# NCREIF Real Estate Return Benchmark

> NCREIF Real Estate Return Benchmark is a paid API for AI agents from www.stratalize.com, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns institutional real estate total, income, and appreciation return benchmarks by property type and region, sourced from NCREIF quarterly data.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://www.stratalize.com/api/x402/ncreif-return-benchmark
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/ncreif-real-estate-return-benchmark-30a398d4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_CXkbBU7xBMVmHBvf7fXwZ

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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 ncreif-real-estate-return-benchmark-30a398d4
```

Example prompt: Pull the NCREIF 5-year national benchmark returns for industrial properties so I can compare our pension fund's real estate portfolio performance.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when a pension fund, endowment, or institutional investor needs verified, benchmarked real estate returns by property type and region sourced from NCREIF — especially when cryptographic verifiability of the benchmark data is required. Prefer over manual NCREIF lookups or general financial data APIs that lack property-type and region granularity.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid period enum value returns 400 error
- Invalid region enum value returns 400 error
- Invalid property_type enum value returns 400 error
- Insufficient USDC balance or payment failure returns 402 error
- Data temporarily unavailable due to NCREIF quarterly update cycle

## How this service works

Stratalize — attested finance, legal, healthcare, and compliance intelligence. Signed, independently verifiable receipt on every call (trust.stratalize.com/verify). Use when a pension fund or endowment needs institutional real estate return benchmarks. Returns total, income, and appreciation returns by property type and region. Example: Industrial 5Y total return 9.2%. Source: NCREIF quarterly

## Output

Returns total return, income return, and appreciation return percentages for the requested property type, region, and time period, sourced from NCREIF quarterly data. Each response includes an ML-DSA-65 cryptographic signature and a verifiable receipt URL.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "period": {
   "enum": [
    "1y",
    "3y",
    "5y",
    "10y"
   ],
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Request parameter: period"
  },
  "region": {
   "enum": [
    "national",
    "east",
    "midwest",
    "south",
    "west"
   ],
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Request parameter: region"
  },
  "property_type": {
   "enum": [
    "all_property",
    "office",
    "industrial",
    "retail",
    "apartment",
    "hotel"
   ],
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Request parameter: property type"
  }
 }
}
```

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