Frontera Signal
Use to track new housing permits month by month in Rio Grande Valley cities and county areas (Hidalgo, Cameron, Starr, Willacy counties): units and buildings by structure type and valuation since January 2024, with year to date totals. Filter by place, county, from and to (YYYY-MM). Covers cities that publish no weekly permits. Example: "How many single family homes did Brownsville permit each month this year?"
Offering
- Provider
- fronterasignal.com
- Method
- GET
- Offering type
- Api Endpoint
- Transport type
- http
- Category
- Data
- Delivery
- Not provided
- Pricing model
- Not provided
- x402 version
- 2
Endpoint context
- URL
https://fronterasignal.com/api/v1/series/permits-monthly- MIME type
- application/json
- First seen
- 2026-10-16T01:50:38.788Z
- Last seen
- Tags
- construction, real-estate, texas, rio-grande-valley, building-permits, materials, housing, spanish
Payment pricing
x402 payment terms are the authoritative price for calling this endpoint.
- Payment option 1
- 0.05 USDC
Atomic price: 50000 · Network: eip155:8453 · Asset: USDC · Scheme: exact
Raw x402 terms
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"scheme": "exact",
"network": "eip155:8453",
"asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
"amount": "50000",
"payTo": "0x6B7a56B58c89631aB60E7153b6170677A1Af00be"
}
]Observed health
- Status
- Healthy
- Latest latency
- 699 ms
- Average latency
- 786 ms
- HTTP status
- 402
- Last checked
- Reachability
- 100% over 14 checks
Latency is measured to the first response headers. A reachable result does not verify response accuracy or merchant identity.
Input schema
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"properties": {
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},
"method": {
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},
"queryParams": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"place": {
"type": "string",
"description": "A Valley city, or \"Hidalgo County (unincorporated)\" and the like."
},
"county": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Hidalgo, Cameron, Starr or Willacy (\"Hidalgo County\" also works).",
"enum": [
"Hidalgo",
"Cameron",
"Starr",
"Willacy"
]
},
"from": {
"type": "string",
"description": "First month to include, YYYY-MM. Default: 12 months back for one place, 3 months otherwise. from=2024-01 returns the whole history."
},
"to": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Last month to include, YYYY-MM."
}
}
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"additionalProperties": false
}Output schema
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"queryParams": {
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"description": "Hidalgo, Cameron, Starr or Willacy (\"Hidalgo County\" also works).",
"enum": [
"Hidalgo",
"Cameron",
"Starr",
"Willacy"
],
"type": "string"
},
"from": {
"description": "First month to include, YYYY-MM. Default: 12 months back for one place, 3 months otherwise. from=2024-01 returns the whole history.",
"type": "string"
},
"place": {
"description": "A Valley city, or \"Hidalgo County (unincorporated)\" and the like.",
"type": "string"
},
"to": {
"description": "Last month to include, YYYY-MM.",
"type": "string"
}
},
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},
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"type": "object"
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"output": {
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"type": "array"
},
"months_available": {
"items": {
"type": "string"
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"type": "array"
},
"note": {
"type": "string"
},
"publisher": {
"type": "string"
},
"query": {
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"from": {
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"returned": {
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"rows": {
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},
"series": {
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},
"source": {
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},
"title": {
"type": "string"
},
"year_to_date": {
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"type": "array"
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"year_to_date_differs": {
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