The full upstream README, mirrored here for reference. Install config, tool schemas, adoption signals, and an original overview live on the Zillow listing page.
Zillow Research MCP — housing market data from Zillow's public CSV dumps.
Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1684+ live data sources.
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
zillow_home_values | Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI) — monthly home value estimates as a TIME SERIES. PREFER for any "how have home prices/values TRENDED" question — "home price trend in Denver over the past few years", "how has the Austin housing market moved", "are home values rising in Phoenix" — a multi-year monthly series answers a trend question where a single-year census snapshot cannot; metro grain answering a county question is the right trade, said openly. Returns observation_date + value pairs for the matching region (case-insensitive substring match on region name). Coverage: US metros, states, national. |
zillow_rent_prices | Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI) — monthly rent estimates as a time series. US metros only. Returns observation_date + value pairs. |
zillow_market_snapshot | Latest available value across every metric (home value, rent, inventory, sales count, median sale price, new listings) for a single region. Useful for a one-call "tell me everything about this market" view. Coverage is US METRO areas, states and national — ask for the metro that contains a place ("Miami"), because ZIP codes and counties are not in this dataset and census_acs answers those instead. |
zillow_top_markets | Ranked list of regions by a housing metric. sort_by="value" (default) ranks by the latest value: metric=zhvi direction=top → most expensive metros, direction=bottom → cheapest. sort_by="growth" ranks by percent change over a trailing window (growth_window_months, default 12): direction=top → FASTEST-GROWING / fastest-appreciating metros, direction=bottom → biggest decliners. metric defaults to zhvi (home values). Returns up to 100 rows. |
Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):
tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/zillow/mcp returns the tools in the table
above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx,
discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the
gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a
single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the
pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and
is the authoritative answer for a given day.
This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a
scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via
ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a
second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without
them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth,
connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.
Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:
Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1684+ data sources. The
only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx
reaches all of them from either one.
No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/zillow_home_values. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.
This package also runs as a local stdio MCP server — no Pipeworx account, no gateway round-trip:
Or run it directly to confirm it starts:
It speaks MCP over stdin/stdout and answers initialize/tools/list/tools/call
for only this pack's tools — none of the shared meta-tools the gateway
connection above adds. Same source, same tools, no ask_pipeworx routing.
Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:
The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.
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