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zillow-mcp MCP Server

Zillow real-estate for Claude — search, property details, Zestimates, saved searches & homes

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Published as zillow-mcp on npm. Runs locally.

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41 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

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real-world #26: raise zillow_compare_properties cap from 8 → 25, or add bulk endpoint

Motivation (from real-world report section 26)

Zillow: zillow_compare_properties cap is 8 like onehome. Raise to 25, or add bulk endpoint, same pattern as onehome P1 #7. Same for Compass and Redfin compare endpoints if they exist.

Two options (pick at least one, preferably both)

A. Raise zillow_compare_properties cap from 8 -> 25. Lower-effort. Existing tool surface; concurrent fan-out same shape as today. Cuts a 53-listing workflow from 7 round trips to 3.

**B. Add `zillow_b

Read the thread · 2026-05-27 · closed · 1 comment

real-world #23: tool description honesty sweep (44-result cap, etc.)

Motivation (from real-world report section 23)

Many tool descriptions oversell or omit critical caveats. Real examples from today:

  • zillow_search_properties doesn't mention the 44-result cap
  • redfin_search_properties doesn't mention rural-ZIP failure mode
  • compass_get_by_address doesn't mention the silent-wrong-match bug
  • redfin_get_climate_risk mentions empty-on-missing but doesn't enumerate WHY data might be missing
  • No MCP documents that addresses across systems

Read the thread · 2026-05-27 · closed · 1 comment

real-world #13: additional derived fields — last_sold_date, last_sold_price, zest_vs_list_pct

Motivation (from real-world report section 13)

The report calls for a set of derived fields on every property record:

  • days_on_market (int) — mirror to others
  • price_drop_amount and price_drop_percent
  • price_per_sqft — standardize the field name
  • last_sold_date, last_sold_price — extracted from the price history, not requiring a separate call
  • zest_vs_list_pct (zillow only) — (list_price - zestimate) / zestimate rounded to one decimal

The days_on_market + `

Read the thread · 2026-05-27 · closed · 1 comment

real-world #12: bundle history into zillow_get_property via include_price_history + include_tax_history flags

Motivation (from real-world report section 12)

Today I needed all three for most workflows; 3 separate tool calls × 53 properties = 159 unnecessary round trips. Add include_price_history: bool and include_tax_history: bool flags to get_property on every MCP that has separate history tools (zillow, redfin, homes-com — compass already returns most of this inline).

Change

Add to zillow_get_property input:

Read the thread · 2026-05-27 · closed · 1 comment

real-world #4: add bulk zillow_resolve_addresses(addresses[])

Motivation (from real-world report section 4)

Today I had 60 addresses across two sessions; getting URLs for all of them took ~6 search calls + ~15 individual resolves + manual matching. A single batch call that takes an array and returns [{address, resolved, url, id, confidence}] collapses this to one round trip.

The report calls for this across all five real-estate MCPs (onehome, zillow, redfin, compass, homes-com). This issue tracks the Zillow side.

API

zillow_resolve_addres

[Read the thread](https://github.com/chrischall/zillow-mcp/issues/53) · 2026-05-27 · closed · 1 comment

### Most recent

### Auto-review follow-ups for PR #171: feat(skill): add zillow fpx access skill

<!-- auto-review-followup:PR-171 -->

Tracking auto-review follow-ups for #171 (verdict: **fail**).

### 🔴 Important
- [x] references/pages.md line 120: Zestimate-history jq recipe `.homeValueChartData[] | select(.name=="This home") // .homeValueChartData[0] | .points` is broken by jq pipe/`//` precedence — returns null instead of falling back to the first chart when no "This home" entry exists — fixed to `(first(.homeValueChartData[] | select(.name=="This home")) // .homeValueChartData[0]) | .p

[Read the thread](https://github.com/chrischall/zillow-mcp/issues/172) · 2026-07-13 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### Shirk the static persisted-query hash: make the GraphQL property fetch inline-first, self-adapting, and degrade safely

## Problem

`src/tools/graphql-property.ts` (from #99/#102) fetches property detail via a persisted-query GET:

GET /graphql/?extensions={persistedQuery:{version:1,sha256Hash:}}&variables=...


keyed on a static `PROPERTY_DETAIL_SHA256_HASH` constant (env override `ZILLOW_PROPERTY_QUERY_HASH`). The brittleness: **Zillow rotates the hash per-deploy**, the pinned constant goes stale, the call returns `PersistedQueryNotFound`, and we silently drop to the SSR `/homedetails/` scrape — wh

[Read the thread](https://github.com/chrischall/zillow-mcp/issues/103) · 2026-05-29 · closed · 0 comments

### Resolver typeahead: use the canonical zg-graph GetAutocompleteResults endpoint

From a usage session (2026-05-29). Captured for a **follow-up** to the in-flight transport/resolver PR (do this after that lands to avoid conflicts). Relates to the P1-2 typeahead-under-recall finding.

The site's own address autocomplete/typeahead uses a GraphQL endpoint that returns clean suggestions and — importantly — sends the **query inline** (not a persisted-query hash), so it has **no hash-rotation fragility** (unlike the property-detail persistedQuery endpoint). The bridge supplies cook

[Read the thread](https://github.com/chrischall/zillow-mcp/issues/101) · 2026-05-29 · closed · 0 comments

### P1: address resolver — promote search-fallback to a first-class rung on typeahead timeout/empty

## Usage report
The shared address resolver (`src/tools/resolver.ts`, used by `zillow_get_by_address` + `zillow_resolve_addresses`) runs a 4-rung ladder: direct → suffix-expansion → locality-remap → search-fallback. The direct rung (rung 1, the typeahead-equivalent `/homes/<slug>_rb/` resolve) currently **propagates a transport timeout** — if rung 1 *times out* (rather than cleanly missing), the whole ladder aborts and the search-fallback rung is never reached.

## Fix
When the typeahead/direct 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/chrischall/zillow-mcp/issues/100) · 2026-05-29 · closed · 0 comments

### P0: move primary property fetch to the persistedQuery GraphQL endpoint (SSR scrape trips PerimeterX at scale)

## Usage report
The current property-detail path scrapes the SSR `/homedetails/<zpid>_zpid/` page and parses `__NEXT_DATA__`. At scale this **trips PerimeterX** (~20 ids ok, ~59 trips the bot-wall), even though the site's own GraphQL API still works for the same listings.

## Fix — adopt Zillow's persistedQuery GraphQL API as the primary fetch (through the bridge, ambient cookies)
- **Endpoint:** `https://www.zillow.com/graphql/?extensions=<urlencoded {"persistedQuery":{"version":1,"sha256Hash":

[Read the thread](https://github.com/chrischall/zillow-mcp/issues/99) · 2026-05-29 · closed · 0 comments

### P0: bulk_get wedges the whole MCP on a slow/hanging row — no overall deadline, no partial results

## Usage report
A 59-zpid `zillow_bulk_get` call hung for the **full MCP client timeout** and then **poisoned the connection** — subsequent small calls also hung until the server was restarted. One bad/slow row wedged the entire server.

## Root cause
`src/tools/bulk-get.ts` already chunks + paces + classifies per-row errors, but there is **no overall hard deadline** on the call. Each sub-request relies on the bridge's per-request timeout (30s default) and `retryOnceOnTimeout`, but if a row's fe

[Read the thread](https://github.com/chrischall/zillow-mcp/issues/98) · 2026-05-29 · closed · 0 comments

### P0: bulk_get trips PerimeterX CAPTCHA mid-batch — misclassified as generic error, no throttle/chunk

## Round-4 field report — P0

A 59-zpid `zillow_bulk_get` returned ~20 clean rows then 403'd the remaining ~39 with PerimeterX `px-captcha` denial pages. Three distinct defects:

### (a) CAPTCHA misclassified — the dangerous one
The retry-once-on-timeout from #78 does NOT catch this — it's an HTTP 403 with a CAPTCHA body, not a timeout. The row surfaces as a generic hard error, indistinguishable from "property not found." A caller seeing `resolved: false` can't tell "this home is gone" from "Zil

[Read the thread](https://github.com/chrischall/zillow-mcp/issues/90) · 2026-05-28 · closed · 0 comments

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