🏡 Property24 Africa Scraper

Unlock Africa's largest real estate dataset — no API, no manual exports, no hassle.

Property24 is the #1 property portal across Southern and East Africa. This actor gives you instant, structured access to tens of thousands of active for-sale listings across 7 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 property listings delivered straight to your dataset.

Country	Listings	Time
🇿🇦 South Africa	~46,000 listings	~44 min
🇳🇦 Namibia	~7,400 listings	~5 min
🇰🇪 Kenya	~7,200 listings	~7 min
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe	~730 listings	~2 min
🇿🇲 Zambia	~610 listings	~3 min
🇧🇼 Botswana	~520 listings	~2 min
🇳🇬 Nigeria	~110 listings	~2 min

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📊 Sample Output

Here's what a typical record looks like:

{
  "listing_url": "https://www.property24.com/for-sale/sandton/johannesburg/gauteng/3456789",
  "title": "3 Bedroom House For Sale in Sandton",
  "price": "R 4 200 000",
  "suburb": "Sandton",
  "city": "Johannesburg",
  "province": "Gauteng",
  "property_type": "House",
  "listing_type": "For Sale",
  "bedrooms": "3",
  "bathrooms": "2",
  "parking": "2",
  "floor_size": "210 m²",
  "erf_size": "600 m²",
  "image": "https://images.prop24.com/...",
  "country": "south_africa",
  "date_scraped": "2026-03-09T10:00:00Z"
}

Every record includes 17 fields — price, size, location, property type, images, and a timestamp so you always know how fresh the data is.

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💼 What Can You Build With This?

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

📈 Market Research & Analytics Track asking prices by suburb, monitor inventory levels, identify up-and-coming neighbourhoods, and benchmark price-per-m² across cities.

🏦 Financial & Investment Analysis Banks, insurers, and investment funds use property data to model risk, assess collateral values, and spot market trends before they hit the headlines.

🔍 PropTech Products Power a price estimator, build a property comparison app, or feed a listing aggregator — all without scraping manually or paying for an expensive data subscription.

📰 Journalism & Academic Research Housing affordability, urban migration, economic inequality — the data is all there, if you know how to pull it.

🤝 Lead Generation Build targeted databases of active listings for estate agencies, bond originators, or moving companies.

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⚙️ How To Use It

Step 1 — Pick your country

{
  "country": "south_africa"
}

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

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 → cities → listings in a fully parallel pipeline
• Records stream to the dataset as they're found — no waiting for the full run to finish
• Each record includes a date_scraped UTC timestamp for freshness tracking
• Deduplication built in — no duplicate listings even across overlapping city areas

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📝 Notes

• Covers for-sale listings only (rental mode coming soon)
• South Africa covers all 9 provinces and ~194 cities
• Other countries cover all major urban areas where Property24 is active
• Ghana is currently unavailable due to site-level access restrictions
• Listing counts fluctuate as properties sell 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.