🏡 Homegate Property Scraper (Stable API)

Extract comprehensive, highly-structured real estate data from Homegate.ch, Switzerland's largest property marketplace.

Whether you are building a real estate aggregator, analyzing the Swiss housing market, or monitoring competitor prices, this Actor provides lightning-fast, reliable, and clean data extraction from Homegate directly via their internal APIs.

By running directly against the API layer rather than using slow, heavy browser automation, this scraper is engineered for maximum speed, reliability, and cost-efficiency. Get 10x faster results and significantly lower compute costs compared to traditional UI scrapers.

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✨ Key Features

• ⚡ Unmatched Speed: Scrape thousands of property listings in seconds. Built for high-volume, concurrent data extraction.
• 💰 Unbeatable Cost-Efficiency: No heavy browsers means minimal RAM usage on the Apify platform. You extract more data for less credits.
• 🎯 Smart Location Resolution: Forget complex internal IDs. Simply type user-friendly locations like "Zurich", "Geneva", "8001", or "Vaud", and our engine automatically resolves them to the correct geographic targets.
• 📊 100% Comprehensive Data: Extracts every available data point: precise coordinates (Lat/Lon), complete agent and agency contact information, deep property characteristics, high-resolution image URLs, and linked documents (e.g., floor plans).
• 🏢 Competitor & Agency Targeting: Want to track a specific real estate agency? Use the listerIds filter to exclusively scrape properties listed by your target competitors.
• 🌍 Native Multi-Language Output: Choose your desired output language (German, English, French, or Italian) and receive natively translated property titles and descriptions.

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🛠️ How to Use

You have two simple ways to extract data:

1. Direct Listing URLs

Already know which properties you want? Paste specific Homegate.ch listing URLs (e.g., https://www.homegate.ch/rent/4002421549) into the Start URLs field. The scraper will instantly fetch the full, enriched details for each listing.

2. Powerful Search Filters

Search the entire Homegate database using our comprehensive filters:

• Locations: Enter cities, cantons, or zip codes.
• Offer Type: Filter by RENT or BUY.
• Price Range: Set minimum and maximum prices (CHF).
• Size & Layout: Filter by number of rooms and living space (m²).
• Property Categories: Select from 27 specific types (e.g., Apartment, Villa, Chalet, Office, Commercial, Building Land).
• Must-Have Features: Filter for properties with a Balcony, Elevator, Pets Allowed, Nice View, Pool, and more.

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📦 Output Data Structure

The scraper exports clean, flattened JSON or CSV files ready for seamless integration into your databases, Excel sheets, or data science workflows.

Sample JSON Output:

{
  "propertyId": "4002421549",
  "url": "https://www.homegate.ch/rent/4002421549",
  "offerType": "RENT",
  "listingType": "PREMIUM",
  "categories": ["APARTMENT", "ATTIC_FLAT"],
  "price": 4540,
  "priceNet": 4200,
  "priceExtra": 340,
  "currency": "CHF",
  "priceInterval": "MONTH",
  "title": "Sunny attic apartment in Dübendorf",
  "description": "We rent out this beautiful and modern 3.5-room attic apartment...",
  "characteristics": {
    "livingSpaceSqm": 160,
    "numberOfRooms": 3.5,
    "floor": 4,
    "yearBuilt": 2018,
    "hasBalcony": true,
    "hasElevator": false,
    "hasParking": true,
    "hasNiceView": false
  },
  "address": {
    "street": "Überlandstrasse 198",
    "postalCode": "8600",
    "locality": "Dübendorf",
    "region": "ZH",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "coordinates": {
    "latitude": 47.401134,
    "longitude": 8.621861
  },
  "agency": {
    "id": "schremzh",
    "name": "Schaeppi Grundstücke AG",
    "phone": "+41 44 456 57 67",
    "website": "http://www.schaeppi.ch",
    "contactPerson": "Marc Schweizer"
  },
  "images": [
    { "url": "https://media2.homegate.ch/...", "title": "Exterior" }
  ],
  "documents": [
    { "url": "https://media2.homegate.ch/...", "title": "Floor Plan.pdf" }
  ],
  "availableFrom": "2025-08-13",
  "publishedAt": "2025-08-06T16:28:59.491Z",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-03-12T14:30:00Z"
}

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⚙️ Best Practices & Configuration

• Use Swiss Proxies: To ensure maximum stability and prevent rate-limiting, we highly recommend using Apify Residential Proxies with the country set to Switzerland (CH).
• Start Small: When testing your filters, set maxItems to 10 or 20 before scaling up to massive runs.
• Automation: Set up scheduled runs on the Apify platform to build an automated pipeline that monitors the Swiss real estate market daily.

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🤝 Need B2B Real Estate Leads?

Are you looking to build a database of Swiss real estate agencies, brokers, and realtors rather than individual properties?

Check out our companion scraper: Homegate Agency & Realtor Leads Scraper (coming soon). It's specifically designed to extract comprehensive B2B contact information, portfolios, and agency details directly from the Homegate directory!

⚖️ Legal & Ethical Use

This tool is designed to extract publicly available data. Users are responsible for ensuring their use of the data complies with local laws, GDPR, and the Terms of Service of the target website. Do not use this tool to spam or overwhelm the target servers.