Housing Intel

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Housing Intel MCP — Meta-pack that chains FRED, BLS, ATTOM, and HUD APIs

7 tools

0ms auth

free tier 50 calls/day

Tools

housing_market_snapshot

Get a national housing market snapshot — 30-year mortgage rates, housing starts, Case-Shiller home price index, unemployment, owners equivalent rent, and construction employment. Mortgage rates, housi

No parameters required.

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housing_property_report

Complete property analysis combining ATTOM data — property details, automated valuation (AVM), sales history, and tax assessment in one call. Note: this meta-pack uses _attomKey (not _apiKey like the

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housing_rental_analysis

Rental market analysis for a property and area — estimated rent (ATTOM), fair market rents (HUD, if key provided), and CPI rent trend (BLS). Note: uses _attomKey (not _apiKey) for ATTOM access.

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housing_affordability_check

Check housing affordability metrics — current mortgage rate (national), median home price (national), metro-level FHFA HPI if metro_name provided, average hourly earnings, estimated monthly payment, i

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housing_employment_outlook

Labor market indicators relevant to housing — total nonfarm employment, construction employment, residential building employment, unemployment rate, JOLTS job openings, and JOLTS hires. All from BLS (

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housing_signal_scan

Comprehensive housing market signal scan — checks 45+ indicators for reversals, unusual moves, acceleration, and extreme readings. Covers: mortgage rates, housing starts/permits, NAR existing home sal

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housing_mortgage_history

Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey — weekly US mortgage rates back to 1971. Returns the latest snapshot, a time series for the requested window, and min/max/avg stats. Sourced from Freddie Mac directly (not FRED), ingested weekly by the Pipeworx data pipeline.

Parameters

Name Type Description

window opt string 1m | 3m | 6m | 1y | 5y | all (default 1y)

as_of opt string Optional YYYY-MM-DD — returns the rate for the closest observation on or before that date.

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools

bash

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/housing-intel/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

Call a tool

bash

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/housing-intel/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"housing_market_snapshot","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("housing_market_snapshot", {});

ask_pipeworx

// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("housing intel mcp — meta-pack that chains fred, bls, attom, and hud apis");

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MCP Config

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-housing-intel": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/housing-intel/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}