compare_housing
Compare Housing Costs & Affordability
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Housing cost and affordability across countries, built for remote workers. Returns monthly rent plus TWO ratios that together answer the real question: rent as a share of the LOCAL median wage (are locals priced out?) and as a share of YOUR remote income (can you afford it?). The gap between them - arbitrageGap, in percentage points - is the single number saying whether a place is cheap FOR YOU; pass remoteIncome to get it. Also returns price-to-income and price-to-rent as a percentage of each country's OWN long-run average (OECD), and mortgage rates (ECB, euro area only; absent elsewhere rather than estimated). IMPORTANT: those affordability percentages compare a country with its own history, NOT with other countries - 127 for Spain means 27% less affordable than Spain's norm, not 27% dearer than Germany. Every rent carries rentBasis: 'measured' where a real Eurostat city figure exists (Spain, Portugal, Switzerland only) or 'modelled' from the site's price basket, which understates housing by up to ~40% where housing has decoupled from the general price level. National averages; not financial advice.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| remoteIncome | number | no | Your monthly income in USD, earned remotely. Enables rentPctOfYourIncome and arbitrageGap; omit for the local-only view. |
| sort | string | no | 'affordability' = rent as a share of your remote income, lowest first (falls back to raw rent when no income given); 'rent' = monthly rent; 'localBurden' = rent as a share of the local median wage; 'priceToIncome' = price-to-income vs long-run average. |
| country | string | no | Optional ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code; echoes that country's row and rank. |
| maxRentPctOfIncome | number | no | Optional filter: keep only countries where rent is at most this percentage of your remote income. Requires remoteIncome. |
| flatM2 | number | no | Flat size in m² used to convert measured per-m² rents. Default 70; echoed back so the assumption is visible. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": false,
"required": [],
"properties": {
"remoteIncome": {
"type": "number",
"minimum": 0,
"description": "Your monthly income in USD, earned remotely. Enables rentPctOfYourIncome and arbitrageGap; omit for the local-only view."
},
"sort": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"affordability",
"rent",
"localBurden",
"priceToIncome"
],
"default": "affordability",
"description": "'affordability' = rent as a share of your remote income, lowest first (falls back to raw rent when no income given); 'rent' = monthly rent; 'localBurden' = rent as a share of the local median wage; 'priceToIncome' = price-to-income vs long-run average."
},
"country": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Optional ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code; echoes that country's row and rank."
},
"maxRentPctOfIncome": {
"type": "number",
"minimum": 0,
"description": "Optional filter: keep only countries where rent is at most this percentage of your remote income. Requires remoteIncome."
},
"flatM2": {
"type": "number",
"minimum": 0,
"description": "Flat size in m² used to convert measured per-m² rents. Default 70; echoed back so the assumption is visible."
}
}
}