# Rental Market Research

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- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-realtyapi-realtyapi-skills-rental-market-research`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [realtyapi](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/realtyapi)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [realtyapi](https://github.com/realtyapi)
- **Source:** https://github.com/realtyapi/realtyapi-skills/tree/main/skills/rental-market-research

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-realtyapi-realtyapi-skills-rental-market-research
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Rental Market Research

## Overview

Help the user understand the rental picture for an area: available units that match
their needs **and** what rent looks like (typical levels and trend). Works for
long-term rentals and short-term/vacation stays.

Use [`realtyapi-api`](../realtyapi-api/SKILL.md) for auth and endpoint discovery.

## When to Use

- "Find 2-bed rentals under $2,500 in Denver."
- "What does a furnished short-term stay cost near this address?"
- "Is rent going up in this zip?"
- Relocation, investment rent estimates, or budgeting.

## Workflow

1. **Long-term vs. short-term?** Long-term → `apartments`, `hotpads`, `zillow`
   rentals, `flatmates` (shared, AU), or the regional portal. Short-term/vacation →
   `airbnb`, `vrbo`, `agoda`, `trip`.
2. **Resolve the area** with `autocomplete` / `locations`.
3. **Search rentals** with the rent **status filter** set, plus beds/baths/price.
   Read the endpoint `openapi.json` for the exact params; paginate as needed (cap it).
4. **Rent trends** — pull rental-market analytics where available
   (`rental_market*`, `market*`, regional trend endpoints) for typical rent and
   direction.
5. **Synthesize**: options table + a short rent summary (median-ish level, range,
   trend). Distinguish observed listing rents from any modeled estimate.

## Output Format

```markdown
# Rental Research: {criteria} in {area}

Type: {long-term / short-term} · Portal(s): {} · {N} options

## Rent Summary
- Typical rent for {beds}-bed: {level / range}
- Trend: {rising / flat / falling} ({source})

## Options
| # | Address/Listing | Rent | Beds/Baths | Size | Available | Link |
|--:|-----------------|-----:|-----------|-----:|-----------|------|

## Notes
- Sorted by: {criterion} · Pages/credits used: {}
- Caveats: listing rents ≠ signed-lease rents; sample size {}
```

## Common Pitfalls

- Set the **rent** status — don't return for-sale homes by accident.
- Short-term nightly rates aren't comparable to monthly long-term rent; label units.
- A small number of listings is a weak trend signal — say so.
- Respect credits across search pages and trend calls.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [realtyapi](https://github.com/realtyapi)
- **Source:** [realtyapi/realtyapi-skills](https://github.com/realtyapi/realtyapi-skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-realtyapi-realtyapi-skills-rental-market-research
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/realtyapi
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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