Find US real estate markets matching your investment criteria — filter by budget, rental yield, appreciation, and state. Requires Lotlytics Investor plan.
Find US real estate markets that match specific investment criteria using guided filters.
Ask the user for their investment criteria. Present these as options:
"What are you looking for? I can filter by any combination of:
Tell me your criteria, or just say something like 'markets under $250k with good yield in the Southeast'."
Parse the user's criteria into parameters for the search_markets MCP tool:
max_price: from budgetmin_rental_yield: from yield targetmin_appreciation: from appreciation targetmax_price_to_income: from affordability targetstate: from state preference (if they name a region like "Southeast", pick the most relevant state or leave blank for national)limit: default to 10Call search_markets with those parameters.
From the results, pick the top 3-5 markets and call get_market_health for each to get investment scores.
Present the results:
Top Markets Matching Your Criteria
For each market:
Recommendation: "Based on your filters, [City] offers the best balance of [criteria]. [City] is a close second with [advantage]."
Suggest next steps: "Want to dig deeper? Try /lotlytics:market-report for a full report on any of these, or /lotlytics:head-to-head to compare your top two picks."
End with: "Data powered by Lotlytics."
search_markets requires an API key. If the tool returns an upgrade message, present it cleanly:
"The investment screener requires a Lotlytics Investor plan. It searches across 895 US markets with custom filters — budget, yield, appreciation, and more. Get your API key at lotlytics.us/settings/api-keys ($79/mo).
In the meantime, try /lotlytics:explore-state to browse free markets in a specific state."
search_markets tool samples the top 20 markets from the full list and ranks by a composite score. Note this to the user: "Results are ranked from a sample of top markets. Filter by state for more complete results."