Estated

Estated is a real estate data company that provides an AI-enriched property data API covering more than 150 million US properties. It is built primarily for proptech companies, real estate investors, lenders, insurers, and developers who need structured, machine-readable property data at scale rather than a consumer-facing search interface. Instead of a map or listing portal, Estated exposes raw property intelligence through a developer API that other products and workflows can build on top of.

How Estated works

Estated delivers property data through a REST API. Developers send a query tied to a specific address or parcel and receive a structured JSON response containing ownership records, parcel boundaries, structure details, and AI-generated valuations. The coverage spans residential and commercial properties across the United States, with the data sourced from county assessor records, deed filings, and related public sources, then normalized and enriched before delivery. Because the product is API-first, there is no end-user dashboard in the traditional sense. Integration happens at the code level, meaning the primary workflow is: authenticate, query, and parse the response inside your own application.

Strengths

• Broad property coverage. With data on 150 million or more US properties, Estated covers a substantial share of the national housing stock, which reduces the gap-filling work developers typically face when stitching together county-level sources.
• Structured, normalized output. Raw public records are notoriously inconsistent across counties. Estated normalizes field names and formats before delivery, which cuts down on pre-processing time for engineering teams.
• Multiple data types in a single call. A single API response can return ownership history, parcel boundary data, structure characteristics, and an AI valuation estimate, reducing the number of third-party sources a team needs to manage.
• Free tier available. Developers can begin testing and prototyping without upfront cost, which lowers the barrier to evaluating whether the data quality meets their requirements before committing to a paid plan.

Limitations

• Not designed for consumers. There is no point-and-click interface for individual buyers, sellers, or homeowners. Anyone who wants to look up a single property without writing code will find the product inaccessible.
• Custom pricing with no published tiers. Beyond the free tier, pricing is not publicly listed. Teams that need to forecast API costs before a buying conversation will need to contact sales, which adds friction to the evaluation process.
• Data freshness depends on county update cycles. Because the underlying source material is public record, there can be a lag between a real-world transaction or permit filing and the time it appears in the API. Time-sensitive workflows, such as same-week lien checks, may need to account for this.
• AI valuations are estimates, not appraisals. The automated valuation model outputs should be treated as data points rather than authoritative assessments, particularly for atypical properties or thin-comparable markets.

Who it is for

Estated is a strong fit for proptech startups building lending, underwriting, or investment analysis tools that need reliable property data without maintaining their own county-level data pipelines. It also suits enterprise teams at insurance carriers, home equity platforms, and real estate analytics companies that need to enrich their own records with third-party ownership, boundary, or valuation data. Individual agents, homebuyers, and small landlords looking to research a single property are not the intended audience.

How it compares

Estated occupies a different position in the real estate technology stack than consumer listing platforms. Zillow is primarily a public property search and listing marketplace, and while Zillow does publish some data products, its core design is consumer-facing rather than developer-first. Redfin similarly offers a consumer search experience with agent services layered on top. Neither Zillow nor Redfin is positioned as a raw data API that other businesses can build products on. Estated sits upstream of those platforms in the data supply chain, making it more of a data infrastructure tool than a finished application. Teams that need to power their own products with property data are more likely to evaluate Estated; teams that want a ready-built search experience for end users will look elsewhere.