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How to Give Your AI Access to Live Housing Market Data

Connect your AI agent to mortgage rates, property valuations, and affordability metrics from FRED, ATTOM, Altos, and 5 more sources through Pipeworx Housing Intel.

When someone asks their AI “What are current mortgage rates?” or “What’s the housing market look like in Denver?”, the AI is stuck with whatever it learned during training. That data could be months or years old. Housing markets move weekly.

Pipeworx Housing Intel gives your AI agent live access to 44 tools across 8 authoritative data sources — the same sources that housing economists, brokerages, and institutional investors use to make decisions.

What’s inside Housing Intel

FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)

The Federal Reserve publishes 800,000+ economic time series. Housing Intel gives your AI the ones that matter for real estate: 30-year fixed mortgage rates (MORTGAGE30US), housing starts, Case-Shiller home price indices, existing home sales, and the full suite of housing-related economic indicators.

Tools: fred_get_series, fred_search, fred_series_info, fred_category, fred_releases

ATTOM Data

Proprietary property-level intelligence. ATTOM is what powers many of the tools real estate professionals pay thousands per year to access — automated valuations, sales history, tax assessments, rental estimates, and school data for individual properties.

Tools: attom_property_detail, attom_avm, attom_sales_history, attom_assessment, attom_rental_avm, attom_school_search, attom_search, attom_sales_trend

Altos Research

Real-time market conditions updated weekly. Altos tracks inventory levels, new listings, pending sales, days on market, and price reductions at the ZIP, city, and state level. This is the pulse data that tells you whether a market is heating up or cooling down right now.

Tools: altos_market_stats, altos_inventory_trend, altos_active_listings, altos_pending_sales, altos_new_listings, altos_list_files

BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics)

Employment data that drives housing demand — construction employment, JOLTS openings, unemployment rates, CPI shelter and rent components, and wage data.

Tools: bls_get_series, bls_search, bls_latest, bls_popular_series

Census Bureau

Building permits, housing starts, homeownership rates, and American Community Survey housing data by geography.

Tools: census_acs, census_building_permits, census_housing_starts, census_homeownership, census_available_datasets

HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development)

Fair market rents, income limits, affordability data, and geographic crosswalks that connect ZIPs to counties and metro areas.

Tools: hud_fair_market_rents, hud_income_limits, hud_crosswalk, hud_chas, hud_list_states

Compound tools: one call, multiple sources

Housing Intel includes pre-built workflows that chain multiple data sources in a single call:

  • housing_market_snapshot — macro view combining FRED mortgage rates, FHFA home price index, and metro-level data
  • housing_property_report — property detail + AVM valuation + sales history + tax assessment for a specific address
  • housing_rental_analysis — rental AVM estimate + HUD fair market rents + rent CPI trends
  • housing_affordability_check — payment calculator + income limits + metro home price index
  • housing_employment_outlook — construction employment + JOLTS + unemployment data
  • housing_signal_scan — 46-series signal detection across Case-Shiller, metro CPI, NAR data, employment, and wages

Example questions your AI can now answer

  • “What are current 30-year mortgage rates and how have they trended this year?”
  • “Give me a property valuation and sales history for 456 Oak Ave, Austin TX”
  • “What does housing affordability look like in the Denver metro?”
  • “Which markets are seeing the biggest inventory increases right now?”
  • “Is construction employment keeping up with housing demand?”

Connect

Add to your MCP client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-housing": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp?vertical=housing"
    }
  }
}

Or call ask_pipeworx with any housing question — the gateway routes to the right tools automatically.

Every data point comes from the Federal Reserve, BLS, Census Bureau, HUD, ATTOM, or Altos Research. Authoritative sources with established methodologies — not scraped web data, not AI-generated estimates.