Getting Started with Investra AI

Real estate intelligence delivered through AI — search properties, analyze markets, and find deals directly from your favorite AI assistant.

What is Investra AI?

Investra AI is a real estate intelligence platform that connects directly to Claude through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Instead of switching between browser tabs, spreadsheets, and scattered data sources, you can ask Claude to pull live property data, run market analyses, underwrite deals using Buy-Hold-Rent / Fix & Flip / BRRRR strategies, and even skip-trace property owners — all in a single conversation.

Under the hood, Investra exposes 17 specialized tools that Claude calls on your behalf. The results flow back into the conversation so Claude can interpret, compare, and advise — just like having a data-savvy analyst on your team.

Why Claude? Investra AI is built and tested specifically for the Claude family of models — Claude Code (CLI), Claude Desktop, and claude.ai. The tool descriptions, response formatters, and structured content are tuned for how Claude reasons about real estate data.

What You Can Do

Search Properties — Find on-market listings across all 50 U.S. states by location, price, beds, type. Each result is pre-enriched with estimated rent, monthly cash flow, cap rate, PITI, photos, and lat/lng coordinates.
Analyze Markets — Median prices, days on market, inventory, trend direction, demographics, and rental indicators for any city.
Estimate Costs & Underwrite Deals — Run a complete investment analysis using one of three strategies: rental (Buy-Hold-Rent), flip (Fix & Flip), or brrrr (Buy-Rehab-Rent-Refinance-Repeat). Every slider from the Investra platform is exposed: down payment %, interest rate, vacancy, management %, rent override, property tax, insurance, HOA, utilities, maintenance %, closing costs, renovation budget, ARV, holding period, financing rate, refinance LTV, refinance rate, and more.
Get Rent Estimates — Projected monthly rent and comparable rentals from live comp data.
Pull Sales Comps — Recent comparable sales to validate an asking price or ARV.
Browse Curated Deals — Hand-vetted investment deals (fix & flip, BRRRR, buy & hold, wholesale, syndications) with projected ROI.
Search Off-Market Properties — Access 40M+ off-market records for cold-outreach campaigns. (Paid plan required)
Skip Trace Owners — Look up owner contact information for off-market outreach. (Pro Plus required)
Check Interest Rates — Current 30-year fixed mortgage rate from FRED.
ZIP-Level Market Data — HUD Fair Market Rents, ACS demographics, vacancy, owner-occupied %, days on market, $/sqft, schools, and flood-zone exposure for any ZIP.
Find Local Partners — Locate real estate agents, contractors, lenders, and property managers in any market.

Prerequisites

A free Investra account — Sign up here.
An API key — Generate one from your Profile > Developer page.
A Claude client — Claude Code (CLI), Claude Desktop (macOS/Windows), or claude.ai (Pro/Team).

The free plan gives you access to on-market search, market analysis, cost estimates, comps, rent estimates, deal browsing, interest rates, and market data. Off-market search and skip tracing require a paid plan.

Supported Platforms

Client	Recommended Transport	Status
Claude Code (CLI)	HTTP	Fully supported
Claude Desktop (macOS / Windows)	HTTP or stdio (npx)	Fully supported
claude.ai (Pro / Team — web)	HTTP (MCP Connectors)	Fully supported

Investra supports two transports — pick whichever your client prefers:

HTTP transport — point your client at https://www.investraapp.com/api/mcp. No install required. Recommended for Claude Code, Claude Desktop (modern versions), and claude.ai.
Stdio transport — install the official npm package via npx -y investra-ai-mcp. Pulls fresh from npm on every spawn so you always get the latest version. Recommended if your client doesn't yet support remote MCP, or if you prefer running it locally.

The Investra MCP server is also published to the official MCP Registry — search for Investra AI in supported clients.