# EU Rent Inflation by Country (HICP)

> EU Rent Inflation by Country (HICP) is a paid API for AI agents from api.vextorium.com, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-15).

Returns year-on-year change in actual rents (HICP component) for a European country, the EU, or euro area, or a ranking of all countries if no country is specified; sourced from official Eurostat data.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.vextorium.com/v1/eu-rent-inflation?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/eu-rent-inflation-by-country-hicp-79e48d39
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_0HZcJ2oQ0jG9HwCyML7K2

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## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability eu-rent-inflation-by-country-hicp-79e48d39 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the Eurostat HICP actual rents inflation data for Spain for the last 24 months and tell me what the year-on-year change has been recently?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need official, Eurostat-sourced HICP actual rents inflation data for any European country, the EU aggregate, or the euro area, especially when you need a historical time series or a cross-country ranking. Prefer this over generic economic data APIs when Eurostat provenance and HICP methodology compliance are important, or when you specifically need the housing rent sub-component rather than overall CPI or HICP.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unsupported country ISO code returns an error or empty result
- Requesting a country outside Eurostat's coverage scope may yield no data
- Eurostat data may have a publication lag so the most recent months may be unavailable
- Too many months requested beyond available historical data may truncate the series
- Missing required body fields may cause a validation error

## How this service works

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## Output

Returns a JSON object containing the country name and ISO code, a time series of year-on-year rent change percentages by period, the most recent period's value and date, the data source (Eurostat HICP), and the timestamp of the last data update. When no country is specified, returns a ranked list of all European countries by current rent inflation.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "months": {
   "type": "integer"
  },
  "country": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "ISO code (ES, DE, FR...), EU, EA or omit for a ranking of all countries"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "last": {
   "period": "2026-08",
   "annual_change_pct": 2.5
  },
  "name": "Spain",
  "series": [
   {
    "period": "2026-04",
    "annual_change_pct": 2.4
   },
   {
    "period": "2026-05",
    "annual_change_pct": 2.5
   }
  ],
  "source": "Eurostat (HICP, alquileres reales, CC BY 4.0)",
  "country": "ES",
  "updated": "2026-10-02T11:00:00+0200"
 }
}
```

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