McGrath

aid: mcgrath
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/mcgrath/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: McGrath
kind: company
description: 'McGrath is one of Australia''s largest residential real estate brokerage networks, founded in Sydney in 1988
  by John McGrath and operating a mixed company-owned and franchise network of roughly 118 offices across New South Wales,
  Queensland, the ACT, Victoria and Tasmania. Its business lines span residential sales, property management and rentals,
  projects and new-development marketing, rural and livestock, an Asia Desk for offshore buyers, and mortgage broking through
  Oxygen Home Loans. Listed on the ASX in 2015 as McGrath Limited (ASX:MEA), it was acquired in June 2024 by a consortium
  of Knight Frank Australia and New Zealand''s Bayleys for A$95.5m and delisted from the ASX on 28 June 2024. McGrath sits
  on the demand side of the Australian property value chain: it is a brokerage that publishes listings into the REA Group
  (realestate.com.au) and Domain portal duopoly, settles transactions over the PEXA electronic conveyancing network, and consumes
  valuation data from PropTrack and CoreLogic rather than producing any of those rails itself. Its API posture is honestly
  nil. No developer portal exists — developer., developers., api., docs., feeds., data. and portal. subdomains of mcgrath.com.au
  all fail to resolve (NXDOMAIN), and /developers, /api, /docs, /api-docs, /openapi.json, /swagger.json, /$metadata and /.well-known/openid-configuration
  all return HTTP 404. RESO — the only genuinely mandated machine-readable real estate contract anywhere in this study — is
  a North American standard driven by NAR and MLS membership; it has no Australian counterpart and McGrath has no RESO Web
  API or Data Dictionary certification, no OData surface, and no Universal Property Identifier usage. The only interoperability
  standards McGrath demonstrably implements are robots.txt and twelve XML sitemaps; every /.well-known/ document probed —
  security.txt, openid-configuration, oauth-authorization-server, api-catalog, ai-plugin.json — and /llms.txt return 404.
  Its robots.txt enumerates twenty crawler groups including GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot,
  Google-Extended, CCBot and Bytespider, but under RFC 9309 group-matching rules those named AI agents are disallowed only
  from Google Maps JS/RPC paths — the /properties/ and /search/ disallow lands solely on User-agent: *, so the listing corpus
  is nominally open to the named AI crawlers and closed to generic ones, while the properties-buy/sold/rent/leased sitemaps
  advertise those same URLs. Reachability is the harder gate: www.mcgrath.com.au sits behind a Vercel Security Checkpoint
  that answers scripted clients with HTTP 429 and a browser challenge on every path, so no unattended agent can read the site
  regardless of robots.txt. The listing inventory is a marketing asset routed to portals under commercial agreements, not
  a developer surface.'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: none
  onboarding: none-published
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: No published API · No developer onboarding
  confidence: high
  source:
  - probe
  generated: '2026-07-26'
  method: manual
imageNote: The `image` property was removed on 2026-08-26. It had been copied verbatim out of a bootstrap template and pointed
  at an icon belonging to groq, not to this company. That asset returns HTTP 200, so the record rendered another company's
  brand rather than a broken image, which is why it went unreported (roadmap#153). No correct icon has been sourced yet. Shipping
  the wrong company's mark is worse than shipping none; re-run the icon backfill once a real asset exists.
tags:
- Real-Estate
- Australia
- Property Listings
- Brokerage
- Residential Real Estate
- Property Management
- Rentals
- Mortgage
tags_raw:
- Real Estate
- Australia
- Property Listings
- Brokerage
- Residential Real Estate
- Property Management
- Rentals
- Mortgage
created: '2026-07-26'
modified: '2026-07-26'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/mcgrath-domain-security.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/mcgrath-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/mcgrath-llms.txt
- type: Website
  url: https://www.mcgrath.com.au/
- type: About
  url: https://www.mcgrath.com.au/about-us
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.mcgrath.com.au/contact-us
- type: Offices
  url: https://www.mcgrath.com.au/offices
- type: Agents
  url: https://www.mcgrath.com.au/agents
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.mcgrath.com.au/join-us
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://au.linkedin.com/company/mcgrath-estate-agents
- type: Facebook
  url: https://www.facebook.com/McGrathEstateAgents/
- type: Robots
  url: https://www.mcgrath.com.au/robots.txt
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.mcgrath.com.au/articles
- type: Research
  url: https://www.mcgrath.com.au/mcgrath-report
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.mcgrath.com.au/privacy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.mcgrath.com.au/terms
- type: Sitemap
  url: https://www.mcgrath.com.au/sitemap/general.xml
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/mcgrathestate
- type: Instagram
  url: https://www.instagram.com/mcgrathestateagents/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com