EasyKnock

aid: easyknock
name: EasyKnock
description: 'EasyKnock was a New York based residential real estate fintech, founded in 2016 by Jared Kessler, that pioneered
  consumer sale-leaseback in the United States: homeowners sold their house to EasyKnock for cash and stayed on as renting
  tenants with an option to repurchase. The company raised roughly $430 million in equity and debt and rolled up several proptech
  businesses — Ribbon Home, Onder, Balance Home, HomePace and FarmlandFinder — before consumer lawsuits and state attorney
  general and regulator actions in Massachusetts, Michigan, Connecticut, Texas, Maryland, South Carolina, Pennsylvania and
  Ohio over its sale-leaseback disclosures. EasyKnock announced it had closed its doors on December 6, 2024. Its website is
  now a single static shutdown notice, its api.easyknock.com host answers Cloudflare error 1016 (origin DNS deleted), and
  it never published a public developer program, API reference, SDK or machine-readable specification. This profile is retained
  as a historical record; there is no API surface to enrich.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/easyknock/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
x-api-posture-note: Its website is now a single static shutdown notice, its api.easyknock.com host answers Cloudflare error
  1016 (origin DNS deleted), and it never published a public developer program, API reference, SDK
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-shutdown-date: '2024-12-06'
x-domain-status: holding-page
x-domain-note: easyknock.com and www.easyknock.com return HTTP 200 but serve a single static shutdown notice from a Google
  Cloud Storage bucket (storage.googleapis.com/easyknock.com/index.html). The domain is still controlled by the company, so
  it is wired as the Website pointer, but it carries no navigation, no developer surface and no links of any kind. The legacy
  API host api.easyknock.com still resolves to Cloudflare but returns HTTP 530 / error 1016 (Origin DNS error) — the origin
  record behind it has been deleted.
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-12'
modified: '2026-08-12'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Real-Estate
- PropTech
- Fintech
- Sale-Leaseback
- Home Equity
- Mortgage
- Consumer Finance
tags_raw:
- Company
- Defunct
- Real Estate
- PropTech
- Fintech
- Sale Leaseback
- Home Equity
- Mortgage
- Consumer Finance
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/easyknock-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.easyknock.com/
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/easyknock_stock/
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: EasyKnock ceased operations on 2024-12-06; easyknock.com now serves only a static "EasyKnock has closed its doors"
    notice out of a Google Cloud Storage bucket, and the legacy api.easyknock.com host answers Cloudflare error 1016 because
    its origin DNS record has been deleted.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.easyknock.com/
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.easyknock.com/openapi.json
    status: 530
  - url: https://www.easyknock.com/.well-known/api-catalog
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/easyknock
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-08-12'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-12'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 2
  pass: local-v1