive UI is a powerful data crunching engine that chews through enormous amounts of market data to formulate its recommendations. In order to execute their ambitious plan, the company needed access to nationwide property data, including historical transactions. The Challenge In order to build a recommendation engine that the masses
The Real Reason Silicon Valley Bank Failed –and why your startup still might.
RealEstateAPI is offering a free Starter plan to help companies impacted by the Silicon Valley Bank collapse.
Is REAPI similar to Snowflake?
REAPI is a big data as a service platform that aims to solve the challenge of data delivery for small to midsize companies without the resources to build their own data warehouse.
Why CSV remains a powerful and popular file format after 40 years.
A comma-separated values file, is a widely-used format for exchanging data. Adding a CSV generator to your app can be a powerful way to improve overall user experience.
What Is A Flat File Database?
A flat file is a type of database file that stores data in a plain text format, with each line of the file representing a single record and each field within that record being separated by a delimiter
The Difference Between a Data Lake and a Data Warehouse
Are you a researcher or an application developer? The answer may help you determine whether you need a data lake or a data warehouse. Continue reading to learn how these data cousins differ.
What Is A Data Lake?
A data lake is a centralized repository for large amounts of structured and unstructured data. But there are limitations. Read on to learn what they can (and cannot) do for your business.