PropertyFinder AE Scraper

Extract property listings from propertyfinder.ae at scale. Get comprehensive data including prices, property details, images, agent contacts, broker info, RERA numbers, coordinates, amenities, and more. Perfect for UAE real estate analytics, market research, and investment analysis.

What does PropertyFinder AE Scraper do?

This Apify Actor scrapes property listings from propertyfinder.ae — the largest real estate portal in the UAE. It extracts full listing data from search result pages with built-in anti-detection and automatic pagination.

Key Features

Feature	Description
All Listing Types	For Sale and For Rent properties across all UAE emirates
Property Type Filters	Apartments, Villas, Townhouses, Penthouses, Land, and more
Price & Bedroom Filters	Narrow results by price range (AED) and bedrooms
Location Filters	Filter by city, community, subcommunity
Exact Coordinates	Lat/lng for every listing
Multiple Dataset Views	Listings Overview, Agent & Broker Info
Checkpoint/Resume	Automatic state saving for long scraping runs, plus resumeFromRunId to continue from a previous run as a delta
Incremental mode	Schedule this actor daily/weekly on the same search and get only NEW / UPDATED / REAPPEARED listings — the actor remembers the previous run itself
URL Mode	Paste any search URL directly

What data can you extract?

The scraper extracts 40+ fields per listing:

Property Details Listing ID & URL Title & full description Property type (Apartment, Villa, Townhouse, etc.) Bedrooms & bathrooms Size in sqft Furnished status Completion status (completed / off-plan) Amenities list	Pricing Price (AED numeric value) Price per sqft Price period (sale / yearly / monthly) Price hidden flag
Location Full location path City, community, subcommunity, building Latitude & longitude (GPS)	Agent & Broker Agent name, email, phone, WhatsApp SuperAgent flag Broker name & phone RERA permit number Reference number
Media Property images (medium quality URLs) Image count Video tour URL 360-degree view flag	Dates & Metadata Listed date Last refreshed date Verified / Premium / Featured / Exclusive flags Listing level (premium, featured, standard)

Quick Start

Search for apartments for sale in Dubai:

{
  "category": "buy",
  "locations": ["dubai"],
  "propertyTypes": ["apartments"],
  "maxListings": 50
}

How to Use

Step 1: Basic search by location

{
  "category": "buy",
  "locations": ["dubai"],
  "maxListings": 100,
  "maxPages": 5
}

Step 2: Filter by property type and price

{
  "category": "rent",
  "locations": ["dubai"],
  "propertyTypes": ["apartments"],
  "minPrice": 50000,
  "maxPrice": 150000,
  "minBedrooms": 1,
  "maxBedrooms": 2,
  "furnishing": "furnished",
  "maxListings": 200
}

Step 3: Scrape specific URLs

{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.propertyfinder.ae/en/buy/dubai/apartments-for-sale-downtown-dubai.html",
    "https://www.propertyfinder.ae/en/rent/abu-dhabi/villas-for-rent.html"
  ],
  "maxListings": 500,
  "maxPages": 20
}

Step 4: Large-scale scrape across multiple locations

Leave maxPages empty to walk every result page for each location/type combination:

{
  "category": "buy",
  "locations": ["dubai", "abu-dhabi", "sharjah"],
  "propertyTypes": ["apartments", "villas", "townhouses"],
  "sort": "nd",
  "maxListings": 0
}

Step 5: Resume a previous run

Pick up where a previous run stopped (or continue collecting only new listings since then) by passing its run ID — already-collected listings are skipped:

{
  "category": "buy",
  "locations": ["dubai"],
  "maxListings": 0,
  "resumeFromRunId": "<previous run ID>"
}

Step 6: Recurring monitoring with Incremental mode

Schedule this actor to run daily/weekly against the same search and get only what changed since last time — no run ID to paste, no manual dedup:

{
  "category": "buy",
  "locations": ["dubai"],
  "propertyTypes": ["apartments"],
  "maxListings": 0,
  "incrementalMode": true,
  "emitExpired": true
}

• The first run returns everything as changeType: "NEW".
• Later runs return only NEW, UPDATED, and REAPPEARED listings by default. Turn on Emit unchanged to also get every unchanged listing back (billed), or Emit expired to also get listings that disappeared since the last run (only produced once a run scans every search URL to its natural end — never when Max listings capped it, or Resume was used).
• State is kept per search+filter combination automatically; set State key to name or deliberately share a monitoring campaign.
• This is distinct from resumeFromRunId above: Resume continues one interrupted run; Incremental mode tracks the same recurring search across many separate runs.

Send results into your apps (MCP connectors)

Optionally pipe the scraped results into the apps you already use, via Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors. This is an extra delivery step after the scrape — the Apify dataset is never changed.

What gets written to the connector: a condensed, human-readable summary of each record — not the full JSON. Each item becomes one entry with a title and its key fields flattened to plain text. The complete record always stays in the Apify dataset.

1. Authorize a connector once under Apify → Settings → Integrations (Notion, Linear, Airtable, or Apify).
2. Select it in the "Pipe results into your apps" input field. (If the picker is empty, you haven't authorized a connector yet.)
3. For Notion, also set notionParentPageUrl to the page where items should be created.

The connection is mediated by Apify's MCP proxy, so this actor never sees your third-party credentials. Leave the field empty to skip.

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
urls	array	[]	PropertyFinder search URLs (overrides category/location/type)
category	string	buy	buy or rent
locations	array	[]	Location slugs (empty = all UAE)
propertyTypes	array	["properties"]	Property type filters (see table below)
maxListings	integer	100	Max listings to scrape (0 = unlimited)
maxPages	integer	-	Max pages per search URL. Leave empty to walk every result page (~25 listings/page)
sort	string	nd	Sort order (see table below)
minPrice	integer	-	Minimum price in AED
maxPrice	integer	-	Maximum price in AED
minBedrooms	integer	-	Minimum bedrooms
maxBedrooms	integer	-	Maximum bedrooms
furnishing	string	any	any, furnished, unfurnished, partly-furnished
completionStatus	string	any	any, completed, off_plan
proxy	object	-	Proxy configuration (optional)
resumeFromRunId	string	-	Run ID (or dataset ID) of a previous run of this Actor. Listings already collected there are skipped, so this run returns only the delta.
incrementalMode	boolean	false	Turn on for recurring/scheduled monitoring — only NEW/UPDATED/REAPPEARED listings are returned on later runs.
stateKey	string	-	Name an incremental monitoring campaign, or leave empty to derive one automatically from the search/filters.
emitUnchanged	boolean	false	Also return (and bill for) listings unchanged since the last incremental run.
emitExpired	boolean	false	Also return (and bill for) listings no longer found since the last incremental run (only on a complete, non-resumed scan).

Locations

Any location slug from propertyfinder.ae:

Location	Slug	Location	Slug
Dubai	dubai	Sharjah	sharjah
Abu Dhabi	abu-dhabi	Ajman	ajman
Ras Al Khaimah	ras-al-khaimah	Fujairah	fujairah
Downtown Dubai	dubai/downtown-dubai	Dubai Marina	dubai/dubai-marina
JVC	dubai/jumeirah-village-circle	Al Reem Island	abu-dhabi/al-reem-island

Property Types

Type	Slug	Type	Slug
All Properties	properties	Hotel Apartments	hotel-apartments
Apartments	apartments	Compounds	compounds
Studio Apartments	studio-apartments	Land	land
Villas	villas	Whole Buildings	whole-buildings
Townhouses	townhouses	Bulk Sale Units	bulk-sale-units
Penthouses	penthouses	Full Floors	full-floors
Duplexes	duplexes	Half Floors	half-floors

Sort Options

Code	Description
nd	Newest first
mr	Featured / recommended
pa	Price: low to high
pd	Price: high to low
ba	Bedrooms: least first
bd	Bedrooms: most first