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New markets allow users to speculate on housing price movements using real-time data, challenging traditional lagging indicators.
January 5, 2026
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Polymarket, a decentralized prediction platform, has introduced real estate markets powered exclusively by data from Parcl Labs. This allows users to bet on the median home price in various cities, starting with an initial six markets.
The partnership aims to solve the problem of latency in traditional real estate data. Established benchmarks like the Case-Shiller Index often have a lag of two or more months, making them ill-suited for real-time market speculation. Parcl Labs provides daily, real-time housing price indices, offering a more current data source for the prediction markets.
This integration signals a move towards creating more dynamic financial products around real estate, one of the largest but most illiquid asset classes. By leveraging real-time data and blockchain infrastructure, these markets provide a new way for users to hedge or express their views on the future of housing values.
Check the first markets here:
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