The agent could not access homes.com directly (403 on all fetches) and assembled a partial understanding from third-party search results and anecdotal reviews. The site does not publish pricing clearly and does not expose its feature comparison to automated agents.

• ›Every fetch to homes.com returned HTTP 403 Forbidden, blocking direct access to the homepage, about page, and support articles—suggesting bot detection or access restrictions that prevent automated inspection.
• ›The agent relied entirely on a single web search result set [step 5] to construct its answer; no on-domain content was retrieved, making the response wholly dependent on third-party interpretation and anecdotal user reviews.
• ›Homes.com pricing is not published in a machine-readable or centralized form; the agent had to reconcile conflicting claims (subscription vs. pay-per-lead vs. one-time boost) and noted annual figures ranging from $100–$2,160 depending on agent profile, with no canonical source.
• ›The agent correctly identified that it could not verify feature differentiation from Homes.com itself and noted that the only comparative source (Zillow article) had a stated bias, refusing to speculate beyond what sources said.
• ›The site does not surface information about consumer pricing, company background, or current feature set in a way that the agent could verify; the agent appropriately flagged these gaps and recommended human verification via browser access and direct vendor contact.