Property24 Scraper (South Africa)

Extract structured property listings from Property24, South Africa's largest property portal. Get price, bedrooms, bathrooms, floor and erf size, GPS coordinates, the full property overview, every photo, agent and agency details, and 50+ fields per listing. Two modes: search by location, or paste Property24 search and listing URLs directly.

Why this scraper

• More fields than other Property24 scrapers. Includes GPS latitude and longitude, numeric floor and erf size, postal code, the complete grouped property overview (rooms, external features, building, security), nearby suburbs, listing date, and full multi-size photo URLs, on top of everything the well-known alternatives return.
• Lower running cost. A lean fetching pipeline keeps compute and bandwidth small, so you pay for residential bandwidth only on the pages that need it; turn detail fetching off for a search-only run that is far cheaper.
• Better reliability. Country-rotating Residential exits (South Africa first) with a backup pool, health monitoring, and automatic recovery keep runs completing even when individual exits are throttled.
• Two ways to target data. Search by any suburb, city or province name (resolved automatically), or paste Property24 URLs (search pages paginate forward, single-listing URLs are fetched directly).
• Honest filtering. Price, bedroom, property type, sort and auction filters are applied both in the search URL and on the returned data, so the results actually match what you asked for.
• Clean, flat output. One record per listing, ready for spreadsheets, BI tools, ETL pipelines, and CRMs.

Feature comparison

Capability	This scraper	Typical alternative
Search by location name	Yes (auto-resolved)	URL only on some
Direct URL mode (search + single listing)	Yes	Partial
GPS latitude / longitude	Yes	Often missing
Numeric floor size and erf size	Yes	Text only or missing
Full grouped property overview	Yes	Partial
All photos (multi-size URLs)	Yes	Yes
Agent and agency details	Yes	Yes
Country-rotating residential + backup failover	Yes	No
Automatic proxy failover	Yes	No
Price / bedroom / type filters	Yes (verified narrowing)	Varies

Data you get

Sample shape, values are illustrative placeholders, not from a live listing.

Field	Example
listingNumber	100000001
url	https://www.property24.com/for-sale/sample-suburb/sample-city/western-cape/0000/100000001
listingType	For Sale
title	3 Bedroom House for sale in Sample Suburb
price	2600000
displayPrice	R 2 600 000
currency	ZAR
priceOnApplication	false
bedrooms	3
bathrooms	2
garages	2
parkingSpaces	4
floorSize	248
erfSize	554
propertyType	House
suburbName	Sample Suburb
cityName	Sample City
provinceName	Western Cape
suburbId / cityId / provinceId	0000 / 0000 / 9
latitude / longitude	-33.0000 / 18.0000
descriptionHeader	Sample headline for the listing.
description	Full listing description text appears here when fetchDetails is on.
agencyName	Sample Agency
agencyId	00000
agencyLogoUrl	https://images.prop24.com/000000000/Fit450x225
agentName	Agent Name
agentId	000000
contacts	[{ "id": 0, "name": "Agent Name", "photoUrl": "...", "profileUrl": "...", "hasContactNumber": true }]
keyFeatures	["Bedrooms 3", "Bathrooms 2", "Garden"]
propertyOverview	{ "Listing Number": "100000001", "Type of Property": "House", "Erf Size": "554 m2" }
details	[{ "category": "Rooms", "categoryItems": { "Bedrooms": "3" } }]
photos	[{ "imageIdentifier": "000000000", "thumbnailUrl": "...", "imageUrl": "...", "largeImageUrl": "..." }]
photoCount	21
nearbySuburbs	["Sample Suburb A", "Sample Suburb B"]
listingMedia	{ "youTubeVideoTourId": "xxxxxxxxxxx" }
onShow / auction / repossessed	false / false / false
datePosted	2026-01-01
scrapedAt	2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

Detail-only fields (GPS, full description, photos, agent and agency, property overview, nearby suburbs) populate when Fetch Detail Pages is on.

How to use

Search by location (basic)

{
  "mode": "search",
  "listingType": "for-sale",
  "locations": ["Cape Town"],
  "maxListings": 50
}

Search with filters

{
  "mode": "search",
  "listingType": "for-sale",
  "locations": ["Sandton", "Umhlanga"],
  "propertyType": "house",
  "minPrice": 1000000,
  "maxPrice": 3000000,
  "minBedrooms": 3,
  "sortBy": "price-asc",
  "maxListings": 200,
  "fetchDetails": true
}

Rentals

{
  "mode": "search",
  "listingType": "to-rent",
  "locations": ["Cape Town"],
  "maxListings": 100
}

Direct URLs (search pages and single listings, mixed)

{
  "mode": "url",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.property24.com/for-sale/cape-town/western-cape/432",
    "https://www.property24.com/for-sale/belhar/cape-town/western-cape/8132/117073882"
  ],
  "maxPages": 3
}

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	search builds URLs from the fields below; url scrapes the URLs you paste.
listingType	string	for-sale	for-sale or to-rent (search mode).
locations	array	["Cape Town"]	Suburb, city or province names (search mode). Resolved automatically.
propertyType	string	any	Narrow to house, apartment, townhouse, vacant land, farm, commercial, or industrial.
minPrice / maxPrice	integer	none	Price range in Rand (search mode).
minBedrooms / maxBedrooms	integer	none	Bedroom range (search mode).
sortBy	string	default	newest, price-asc, price-desc, or size.
onShowOnly	boolean	false	Only listings with a scheduled show day.
auctionsOnly	boolean	false	Only properties going to auction.
urls	array	example	Property24 URLs to scrape (url mode).
fetchDetails	boolean	true	Open each listing for GPS, full description, photos, agent, agency, and the property overview.
maxConcurrency	integer	6	Parallel detail-page fetches (1 to 12).
maxPages	integer	1	Max result pages per search (about 45 listings per page).
maxListings	integer	0	Max listings across all searches. 0 (default) for unlimited.
proxy	object	Apify Residential	Connection settings. Residential is the default and recommended; Datacenter is not recommended (Property24 rejects most Datacenter connections).

Output example

Sample shape, values are illustrative placeholders, not from a live listing.

{
  "listingNumber": "100000001",
  "url": "https://www.property24.com/for-sale/sample-suburb/sample-city/western-cape/0000/100000001",
  "listingType": "For Sale",
  "title": "3 Bedroom House for sale in Sample Suburb",
  "price": 2600000,
  "displayPrice": "R 2 600 000",
  "currency": "ZAR",
  "priceOnApplication": false,
  "bedrooms": 3,
  "bathrooms": 2,
  "garages": 2,
  "floorSize": 248,
  "erfSize": 554,
  "propertyType": "House",
  "suburbName": "Sample Suburb",
  "cityName": "Sample City",
  "provinceName": "Western Cape",
  "provinceId": "9",
  "latitude": -33.0000,
  "longitude": 18.0000,
  "descriptionHeader": "Sample headline for the listing.",
  "description": "Full listing description text appears here when fetchDetails is on.",
  "agencyName": "Sample Agency",
  "agentName": "Agent Name",
  "contacts": [{ "id": 0, "name": "Agent Name", "hasContactNumber": true }],
  "keyFeatures": ["Bedrooms 3", "Bathrooms 2", "Garden"],
  "propertyOverview": { "Type of Property": "House", "Erf Size": "554 m2" },
  "photos": [{ "imageIdentifier": "000000000", "imageUrl": "https://images.prop24.com/000000000/Ensure960x540" }],
  "photoCount": 21,
  "datePosted": "2026-01-01",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Plan and proxy notes

• Residential proxy (default, recommended) is required for reliable results. It needs an Apify plan that includes Residential proxy. The actor rotates Residential exits across countries (South Africa first) and uses a backup pool as a last resort, so runs keep completing even under throttling.
• Datacenter proxy is not recommended. Property24 rejects most Datacenter connections, especially on listing detail pages, so runs may be slow or return fewer details. The actor will warn you and still attempt to fail over to Residential, but selecting Residential from the start is far more reliable.
• For the lowest cost, keep fetchDetails off to collect search-result fields only, then re-run with fetchDetails on for the listings you care about.