# Locus: Property Scan

> Locus: Property Scan is a paid API for AI agents from api.locus.report, paid per call via x402, $0.1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Scans local records, parcel rules, and risk signals for a given property address to surface factors affecting its use, cost, development potential, or future value.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.locus.report/api/locus-property-update
- Price: $0.1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/locus-property-scan-ae7130c8
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Ktnd5yifXA1KCOMhZNAbW

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability locus-property-scan-ae7130c8 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you run a property scan on 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield, IL — focus on zoning, environment, and market signals, looking back 2 years within 2000 meters?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a broad, multi-dimensional property intelligence scan combining zoning, environmental, market, development, and infrastructure signals in one call. Prefer it over point-lookup tools when you want a holistic risk-and-opportunity picture for due diligence, investment research, or development planning — especially when local parcel records and risk signals are needed together rather than from separate sources.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unrecognizable address returns empty records or error
- Focus array exceeding 3 items rejected by schema validation
- radiusMeters or lookbackDays outside allowed bounds cause validation error
- No records found for rural or unmapped addresses
- Payment failure (x402) blocks the request from executing
- Stale or incomplete local record data may produce caveats in response

## How this service works

Research one property or compare a shortlist before a showing, offer, project, or tax appeal. Run free public-record checks, then buy deeper x402 reports with ready-to-run next steps.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with a scan ID, timestamp of generation, an array of property records covering requested focus areas (zoning, environment, market, development, infrastructure), and any caveats about data completeness or freshness.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "brand": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "logo"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "logo": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "role",
      "url",
      "sourceName",
      "rightsConfirmed",
      "rightsBasis",
      "rightsHolder",
      "permittedUse",
      "attestedAt",
      "privacyReviewed"
     ],
     "additionalProperties": false
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "focus": {
   "type": "array",
   "items": {
    "enum": [
     "development",
     "zoning",
     "environment",
     "market",
     "infrastructure"
    ],
    "type": "string"
   },
   "maxItems": 3
  },
  "address": {
   "type": "string",
   "maxLength": 240,
   "minLength": 5
  },
  "lookbackDays": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 365,
   "maximum": 3650,
   "exclusiveMinimum": 0
  },
  "radiusMeters": {
   "type": "number",
   "default": 1500,
   "maximum": 10000,
   "exclusiveMinimum": 0
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "id": "locus_example",
  "caveats": [
   "Example artifact; not live data."
  ],
  "records": [],
  "generatedAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/locus-property-scan-ae7130c8/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.locus.report](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.locus.report/llms.txt)