# Homes.com Scraper — Real Estate Data for AI Agents (`fervent_bus/homes-com-scraper`) Actor

Extract property listings from Homes.com: addresses, prices, beds, baths, sqft, images, coordinates. Built for real estate investors, market analysts, and lead generation. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, and AI agents via Apify MCP. Fast, reliable, residential proxy support.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/fervent\_bus/homes-com-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Archit Khurana](https://apify.com/fervent_bus) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Real estate, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 83.3% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Homes.com Scraper — Real Estate Listings & Property Data for AI Agents

Extract comprehensive property data from Homes.com, the #2 US real estate platform with 149M+ monthly visitors. Perfect for real estate professionals, investors, market analysts, and AI agents building property datasets.

### 🎯 Who This Is For

- **Real Estate Investors** — Find undervalued properties and market opportunities
- **Market Analysts** — Track pricing trends and inventory across US markets
- **Lead Generation** — Build contact lists from agent and property data
- **AI Agents & Claude/ChatGPT Users** — Automated property research via Apify MCP
- **Property Developers** — Identify development opportunities by location
- **Appraisers** — Comp analysis with current market listings

### 📊 What Data You Get

Each property listing includes:

- **Location**: Full address, city, state, ZIP code, coordinates (lat/lon)
- **Pricing**: Current list price
- **Property Details**: Bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage, property type
- **Listing Info**: Status, listing date, property URL
- **Media**: Primary image URL
- **Description**: Full property description text
- **Timestamp**: Scrape timestamp (ISO 8601)

All fields are nullable — missing data returns `null` instead of crashing.

### 🤖 Works With AI Agents

This actor is optimized for:

- **Claude** (Anthropic) via Apify MCP server
- **ChatGPT** (OpenAI) via Apify plugin
- **Custom AI agents** using Apify API
- **Automation workflows** (Zapier, Make, n8n)

Connect Apify to your AI agent and ask natural language queries like:

- "Find homes for sale in Austin under $500k"
- "Get luxury properties in Miami Beach"
- "Show me 3-bedroom houses in Denver"

### 🚀 Example Input

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "Austin, TX",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}
```

### 📦 Example Output

```json
{
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-18T13:20:00.000Z",
  "url": "https://www.homes.com/property/123-main-st-austin-tx/...",
  "address": "123 Main St",
  "city": "Austin",
  "state": "TX",
  "zipCode": "78701",
  "price": "$450,000",
  "bedrooms": "3",
  "bathrooms": "2",
  "sqft": "1,850",
  "propertyType": "Single Family",
  "status": "For Sale",
  "listingDate": "2026-08-10",
  "description": "Beautiful home in downtown Austin...",
  "imageUrl": "https://...",
  "latitude": "30.2672",
  "longitude": "-97.7431"
}
```

### 🔍 Search Queries This Actor Ranks For

1. "scrape homes.com property listings"
2. "extract real estate data from homes.com"
3. "homes.com api alternative scraper"
4. "get property prices and addresses homes.com"
5. "automate real estate lead generation homes.com"
6. "bulk download homes.com listings for AI agents"
7. "homes.com scraper for Claude ChatGPT MCP"
8. "residential property data scraper USA"
9. "real estate market analysis automation"
10. "homes.com to spreadsheet export tool"

### ⚙️ Configuration

- **Residential proxies recommended** for reliability (included in Apify proxy)
- **Default max results**: 50 properties
- **Pagination**: Automatic across search result pages
- **Rate limiting**: 2-second delay between pages
- **Retries**: 3 attempts per failed request with exponential backoff

### 📈 Pricing

- **Pay-per-result**: $0.005 per property scraped
- **Actor start fee**: $0.05 per run
- Example: 100 properties = $0.50 + $0.05 = $0.55 total

### 🏷️ Tags

real-estate, property-data, homes-com, real-estate-scraper, property-listings, real-estate-leads, ai-agent-compatible, mcp-server, claude-compatible, chatgpt-compatible, residential-data, market-analysis

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

Location to search (city, state, ZIP code, or address)

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of properties to scrape

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Residential proxies recommended for best results

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "Austin, TX",
  "maxResults": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `scrapedAt` (type: `string`):

No description

## `url` (type: `string`):

No description

## `address` (type: `string`):

No description

## `city` (type: `string`):

No description

## `state` (type: `string`):

No description

## `zipCode` (type: `string`):

No description

## `price` (type: `string`):

No description

## `bedrooms` (type: `string`):

No description

## `bathrooms` (type: `string`):

No description

## `sqft` (type: `string`):

No description

## `propertyType` (type: `string`):

No description

## `status` (type: `string`):

No description

## `listingDate` (type: `string`):

No description

## `description` (type: `string`):

No description

## `imageUrl` (type: `string`):

No description

## `latitude` (type: `string`):

No description

## `longitude` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchQuery": "Austin, TX",
    "maxResults": 10,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("fervent_bus/homes-com-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "searchQuery": "Austin, TX",
    "maxResults": 10,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("fervent_bus/homes-com-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchQuery": "Austin, TX",
  "maxResults": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call fervent_bus/homes-com-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,fervent_bus/homes-com-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/USUhkKWKbbLMyFTv7/builds/hTNdF4FN1HdTJAVP9/openapi.json