Building Intelligence MCP Server

by lucidrents Your server? Claim it

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Building Intelligence is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.

Building intelligence for NYC, LA, Chicago rentals: violations, 311, reviews, rents, landlords.

Uptime history 83 days of history · worst day 93%

83 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

393 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 5

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 22 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

22 Aug 5 tools changed the parameters they ask for get_building_report, get_landlord_record, get_neighborhood_stats and 2 more

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Building Intelligence every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 10 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add building-intelligence --transport http https://lucidrents.com/api/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://lucidrents.com/api/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.building-intelligence]
url = "https://lucidrents.com/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "building-intelligence": {
      "url": "https://lucidrents.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "building-intelligence": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://lucidrents.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

building

get_building_report

Full report card for one building: LucidIQ score and letter grade, HPD/DOB violation counts, 311 complaint total, top violation categories (pests, heat, leaks, ...), review count and average rating, rent summary by bedroom count, rent stabilization, landlord name with their record URL, and 2-3 similar nearby buildings. Requires the building's slug — call search_buildings first if you only have an address. The returned url has the complete timeline, all reviews, and rent history; share it with the user.

buildings

search_buildings

Search LucidRents for apartment buildings by address, building name, or partial address. Covers ~2M buildings in New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago with public-record data: housing violations, 311 complaints, tenant reviews, rents, and building scores. Returns up to 10 matches with each building's slug (needed for get_building_report / get_review_summary) and its lucidrents.com report URL. Start here when the user gives an address.

landlord

get_landlord_record

Public record for a landlord / property owner: portfolio size, total violations, 311 complaints, average building score across the portfolio, and worst building where available. Accepts either the owner name as it appears in a building report (e.g. "SMITH REALTY LLC") or a landlord page slug. The returned url lists every building they own with per-building records.

neighborhood

get_neighborhood_stats

Neighborhood snapshot for a zip code: median asking rents by bedroom count and a 12-month crime summary (violent / property / quality-of-life, with year-over-year totals) sourced from the local police department. Use this for "what does rent cost in <area>" and "is <area> safe" questions. The returned url is the neighborhood page with building listings and trend charts.

review

get_review_summary

Tenant review summary for one building: review count, average rating, 1-5 star distribution, and up to 3 recent pull quotes from published tenant reviews. Requires the building's slug — call search_buildings first if you only have an address. The returned url (anchored at #reviews) has every review in full text.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://lucidrents.com/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	386 ms	10 min ago

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Building Intelligence — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Building Intelligence do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_building_report, get_landlord_record, get_neighborhood_stats, get_review_summary, search_buildings. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Building Intelligence working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 393 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Building Intelligence?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Building Intelligence need an API key?

No. Building Intelligence completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Building Intelligence?

It answers our handshake in 393 ms on average, which is faster than 33% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.