bis-stats.finance.property_prices
Fetch a country's selected residential property price index (nominal or real) from the BIS quarterly property price series (WS_SPP) — a long-run, cross-country comparable house price index used to track housing market cycles and financial stability risk. Real values are deflated by the consumer p...
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What bis-stats.finance.property_prices does on Apibase
AI agents call bis-stats.finance.property_prices to retrieve information from Apibase without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
country | string | Yes | ISO 2-letter BIS reference-area code (e.g. US, XM for euro area, JP, GB, CN, DE, FR, BR, IN, CA, AU, CH). See the BIS reference area codelist for the full list |
end_period | string | — | End of the requested time range, e.g. "2024-06" for monthly data or "2024-Q2" for quarterly data. Defaults to the latest available observation if omitted. |
max_series | integer | — | Maximum number of time series to return (1–100, default 20). Each series is a unique combination of dimensions such as rate type or unit of measure. |
value_type | string | — | Price value type: "N" = nominal (default), "R" = real (inflation-adjusted). |
start_period | string | — | Start of the requested time range, e.g. "2020-01" for monthly data or "2020-Q1" for quarterly data. Defaults to the last 24 observations if both start_period an |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why bis-stats.finance.property_prices is rated Low
Tool only retrieves historical property price index data with no side effects.
From the tool's definition Fetch a country's residential property price index
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The rule that runs bis-stats.finance.property_prices safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Apibase, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For bis-stats.finance.property_prices, this is the rule to start with:
bis-stats.finance.property_prices is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Apibase, apply this rule, and every bis-stats.finance.property_prices call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about bis-stats.finance.property_prices
Fetch a country's selected residential property price index (nominal or real) from the BIS quarterly property price series (WS_SPP) — a long-run, cross-country comparable house price index used to track housing market cycles and financial stability risk. Real values are deflated by the consumer price index. Returns one or more indexed time series with period/value pairs. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apibase MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
bis-stats.finance.property_prices accepts 5 parameters: country, end_period, max_series, value_type, start_period. Required: country. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Apibase MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for bis-stats.finance.property_prices: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Apibase. Nothing to install.
bis-stats.finance.property_prices is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the bis-stats.finance.property_prices rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for bis-stats.finance.property_prices. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
bis-stats.finance.property_prices is provided by the Apibase MCP server (apibase-mcp-client). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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