Quickstart

Quickstart#

Introduction#

Welcome to the Melissa Property cloud service. This service returns information about a given parcel of property, including: assessed value; last sale price; current mortgage; physical dimensions of land; and square footage. The level of detail may vary according to location.

Property can be used to:

  • Look up U.S. properties by address, county FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) and APN (Assessor’s Parcel Number), or Melissa Address Key (MAK)

  • Find the owner’s name, address, and value of the home

  • Learn about the various properties and characteristics of a property such as size, rooms, number of buildings, amenities, improvements, etc.

  • Search through historical deeds for a home to see past buyers and sales

  • Find other properties owned by a homeowner

New to Melissa Cloud Services?#

We highly recommend first time users of our web services to review our Using Melissa Cloud APIs section. It will cover critical topics like:

System Requirements#

  • SSL/TLS 1.2+

Getting Started - What Can I Do?#

Find historical deeds for a property.

/v4/WEB/LookupDeeds

Click here to go to the full endpoint documentation.

  • GET JSON
  • POST JSON
  • GET XML
  • POST XML
curl -X GET "https://property.melissadata.net/v4/WEB/LookupDeeds?\
&t=Test\
&id={{customerId}}\
&cols=\
&opt=page:1\
&mak=\
&fips=\
&apn=\
&txid=\
&ff=710%20Winston%20Ln%20Sugar%20Land%20TX\
&format=JSON" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json"

curl -X POST "https://property.melissadata.net/v4/WEB/LookupDeeds" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-d '{
      "TransmissionReference": "Test",
      "CustomerId": "{{customerId}}",
      "Columns": "",
      "Options": "page:1",
      "PropertyMAK": "",
      "FIPS": "",
      "APN": "",
      "FreeForm": "710 Winston Ln Sugar Land TX"
    }
   '

curl -X GET "https://property.melissadata.net/v4/WEB/LookupDeeds?\
&t=Test\
&id={{customerId}}\
&cols=\
&opt=page:1\
&mak=\
&fips=\
&apn=\
&txid=\
&ff=710%20Winston%20Ln%20Sugar%20Land%20TX\
&format=XML" \
-H "Content-Type: application/xml" \
-H "Accept: application/xml"

curl -X POST "https://property.melissadata.net/v4/WEB/LookupDeeds" \
-H "Content-Type: application/xml" \
-H "Accept: application/xml" \
-d '<LooupDeedsRequest>
      <TransmissionReference>Test</TransmissionReference>
      <CustomerId>{{customerId}}</CustomerId>
      <Columns/>
      <Options>page:1</Options>
      <PropertyMAK/>
      <FIPS/>
      <APN/>
      <FreeForm>710 Winston Ln Sugar Land TX</FreeForm>
    </LookupDeedsRequest>
   '

Find other properties owned by an individual.

/v4/WEB/LookupHomesByOwner

Click here to go to the full endpoint documentation.

  • GET JSON
  • POST JSON
  • GET XML
  • POST XML
curl -X GET "https://property.melissadata.net/v4/WEB/LookupHomesByOwner?\
&t=Test\
&id={{customerId}}\
&mak=9005381555\
&ff=\
&format=JSON" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json"

curl -X POST "https://property.melissadata.net/v4/WEB/LookupHomesByOwner" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-d '{
      "TransmissionReference": "Test",
      "CustomerId": "{{customerId}}",
      "OwnerMAK": "9005381555",
      "FreeForm": ""
    }
   '

curl -X GET "https://property.melissadata.net/v4/WEB/LookupHomesByOwner?\
&t=Test\
&id={{customerId}}\
&mak=9005381555\
&ff=\
&format=XML" \
-H "Content-Type: application/xml" \
-H "Accept: application/xml"

curl -X POST "https://property.melissadata.net/v4/WEB/LookupHomesByOwner" \
-H "Content-Type: application/xml" \
-H "Accept: application/xml" \
-d '<LooupHomesByOwnerRequest>
      <TransmissionReference>Test</TransmissionReference>
      <CustomerId>{{customerId}}</CustomerId>
      <OwnerMAK>9005381555</OwnerMAK>
      <FreeForm/>
    </LookupHomesByOwnerRequest>
   '

Find additional information about a specific property.

/v4/WEB/LookupProperty

Click here to go to the full endpoint documentation.

  • GET JSON
  • POST JSON
  • GET XML
  • POST XML
curl -X GET "https://property.melissadata.net/v4/WEB/LookupProperty?\
&t=Test\
&id={{customerId}}\
&cols=\
&account=\
&addresskey=\
&a1=710%20Winston%20Ln\
&a2=\
&apn=\
&city=Sugar%20Land\
&country=\
&fips=\
&ff=\
&mak=\
&state=TX\
&postal=\
&format=JSON" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json"

curl -X POST "https://property.melissadata.net/v4/WEB/LookupProperty" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-d '{
   "TransmissionReference": "LookupProperty POST Test",
   "CustomerId": "{{customerId}}",
   "TotalRecords": "1",
   "Columns": "",
   "Records": [
      {
            "RecordID": "1",
            "AddressLine1": "710 Winston Ln",
            "AddressLine2": "",
            "City": "Sugar Land",
            "State": "TX",
            "PostalCode": "",
            "MAK": "",
            "FIPS": "",
            "APN": "",
            "FreeForm": ""
      }
   ]
}'

curl -X GET "https://property.melissadata.net/v4/WEB/LookupProperty?\
&t=Test\
&id={{customerId}}\
&cols=\
&account=\
&addresskey=\
&a1=710%20Winston%20Ln\
&a2=\
&apn=\
&city=Sugar%20Land\
&country=\
&fips=\
&ff=\
&mak=\
&state=TX\
&postal=\
&format=XML" \
-H "Content-Type: application/xml" \
-H "Accept: application/xml"

curl -X POST "https://property.melissadata.net/v4/WEB/LookupProperty" \
-H "Content-Type: application/xml" \
-H "Accept: application/xml" \
-d '<LooupPropertyRequest>
      <TransmissionReference>Test</TransmissionReference>
      <CustomerId>{{customerId}}</CustomerId>
      <Columns/>
      <Account/>
      <AddressKey/>
      <AddressLine1>710 Winston Ln</AddressLine1>
      <AddressLine2/>
      <APN/>
      <City>Sugar Land</City>
      <Country/>
      <FIPS/>
      <FreeForm/>
      <PropertyMAK/>
      <State>TX</State>
      <PostalCode/>
    </LookupPropertyRequest>
   '
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