FRED Housing & Real Estate — 16 US Series (Starts, Permits, Sales, Prices, Mortgage Rates, Vacancy)

DatasetCSV.GZOpenHousingReal EstateFREDMortgageMacroFree

11,018 observations across 16 US housing series from FRED: starts, permits, completions, new and existing home sales, median price, Case-Shiller and FHFA indices, 30- and 15-year mortgage rates, homeownership and rental vacancy, months of supply, residential construction spending, rent CPI and mortgage delinquency. Long format with series name, frequency and unit on every row, full history to 2026-09-05.

Use Cases

Housing-cycle indicators for homebuilder and REIT research
Mortgage-rate sensitivity studies
Regional macro context

Methodology

One fredgraph.csv fetch per series; missing observations dropped; long format.

Update Schedule

Static snapshot. Weekly to quarterly at the source; refresh weekly.

Attribution

Source: FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; government-sourced series only (Federal Reserve Board, U.S. Treasury, BLS, BEA, Census Bureau, HUD, FHFA).

Schema

name	type
series_id	string
series_name	string
frequency	string
unit	string
date	date
value	integer

Sample Data

date	unit	value	frequency	series_id	series_name
1968-01-01	thousands_saar	1257	monthly	COMPUTSA	New Privately-Owned Housing Units Completed
1968-02-01	thousands_saar	1174	monthly	COMPUTSA	New Privately-Owned Housing Units Completed
1968-03-01	thousands_saar	1323	monthly	COMPUTSA	New Privately-Owned Housing Units Completed
1968-04-01	thousands_saar	1328	monthly	COMPUTSA	New Privately-Owned Housing Units Completed
1968-05-01	thousands_saar	1367	monthly	COMPUTSA	New Privately-Owned Housing Units Completed

Get this via API

# 1. Add dAgentBase once, in any MCP client. No install, no vendor keys.
#    Claude.ai / Claude Desktop: Settings -> Connectors -> Add custom connector
#    Cursor / Claude Code / others: mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dagentbase": {
      "url": "https://dagentbase.com/api/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer dm_live_YOUR_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

# 2. Then ask your agent, in plain language:
#    "Preview 'FRED Housing & Real Estate — 16 US Series (Starts, Permits, Sales, Prices, Mortgage Rates, Vacancy)' and, if it fits, claim it and download the files."
#    Tools it will use: search_listings -> preview_listing -> purchase_listing -> get_download_urls

# 1. Add dAgentBase once, in any MCP client. No install, no vendor keys.
#    Claude.ai / Claude Desktop: Settings -> Connectors -> Add custom connector
#    Cursor / Claude Code / others: mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dagentbase": {
      "url": "https://dagentbase.com/api/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer dm_live_YOUR_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

# 2. Then ask your agent, in plain language:
#    "Preview 'FRED Housing & Real Estate — 16 US Series (Starts, Permits, Sales, Prices, Mortgage Rates, Vacancy)' and, if it fits, claim it and download the files."
#    Tools it will use: search_listings -> preview_listing -> purchase_listing -> get_download_urls

Free

one time · open license

Details

Date Range1956-01-01 — 2026-09-03

Rows11,018

Size64 KB

Files1

FormatCSV.GZ

Available formats

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