CommercialRealEstate.com.au Scraper

Extract commercial property listings from commercialrealestate.com.au — Australia's premier commercial real estate portal. Scrape for-sale, for-lease, sold, and business listings with addresses, prices, property types, agency details, images, and GPS coordinates.

Features

• 4 listing types: For Sale, For Lease, Sold, Business
• State/territory filtering: All 8 Australian states & territories
• 11 property type categories: Offices, Industrial/Warehouse, Retail, Development Land, Rural/Farming, Showrooms, Medical, Hotel/Leisure, Parking, Serviced Offices, Other
• Location search: Filter by state or specific location slug (e.g. sydney-nsw, melbourne-vic-3000)
• Keyword search: Find listings by keyword (e.g. warehouse, childcare, petrol station), combinable with state and/or property type in a single search
• Dual modes: Build a search from filters, or provide your own CRE.com.au URLs
• 30+ output fields per listing including GPS coordinates, all images, agent details

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
mode	String	search (build from filters) or startUrls (your own URLs)
listingMode	String	for-sale, for-lease, sold, or business
states	Array	One or more: NSW, VIC, QLD, SA, WA, TAS, ACT, NT
propertyType	String	Property category (see full list below). Not applicable to business listings.
locationSlug	String	Specific location slug from a CRE URL (e.g. sydney-nsw). Overrides states/propertyType/keyword — CRE's location resolver only accepts a single path segment.
keyword	String	Keyword to search (e.g. warehouse, childcare). Combines with states and/or propertyType when set.
startUrls	Array	CRE.com.au URLs to process directly
maxItems	Integer	Maximum listings to return (default: 20, max: 10,000)
proxyConfiguration	Object	Apify proxy config — recommended for for-sale, for-lease, and business listing types

Property Type Values

Value	Label
offices	Offices
industrial-warehouse	Industrial / Warehouse
retail	Shop & Retail
development-land	Development / Land
rural-commercial-farming	Rural Commercial / Farming
showrooms-bulky-goods	Showrooms / Bulky Goods
medical-consulting	Medical / Consulting
hotel-leisure	Hotel / Leisure
parking-car-space	Parking / Car Space
serviced-offices	Serviced Offices
other	Other

Output Fields

Each record includes:

Field	Description
adID	Unique numeric listing ID
url	Full URL to the property detail page
headline	Listing title/headline
description	Short property description
displayableAddress	Full formatted address
street	Street address
suburb	Suburb name
state	State/territory code (NSW, VIC, etc.)
postcode	Australian postcode
region	Geographic region (e.g. Eastern Suburbs)
area	Local government area
price	Price string (e.g. $1,200,000 or Contact Agent)
saleType	Listing type (For Sale, Leased, Sold, etc.)
saleMethod	Method of sale (Auction, EOI, Private Treaty)
listingStatus	Status flag (New, Updated)
soldLeasedDate	Date sold or leased (ISO format)
soldLeasedPricing	Disclosed sale/lease price
auctionDate	Scheduled auction date
areaDisplay	Property area display (e.g. 994 m²)
mainCategory	Primary property category
propertyTypes	All property type labels for this listing
isUnderOffer	Boolean — currently under offer
hasVideo	Boolean — video tour available
hasVirtualTour	Boolean — virtual tour available
cardImageUrl	Primary listing image URL
images	Array of all image URLs
agencyName	Real estate agency name
agencyLogoUrl	Agency logo image URL
agents	Array of {name, photo} agent objects
latitude	Property latitude
longitude	Property longitude

Usage Examples

Sold offices in NSW (no proxy needed — recommended default)

{
  "mode": "search",
  "listingMode": "sold",
  "states": ["NSW"],
  "propertyType": "offices",
  "maxItems": 20
}

Sold warehouses in NSW (state + keyword combined)

{
  "mode": "search",
  "listingMode": "sold",
  "states": ["NSW"],
  "keyword": "warehouse",
  "maxItems": 20
}

For-lease warehouses across Australia

{
  "mode": "search",
  "listingMode": "for-lease",
  "propertyType": "industrial-warehouse",
  "maxItems": 20,
  "proxyConfiguration": {"useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["AUTO"], "apifyProxyCountry": "AU"}
}

Specific URL scraping

{
  "mode": "startUrls",
  "startUrls": [
    {"url": "https://www.commercialrealestate.com.au/sold/sydney-nsw/offices/"}
  ],
  "maxItems": 20
}

Keyword search

{
  "mode": "search",
  "listingMode": "for-sale",
  "keyword": "childcare",
  "maxItems": 20
}

Notes on Proxy

• sold listings work reliably with no proxy from any IP — this is the recommended default and requires no configuration.
• for-sale, for-lease, and business listing types are behind commercialrealestate.com.au's Akamai bot protection. Setting proxyConfiguration with an Australian datacenter IP (apifyProxyGroups: ["AUTO"], apifyProxyCountry: "AU") sometimes bypasses it, but Akamai also blocks by IP reputation independent of geography, so results on these three modes are not guaranteed even with proxy enabled — a run may legitimately return 0 records. If you need consistent access to these modes, supply your own residential proxy via proxyConfiguration.
• All individual property detail page URLs (url field) are also behind the same Akamai protection — they open fine in a real browser, but a bare curl/script request (even with a browser User-Agent) will get HTTP 403. This is expected and not a broken link.

Limitations

• ~20 listings per filter combination. commercialrealestate.com.au renders each search URL server-side with a fixed page of 20 results; it does not expose a page/offset query parameter that returns a different page of the same filter combination (verified: /sold/nsw/offices/2/, /sold/nsw/offices/?page=2, and /sold/nsw/offices/list-2 are each interpreted by the site's router as an entirely different search, not "page 2" of the original one). Raising maxItems above ~20 for a single state/type/keyword combination will not return more results for that combination.
  • Workaround: select multiple states (each state is its own URL, up to 20 more per state) or narrow with a specific locationSlug (suburb/postcode) to get a different, smaller result set.
• locationSlug cannot be combined with states, propertyType, or keyword. It's a single resolved path segment on CRE's site, and the site's router silently drops the location filter when any other segment follows it. Use locationSlug on its own for suburb/postcode-level searches.
• propertyType does not apply to business listings — business listings use a separate, unexposed category taxonomy (e.g. "Food, Beverage & Hospitality") rather than the commercial property types.

FAQ

Q: Why do I only get up to ~20 results per search? Each search URL is rendered server-side with a fixed page of 20 listings, and the site doesn't expose a working page/offset parameter for a single filter combination (see Limitations above). For more coverage, select multiple states, or use a specific location slug.

Q: How do I find location slugs? Copy the URL slug from a commercialrealestate.com.au search page, e.g. from https://www.commercialrealestate.com.au/for-sale/sydney-nsw/ use sydney-nsw.

Q: Does this require authentication? No. All listing data is publicly accessible without login.

Q: Why did my for-sale / for-lease / business run return 0 results? Those three listing types are protected by Akamai bot detection that blocks by IP reputation, not just geography — even an Australian-flagged Apify proxy IP can be blocked. Try again (proxy IPs rotate) or supply your own residential proxy. sold listings are unaffected and always reliable.

Q: How current is the data? Data is fetched live from commercialrealestate.com.au at scrape time.