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Minside MCP server

Connect ChatGPT, Claude or another AI assistant to Minside's data. The assistant finds the right metrics, pulls the series for the county you care about and compares regions, then answers citing the official sources.

What MCP is

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets AI assistants use external tools. The Minside MCP server gives the assistant the platform's data as tools it calls when it needs them to answer you.

Server address

This is the address you add to your assistant. The server uses the Streamable HTTP transport.

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https://minside.ro/mcp

What data you get

  • Housing market: sales and mortgages recorded by ANCPI, homes completed and building permits from INS, asking prices per m² from the Imobiliare.ro index, wages, inflation, ROBOR and IRCC. By county and for the whole country, up to 20 years back, by month, quarter, half-year or year.
  • Calculators: what a past property price is worth today, adjusted for inflation and compared with wages and asking prices, and the gross yield and payback period of a buy-to-let home.
  • Mortgages: the current rates and conditions of Romanian banks, with what each rate depends on and the general conditions (amount, term, age, income, down payment, insurance, fees).

Example questions

  • “How have home sales in Cluj changed over the last 5 years?”
  • “Compare asking prices per square metre in București and Iași.”
  • “How has IRCC changed over the last year?”
  • “I bought a flat in Cluj for €85,000 in 2018. What is that worth today?”
  • “What 3-year fixed rates do BCR and ING have now?”

Access

The server is free. Market data works without an account. For the banks' rates and conditions, the assistant asks you to connect your Minside account.

Reading the data

  • Sources publish with a delay, so the latest month available is usually one or more months behind.
  • Imobiliare.ro index prices are asking prices in listings, not transaction prices, and for a county they describe its county seat.
  • ANCPI mortgages count recorded operations, not newly granted loans.
  • Bank rates are indicative: the rate someone gets depends on their situation and the bank's approval.

Full metric definitions are in the metric catalog.

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