Where HUT finds Houston real estate truth
No black box. Every signal HUT shows you comes from a named, public, or licensed source. Here is the full list of feeds and refresh cadences powering Truth Map, Motivation Score, and Opportunity Radar.
HCAD
DailyHarris County Appraisal District — ownership of record, tax assessments, exemption history, and parcel boundaries. The authoritative public record for every Houston-area property.
HAR & MLS feeds
Real-timeHouston Association of Realtors active listings, price history, days-on-market, listing-language signals, and status changes.
Foreclosure trustee filings
Same-dayNotices of trustee sale, lender, balance, and auction date as posted by the trustee — surfaced the same business day they post.
County tax delinquency
WeeklyHarris County tax office records of delinquent property taxes — an early indicator of seller financial pressure.
Court records
WeeklyProbate filings, divorce filings, lis pendens, and other public court records that often precede a property hitting market. Investor Radar tier and above.
VA REO & HUD foreclosure
DailyDepartment of Veterans Affairs Real Estate Owned and HUD-foreclosed listings — federal repossession listings often missed by MLS-only platforms.
FSBO & Craigslist
DailyOwner-direct listings (For Sale By Owner, Craigslist real estate) often missing from MLS — a quiet but real source of off-market opportunity.
School quality
AnnualTexas Education Agency (TEA) and GreatSchools school-performance overlays for every property card.
FEMA flood & environmental
As updatedFEMA flood zones and Harris County Flood Control District data — critical for Houston, where flood risk dramatically shifts insurance, financing, and resale.
Demographics & jobs
QuarterlyCensus ACS, BLS employment, and Harris County economic-development data that feed the moat-score job-corridor signal.
Refresh cadences at a glance
Honest limits
- HUT is Houston-first. Other metros are available on request for Broker Enterprise customers, but the default coverage is Harris County and the surrounding Houston metro.
- We do not scrape MLS in violation of any feed agreement. HAR-licensed feeds, public county records, and explicit RSS/JSON sources only.
- Users are encouraged to verify any critical legal or financial decision with a licensed professional. HUT shows what the public record says — you decide what it means.