BatchData Launches Reverse Skip Trace API for Phone-to-Property Matching

BatchData says its Reverse Skip Trace API is now generally available in the U.S., letting customers resolve a phone number or email into a person and a linked property in one call. The tool also returns compliance signals, which BatchData says can help teams screen unknown inbound contacts before they respond.

Why it matters: - Teams that field unknown inbound calls or lead forms can identify a person and linked property faster, which may shorten qualification time for sales, service and compliance workflows. - The API combines identity resolution, property context and compliance signals in one response, reducing the need to stitch together multiple vendors or manual lookups. - BatchData says usage is based on matched people returned, not API calls made, which shifts cost toward successful resolution rather than unsuccessful searches.

What happened: - BatchData announced general availability of its Reverse Skip Trace API for customers in the United States. - The API takes a phone number, an email address, or both and returns the person behind it, plus the property linked to that person. - The company says the product is available now to proptech platforms, real estate investors, insurers, lenders and home services businesses already using BatchData property data. - Teams can send a sample file of phone numbers or email addresses and get results back against their own data. - Full field-level documentation, use cases and pricing are available here.

The details: - Reverse Skip Trace is described as reverse contact enrichment for industries outside real estate and recovery. - The API accepts one input at a time or up to 100 inputs per call. - The system returns up to three top matches per lookup, ranked by match strength. - BatchData does not accept a name as an input for this endpoint. - Returned identity fields can include full name, first, middle and last name, aliases, date of birth where available and an owner-of-record flag. - Phone intelligence includes additional numbers, line type, carrier and reachability signals. - Email records include ranked addresses and deliverability testing. - Address data can include street, city, state, ZIP, ZIP+4, county and address validity. - Linked property output includes property ID, situs address, mailing address when different and owners of record. - Compliance signals include Do Not Call and TCPA flags on each number, plus litigator and deceased indicators on the person. - BatchData says the compliance signals are included in the response at no extra charge. - BatchData says it does not present those signals as clearance to call and customers remain responsible for consent, suppression lists, state registries and calling-hour rules. - The company says the property returned is the one currently linked to that person, not a history of every property ever owned. - BatchData says deceased and litigator flags are indicators, not certified suppression files.

Between the lines: - The product is built for workflows that start with a phone number or email already in hand, rather than with a person’s name. - BatchData is positioning the endpoint as more than a reverse lookup by tying identity resolution to property ownership in the same system. - The company declines to publish a single match-rate figure, saying data quality depends more on the source of a customer’s file than on the endpoint itself. - That approach suggests BatchData wants buyers to test performance on their own records instead of relying on a broad average. - Pricing based on matched records rather than calls reflects the company’s view that failed lookups should not be billed.

What's next: - Published plans start at Growth for $3,000 per month for up to 100,000 matched records and run through Enterprise at $30,000 per month for 3,000,000 matched records. - Professional is priced at $7,500 for 300,000 records, and Scale is priced at $15,000 for 750,000 records. - Pay-as-you-go is available for teams that want to measure volume first. - Records above a monthly allotment bill at the plan’s per-record rate rather than a penalty tier. - The API is also available through BatchData’s MCP Server for natural-language use without custom integration. - Bulk delivery and managed match-and-append services are also available. - BatchData says the endpoint is accessible now through synchronous and asynchronous RESTful JSON APIs using the same account and credentials as its other products.

The bottom line: - BatchData is betting that the biggest value in reverse lookup is not just finding a person, but pairing that person with the property and compliance context needed to act immediately.