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Melo

Pulls real time real estate listings and market analytics across France into your workflows to automate property sourcing and valuation.

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Why use Ceven?

  1. AI native Melo integration

    • Describe the outcome and Ceven picks the right Melo calls, fills the parameters, and checks the result.
    • Structured, agent friendly tool schemas so each call runs reliably instead of by guesswork.
    • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your Melo data, across all 3 of its actions.

  2. Managed auth

    • Built in OAuth with automatic token refresh and rotation.
    • One place to manage, scope, and revoke Melo access.
    • Per user and per environment credentials instead of shared keys.

  3. Agent optimized design

    • Actions are tuned from real success and error rates so reliability climbs over time.
    • Full execution logs so you always know what ran in Melo, when, and on whose behalf.
    • The agent pauses and asks when Melo is unclear instead of plowing ahead.

  4. Enterprise grade security

    • Fine grained access so you control which agents and people can reach Melo.
    • Least privilege by default, read scopes first and only the writes a workflow needs.
    • A full audit trail of every Melo action to support review and sign off.

Supported tools

Every action Ceven's agents can run on Melo, and when to use it.

Get Cities
Use this when you need to fetch available cities before processing location specific data or setting up regional filters.
List Searches
Pull all existing saved searches to retrieve historical criteria or monitor active property alerts.
Location Autocomplete
Fetch location suggestions based on a partial query to ensure the city or region name matches Melo records.
Simulate Webhook
Trigger a mock webhook event to test if your downstream automation reacts correctly to a new property listing.
Fetch Market Trends
Pull average price per square meter and volume trends for a specific French department or city.
Get Property Details
Retrieve full specifications for a single listing including surface area, room count, and listing age.
Search Listings
Query the database for properties using filters like price range, city, and property type.
Create Search Alert
Save a set of search criteria to receive notifications when new matching listings enter the Melo index.
Delete Saved Search
Remove an old search filter that is no longer relevant to your investment strategy.
Get Region Data
Pull a list of all regions within France to build a high level market map.
Validate Address
Check if a specific French address is recognized within the Melo analytics engine.
Update Search Criteria
Modify the price or size filters on an existing saved search to refine property results.

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Frequently asked questions

Melo uses a proprietary deduplication engine that analyzes property characteristics such as exact surface area, floor level, and address patterns to identify when the same property is listed across multiple portals. When Ceven pulls data through the Melo API, it receives a single unique identifier for that property regardless of how many sources it appears on. This prevents your workflow from creating five different deal entries for one apartment. The system continuously merges new data into existing records to keep the details current without creating noise in your CRM or notification feed.
While Melo has exhaustive coverage in major hubs like Paris, Lyon, and Nice, the depth of analytics varies in very small villages. In high density urban areas, you get granular street level data and real time pricing trends. In rural zones, the API provides broader communal data. If a specific small town has low transaction volume, the market analytics endpoint may return a null value or a regional average instead of a town specific number. Ceven is configured to detect these gaps and can be told to fall back to the department level average.
Yes. Melo enforces a strict rate limit based on your subscription tier, typically measured in requests per minute. If a Ceven workflow attempts to pull thousands of property details in a tight loop, Melo will return a 429 Too Many Requests error. To handle this, Ceven implements an automatic exponential backoff strategy. The agent will pause and retry the request after a short delay to ensure the workflow completes without failing. For users on the basic tier, we recommend batching requests or using saved searches instead of frequent polling.
Absolutely. You can use the Create Search Alert action to tell Melo exactly what you are looking for. Once the alert is active, Melo can push updates via webhooks. Ceven listens for these webhooks and can trigger any subsequent action, such as sending a Slack message to your team or adding the property to a Google Sheet. This means you never have to manually refresh a search page. The agent handles the transition from the Melo event to your internal business process in real time.
Melo provides market trends and analytics that reflect historical movements in price per square meter across different time frames. While it is not a full ledger of every single past sale for every building, it gives you enough aggregated data to determine if a neighborhood is trending up or down. You can pull this data using the market analytics endpoints to compare the current asking price of a listing against the historical average for that specific sector of the city.
The location autocomplete tool is designed to handle the specific way French addresses and postal codes are structured. As you type a partial name, Melo returns a list of validated locations including the city name and the associated department code. This is critical for Ceven workflows because it ensures that when you trigger a search for a city, you are using the exact string that the Melo database expects. This eliminates errors caused by typos or different spellings of the same municipality.
Yes, Melo provides a Simulate Webhook tool specifically for this purpose. In the Ceven composer, you can call this action to send a mock payload to your configured endpoint. This allows you to verify that your data mapping is correct and that your notifications are firing properly without having to wait for a real property to hit the market. It is the recommended way to debug your workflow logic before you trust it with live investment data.
Melo updates its index frequently to reflect the current status of listings. When a property is removed by the seller or agent, the listing status changes in the API. Ceven can be configured to monitor your active deal list and cross reference it with Melo. If a property you were tracking is no longer available, the agent can automatically move that deal to a lost folder in your CRM and notify the relevant team member that the opportunity has closed.

Alternatives to Melo

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