EasyKnock

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.

EasyKnock is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Defunct, Real Estate, PropTech, and Fintech.

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4.6/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
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CompanyDefunctReal EstatePropTechFintechSale LeasebackHome EquityMortgageConsumer Finance

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scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
Composite quality — 4.6/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 4.6 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Easyknock Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

SecondaryMarket
SecondaryMarket

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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-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.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-12'
modified: '2026-08-12'
tags:
- 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