Centris Broker Scraper - Detailed Real Estate Broker Data Extraction

The Centris Broker Scraper is a powerful tool designed to extract detailed real estate broker data from Centris. This scraper provides valuable information on brokers, their listings, and key property details, making it ideal for real estate market research, competitor analysis, and lead generation.

Key Features

• Broker Information: Extracts comprehensive details, including broker names, contact information, agency details, and profiles.
• Property Listings: Retrieves broker-managed property listings, including category, price, address, and land area.
• Optional Property Scraping: Choose to include or exclude property listings to streamline data collection based on your needs.

This scraper is a valuable asset for real estate agencies, market researchers, and analysts aiming to gain insights into broker activities, property trends, and market competition.

Use Cases

1. Real Estate Market Analysis

Gain insights into market trends by analyzing property listings, broker activity, and pricing patterns.

2. Lead Generation for Real Estate Services

Identify brokers and their listed properties for lead generation in related services, such as home staging, mortgage offerings, and property management.

3. Competitive Analysis

Compare brokers across different regions and agencies to understand market coverage, specialization, and property pricing strategies.

4. Data Enrichment for Real Estate Portals

Enhance real estate platforms by incorporating comprehensive broker and property data directly from Centris.

Input Options

By default, the Actor will crawl through the listing of brokers without needing the user to provide the listing URL. However, specific broker profiles can also be targeted by inputting their URLs.

• searchKey: Search keyword to filter brokers by city, province, or other terms.
• brokerUrls: Array of specific broker profile URLs for targeted scraping.
• maxCrawlPages: Integer to specify the maximum number of pages to scrape from the broker listing. Leave blank to crawl all available pages.
• getProperties: Boolean to specify whether property listings should be retrieved for each broker (saves time if property data is not required). Default is true.
• onlyBrokerUrls: Boolean to specify if only provided broker URLs should be scraped, bypassing the listing. If active, no crawling of the broker listing will occur.
• threads: Set concurrency to optimize scraping speed. Default is 5.

Sample JSON input:

1{
2    "brokerUrls": [
3        { "url": "https://www.centris.ca/en/real-estate-broker~jane-doe~remax/a1234?view=Summary&pback=true" }
4    ],
5    "getProperties": true,
6    "maxCrawlPages": 5,
7    "threads": 5
8}

Output

The scraped data is stored in JSON format and includes the following fields:

• Broker Information: name, jobTitle, agency, contact, social media links, profile URL, areas served, and additional information.
• Property Listings (optional): category, price, address, land area, and other property details.

Example output:

1{
2    "name": "John Doe",
3    "photo": "https://example.com/media/photo-placeholder.jpg",
4    "jobTitle": "Residential and Commercial Real Estate Broker",
5    "Id": "000000"
6    "profileId": "00000000000000000000000000000000",
7    "brokerEntity": null,
8    "url": "https://www.centris.ca/en/real-estate-broker~john-doe~agency-name/e0000?view=Summary&pback=true",
9    "phoneNumbers": [
10        "123-456-7890",
11        "098-765-4321"
12    ],
13    "website": "https://example-agency.com/johndoe",
14    "introduction": null,
15    "moreInfo": [
16        "Holds a valid licence issued by the OACIQ",
17        "Holds professional liability insurance",
18        "Speaks English, French, Spanish"
19    ],
20    "areasServed": [
21        "City (Neighborhood 1)",
22        "City (Neighborhood 2)",
23        "City (Neighborhood 3)"
24    ],
25    "socialMedia": null,
26    "agency": {
27        "name": "Example Real Estate Agency",
28        "type": "Real Estate Agency",
29        "address": "123 Example St., City QC A1B 2C3",
30        "phoneNumber": "123-456-7890",
31        "website": "https://example-agency.com",
32        "logo": "https://example.com/media/logo-placeholder.jpg"
33    },
34    "properties": [
35        {
36            "category": "Duplex for sale",
37            "priceCurrency": "CAD",
38            "price": "750000",
39            "address": [
40                "123 Example St.",
41                "City (Neighborhood 1)"
42            ],
43            "photo": "https://example.com/media/property-photo-placeholder.jpg",
44            "url": "https://www.centris.ca/en/property~duplex/123-example-street/e0000",
45            "bedrooms": "3",
46            "bathrooms": "2",
47            "landArea": null
48        }
49    ]
50}

Setup Guide

1. Set up input parameters: Use either the dropdown menu or JSON input format to specify URLs, filtering options, and scraping settings.
2. Run the Actor: Start the scraper to collect data based on your configuration.
3. Export Data: Download the data in JSON, CSV, or other formats for use in analytics, CRM, or other applications.

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Example Scenarios

• Market Analysis: Use this scraper to gather data on broker distribution, property types, and prices across different regions.
• Lead Generation: Identify brokers with active property listings to target for business services.
• Competitive Insights: Track competitor brokers’ activity and compare listings and pricing.

This scraper runs efficiently on the Apify platform, leveraging concurrency and stealth browsing for optimal performance.

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Cost

The Centris Broker Scraper Actor has a monthly usage cost of $25 plus any additional data scraping costs. If you choose to scrape all property listing data associated with each broker, the cost can increase to approximately $0.40 per 200 results due to the extended data collection. To optimize costs, deactivate the property listing option in the Actor's settings if this data is not essential.

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For additional customizations or support, feel free to reach out for further assistance.