# Certihomes — llms.txt

> Certihomes is a real-estate portal for the US that ranks every listing by True Lifestyle Cost (TLC) — the full monthly cost of owning the home (mortgage, taxes, insurance, HOA, utilities, commute), not just the list price.

The site is server-rendered Next.js and exposes machine-readable JSON-LD (`RealEstateListing`, `ItemList`, `RealEstateAgent`) on every page. AI agents are welcome to crawl the site.

## Key endpoints

- `https://portal.certihomes.com/` — landing page with featured listings
- `https://portal.certihomes.com/search?q=<text>&beds=<n>&minPrice=<n>&maxPrice=<n>&city=<c>` — search UI
- `https://portal.certihomes.com/listing/<id>` — listing detail (HTML + JSON-LD)
- `https://portal.certihomes.com/api/listings/search?...` — JSON search API (no auth, public listings)
- `https://portal.certihomes.com/api/listings/<id>` — JSON listing detail
- `https://portal.certihomes.com/sitemap.xml` — sitemap

## True Lifestyle Cost (TLC)

For each listing the page reports a TLC monthly figure with this breakdown:
- mortgage (P&I), property tax, home insurance, HOA, utilities estimate (+ optional commute when signed in)

## Asking questions

To answer "is this home affordable for X budget?" or "find me 3BR under 600k in city Y", call:

`GET /api/listings/search?q=<city>&beds=3&maxPrice=600000`

…and read the `items[].price`, `items[].beds`, `items[].url`. The TLC is computed client-side from the price and tax fields.

Last updated: 2026-05-16