redfin-mcp

MCP server for Redfin — natural-language access to listings, property records, market reports, and your saved homes/searches. Routes through your signed-in redfin.com tab via the fetchproxy browser extension, so AWS WAF / DataDome see a real browser session instead of a Node process.

• npm: npmjs.com/package/redfin-mcp
• Source: github.com/chrischall/redfin-mcp

⚠️ Redfin does not publish a public consumer API. This server uses the same private /stingray/... endpoints the redfin.com web app calls, dispatched through your own signed-in browser tab via the fetchproxy extension. Use at your own discretion.

Setup

1. Install redfin-mcp

.mcp.json (project) or ~/.claude/mcp.json (global):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "redfin": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "redfin-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

2. Install the fetchproxy extension (one-time, shared across all fetchproxy-based MCPs)

git clone https://github.com/chrischall/fetchproxy
cd fetchproxy
npm ci
npm --workspace=@fetchproxy/extension-chrome run build

Then in Chrome: chrome://extensions → Developer mode → Load unpacked → pick packages/extension-chrome/dist/.

3. Open redfin.com and sign in.

That's it. No API keys, no env vars.

Tools

Public data

• redfin_search_properties — Search by location + filters (price, beds/baths min, home type). Resolves the location via Redfin's autocomplete then queries the /stingray/api/gis endpoint. Returns matching listings with price, beds/baths, sqft, year built, address, and the Redfin home URL.
• redfin_get_property — Full property record by url (Redfin homedetails URL or path), property_id alone (resolved internally by following Redfin's /home/<id> redirect to the canonical slug, then initialInfo), or property_id + listing_id (fastest — skips resolution). Two-round-trip API: initialInfo resolves the URL to IDs, then aboveTheFold fetches the data. Returns address, beds/baths, sqft, year built, price, status, days on market, primary photo.
• redfin_get_market_report — Median sale/list prices, price per sqft, days on market, year-over-year change, homes sold/on market for a Redfin region. Provide either location (free-text) or region_id + region_type. All metrics returned as formatted strings (e.g. "$870K", "+2.4%").
• redfin_calculate_mortgage — Local PITI calculator. No network call. Provide home price, interest rate, optional down payment / taxes / insurance / HOA / PMI; returns a full monthly breakdown.

Signed-in user data (the unique value vs. paid scrapers)

• redfin_get_saved_homes — Your favorited homes, flattened across all collections. Returns address, price, beds/baths, status.
• redfin_get_saved_searches — Your saved searches with region URLs and display text.

Trigger examples

• "Find me 2-bedroom condos under $1.5M in Brooklyn on Redfin" → redfin_search_properties
• "What does Redfin say about 42 Monroe St in Brooklyn?" → redfin_get_property
• "Pull up my favorited homes on Redfin" → redfin_get_saved_homes
• "What's new on my saved Redfin searches?" → redfin_get_saved_searches
• "Brooklyn housing market trends on Redfin" → redfin_get_market_report
• "Monthly payment on a $500k home, 20% down, 6.5% rate" → redfin_calculate_mortgage

Gotchas

• Sign-in required for saved- tools.* If the user isn't signed into redfin.com in the bridged Chrome tab, those tools fail with SessionNotAuthenticatedError. Public tools work either way.
• AWS WAF challenge. Redfin occasionally serves a WAF challenge to fresh sessions. Solving it in the Chrome tab once unblocks subsequent fetches.
• No write surface yet. All tools are read-only. Saving a home / search / contact form are not implemented in v0.1.
• for_rent / sold listing statuses map to entirely different Redfin URL paths (/apartments-for-rent/..., /recently-sold). v0.1 of redfin_search_properties supports for_sale only.
• No equivalent to Zillow's Zestimate history tool. Redfin's Redfin Estimate is exposed as a current scalar inside redfin_get_property; there's no historical-series endpoint yet.