🏠 Redfin Motivated Seller & Price Drop Scraper

The ultimate real estate investor & wholesaler deal finder. Scan Redfin's real-time MLS syndication feed to uncover motivated homeowners, consecutive price cuts, stale listings, below-market equity spreads, and distress keywords.

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🎯 Why Redfin Motivated Seller Scraper?

Most real estate scrapers dump thousands of generic, overpriced retail listings that waste hours of your time.

Redfin Motivated Seller & Price Drop Scraper is built specifically for real estate investors, wholesalers, and flippers. It continuously filters for distress indicators and seller urgency:

• 📉 Consecutive Price Drops: Pinpoint properties where sellers have cut prices multiple times or dropped 5%+ below original listing price.
• 💰 Redfin Estimate Equity Spread: Automatically calculates the equity discount ($ and %) by comparing listing price against Redfin's automated valuation model (AVM).
• 🚨 Distress Keyword AI: Analyzes listing remarks for 30+ motivation signals ("must sell", "as-is", "estate sale", "tlc", "handyman special", "cash only", "relocating", "probate").
• 📅 Stale Inventory Targeting: Target high-DOM (Days on Market) homes where seller fatigue and desperation peak.
• 📞 Direct Contact Details: 100% populated with listing agent names, brokerage firms, and direct inquiry contact details.
• ⭐ Algorithmic Deal Score (0–100): Proprietary multi-factor scoring index prioritizing the highest-conviction deals first.
• 🔔 Instant Webhook Alerts: Push newly detected deals straight to Discord or Slack channels the moment they appear.

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👥 Who Is This For?

• Real Estate Wholesalers: Lock up deeply discounted contracts before competing investors or retail buyers see them.
• Fix-and-Flippers: Find properties with structural or cosmetic upside and high gross margins.
• Buy-and-Hold Landlords: Scoop up cash-flowing rental properties with built-in equity.
• Acquisition Managers & Agents: Feed your buyers pipeline with pre-screened motivated seller leads.

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⚙️ Input Configuration

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
location	String	"Dallas, TX"	Target US City/State (e.g. Dallas, TX, Atlanta, GA) or 5-digit ZIP code (75201).
minPriceDropPercent	Integer	5	Minimum cumulative price cut percentage (e.g., 5 = at least 5% off original price).
minPriceDropsCount	Integer	1	Minimum number of separate price drops recorded on the MLS.
minDaysOnMarket	Integer	14	Minimum days listed on Redfin (DOM). Set to 0 to include fresh price drops.
distressKeywordsOnly	Boolean	false	When enabled, only returns properties containing distress keywords in remarks.
customKeywords	Array	[]	Optional list of custom distress keywords to scan (e.g., ["fire damage", "divorce"]).
minDealScore	Integer	40	Deal Score threshold (0–100). Only deals meeting this score are exported.
maxResults	Integer	40	Maximum qualified deals to collect per run.
webhookUrl	String	null	Optional Discord or Slack webhook URL for real-time deal alerts.
proxyConfiguration	Object	RESIDENTIAL	Apify Residential Proxy configuration for anti-bot resilience.

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📊 Output Data Format

Each qualified deal record in the Apify dataset contains complete property specifications and motivation intelligence:

{
  "propertyId": "30877630",
  "mlsId": "21384120",
  "address": "5814 Meaders Ln, Dallas, TX 75230",
  "streetLine": "5814 Meaders Ln",
  "city": "Dallas",
  "state": "TX",
  "zip": "75230",
  "price": 2450000,
  "priceFormatted": "$2,450,000",
  "originalPrice": 2690000,
  "originalPriceFormatted": "$2,690,000",
  "priceCutAmount": 240000,
  "priceCutAmountFormatted": "$240,000",
  "priceCutPercent": 8.92,
  "priceCutPercentFormatted": "8.9%",
  "priceDropsCount": 2,
  "redfinEstimate": 2750000,
  "redfinEstimateFormatted": "$2,750,000",
  "equityDiscount": 300000,
  "equityDiscountFormatted": "$300,000",
  "equitySpreadPercent": 10.91,
  "daysOnMarket": 42,
  "yearBuilt": 2006,
  "beds": 5.0,
  "baths": 5.0,
  "squareFeet": 4829,
  "lotSizeSqFt": 18992,
  "pricePerSqFt": 507,
  "pricePerSqFtFormatted": "$507/sqft",
  "dealScore": 72,
  "distressKeywordsFound": [
    "motivated seller",
    "must sell",
    "bring all offers"
  ],
  "distressSignalsCount": 3,
  "remarksExcerpt": "Motivated seller says bring all offers! Located on an expansive 0.44-acre lot in prestigious Preston Hollow...",
  "sellerContactPhone": "(844) 759-7732",
  "sellerContactEmail": "agent.camilleduhoux@directseller-inquiry.com",
  "listingAgentName": "Camille Duhoux",
  "listingBrokerage": "Redfin Corporation",
  "url": "https://www.redfin.com/TX/Dallas/5814-Meaders-Ln-75230/home/30877630",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-20T23:00:00.000Z"
}

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💰 Transparent Pay-Per-Event (PPE) Pricing

• $0.005 per Actor startup (initializes market queries and proxy routing).
• $0.005 per verified motivated seller deal record extracted ($5.00 / 1,000 leads).
• Platform usage (compute & proxy): Paid by subscriber directly to Apify (isPPEPlatformUsagePaidByUser: true). Zero surprise bills.