# Locus: U.S. Address Public Records Report

> Locus: U.S. Address Public Records Report is a paid API for AI agents from api.locus.report, paid per call via x402, $0.25/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Retrieves tax, zoning, flood, permit, sales, development, and legislative public records for any U.S. address, with every data point cited to its government source.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.locus.report/api/locus-place-report-batch
- Price: $0.25/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/locus-u-s-address-public-records-report-b3adf429
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ajzP6Jc9_Uz32PW_XLxOM

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-u-s-address-public-records-report-b3adf429 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Pull the full public records report for 1234 Oak Street, Austin TX 78701 — I need tax, zoning, flood zone, permits, and any recorded sales, all cited back to their government sources.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need comprehensive, government-cited property intelligence for a specific U.S. address in a single call — covering tax, zoning, flood, permits, and sales together. Prefer it over general web search or real estate data APIs when source citation and regulatory compliance data (legislation, zoning) matter, or when doing property due diligence, investment screening, or risk assessment.

## Known failure modes

- Address not found or outside U.S. coverage — returns empty records array
- Insufficient address detail (e.g. only city name) — parcel-level data may be unavailable
- ZIP code provided without street address — limited to ZIP-level aggregated data
- Government source temporarily unavailable — some record categories may be missing
- Payment failure via x402 — request rejected before processing
- Malformed input (missing both address and zip fields) — validation error returned

## How this service works

Async portfolio place-report job for agents. Preflights 3 to 50 addresses, charges one batch price only when at least one item is supported, then returns a pollable job with per-item report ids. Unsupported items remain free diagnostics. No hidden per-item charges, valuation, screening, forecasts, or safe/unsafe labels. npx @velinussage/locus-agent-skill add.

## Output

A structured JSON report containing cited public records for the queried address, including tax assessments, zoning classifications, flood zone designations, building permits, recorded sales transactions, development activity, and relevant legislation — each record linked to its government source, along with a report ID, generation timestamp, and any applicable caveats.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "addresses": {
   "type": "array",
   "items": {
    "type": "string",
    "maxLength": 240,
    "minLength": 5
   },
   "maxItems": 50,
   "minItems": 3
  },
  "webhookUrl": {
   "type": "string",
   "format": "uri",
   "maxLength": 500
  },
  "lookbackDays": {
   "type": "integer",
   "maximum": 3650,
   "exclusiveMinimum": 0
  },
  "radiusMeters": {
   "type": "number",
   "maximum": 50000,
   "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-u-s-address-public-records-report-b3adf429/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)