aid: easyknock
name: EasyKnock
description: 'EasyKnock was a New York based residential real estate fintech, founded
  in 2016 by Jared Kessler, that pioneered consumer sale-leaseback in the United States:
  homeowners sold their house to EasyKnock for cash and stayed on as renting tenants
  with an option to repurchase. The company raised roughly $430 million in equity and
  debt and rolled up several proptech businesses — Ribbon Home, Onder, Balance Home,
  HomePace and FarmlandFinder — before consumer lawsuits and state attorney general
  and regulator actions in Massachusetts, Michigan, Connecticut, Texas, Maryland, South
  Carolina, Pennsylvania and Ohio over its sale-leaseback disclosures. EasyKnock announced
  it had closed its doors on December 6, 2024. Its website is now a single static shutdown
  notice, its api.easyknock.com host answers Cloudflare error 1016 (origin DNS deleted),
  and it never published a public developer program, API reference, SDK or machine-readable
  specification. This profile is retained as a historical record; there is no API surface
  to enrich.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/easyknock/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-shutdown-date: '2024-12-06'
x-domain-status: holding-page
x-domain-note: easyknock.com and www.easyknock.com return HTTP 200 but serve a single
  static shutdown notice from a Google Cloud Storage bucket (storage.googleapis.com/easyknock.com/index.html).
  The domain is still controlled by the company, so it is wired as the Website pointer,
  but it carries no navigation, no developer surface and no links of any kind. The
  legacy API host api.easyknock.com still resolves to Cloudflare but returns HTTP 530
  / error 1016 (Origin DNS error) — the origin record behind it has been deleted.
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-12'
modified: '2026-08-12'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Real Estate
- PropTech
- Fintech
- Sale Leaseback
- Home Equity
- Mortgage
- Consumer Finance
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/easyknock-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.easyknock.com/
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/easyknock_stock/
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: EasyKnock ceased operations on 2024-12-06; easyknock.com now serves only a
    static "EasyKnock has closed its doors" notice out of a Google Cloud Storage bucket,
    and the legacy api.easyknock.com host answers Cloudflare error 1016 because its
    origin DNS record has been deleted.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.easyknock.com/
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.easyknock.com/openapi.json
    status: 530
  - url: https://www.easyknock.com/.well-known/api-catalog
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/easyknock
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-08-12'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-12'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 2
  pass: local-v1