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Frontera Signal Construction Snapshot
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Frontera Signal Construction Snapshot is a paid API for AI agents from fronterasignal.com, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-10).
Returns a weekly construction intelligence snapshot for Rio Grande Valley cities in Hidalgo and Cameron counties, including permits, material prices, labor data, housing supply, and major commercial projects.
Price / call$0.02
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Use when you need a quick read of the construction market in one Rio Grande Valley city (McAllen, Edinburg, Mission, Pharr, San Juan, Weslaco, Donna, Mercedes, Brownsville, Harlingen) or the whole Valley: latest permit counts, metro housing supply and home values, construction input prices, mortgage rate and labor conditions. Every value has an as-of date and its age in days.
Output
A structured JSON object containing: place metadata (city, metro, county), weekly construction permits (latest and historical), material prices (big-box shelf prices), labor data (build times in months), housing supply (entry price per sq ft), sales tax allocation records, new commercial projects, construction cost ranges, housing permits monthly, a link to the latest newsletter issue, and a generated timestamp with staleness indicators on each data point.
Example use cases
Homebuilder market research
“I'm planning a residential project in Mission, Texas — can you get me the current construction costs per square foot, typical build times, and housing permit trends for that city from Frontera Signal?”
Commercial real estate due diligence
“Pull this week's Frontera Signal snapshot for Brownsville and tell me what new commercial projects have been registered with the state and what the latest sales tax allocation numbers look like for Cameron County.”
Material cost tracking for procurement
“What are the current big-box store lumber and material prices in the Rio Grande Valley according to Frontera Signal's latest weekly snapshot? I want to compare against last month.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://fronterasignal.com/api/v1/snapshot?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need hyperlocal weekly construction intelligence specifically for Hidalgo or Cameron County cities in South Texas (Rio Grande Valley). It is uniquely suited for monitoring the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission metro and surrounding Valley cities with granularity not available from national construction databases. Prefer it over general real estate APIs when you need permit counts, regional material prices, local labor estimates, or commercial project filings for this specific geographic market.
Side effects
- Invalid city name not in the enum list returns an error or defaults to full-Valley view
- Data may be stale if weekly research cycle has not yet updated (age_days field indicates freshness)
- Some permit rows may be 'dark' (city has not yet published data) and return incomplete counts
- Response may be truncated for fields with large historical arrays
- Occasional data gaps when county or city records are delayed
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"labor": [
{
"unit": "months",
"as_of": "2026-07",
"stale": false,
"value": {
"low": 9,
"high": 11,
"unit": "months"
},
"source": "Frontera Signal",
"cadence": "monthly",
"measure": "build_time_2100sf",
"age_days": 64,
"value_text": "9-11 months",
"value_type": "range"
}
],
"place": {
"city": "McAllen",
"metro": "McAllen-Edinburg-Mission",
"county": "Hidalgo County, Texas"
},
"permits": {
"note": "Reported rows first. dark = the city pu…",
"latest": [
{
"as_of": "2026-09-25",
"count": 3,
"stale": false,
"source": "Frontera Signal",
"status": "reported",
"cadence": "weekly",
"measure": "commercial_projects_registered_state",
"week_id": "2026-W39",
"age_days": 8,
"value_usd": null
}
],
"history": [
{
"as_of": "2026-09-20",
"count": 3,
"stale": false,
"source": "Frontera Signal",
"status": "reported",
"cadence": "weekly",
"measure": "commercial_projects_registered_state",
"week_id": "2026-W38",
"age_days": 13,
"backfill": true,
"value_usd": 6900000
}
],
"latest_week": "2026-W39"
},
"publisher": "Frontera Signal",
"sales_tax": {
"note": "Local sales tax the state sent the city…",
"latest": [
{
"city": "McAllen",
"as_of": "2026-09-30",
"month": "2026-09",
"stale": false,
"county": "Hidalgo",
"source": "state sales tax allocation records",
"cadence": "monthly",
"yoy_pct": 8.37,
"age_days": 3,
"net_payment_usd": 8646783.48,
"to_date_yoy_pct": 7.78,
"payments_to_date_usd": 81419238.95,
"prior_year_payment_usd": 7978565.44
}
],
"source": "state sales tax allocation records"
},
"disclaimer": "Every value carries as_of, age_days, ca…",
"generated_at": "2026-10-03T20:16:13.950Z",
"latest_issue": {
"url": "https://fronterasignal.com/issues/2026-…",
"title": "Mortgage rates top 7 percent as McAllen…",
"week_id": "2026-W39"
},
"housing_supply": [
{
"geo": "McAllen",
"unit": "USD/sqft",
"as_of": "2026-07",
"stale": false,
"value": {
"low": 186,
"high": 190,
"unit": "USD/sqft"
},
"source": "Frontera Signal",
"cadence": "monthly",
"measure": "entry_price_per_sqft",
"age_days": 64,
"value_text": "186-190",
"value_type": "range"
}
],
"material_prices": {
"note": "Shelf prices at Valley big-box stores a…",
"latest": [
{
"item": "2x4 stud, 8 ft",
"unit": "each",
"as_of": "2026-10-01",
"stale": false,
"source": "Frontera Signal",
"stores": 1,
"cadence": "weekly",
"low_usd": 3.98,
"age_days": 2,
"high_usd": 3.98,
"item_key": "stud_2x4_8ft"
}
],
"source": "Frontera Signal"
},
"data_through_week": "2026-W39",
"construction_costs": [
{
"unit": "USD/MBF",
"as_of": "2026-09-11",
"stale": true,
"value": 578.5,
"approx": true,
"source": "Frontera Signal",
"cadence": "weekly",
"measure": "framing_lumber",
"age_days": 22,
"direction": "up",
"value_text": "~578.50",
"value_type": "number",
"direction_detail": "up_futures"
}
],
"housing_permits_monthly": {
"latest": [
{
"as_of": "2026-08-31",
"month": "2026-08",
"place": "McAllen",
"stale": false,
"county": "Hidalgo",
"source": "public permit statistics",
"status": "reported",
"cadence": "monthly",
"age_days": 33,
"units_total": 66,
"valuation_usd": 11374705,
"two_unit_units": 24,
"buildings_total": 54,
"two_unit_buildings": 12,
"single_family_units": 42,
"five_plus_unit_units": 0,
"three_four_unit_units": 0,
"single_family_buildings": 42,
"five_plus_unit_buildings": 0,
"three_four_unit_buildings": 0
}
],
"source": "public permit statistics"
},
"new_commercial_projects": {
"as_of": "2026-10-03",
"latest": [
{
"id": "FSP-806786d275",
"zip": "78501",
"city": "McAllen",
"name": "GOMEZ CARDIOVASCULAR CLINIC",
"owner": "VELOCITY TRIPLE J",
"county": "Hidalgo",
"source": "public state construction filing",
"status": "Review Complete",
"address": "212 LINDBERG BUILDING A UNIT 1",
"funding": "private",
"facility": "LINDBERG CENTER CONDOMINIUMS",
"registered": "2026-10-01",
"design_firm": "G.D. DRAFTING & DESIGNS",
"square_feet": 3192,
"type_of_work": "Renovation/Alteration",
"estimated_end": "2027-02-26",
"scope_of_work": "Renovation of commercial unit",
"estimated_start": "2026-10-19",
"estimated_cost_usd": 165980
}
],
"source": "public state construction filing",
"cadence": "weekly",
"matched": 314
}
}
}Tags
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