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Homeward

Homeward is a modern home-finance company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, that partners with real estate agents to turn any homebuyer into a cash buyer. Its cash-offer products let buyers make competitive, contingency-free offers and buy a new home before selling their current one, bundled with affiliates Homeward Mortgage and Homeward Title. For its cash-offer digital partners, Homeward exposes the Offer Estimate API: partners submit seller leads (property, customer, and agent details) and receive a Homeward Offer Estimate — an offer amount, an opinion-of-value range, an Offer Estimate PDF, and a finalization link — plus a public buybox eligibility check. Homeward is backed by Norwest Venture Partners, Blackstone, Breyer Capital, Live Oak Venture Partners, Javelin Venture Partners, Adams Street, and others.

Homeward publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Buybox API, Finalization API, and Offer Requests API. Tagged areas include Company, Real Estate, Home Finance, Mortgage, and Proptech.

Homeward’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, engineering blog, support, authentication, and 17 more developer resources.

40.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 39/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-10 · rubric v0.9.1
AccessSelf serve
3 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyReal EstateHome FinanceMortgageProptechCash OfferTitleLending

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scored 2026-08-10 · rubric v0.9.1
Composite quality — 40.1/100 · thin
Contract Quality 15.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 9.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 1.4 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Homeward Buybox API

Property eligibility checks

Homeward Finalization API

Finalize a lead in the Homeward application

Homeward Offer Requests API

Create, read, and update partner offer requests

Arazzo Workflows 2

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

_Index

ARAZZO

Homeward cash offer — buybox to finalized estimate

Screen a property, request a Homeward Offer Estimate, and fetch the full offer breakdown.

ARAZZO

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

homeward-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 2

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

Homeward Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Homeward Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Homeward Agentic Access

5 operations · 4 acting

5 operations · 4 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: homeward
name: Homeward
description: 'Homeward is a modern home-finance company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, that partners
  with real estate agents to turn any homebuyer into a cash buyer. Its cash-offer products let buyers make competitive, contingency-free
  offers and buy a new home before selling their current one, bundled with affiliates Homeward Mortgage and Homeward Title.
  For its cash-offer digital partners, Homeward exposes the Offer Estimate API: partners submit seller leads (property, customer,
  and agent details) and receive a Homeward Offer Estimate — an offer amount, an opinion-of-value range, an Offer Estimate
  PDF, and a finalization link — plus a public buybox eligibility check. Homeward is backed by Norwest Venture Partners, Blackstone,
  Breyer Capital, Live Oak Venture Partners, Javelin Venture Partners, Adams Street, and others.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/homeward/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- norwest-venture-partners
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enriched-from-public-api
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
image: https://www.homeward.com/favicon.ico
tags:
- Company
- Real Estate
- Home Finance
- Mortgage
- Proptech
- Cash Offer
- Title
- Lending
apis:
- aid: homeward:homeward-buybox-api
  name: Homeward Buybox API
  description: Property eligibility checks
  humanURL: https://api-docs.homeward.com/
  baseURL: https://api.homeward.com
  tags:
  - Buybox
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/homeward-buybox-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Postman
    url: https://api-docs.homeward.com/
- aid: homeward:homeward-finalization-api
  name: Homeward Finalization API
  description: Finalize a lead in the Homeward application
  humanURL: https://api-docs.homeward.com/
  baseURL: https://api.homeward.com
  tags:
  - Finalization
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/homeward-finalization-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Postman
    url: https://api-docs.homeward.com/
- aid: homeward:homeward-offer-requests-api
  name: Homeward Offer Requests API
  description: Create, read, and update partner offer requests
  humanURL: https://api-docs.homeward.com/
  baseURL: https://api.homeward.com
  tags:
  - Offer Requests
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/homeward-offer-requests-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Postman
    url: https://api-docs.homeward.com/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.homeward.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://api-docs.homeward.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api-docs.homeward.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api-docs.homeward.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.homeward.com/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://www.homeward.com/help-centers
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.homeward.com/legalese/terms-conditions-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.homeward.com/legalese/privacy-policy
- type: Postman
  url: https://api-docs.homeward.com/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/homeward-authentication.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/homeward-domain-security.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/homeward-agentic-access.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/homeward-well-known.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/homeward-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/homeward-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/homeward-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/homeward-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/homeward-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/homeward-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/homeward-data-model.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Arazzo
  name: Homeward cash offer — buybox to finalized estimate
  url: arazzo/homeward-cash-offer.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence