# PropPulse Rental Market Intelligence

> PropPulse Rental Market Intelligence is a paid API for AI agents from proppulse-gules.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.12/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-16).

Returns rental market conditions for a given location, including rent trend, rent control status, gross yield, and mid-range asking rent.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://proppulse-gules.vercel.app/api/prop/rental-market
- Price: $0.12/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/proppulse-rental-market-intelligence-eb2301af
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_5lBRTojB1IyjTinDH6SAv

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## 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 proppulse-rental-market-intelligence-eb2301af
```

Example prompt: What does the rental market look like in Austin, Texas right now — is rent trending up or down, is there rent control, and what's the typical gross yield and mid-range monthly asking rent?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a quick, jurisdiction-aware snapshot of rental market conditions — including trend direction, rent control exposure, gross yield, and asking rent — for any global location. It is particularly strong for US markets (FRED-backed) and provides honest best-effort synthesis for other jurisdictions rather than silently defaulting to US assumptions. Prefer it over generic web search when you need structured, agent-consumable rental data rather than raw articles.

## Known failure modes

- Unknown or ambiguous location — returns honest fallback or error if location cannot be resolved
- Non-US locations may have lower data fidelity due to limited FRED coverage — synthesis quality varies
- Missing country parameter may cause jurisdiction ambiguity for city names shared across countries
- Payment failure or x402 micropayment not completed — request rejected before data is returned
- Rate-limited or unavailable Tavily search results — may degrade synthesis quality

## How this service works

Global real estate intelligence API — 11 endpoints covering the full property lifecycle in any country. Mortgage/remortgage analysis, affordability, rent-vs-buy modeling, refinance opportunity, local market intelligence, investment property ROI, AVM property valuation, neighborhood intelligence, first-time-buyer schemes, landlord toolkit, and rental-market intelligence (long-term + short-term + budget/hostel). Every endpoint accepts a global `location` + optional `country`; `zip` still works as a legacy US alias. Jurisdiction-aware for US/UK/CA/AU/DE/IN with honest fallback elsewhere — never silently assumes US. Powered by FRED housing data (US only), Tavily live search, and Claude synthesis. All require x402 micropayment (USDC on Base).

## Output

A JSON object containing: rent trend (e.g. 'rising', 'stable', 'falling'), rent control status, gross yield percentage, and mid-range monthly asking rent in local currency. Data is synthesized from FRED (US), live web search via Tavily, and Claude for jurisdictions without structured data feeds.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "lang": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "en | es | fr | de | zh | pt | ar"
      },
      "angle": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "renter | investor | str | budget (default overview)"
      },
      "country": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "US | UK | CA | DE | AU | IN (optional)"
      },
      "bedrooms": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "location": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Manchester | Austin, TX | Bengaluru"
      },
      "purchase_price": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "350000 (enables gross-yield math)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "errors": {
     "type": "object",
     "description": "Documented error responses, keyed by HTTP status code",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
       "description"
      ],
      "properties": {
       "example": {
        "type": "object"
       },
       "description": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      }
     }
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "trend": "rising",
  "rent_control": "unknown",
  "gross_yield_pct": 7.2,
  "asking_rent_monthly_mid": 2100
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/proppulse-rental-market-intelligence-eb2301af/health.json
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