Ricacorp Properties Scraper (Hong Kong)

Scrape Ricacorp Properties' public Hong Kong listings: 20,211 for sale and 5,924 for rent. Public JSON API — no login, no API key, no browser.

Ricacorp is one of Hong Kong's three largest estate agencies (alongside Centaline and Midland). No other Actor on Apify Store covers this site.

Output fields

Field	Type	Description
post_no	string	Ricacorp listing number, e.g. CU88487564
deal_type	string	buy or rent
title	string|null	Full property name, in the language you selected
title_en / title_zh	string|null	English / Traditional Chinese names (both always returned, for cross-referencing)
address	string|null	Street address
region	string|null	Sub-region, e.g. Ho Man Tin / Kings Park / Kowloon Tong
region_en / region_zh	string|null	Sub-region in English / Chinese
district	string|null	District, e.g. Tin Shui Wai
estate	string|null	Estate, e.g. Yau Yat Chuen Garden
phase	string|null	Phase, e.g. Yau Yat Chuen Garden Phase 2 (null if the estate has no phases)
building	string|null	Block / tower, e.g. Block B4
usage	string|null	Property usage, e.g. private residential
price_hkd	number|null	Asking price, or monthly rent for rentals
market_price_hkd	number|null	Same source as price_hkd. Before the September 2026 rework the API exposed both price (asking) and marketPrice; only the latter survives, so these two outputs are now always equal. The field is kept so existing integrations do not break, but do not subtract one from the other as an "above/below market" signal — that delta is now always 0
saleable_area_sqft / saleable_area_sqm	number|null	Saleable area (sq ft / m²)
unit_price_per_sqft / unit_price_per_sqm	number|null	Price per saleable sq ft / m²
monthly_mortgage_hkd	number|null	Ricacorp's estimated monthly mortgage payment
room	number|null	Bedroom count
floor_zone	string|null	Floor band, e.g. Medium Floor Zone
flat	string|null	Flat, e.g. Flat A7
total_floors / units_per_floor	number|null	Total floors / units per floor
total_units / estate_total_units	number|null	Units in this block / in the whole estate
occupation_date	string|null	Occupation date (ISO 8601)
school_net	string|null	Primary school net
tags	string[]|null	Listing tags
view_count	number|null	View count
agent_name / agent_name_zh	string|null	Agent name
latitude / longitude	number|null	Coordinates
location_id	string|null	Ricacorp location ID
gross_area_sqft / gross_area_sqm	number|null	Gross area (sq ft / sq m)
gross_unit_price_per_sqft / gross_unit_price_per_sqm	number|null	Gross unit price per sq ft / sq m
efficiency_ratio_pct	number|null	Efficiency ratio (%), saleable ÷ gross area
hall_count	number|null	Number of halls (0 is a real answer, not a missing value)
carpark_count	number|null	Number of car park spaces. 0 is a real answer, not a missing value — measured across 440 sampled listings, about 4% carry a parking space (private residential and village houses); the rest genuinely report 0
developer	string|null	Developer (Chinese name only — the API provides no English one)
direction	string|null	Facing direction, e.g. 東北 (north-east)
price_changes	object[]|null	Asking-price change history: price_old_hkd, price_new_hkd, price_changed_hkd, price_changed_pct, changed_at (ISO 8601). null for listings whose price never moved
thumbnail_url / photo_urls	string|string[]|null	Thumbnail / all photos
listing_url	string|null	Ricacorp listing page
posted_at / updated_at	string|null	Posted / updated time (ISO 8601)
scraped_at	string	Scrape time (ISO 8601)

Field names are always English snake_case. Missing values are always null — fields are never omitted.

⚠️ Fields that are always null since September 2026. Ricacorp reworked their site in September 2026 and the property-listing API response shrank from 160 fields to 61. The following fields are no longer provided upstream. They are kept in the output so the shape stays stable, but they are always null:

address, region_en, region_zh, latitude, longitude, total_floors, units_per_floor, estate_total_units, view_count, posted_at

Language note. Ricacorp's API now requires a fixed request header that pins the response locale, so region, floor_zone, usage and tags come back in Traditional Chinese even from this English Actor — the upstream payload carries no English variant for them. title, flat, district, estate, phase and building are returned in English. developer is Chinese-only for the same reason.

The same change brought the gross_area_* … price_changes fields listed above. price_changes is the useful one for price monitoring — about a third of listings carry a recorded price cut. Combined with updated_at (now sourced from the upstream overallDateModified) it supports "has anything in this estate been reduced recently" monitoring.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	enum	search	Listings only for now
dealType	enum	buy	buy or rent
regions	string[]	all	HK Island / Kowloon / NT East / NT West; empty = all four
bulkRegions	string	—	One per line, merged with the field above
rooms	integer	—	Exactly N bedrooms
language	enum	en-hk	en-hk or zh-hk
maxItems	integer	50	Max rows for this run, max 500
proxyConfiguration	object	datacenter	Keep the default

Input examples

1. 100 Kowloon listings for sale

{ "mode": "search", "dealType": "buy", "regions": ["Kowloon"], "maxItems": 100 }

2. Hong Kong Island rentals

{ "mode": "search", "dealType": "rent", "regions": ["Hong Kong Island"], "maxItems": 50 }

3. Three-bedroom listings across the New Territories, Chinese names

{ "mode": "search", "dealType": "buy", "regions": ["New Territories"], "rooms": 3, "language": "zh-hk", "maxItems": 200 }

4. Every region, for sale

{ "mode": "search", "dealType": "buy", "maxItems": 500 }

5. Paste regions in bulk

{ "mode": "search", "dealType": "buy", "bulkRegions": "Hong Kong Island\nKowloon", "maxItems": 100 }

Notes

• Ricacorp splits Hong Kong into four regions, not the usual three — the New Territories are split into East and West. Entering just "New Territories" expands to both.
• The only filters that work are region and bedroom count. Ricacorp's public API silently ignores price-range, area-range and keyword filters, so this Actor does not send them — you are never misled into thinking a filter applied. To filter by price or estate, filter the output yourself.
• maxItems is the total across all regions, not per region.
• Some fields use 0 in the source data to mean "not provided" (unpriced listings, missing floor counts). This Actor normalises those to null, so you never see a "HK$0" property.
• If new listings appear while scraping, pages shift and rows can repeat. This Actor de-duplicates across the whole run, so each row is output — and charged — only once.
• The site occasionally returns a truncated JSON response; the Actor retries that page automatically and only reports a gap (clearly, in the log) if the retries are exhausted.
• Public data only. No login, no authentication bypass.

Pricing

A single event, search-listing, at $0.002 per row output. Only rows successfully written to the dataset are charged; duplicates and filtered-out rows are not.

FAQ

Q: Can I scrape a single estate? A: The API has no estate or keyword filter. Scrape the region and filter on the estate field — this Actor extracts the estate correctly from the location hierarchy, rather than mistaking the block name for it.

Q: What's the difference between estate, phase and building? A: For "Yau Yat Chuen Garden Phase 2 Block B4": estate = Yau Yat Chuen Garden, phase = Yau Yat Chuen Garden Phase 2, building = Block B4. Estates without phases have phase: null.

Q: Is price_hkd the monthly rent for rentals? A: Yes. With dealType: rent, price_hkd is the monthly rent and unit_price_per_sqft is rent per saleable square foot.

Q: Can I merge this with Centaline or Midland data? A: Yes — that's a primary use case. All three output snake_case fields, estate names and saleable area / price per sq ft, which suits agency-vs-agency inventory and pricing comparison. Estate naming differs slightly between sites, so fuzzy-match on district plus estate name.

Q: I got fewer rows than maxItems. A: That filter combination is exhausted. Loosen the filters (drop rooms, say) or scrape another region.

Q: Does it need a residential proxy? A: No. Ricacorp is datacenter-friendly, so the default Apify datacenter proxy is enough and costs very little.

Disclaimer

This Actor is intended for lawful purposes only, such as personal research, academic analysis, market research and property trend studies. Please comply with Ricacorp Properties' (ricacorp.com) terms of service and applicable Hong Kong law. Do not scrape at excessive volume and do not resell raw data. The author accepts no liability for any damage arising from use of this tool.

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