NCREIF

NCREIF MCP Connector for Claude

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Access institutional commercial real estate data via NCREIF — track property performance, indices, and fund returns directly from your AI agent.

10 tools Official Updated Jun 28, 2026 Official Vinkius Partner

Connect your NCREIF account to your AI agent and gain authoritative insights into the institutional commercial real estate market through natural conversation.

What you can do

  • Index Performance — List and retrieve historical data for NCREIF indices such as the NPI (Property Index) and ODCE (Fund Index).
  • Property Oversight — List indexed properties and fetch detailed historical returns and performance metrics.
  • Market Analysis — Access high-level real estate market data and aggregated performance by region or property type (Office, Retail, etc.).
  • Fund Tracking — View all tracked real estate investment funds and their performance history.
  • Data Series Access — Browse granular data series and categories for in-depth real estate research.
  • Deep Inspection — Fetch complete metadata for specific indices, properties, or funds using their unique IDs.

How it works

  1. Subscribe to this server
  2. Enter your NCREIF API Key
  3. Start querying commercial real estate intelligence from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client

Who is this for?

  • Real Estate Analysts — quickly check index returns or property performance without opening the NCREIF portal.
  • Portfolio Managers — monitor institutional market trends and benchmark fund performance directly from your chat.
  • Investment Researchers — automate the retrieval of complex real estate data series for reporting and modeling.
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10 tools expose this connector's capabilities to your AI agent.

get_fund_performance

Get specific fund performance

get_index_data

Get specific index data

get_property_returns

Get property-level returns

get_property_type_data

g., Office, Retail, Industrial). Get data by property type

get_region_data

Get performance data by region

list_data_series

List available data series

list_funds

List real estate funds

list_indices

g., NPI, ODCE). List NCREIF performance indices

list_market_data

List real estate market data

list_properties

List indexed properties

See how to talk to your AI agent using NCREIF.

List all commercial real estate indices available via NCREIF.

I've retrieved the available indices. You have access to several primary benchmarks including the NPI (Property Index), the ODCE (Fund Index), and various regional sub-indices. Would you like to see the historical performance data for the NPI?

Show me the performance data for the 'Office' property type.

Retrieving data for property type 'Office' (ID: type_off)... In the last quarter, the total return was 1.2%, with income return at 1.1% and appreciation at 0.1%. Shall I compare this with the 'Industrial' property type performance?

What is the recent performance history for the ODCE Fund Index?

Fetching data for the ODCE Index... For the trailing 12 months, the ODCE index returned 5.4%. The current market value of assets tracked by this index is over $300 billion. Would you like a breakdown of returns by fund size?

NCREIF API access is typically provided to member organizations. You can find or request your API key through the NCREIF Member Portal or by contacting their data services team.

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