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Research a home before you make an offer

Price history, recent sales nearby, flood zone, permits, taxes, schools and commute for one address.

  • You start it: When you start it
Use in CuiarRun from your AI agent

What it does

The task

Research the home for sale at address. Find its listing and price history on Zillow, and 6 sales of similar homes nearby in the last 12 months. Check the flood zone, the permit history and the property tax on the official county or city sites. Find the school ratings for the address, and the commute time at 8:00 to work address by car and by transit on Google Maps. Write a brief of 15 lines or fewer, with a fair price range and the questions to ask the seller's agent.

  • It works in Zillow, Google Maps and any government site, in the workspace you pick, and signs in with passwords from your Cuiar vault.
  • It runs once, when you start it.

What you give it

BlankWhat to giveExample
addressThe address of the home for sale418 Alder Lane, Brookfield, WI 53005
work addressThe place you travel to on most daysDowntown Milwaukee, WI

What you get back

An example run with the example values above. Your run uses your own data.

418 Alder Lane, Brookfield, WI: brief before an offer

List price: $489,000, listed 23 days ago, cut from $515,000

Last sale: $312,000 in 2017

Similar sales nearby (6 in 12 months): $455,000 to $502,000, median $236 per sq ft. This home: $242 per sq ft.

Flood zone: X (low risk). Permits: roof in 2019; no permit found for the basement bathroom

Property tax: $7,940 (2025)

Schools: elementary 8/10, high school 9/10

Commute at 8:00: 24 min by car, 52 min by transit

Fair price range: $470,000 to $485,000

Ask the agent: the basement bathroom permit, the age of the furnace, why the price was cut

Run it in Cuiar

  1. 01

    Open it

    Click Use in Cuiar on this page. The side panel opens with the task in the composer.

  2. 02

    Fill in 2 blanks

    Type address and work address. Tab moves to the next blank.

  3. 03

    Run it

    Run sends it to the agent. Follow each step in the panel, and stop it at any time.

From the terminal

cuiar exec "Research the home for sale at 418 Alder Lane, Brookfield, WI 53005. Find its listing and price history on Zillow, and 6 sales of similar homes nearby in the last 12 months. Check the flood zone, the permit history and the property tax on the official county or city sites. Find the school ratings for the address, and the commute time at 8:00 to Downtown Milwaukee, WI by car and by transit on Google Maps. Write a brief of 15 lines or fewer, with a fair price range and the questions to ask the seller's agent."

Run it from your AI agent

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other MCP clients reach Cuiar at https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp. Add the server one time, then ask for the task in plain words, or call run_task yourself.

1. Add Cuiar to Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http cuiar https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp

2. Ask your agent

Use the Cuiar tool run_task to run my "Research a home before you make an offer" template with address = 418 Alder Lane, Brookfield, WI 53005; work address = Downtown Milwaukee, WI.

Setup for other agents: AI agents.

The tool call

{
  "name": "run_task",
  "arguments": {
    "task": "Research the home for sale at 418 Alder Lane, Brookfield, WI 53005. Find its listing and price history on Zillow, and 6 sales of similar homes nearby in the last 12 months. Check the flood zone, the permit history and the property tax on the official county or city sites. Find the school ratings for the address, and the commute time at 8:00 to Downtown Milwaukee, WI by car and by transit on Google Maps. Write a brief of 15 lines or fewer, with a fair price range and the questions to ask the seller's agent."
  }
}

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