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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 19 more developer resources.

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36.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-30 · rubric v0.17.2
AccessSelf serve
3 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyReal-EstateHome FinanceMortgagePropTechCash OfferTitleLending

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Real Estate Acquisition & Disposition Management
BC-4930
Offer Requests
POST /api/1.0.0/partner/offer-request/ GET /api/1.0.0/estimate/sell/{preliminary_offer_id}/

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-30 · rubric v0.17.2
Composite quality — 36.9/100 · thin
Contract Quality 13.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 10.4 / 20
Access Clarity 4.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Contract Governance 0.5 / 12
Discoverability 8.2 / 10
Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 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 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5
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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

Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Homeward Offer Estimate Buybox API

OPEN COLLECTION

Homeward Offer Estimate Buybox Finalization API

OPEN COLLECTION

Homeward Offer Estimate Buybox Offer Requests API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arazzo Workflows 1

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

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 Server

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

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess
 WellKnown
WellKnown
 MCPServer
MCPServer
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance
Conformance
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 Conventions
Conventions
 DataModel
DataModel
 Arazzo
Arazzo

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Postman
Postman

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication
Authentication
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap
CapabilityMap
 Overlay
Overlay

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
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
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: '0.23'
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
tags_raw:
- 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: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/homeward-capability-edges.yml
  name: Homeward Business Capability Map
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/homeward-offer-estimate-overlay.yaml
- 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

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