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Practical ideas about AI, MCP, WordPress, and the platforms behind your real estate website.

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Real Estate MCP: What the IDX Broker MCP Can Do Today

A real estate MCP in practice: what the IDX Broker MCP does with an IDX Broker account today, example prompts, honest limits, and how to get access.

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GoHighLevel and IDX MCPs: how the two connections could work together

A practical proposal for using an IDX account and a GoHighLevel location in one assistant, with clear boundaries between today's tools and a future lead handoff.

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IDX Broker MCP: Where We Are, V1 to V4 and Beyond

A developer-to-developer status report on the IDX Broker MCP: version history, 103 tools, what works, what we are working through, and how to test it.

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iHomefinder MCP: Where We Are, V1 to V5

A developer-to-developer status report on the iHomefinder MCP: what V1, V2 and V3 do, what we learned from the API, what is next, and how to connect during early access.

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Showcase IDX MCP: How We Are Approaching It

Showcase IDX has no public developer API. Here is why we are building an MCP anyway, our two-part plan, and what we will not do.

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Showcase IDX MCP Roadmap: V1, V2, V3

Where the Showcase IDX MCP stands: what V1 contains, what V2 and V3 might be, what is built and what is not, and how to test it as a developer.

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What Showcase IDX Exposes, and What an AI Agent Could Do With It

A developer's inventory of what Showcase IDX documents, what its dashboard appears to use internally, and the tools an AI agent could offer. Internal parts are unverified.

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A more useful AI workflow starts with your website.

For iHomefinder users, the best place to begin is a specific task—not another AI subscription.

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Your WordPress stack is part of the AI conversation.

IDX is one connection. Publishing, plugins, and the rest of your website deserve a place in the tool directory too.

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Ask AI About Your IDX Broker Leads

Use an AI assistant to review, sort and follow up on IDX Broker leads. Example prompts, plus the privacy points to keep in mind.

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Claude for Real Estate: Working With Your IDX Account

What Claude can do with an IDX Broker account via MCP: lead review, saved searches and links. Plus the limits agents should know.

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Create IDX Broker Saved Searches With AI

Set up and change IDX Broker saved searches by describing them in plain language. How it works through MCP, with examples and limits.

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