Anyone can buy market data. CITIZEN API turns it into a powerful verdict on any real estate market in the United States.
Raw market data is a commodity, and on its own it settles nothing: sparse where you need it, lagging where it matters, and silent on everything that has not transacted yet. CITIZEN API is not a data feed. It runs the firm's own models across that material and returns the conclusion — what rents and prices are genuinely doing, where cap rates sit for this asset class in this submarket, what supply is already permitted and coming, and where people and capital are moving well before any of it surfaces in the comps. Coverage spans every metro, county, submarket, and ZIP code in the country, powered by Lualdi Advisors' proprietary algorithms.
A research desk builds this by hand, market by market, over weeks — pulling the underlying material, reconciling it, and arguing about what still applies. CITIZEN API returns the finished judgment on request, for any real estate market: a modeled read, not a raw series handed back for someone else to interpret.
What the going rate actually is, by geography and asset type, and which way it has been moving. The reference point for whether a rent roll or an asking price reads like the market — or reads like an outlier.
Where cap rates actually sit for this asset class, in this submarket, right now — the band a price has to clear to look defensible, rather than a national average that describes nowhere in particular.
What is permitted and already under construction, by geography — the supply that is committed and will arrive whether or not the market has priced it in yet.
Where people and capital are actually moving, at a market level — the shifts that reach absorption and pricing long before they reach the comps.
A metro area and a single ZIP code are different sizes of the same question. CITIZEN API treats them that way — the same call, the same depth of read, whether the geography on the other end covers a metro of millions or a few blocks.
The broadest read — an entire metropolitan statistical area, benchmarked as one market. The starting point for portfolio strategy and market-entry screening, before anyone looks at a single property.
One level down — the county inside the metro, where local supply, permitting, and demographic patterns start to diverge from the metro-wide average.
The finest grain — a defined submarket or a single ZIP code, carrying the same benchmarks, pipeline, and trend context as the metro above it. No separate product, no separate schema.
CITIZEN API is built for the question that comes before a property ever enters a pipeline — and for any system that needs a market benchmark rather than a single-property answer.
CITIZEN API is not a substitute for REALIST's per-property underwriting, and REALIST is not a substitute for a market view. The two compose: CITIZEN tells you what a market is doing; REALIST — and REALIST API — tell you what a specific property inside that market is worth.
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