Overview
HUD Fair Market Rents for a US county by fiscal year, efficiency through 4-bedroom, from the HUD USER API, for program-rent questions. Returns the same records as locus_fair_market_rents. Use this when your client can only call paid x402 routes. Use locus_fair_market_rents instead when you can call Locus free tools (REST tools/call or MCP).
Protocol
x402 (POST)
Price
$0.05
Payment Asset
USD Coin
Payment Network
Base
Category
uncategorized
Provider
locus
Indexed
2026-09-08 21:13:51
Health
Status
degraded
Latency (p50)
1494ms
Uptime (30d)
100.0%
Reliability Score
85/100
Last Checked
2026-10-28 00:23:46
Last Healthy
2026-10-27 20:13:21
Consecutive Failures
0
Input Schema
{
"body": {
"address": "1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601"
},
"bodyType": "json",
"method": "POST",
"type": "http"
}
Output Schema
{
"example": {
"caveats": [
"Fair Market Rents are HUD program parameters (40th/50th percentile gross rents), not market listings or rent advice."
],
"configured": true,
"data": {
"data": {
"area_name": "Raleigh-Cary, NC MSA",
"basicdata": [
{
"Efficiency": 1489,
"Four-Bedroom": 2823,
"One-Bedroom": 1552,
"Three-Bedroom": 2103,
"Two-Bedroom": 1689,
"zip_code": "MSA level"
},
{
"Efficiency": 1060,
"Four-Bedroom": 1980,
"One-Bedroom": 1080,
"Three-Bedroom": 1500,
"Two-Bedroom": 1220,
"zip_code": "27501"
}
],
"counties_msa": "",
"county_name": "Wake County, NC",
"metro_name": "Raleigh-Cary, NC",
"metro_status": "1.0",
"smallarea_status": "1",
"town_name": "",
"year": "2027"
}
},
"entityId": "3718399999",
"note": "Awareness/diagnostic only. Full briefs are x402-paid. Agents can discover live free tools at https://api.locus.report/tools/list and paid tools, prices, and manifests at https://api.locus.report/.well-known/ai-tool/index.json.",
"ok": true,
"provenance": {
"coverage": "national, by county or metro, annual by fiscal year",
"serviceUrl": "https://www.huduser.gov/hudapi/public/fmr",
"source": "HUD USER Fair Market Rents API",
"sourcePage": "https://www.huduser.gov/portal/dataset/fmr-api.html"
},
"verifyNext": [
{
"step": "FMR methodology and documentation.",
"url": "https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr.html"
}
]
},
"type": "json"
}