US Housing Market
The US housing market in one clean Parquet - the activity and affordability picture beyond a single price index: the 30-year and 15-year fixed mortgage rates, the Census median sales price of houses sold, new and existing home sales, single-family housing starts, completions, building permits, months' supply of new homes, the rental vacancy rate and the homeownership rate. Aligned on date, back to 1990. Complements our FHFA state house-price index with the demand, supply and financing side. Public domain at origin (Freddie Mac / Census); FRED is only the retrieval pipe.
- Source
- FRED
- Licence
- Redistributable open data
- Updates
- Weekly
- Data through
- 2026-07-23
- Quality
- QC clean · 0 failures
- Format
- Apache Parquet + dictionary
Safe to train on
Built only from a named, redistributable official source under a documented open licence - not scraped web data. No copyright grey zone, no personal data. Ships machine-readable Croissant metadata (ML Commons - loads in Hugging Face / Kaggle / Google), an AI training-licence manifest documenting source, licence and provenance for your model's data governance, and a machine-readable data dictionary (drop it into an agent / RAG prompt so the model knows every column) - all inspectable before you buy.
What's included
- 11 US housing-market indicators - rates, prices, sales, starts, supply, ownership
- 30-year + 15-year mortgage rates + Census median sales price of houses sold
- New + existing home sales, single-family starts, completions, building permits, months' supply
- Rental vacancy rate + homeownership rate; aligned on date, back to 1990
- Complements our FHFA state HPI with the demand/supply/financing side
- Public domain at origin (Freddie Mac / Census) - attribute the agency, not FRED
Schema
| Column | Type | Description | Filled | Distinct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| zone | str | Always US | 100.0% | 1 |
| ts | timestamp (UTC) | Observation date | 100.0% | 2,289 |
| measure | str | Indicator (30-year mortgage rate, median sales price, housing starts, …) | 100.0% | 11 |
| value | float | Value | 100.0% | 1,333 |
| unit | str | Unit (varies by indicator) | 100.0% | 5 |
| res_min | int | Native resolution (weekly / monthly / quarterly) | 100.0% | 3 |
Sample & preview
Every purchase ships as Apache Parquet with a data dictionary and the full QC report. A free sample (first rows + schema) is downloadable here - confirm fit before you buy. Source: FRED (redistributable open data; attribution passes through - see our Licence).
Don't trust screenshots - drop the sample into your notebook right now.
import pandas as pd df = pd.read_parquet("us-housing-market_sample.parquet") df.info() # typed columns, gap-aware, ready to join⬇ Download free Parquet sample or CSV for Excel
Coverage: 1 zones
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