Locus Valuation Challenge
by api.locus.report in Markets & finance
Stress-test a caller-supplied property price or assessment notice for one US address against cited recorded-sales, parcel, permit, hazard, tax, zoning, legislation, and same-roll assessment-uniformity evidence in protest mode; Locus never creates or endorses a price, ARV, deal judgment, or investment score, and the result is charge-free if under two substantive sections resolve. npx @velinussage/locus-agent-skill add.
POST https://api.locus.report/api/locus-valuation-challenge
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- Uptime
- 100%
- Response time
- 633 ms typical, 2.4 s slowest 5%
- Last check
- 1 h ago
- Next check
- any minute now
How to call it
POST https://api.locus.report/api/locus-valuation-challenge
Each call costs $0.1 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
From the listing.
POST https://api.locus.report/api/locus-valuation-challenge
content-type: application/json
{
"address": "1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601",
"noticeYear": 1970,
"proposedValue": 1,
"purpose": "purchase",
"source": "zestimate"
}Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
address | string | Yes | |
monthsBack | integer | No | |
noticeYear | integer | Yes | Default: 1970. |
proposedValue | number | Yes | |
purpose | string | Yes | One of: purchase, protest. Default: "purchase". |
radiusMeters | integer | No | |
source | string | Yes | One of: zestimate, appraisal, bpo, own, assessment_notice. |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
{
"caveats": [
"Example artifact; not live data."
],
"generatedAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
"id": "locus_example",
"records": []
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.1.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://api.locus.report/api/locus-valuation-challenge' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"address":"1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601","noticeYear":1970,"proposedValue":1,"purpose":"purchase","source":"zestimate"}'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - -X POST 'https://api.locus.report/api/locus-valuation-challenge' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"address":"1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601","noticeYear":1970,"proposedValue":1,"purpose":"purchase","source":"zestimate"}' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.1 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.1" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.1 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.locus.report%2Fapi%2Flocus-valuation-challenge&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://api.locus.report/api/locus-valuation-challenge", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({
"address": "1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601",
"noticeYear": 1970,
"proposedValue": 1,
"purpose": "purchase",
"source": "zestimate"
}),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.1 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.1"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.post(
"https://api.locus.report/api/locus-valuation-challenge",
json={
"address": "1 E Edenton St, Raleigh, NC 27601",
"noticeYear": 1970,
"proposedValue": 1,
"purpose": "purchase",
"source": "zestimate",
},
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
- No findings. We scan names, descriptions and tool definitions for hidden instructions and other prompt-injection patterns.
Recent checks
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