---
name: real-estate-market-alerts
description: Proactively monitors listing activity, price changes, interest rate shifts, and market signals. Alerts the agent and relevant clients when actionable conditions are detected.
user-invocable: true
metadata: {"openclaw":{"emoji":"🔔","always":true}}
---

# Real Estate Market Alerts Skill

## Purpose
Use this skill during cron runs and heartbeat intervals to monitor real estate market conditions and trigger alerts when meaningful changes occur that require human attention or client communication.

## Alert Categories & Thresholds

### 1. Price Reduction Alerts
**Trigger:** Any active listing drops price by 2% or more in target zip codes

**Action:**
- Log the reduction with original price, new price, % change, and DOM
- Cross-reference against active buyer clients — does this now fit someone's criteria?
- If yes: Draft immediate "price drop" alert email to matched buyers
- Alert owner if the home was a previously unsold REX listing

**Client Email:**
> "Quick heads up — [Address] just reduced from $[X] to $[X] ([Y]% reduction). Based on what you're looking for, this might be worth a second look. Want me to schedule a showing this week?"

### 2. New Listing Alert
**Trigger:** New listing appears in target zip code(s) at or under median price

**Action:**
- Pull full listing details from Zillow/Redfin
- Compare to active buyer criteria in memory/CRM
- Match and send instant alert to relevant buyers
- If it's an expired listing that re-listed: Flag as outreach opportunity for sellers

### 3. Interest Rate Movement
**Trigger:** 30-year fixed rate moves more than 0.15% in either direction in a single week

**Action (Rate Drop):**
- Alert owner: "Rates dropped — this is a buyer activation moment"
- Draft social post: rate drop context + what it means for purchasing power
- Queue outreach to warm buyer leads in nurture: "Rates just moved — here's what that means for your purchasing power"

**Action (Rate Spike):**
- Alert owner: "Rates spiked — seller urgency play"
- Consider messaging to active listings: "Buyers are more rate-sensitive now — let's review pricing strategy"
- For buyers under contract: Check in on rate lock status

### 4. Days on Market Threshold
**Trigger:** Any REX-represented listing hits 21 days on market without an accepted offer

**Action:**
- Alert owner with showing activity report
- Prepare price reduction analysis (what price would put it in top 10% of value in its comp set?)
- Draft seller communication: "Let's talk strategy — here's what I'm seeing and what I'd recommend"

### 5. Competitor Activity Alert
**Trigger:** High volume of new listings or price reductions from a competing agent in target area

**Action:**
- Log pattern in memory
- Assess: Is this a supply surge? A competitor dumping listings? A seasonal shift?
- Adjust marketing messaging if inventory meaningfully increases ("More options means more negotiating power for buyers")

### 6. Market Shift Alert
**Trigger:** Months of supply crosses key thresholds (below 2.0 or above 6.0)

**Action:**
- **Below 2.0 months:** Market is critically undersupplied. Alert owner. Prepare "seller's market" campaign. Increase expired/FSBO outreach.
- **Above 6.0 months:** Market has softened to buyer's market. Adjust seller consultations to more aggressive pricing. Identify buyer prospects who may have been sitting out.

### 7. Closed Sale Alert (Neighborhood Level)
**Trigger:** A home closes in a target neighborhood at a price meaningfully above or below comparable REX listings

**Action:**
- If above: Alert seller clients with good news and use as fresh comparable data
- If below: Flag as potential pricing pressure, discuss with seller

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## Alert Output Format

Every alert sent to owner should include:
```
🔔 REX ALERT — [Alert Type]
Date/Time: [timestamp]
Location: [address or neighborhood]
Trigger: [what happened]
Impact: [who this affects and how]
Recommended Action: [specific next step]
Urgency: [Immediate / Today / This Week]
```

## What REX Does NOT Alert On
- Minor DOM fluctuations under 5 days
- Price changes under 1.5% (noise, not signal)
- National news that doesn't affect local market
- Listings outside primary service geography unless specifically relevant to a known client

## Learning Protocol
After 90 days of operation, analyze:
- Which alert types generated the most client responses?
- Which alerts led to appointments or deals?
- Which alerts got ignored consistently?

Adjust thresholds and focus accordingly. Store this in memory as "Alert Performance Data."

## Skill Location
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