---
title: "Deploy property-radar"
description: "A self-hosted MCP server for discovering properties for sale or rent."
category: "AI/ML"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/property-radar
---

# Deploy property-radar

A self-hosted MCP server for discovering properties for sale or rent.

**[Deploy property-radar on Railway](https://railway.com/template/property-radar)**

Machine-readable deploy manifest (JSON, validated by TemplateCI): https://railway.com/deploy/property-radar/manifest.json

- **Creator:** David Teather's Projects
- **Category:** AI/ML

## Template content

### console

- **Source:** davidteather/property-radar
- **Health check:** /healthz
- **Public domain:** Yes

### Postgres https://devicons.railway.app/i/postgresql.svg

- **Image:** ghcr.io/railwayapp-templates/postgres-ssl:18

### mcpd

- **Source:** davidteather/property-radar
- **Health check:** /healthz
- **Public domain:** Yes

### versitygw

- **Source:** davidteather/property-radar

### crawler

- **Source:** davidteather/property-radar

## Documentation

# Deploy and Host property-radar on Railway

Property Radar is a self-hosted MCP server for discovering and monitoring
properties for sale or rent. It crawls listings into your own Postgres database
and remembers how you reacted to each one, so Claude or ChatGPT can pick your
home search back up in a new conversation instead of starting from zero. The
server never calls a model itself; the LLM you connect does the judging.

## About Hosting property-radar

Property Radar is five services that this template provisions together: `mcpd`
(one URL serving MCP, a REST API, interactive docs, and a `/connect` setup
page), an always-on `crawler` worker, a small web `console`, Postgres for
listings and taste state, and `versitygw`, an S3-compatible thumbnail cache on
a volume. You type zero secrets: the MCP bearer token, the image-proxy key, and
the storage key are generated per deploy. After the build, open `/connect` on
the `mcpd` domain and paste the one `claude mcp add` line it shows. The only
optional input is a residential Webshare proxy key on the crawler; without it
the cloud crawler idles and you can crawl from your own machine into the same
database. Typical cost is a few dollars a month.

## Common Use Cases

- Give Claude or ChatGPT a persistent memory of your apartment or house hunt: verdicts, a taste rubric, and favorites lists that survive across conversations
- Ask a fresh conversation for "3–5 new homes I'd like" and get picks with your own past reactions as the reasons, judged from the actual listing photos
- Keep a private, always-on listings corpus for a metro (NYC via StreetEasy today) with price history and lifecycle tracking, reachable from hosted MCP clients like claude.ai

## Dependencies for property-radar Hosting

- Postgres (provisioned by the template)
- An S3-compatible object store for thumbnails (`versitygw` on a Railway volume, provisioned by the template)
- Optional: a residential Webshare proxy plan, for crawling from Railway's datacenter IPs

### Implementation Details

Connect a client after deploy:

```bash
claude mcp add property-radar --transport http https:// \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer "
```

URL-only connectors (claude.ai, ChatGPT) pass the token as `?token=…`. Interactive
REST docs live at `/docs`, health at `/healthz`. Set `SEED_CRAWL_AREAS` on the
crawler to pre-seed a standing crawl scope, or let the model queue one with
`request_crawl`. Source, docs, and the full tool list:
https://github.com/davidteather/property-radar

## Why Deploy property-radar on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying property-radar on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.


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