Estaite

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Add current US rental market intelligence to any AI agent in under 60 seconds. 1,500+ submarkets, monthly-refreshed rent / vacancy / affordability / trends, 1,000 free calls per month. No credit card required.

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What you can build

• Rental market research agents — Ask Claude "compare rents in Austin vs Nashville for a 2-bedroom" and get current, cited data without any data pipeline of your own.
• Investment underwriting bots — Let your AI evaluate cap rates, rent growth, and vacancy trends across hundreds of submarkets in a single conversation.
• PropTech AI features — Drop into your existing app — tenant portals, brokerage tools, CRM enrichment — and your agent suddenly knows real estate.

30-second install (Claude Desktop)

Add this to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "estaite": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote@latest", "https://mcp.estaite.com", "--header", "x-api-key:YOUR_API_KEY"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. Done. Get your free API key at estaite.com/developers.

Setting up a different client? See clients/ — copy-paste configs for 13 popular MCP clients.

Example interaction

You: What's the rental market like in Austin right now?

Claude finds the right submarket via search_estaite_submarkets, then calls get_estaite_market_snapshot.

Claude: Austin is currently a renter's market. Vacancy is running above the balanced threshold, median 2BR rent is down year-over-year, and properties are sitting on market longer than the national average. New construction outpaced demand over the past 12 months. Source: estaite.com.

Every response includes structured data plus a citation back to the source. No hallucinated rent numbers.

Pricing

Plan	Monthly Calls	Rate Limit	Price	Best for
Free	1,000	2 req/sec	$0	Hobby projects, testing, demos
Starter	10,000	10 req/sec	$49 / mo	MVPs, small production apps
Pro	100,000	30 req/sec	$149 / mo	Production AI agents, internal tools
Enterprise	Custom	Custom	Contact us	Teams, high-volume agents, SSO

Free tier requires no credit card. Upgrade in-app any time. Full pricing details at estaite.com/developers.

All 13 tools

Discovery

• search_estaite_submarkets — Find submarkets by name. Returns IDs to feed into metric tools.
• list_estaite_submarkets — Browse submarkets; filter by state or metro. Returns up to 200 results.
• find_estaite_submarkets_by_criteria — Filter by rent range, YoY growth, vacancy ceiling, state, or CBSA.

Single-submarket analysis

• query_estaite_submarket_index — Full metrics: rent, vacancy, affordability, days on market, trend history.
• get_estaite_market_snapshot — Quick summary: condition label, vacancy, rent direction.
• get_estaite_rent_trends — Historical rent change: MoM, 3M, 6M, 9M, YoY.
• get_estaite_affordability — Rent-to-income ratio + affordability label (e.g. Cost Burdened).

Comparison & ranking

• compare_estaite_submarkets — Side-by-side comparison across all key metrics. Up to 10 submarkets per call.
• rank_estaite_submarkets — Rank by rent, growth, vacancy, affordability, or days on market.
• get_estaite_comparable_markets — Find submarkets with similar rent levels to a given one.

Geographic

• get_estaite_zip_metrics — Rental metrics for a specific ZIP code.
• get_estaite_cbsa_overview — Metro-level averages and full submarket list.
• get_estaite_cbsa_trends — Monthly aggregated trends for an entire metro.

Detailed input/output schemas in llms.txt (also designed to be readable by AI agents auto-discovering the server).

Client integrations

Copy-paste config for 13 MCP clients. Pick yours:

Claude Desktop	Claude Code	Cursor
VS Code	ChatGPT	Copilot Studio
LangChain	LlamaIndex	CrewAI
OpenAI SDK	OpenAI Agent Builder	n8n
Direct HTTP

Data coverage

• Geography: 1,500+ submarkets across the largest US Metropolitan Statistical Areas — expanding monthly
• Property types: apt (apartment), sfr (single-family rental), ct (condo/townhome)
• Bedroom counts: 1–5 BR per property type
• Update frequency: Monthly
• Citations: Every tool response includes source attribution

Server details

• MCP server URL: https://mcp.estaite.com
• Protocol: Streamable HTTP (MCP 2025-03-26)
• AI agent manifest: llms.txt — discoverable, machine-readable

Authentication

Pass your API key with one of:

Method	Example	Notes
Header (recommended)	x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY	Preferred for code-driven clients (curl, custom agents, MCP SDKs).
Bearer token	Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY	Standard Bearer scheme. Used by clients that complete the OAuth 2.1 flow.
Query param	https://mcp.estaite.com?key=YOUR_API_KEY	Convenient for clients that only accept a URL (Claude Desktop Connectors, ChatGPT custom GPTs).

API key security

Treat your API key like a password:

• Never commit it to git, and don't paste it into URLs you'll share publicly
• Rotate it immediately at estaite.com/developers if exposed
• Use environment variables, not hardcoded strings, when integrating

Get an API key

Free tier, no credit card, at estaite.com/developers.

License

The configs, examples, and docs in this repository are MIT licensed (see LICENSE). The Estaite MCP server itself is a hosted commercial service; see pricing for plan details.