Nigeria Property Centre Scraper

Scrape Nigeria Property Centre — Nigeria's largest real estate classifieds site, listing hundreds of thousands of houses, flats, land, and commercial properties for sale, rent, short-let, and joint venture across all 36 states plus the FCT. Search with rich filters (property type, sub-type, state, city, bedrooms, price range, keywords) or fetch full listing details directly from a URL. HTTP-only — no login, no cookies, no residential proxy required.

What this actor does

• Two modes: search (filtered browse) and byUrl (direct listing lookup)
• Every listing type: For Sale, For Rent, Short Let, Joint Venture
• Every property category: Houses (with 7 sub-types like Detached Duplex, Block of Flats, Bungalows), Flats & Apartments, Land (5 sub-types), Commercial Property (12 sub-types)
• Nationwide or state-scoped: all 36 Nigerian states + FCT (Abuja), plus free-text city/area
• Rich filters: bedrooms, min/max price (NGN), furnishing status, keyword search
• Full listing detail: price, bedrooms/bathrooms/toilets/parking, description, categorized features & amenities, agent name, phone numbers, WhatsApp contact, full photo gallery, date posted
• Empty fields are omitted — a record never contains null, "", or []

Output per listing

• listingId, referenceId — Nigeria Property Centre's own listing and reference IDs
• title, sourceUrl
• listingType — for-sale / for-rent / short-let / joint-venture
• propertyType — top-level category (Houses / Flats & Apartments / Land / Commercial Property)
• propertyCategory — specific sub-type (e.g. Detached Duplex, Residential Land, Offices)
• listingStatus — e.g. Detached duplex for sale
• state, city, area, fullLocation
• price, priceCurrency, priceFormatted
• bedrooms, bathrooms, toilets, parkingSpaces (houses/flats only — land and some commercial listings omit these)
• description — full listing description text
• features — categorized amenities (e.g. "Security & Safety": ["CCTV surveillance", "Perimeter fencing"])
• listedBy — agent or agency name
• phoneNumbers[], whatsapp
• images[] — full-size photo URLs, thumbnailUrl
• datePosted — ISO 8601 timestamp
• additionalDetails — any other listing-detail fields the site publishes that aren't already promoted to a top-level field (e.g. Furnishing)
• recordType: "listing", scrapedAt

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	search (browse/filter) or byUrl (direct lookup)
listingType	string	for-sale	for-sale / for-rent / short-let / joint-venture (mode=search)
propertyType	string	houses	any / houses / flats-apartments / land / commercial (mode=search)
propertyCategory	string	any	Specific sub-type, e.g. detached-duplexes, residential-land, offices (mode=search)
furnishing	string	any	any / furnished / unfurnished — only applied when propertyType is any (mode=search)
state	string	lagos	Nigerian state, or any for nationwide (mode=search)
city	string	–	Free-text city/area within the state (mode=search)
bedrooms	integer	–	Exact bedroom count; 6 means "6 or more" (mode=search)
minPrice / maxPrice	integer	–	Price range in Nigerian Naira (mode=search)
keywords	string	–	Keyword search within listing descriptions (mode=search)
urls	array	–	Full listing URLs to fetch directly (mode=byUrl)
maxItems	integer	20	Hard cap on emitted listings (1–500)
proxyConfiguration	object	off	Not required — the site serves plain HTML with no bot-detection challenge

Example: browse houses for sale in Lagos, 4+ bedrooms, with a pool

{
  "mode": "search",
  "listingType": "for-sale",
  "propertyType": "houses",
  "state": "lagos",
  "bedrooms": 4,
  "keywords": "pool",
  "maxItems": 30
}

Example: 2-bedroom flats for rent in Abuja under ₦8,000,000

{
  "mode": "search",
  "listingType": "for-rent",
  "propertyType": "flats-apartments",
  "state": "abuja",
  "bedrooms": 2,
  "maxPrice": 8000000,
  "maxItems": 25
}

Example: residential land for sale nationwide

{
  "mode": "search",
  "listingType": "for-sale",
  "propertyCategory": "residential-land",
  "state": "any",
  "maxItems": 40
}

Example: fetch specific listings by URL

{
  "mode": "byUrl",
  "urls": [
    "https://nigeriapropertycentre.com/for-sale/houses/detached-duplexes/lagos/lekki/3319016-luxury-5-bedroom-detached-duplex-with-bq-in-a-highly-secured-estate"
  ]
}

Use cases

• Real estate market research — track asking prices by state, city, and property type across Nigeria
• Lead generation for agents/agencies — pull contact details for new listings matching a target segment
• Price benchmarking — compare rents or sale prices across neighborhoods
• Investment analysis — monitor land and commercial property availability in growth areas
• Property aggregators / portals — feed structured Nigerian listings into your own site or app
• Diaspora home-buying research — browse Nigerian property options with full photo galleries and agent contacts

FAQ

What is the data source? All data comes from the public pages of nigeriapropertycentre.com, Nigeria's largest property classifieds website. This actor is an independent third-party scraper and is not affiliated with Nigeria Property Centre.

Do I need a proxy or login? No. The site serves plain HTML with no login wall and no bot-detection challenge, so the actor runs reliably without cookies or a residential proxy.

Why do some listings have no bedrooms/bathrooms/features? Land and some commercial listings (e.g. filling stations, warehouses) don't have bedroom/bathroom counts or an amenities checklist on the site, so those fields are simply omitted rather than shown as empty.

Why do some prices look unusually high or low? Prices are extracted directly from each individual listing as published by the lister/agent. Like any user-generated marketplace, a small fraction of listings contain data-entry errors from the original poster — the actor reports exactly what the site displays and does not attempt to "correct" prices.

How does the bedrooms filter handle 6+ bedroom properties? Setting bedrooms to 6 matches "6 or more" bedrooms, mirroring how the site's own filter works.

Can I combine furnishing with a specific propertyType? No — the site itself doesn't support combining a furnishing filter with a specific property type in one query, so furnishing is only applied when propertyType is any.

How fresh is the data? Every run fetches live pages at request time — there is no caching layer, so results reflect what's on the site right now.