Dubai Property Scraper — UAE Real Estate Listings

Scrape Dubai property listings from PropertyFinder.ae — UAE's leading real estate portal with over 267,000 active listings (148k for sale, 119k for rent). Extract rich structured data including price, GPS coordinates, agent contacts, RERA permit numbers, furnishing status, and more.

What this actor does

• Scrapes for-sale and for-rent property listings across Dubai
• Extracts 22+ structured fields per listing from JSON-LD embedded data (no fragile HTML parsing)
• Returns GPS coordinates (lat/lon) for every listing with location data
• Includes agent name, email, and phone number from contact options
• Captures RERA permit numbers for compliance verification
• Supports pagination to retrieve thousands of listings per run
• Works with custom search URLs for precise filtering by area, price range, or property type

Output fields

Field	Description
listing_id	PropertyFinder unique listing ID
title	Listing headline
price	Price in AED (or per-year for rentals)
currency	Always "AED"
price_per_sqft	Calculated price per square foot
purpose	"for-sale" or "for-rent"
property_type	Apartment, Villa, Townhouse, etc.
bedrooms	Number of bedrooms
bathrooms	Number of bathrooms
area_sqft	Property area in square feet
location	Full location path (tower, community, district, city)
city	City name (e.g. Dubai)
community	Community or district name
sub_community	Sub-community or compound
tower	Building or tower name
latitude	GPS latitude
longitude	GPS longitude
agent_name	Listing agent's full name
agent_email	Agent email address
agency	Real estate agency name
phone	Contact phone number
permit_number	RERA permit / DLD permit number
furnishing	Furnished / Unfurnished / Partly Furnished
completion_status	Completed / Off-Plan / Under Construction
description	Full property description text
amenities	List of amenity names
listing_url	Direct URL to the listing
image_url	Primary listing image URL
images	All image URLs
posted_date	Date listing was posted
scraped_at	ISO timestamp of the scraping run
parse_confidence	Data quality score 0.0–1.0

Input parameters

Required

None — the actor has sensible defaults (Dubai for-sale, 100 listings).

Optional

purpose — "for-sale" (default) or "for-rent"

propertyType — Filter by type: apartment, villa, townhouse, penthouse, duplex, studio, office, shop, warehouse, land, hotel-apartment, full-floor. Default: all types.

maxItems — Maximum number of listings to return. Default: 100. Maximum: 50,000.

searchUrl — A custom PropertyFinder search URL. If provided, overrides purpose and propertyType. Example:

https://www.propertyfinder.ae/en/search?c=1&t=2&l=dubai&pf=5000000&pt=10000000

This lets you filter by price range, specific neighborhoods, bedroom count, and any other criteria the PropertyFinder UI supports.

proxyConfiguration — Proxy settings. The actor works without a proxy from Apify infrastructure. RESIDENTIAL proxy is available as a fallback if needed.

Use cases

• Real estate market research — track price trends by area, property type, and purpose
• Lead generation — extract agent and agency contact information at scale
• Property investment analysis — compare prices, price-per-sqft, and availability across Dubai neighborhoods
• RERA compliance checks — collect permit numbers for regulatory verification
• Mapping and GIS — use GPS coordinates for spatial analysis and visualization
• Competitive intelligence — monitor new listings, price changes, and developer inventory

Technical notes

Transport: PropertyFinder serves full SSR HTML with an embedded __NEXT_DATA__ JSON blob containing all listing data. This actor extracts data directly from that JSON — making it structurally robust against layout changes and HTML refactors.

No API key required. The actor does not require any PropertyFinder or third-party API credentials.

Proxy: Works reliably from Apify datacenter IPs without any proxy. RESIDENTIAL proxy is available as a fallback input option for high-volume runs.

Performance: PropertyFinder returns 20–30 listings per page. The actor paginates automatically. At default settings (100 items), expect ~3–5 pages fetched in 15–30 seconds.

Pricing

Pay-per-result: $0.99 per 1,000 listings scraped.

A 1,000-listing run costs $0.99. Compute costs run on your Apify account (typically $0.05–0.15 for a 1,000-item run).

Sample output

{
  "listing_id": "99959555",
  "title": "Fully Upgraded with Sea and Skyline View",
  "price": 32000000,
  "currency": "AED",
  "price_per_sqft": 12167,
  "purpose": "for-sale",
  "property_type": "Apartment",
  "bedrooms": 3,
  "bathrooms": 4,
  "area_sqft": 2630,
  "location": "Bulgari Resort & Residences 6, Bulgari Resort & Residences, Jumeirah Bay Island, Jumeirah, Dubai",
  "city": "Dubai",
  "community": "Jumeirah",
  "sub_community": "Jumeirah Bay Island",
  "tower": null,
  "latitude": 25.20964813232422,
  "longitude": 55.23322296142578,
  "agent_name": "Kianoush Darban",
  "agent_email": "kia@drivenproperties.com",
  "agency": "Driven Properties",
  "phone": "+971524960123",
  "permit_number": "7121372015",
  "furnishing": "Furnished",
  "completion_status": "Completed",
  "listing_url": "https://www.propertyfinder.ae/en/plp/buy/apartment-for-sale-dubai-jumeirah-...",
  "image_url": "https://static.shared.propertyfinder.ae/media/images/listing/.../668x452.jpg",
  "posted_date": "2026-06-08",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-08T12:00:00Z",
  "parse_confidence": 1.0
}