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Find a lender by any spelling of its name

Authorizations

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Authorization
string
header
required

API key from the developer console (starts with zpka_). Create one at https://developers.investorlift.com/get-a-key.

Query Parameters

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q
string
required

The lender to look for: any spelling the recorded instruments use, or part of one. "Kiavi Funding", "LendingHome" and "Wells Fargo Bank N.A." are examples. Case, punctuation and the entity suffix (LLC, INC, NA) do not matter. Send at least 3 letters or digits (400 otherwise).

Required string length: 1 - 200
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market
string

Market code, for example phx. The loaded markets are in meta.coverage[]. It narrows the search to that market. The API answers 400 when that market is not loaded, 422 lenders_unavailable when the market has no published lender registry. Without it the API searches every loaded market with a lender registry and each hit carries its market.

Required string length: 1 - 16
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lender_class
enum<string>[]

Keep only lenders of these classes (comma list or repeated key): BANK, NONBANK, PRIVATE, INDIVIDUAL, GOVERNMENT. It does not lift the two defaults below: INDIVIDUAL and PRIVATE still need include_persons=true, and GOVERNMENT needs include_government=true. For the hard-money sense of private lender, use hard_money=true, not lender_class=PRIVATE.

Minimum array length: 1

How the lender name reads. BANK: a bank, credit union or thrift. NONBANK: a mortgage company or other lending business. PRIVATE: a trust, a seller carry-back or another private party, not the hard-money sense of private lender, which the Lender object carries as is_hard_money. INDIVIDUAL: a person's name. GOVERNMENT: an agency or a public body.

Available options:
BANK,
NONBANK,
PRIVATE,
INDIVIDUAL,
GOVERNMENT
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hard_money
enum<string>

true keeps only hard-money lenders (is_hard_money true). false keeps only the rest. Default: every lender. The registry flags a hard-money lender by name or brand, or by behaviour in a market with the deed link.

Available options:
true,
false
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include_persons
enum<string>
default:false

true includes lenders whose class reads INDIVIDUAL or PRIVATE: a person's name, a trust, a seller carry-back. Default false hides them, the way investor lists hide institutional investors.

Available options:
true,
false
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include_government
enum<string>
default:false

true includes GOVERNMENT lenders: HUD, the VA, a housing authority. Their counts are insurance claims and partial-claim seconds recorded under the agency's name, not originations. Default false hides them.

Available options:
true,
false
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limit
integer
default:10

Lenders to return, 1 to 50 (default 10).

Required range: 1 <= x <= 50
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require_current
enum<string>
default:false

true refuses the request with 422 dated_refused while the registry's source, the financing slice, is a dated snapshot. The default false serves it, and meta.dated[] carries the lenders and financing blocks.

Available options:
true,
false

Response

Lenders that match the query, best match first. page.next_cursor is always null and page.capped is true when the API cut the page at limit.

Lenders that match the query, best match first. page.next_cursor is always null and page.capped is true when the API cut the page at limit.

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data
object[]
required

The hits, best match first.

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page
object
required

The page block of a name search: no cursor, the limit applied, the hits returned and if the API cut the page at the limit.

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meta
object
required

Response metadata: when the API produced it, which markets it covers, and how fresh they are.