🏠 Property24 Africa Rentals Scraper

The only scraper covering rental listings across 9 African countries — structured, fast, and ready to use.

Property24 is the #1 property portal across Southern and East Africa. This actor gives you instant, structured access to tens of thousands of active rental listings across 9 countries — ready to download as JSON, CSV, or Excel in minutes.

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🌍 What You Get

Run once. Get a full country's worth of rental listings delivered straight to your dataset.

Country	Listings	Time
🇿🇦 South Africa	~17,000 listings	~45 min
🇳🇦 Namibia	~600 listings	~3 min
🇰🇪 Kenya	~400 listings	~3 min
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe	~150 listings	~2 min
🇧🇼 Botswana	~200 listings	~2 min
🇿🇲 Zambia	~300 listings	~2 min
🇳🇬 Nigeria	~300 listings	~2 min
🇲🇿 Mozambique	~100 listings	~2 min
🇲🇺 Mauritius	~100 listings	~2 min

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📊 Sample Output

Here's what a typical record looks like:

{
  "listing_url": "https://www.property24.com/to-rent/sea-point/cape-town/western-cape/11021/117098155",
  "title": "2 Bedroom Apartment",
  "monthly_rental": "R 35 000",
  "suburb": "Sea Point",
  "property_type": null,
  "bedrooms": "2",
  "bathrooms": "2",
  "parking": "2",
  "floor_size": "129 m²",
  "erf_size": null,
  "image": "https://images.prop24.com/377180517/Crop600x400",
  "listing_type": "to_rent"
}

Every record includes 12 fields — monthly rental, size, location, bedrooms, bathrooms, parking, and a direct link to the listing.

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💼 What Can You Build With This?

Whether you're a developer, analyst, or business — this data opens doors:

📈 Rental Market Research Track average rental prices by suburb, monitor inventory levels, identify affordable neighbourhoods, and benchmark price-per-m² across cities.

🏦 Investment Analysis Calculate rental yields by comparing rental prices to for-sale prices. Identify high-demand suburbs and emerging rental markets across Africa.

🔍 PropTech Products Power a rental price estimator, build a listing aggregator, or feed a tenant-matching platform — without manual scraping or expensive data subscriptions.

📰 Journalism & Academic Research Housing affordability, rental inflation, urban migration — the data is all there, structured and ready for analysis.

🤝 Lead Generation Build targeted databases of active rental listings for letting agencies, relocation services, or corporate housing providers.

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⚙️ How To Use It

Step 1 — Pick your country

{
  "country": "south_africa"
}

Available options: south_africa · namibia · kenya · zimbabwe · botswana · zambia · nigeria · mozambique · mauritius

Step 2 — Hit Start

Listings stream into your dataset in real time as pages are scraped. You can watch the count go up live.

Step 3 — Export your data

Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel with one click. Pipe it into your database, spreadsheet, or BI tool of choice.

That's it. No API keys. No browser automation. No setup headaches.

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🛠️ Under The Hood

• Built with Python + httpx — fast async HTTP, no heavy browser overhead
• Uses Apify residential proxies for reliable, unblocked access
• Covers provinces → suburbs → listings in a fully parallel pipeline
• Records stream to the dataset as they're found — no waiting for the full run to finish
• Deduplication built in — no duplicate listings even across overlapping suburb areas
• South Africa uses a two-phase city discovery approach covering all 9 provinces

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📝 Notes

• Covers rental listings only — looking for for-sale listings? Check the Property24 Africa For-Sale Scraper
• Rental prices are in local currency (ZAR, NAD, KES, USD, BWP, ZMW, NGN, MZN, MUR)
• South Africa covers all 9 provinces and 400+ suburbs
• Listing counts fluctuate as properties are rented and new ones are listed — run regularly for fresh data

⚠️ Legal

This actor collects publicly available listing data. Use responsibly and ensure compliance with applicable laws in your jurisdiction.

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Made with ❤️ from Windhoek, Namibia 🇳🇦 — because African real estate data should be accessible to everyone.