Property24 Scraper - SA Property Listings & Agent Data

Property24 Scraper — South Africa Real Estate Listings, Prices & Agent Data

Extract structured property listings from Property24.com — South Africa's #1 real estate portal — without login or coding. Scrape For Sale, To Rent, and Sold properties across all 9 South African provinces, major metros, and suburbs: price in ZAR, formatted price, title, description, suburb/location, bedrooms, bathrooms, parking spaces, floor/erf size (m²), listing URL, photo, and agency branding.

Export clean, de-duplicated South African property data to JSON, CSV, Excel, or API in seconds.

Built for South African property investors, real estate analysts, estate agencies, bond originators, proptech platforms, valuation & CMA teams, and B2B lead-generation agencies.

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⚡ At a glance

Feature	Details
Target Portal	Property24.com — South Africa's largest property marketplace
Listing Types	for-sale (For Sale), to-rent (To Rent), and sold (Sold Properties archive)
Location Coverage	All 9 SA provinces (Gauteng, Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, Free State, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West, Northern Cape), 22+ built-in cities/suburbs, plus any custom Property24 URL via startUrls
Pagination & Scale	Automatic /p2, /p3… deep pagination (~20 properties per page) — scales cleanly to 1,000+ listings per run
Card Layout Support	Parses both standard listing tiles and boosted/premium development tiles (~100% title & price coverage)
De-duplication	Automatic in-memory de-duplication by listingNumber / propertyId across all pages and locations (0 duplicates)
Speed & Cost	Lightweight HTTP extraction with datacenter proxies — 100 properties in ~10–20 seconds
Export Formats	JSON, CSV, Excel (XLSX), HTML, XML, RSS, and Apify API

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🔎 Why scrape Property24?

Property24 is the undisputed leader in South African real estate classifieds, hosting hundreds of thousands of residential and commercial properties for sale and rent across Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria, Durban, Sandton, Centurion, Umhlanga, Stellenbosch, and every province in the country. For anyone analyzing the South African housing market, Property24 is the primary source of asking prices, rental yields, erf/floor sizes, and estate agency inventory.

However, Property24 provides no public API and no CSV export, and listings are split across thousands of paginated /p2, /p3 result pages that mix standard property cards with boosted development banners. Manually copying listings into Excel is slow and error-prone. This Property24 scraper automates the entire process: it resolves your selected provinces and cities, paginates automatically through search results up to 1,000+ properties, handles both standard and premium card layouts, de-duplicates every listing by listingNumber, and outputs a clean dataset ready for analysis.

Common reasons teams use this Property24 data extractor:

• 📈 South African real estate market research — monitor asking prices, price per m², and active inventory across Gauteng, Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, and all nine provinces.
• 💰 Rental yield & investment screening — compare for-sale prices against to-rent monthly rents across suburbs like Sandton, Midrand, Centurion, Rosebank, and Somerset West.
• 🏘️ Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) & automated valuation (AVM) — combine active listings with sold property records to benchmark valuations by bedroom count and floor/erf size.
• 🧑‍💼 Estate agency & competitor intelligence — track which agencies (agentTitle) dominate featured inventory in target suburbs.
• 🔔 Automated price-drop & new-listing alerts — schedule daily or weekly runs and diff on listingNumber + price to spot motivated sellers and newly listed stock.
• 🗄️ Proptech & BI pipeline ingestion — feed normalized ZAR property data directly into Snowflake, BigQuery, PostgreSQL, Power BI, or Google Sheets.

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✨ What this Property24 scraper does

• ✅ Scrape For Sale, To Rent, or Sold listings (listingType) — switch between active sales (for-sale), rentals (to-rent), and historical sold records (sold).
• ✅ Built-in SA Province, City & Suburb Selector (locations) — choose from all 9 provinces and major metros/suburbs:
  • Provinces: gauteng, western-cape, kwazulu-natal, eastern-cape, free-state, limpopo, mpumalanga, north-west, northern-cape
  • Metros & Suburbs: cape-town, johannesburg, pretoria, durban, port-elizabeth (gqeberha), bloemfontein, east-london, polokwane, nelspruit (mbombela), sandton, alberton, centurion, midrand, roodepoort, kibler-park, umhlanga, stellenbosch, somerset-west, paarl, george, krugersdorp, randburg
• ✅ Custom Filtered Search URLs (startUrls) — paste any URL from property24.com (pre-filtered by suburb, property type, min/max price, bedrooms, or pet-friendly status) and the scraper paginates /p2, /p3… automatically while preserving your exact query parameters.
• ✅ Unlocked 1,000+ Deep Pagination — with maxPages: 0 (the default), the scraper continues queuing /p{N} pages until your maxItems target is reached or the location has no further pages.
• ✅ Standard + Boosted/Development Tile Parsing — extracts numeric price (including starting price on "From R 2 388 000 To R ..." development cards), priceFormatted, title, and lazy-loaded high-resolution image URLs across all card templates.
• ✅ Resilient Session & Retry Handling — automatically retries transient 503 responses (up to 8 attempts with session/IP rotation) so deep multi-page crawls never stop prematurely.

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🎯 Use cases & B2B workflows

1. Property Investors & Buy-to-Let Funds

Run two automated jobs per target suburb (e.g., centurion, midrand, sandton, umhlanga): one with listingType: "for-sale" and one with listingType: "to-rent". Join on location and bedrooms to calculate gross rental yields and price-per-square-meter (price / floorSizeM2) across thousands of properties.

2. Estate Agencies, Valuers & Bond Originators

Track market supply, days-on-market (by scheduling daily snapshots), and competitor promotion share (agentTitle, agentLogo). Pull sold listings to anchor client listing presentations with verifiable local comparables.

3. Proptech Portals, Relocation Firms & Data Analysts

Use startUrls to monitor niche segments — such as sectional-title apartments under R 1,500,000 in Cape Town or industrial/commercial properties in Johannesburg — and stream the results via webhook or REST API into your application.

4. Mortgage Originators, Banks & Insurance Underwriters

Analyze regional housing stock by province and suburb (floorSizeM2, bedrooms, price) to calibrate home-loan risk models, replacement-cost estimates, and regional affordability indices across South Africa.

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🌍 Built-in South African provinces, cities & suburbs

Category	Supported locations Values
All 9 SA Provinces	gauteng, western-cape, kwazulu-natal, eastern-cape, free-state, limpopo, mpumalanga, north-west, northern-cape
Gauteng Metros & Suburbs	johannesburg, pretoria, sandton, centurion, midrand, randburg, roodepoort, alberton, krugersdorp, kibler-park
Western Cape Cities & Winelands	cape-town, stellenbosch, somerset-west, paarl, george
KwaZulu-Natal & Coastal Metros	durban, umhlanga, port-elizabeth (gqeberha), east-london
Inland Provincial Capitals	bloemfontein, polokwane, nelspruit (mbombela)
Any Other Suburb / Estate	Paste any Property24 search URL into startUrls (e.g., Sea Point, Camps Bay, Ballito, Bryanston, Waterfall, Fourways)

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📥 Input configuration

All fields are optional (required: []). Leave locations and startUrls empty to collect a nationwide sample across South Africa's largest provinces and metros.

Parameter	Type	Default / Prefill	Description
listingType	string	"for-sale"	Type of listings to scrape: "for-sale", "to-rent", or "sold".
locations	array<string>	Prefill: ["gauteng"]	One or more SA provinces, cities, or suburbs from the dropdown. Leave empty for a nationwide multi-location sweep.
maxItems	integer	Default: 0 (Prefill: 100)	Maximum total properties to collect across all locations (0 = unlimited). Set 1000+ for large regional datasets.
maxPages	integer	0	Maximum search result pages per location (~20 properties per page). 0 = automatic pagination governed by maxItems.
includeDetails	boolean	false	Reserved for future detail enrichment. Keep false for fast listing extraction.
startUrls	array	[]	Optional Property24 search result URLs (with any custom price, bedroom, or suburb filters). Paginates /p2, /p3… automatically.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy	Proxy configuration. Default Apify datacenter proxy ({ "useApifyProxy": true }) works fast and reliably.

Example 1 — 1,000+ For-Sale listings across Gauteng, Western Cape & KwaZulu-Natal

{
  "listingType": "for-sale",
  "locations": ["gauteng", "western-cape", "kwazulu-natal"],
  "maxItems": 1000,
  "maxPages": 0,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

Example 2 — Rental market sweep across Cape Town, Sandton & Umhlanga

{
  "listingType": "to-rent",
  "locations": ["cape-town", "sandton", "umhlanga", "stellenbosch"],
  "maxItems": 400,
  "maxPages": 0
}

Example 3 — Custom filtered Property24 Search URL (startUrls)

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.property24.com/for-sale/sea-point/cape-town/western-cape/11021" },
    { "url": "https://www.property24.com/for-sale/green-point/cape-town/western-cape/11017" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 300,
  "maxPages": 0
}

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📤 Output schema & field reference

Each property is saved as a structured JSON object. Below is a real record from a live for-sale run in Gauteng:

{
  "propertyId": "117212365",
  "listingNumber": "117212365",
  "title": "3 Bedroom Apartment / Flat for sale in Blyde Riverwalk Estate",
  "description": "3 Bedroom Apartment in Blyde Riverwalk Estate",
  "price": 1699900,
  "priceFormatted": "R 1 699 900",
  "location": "Blyde Riverwalk Estate",
  "bedrooms": 3,
  "bathrooms": 2,
  "parkingSpaces": 2,
  "floorSizeM2": 105,
  "listingUrl": "https://www.property24.com/for-sale/blyde-riverwalk-estate/pretoria/gauteng/33014/117212365?plId=2681220",
  "image": "https://images.prop24.com/387509815/Crop526x328",
  "agentTitle": "Pam Golding Properties",
  "agentLogo": "https://images.prop24.com/21849123/Crop120x60",
  "availableBadge": null,
  "availableDate": null,
  "listingType": "for-sale",
  "searchLocation": "gauteng",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-10T02:55:00.000Z"
}

🏠 Property Identity & Pricing

Field	Type	Coverage	Description
propertyId	string|null	🟢 High (100%)	Numeric Property24 ID parsed from the canonical listing path.
listingNumber	string|null	🟢 High (100%)	Official Property24 listing number (data-listing-number). Primary de-duplication key.
title	string|null	🟢 High (100%)	Full listing headline (e.g., "3 Bedroom House for sale in Sandton").
description	string|null	🟢 High (~98%)	Summary description / excerpt displayed on the search card.
price	number|null	🟢 High (~98%)	Numeric price in South African Rand (ZAR). null only on "POA" (Price on Application) listings.
priceFormatted	string	🟢 High (100%)	Display price string as shown on Property24 ("R 1 699 900", "POA", or "From R 2 388 000 To ...").
listingType	string	🟢 High (100%)	Market type scraped: "for-sale", "to-rent", or "sold".

📐 Property Attributes & Location

Field	Type	Coverage	Description
location	string|null	🟢 High (100%)	Suburb, estate, or area name displayed on the listing tile.
searchLocation	string	🟢 High (100%)	Input location slug or start-URL label that produced this record.
bedrooms	number|null	🟢 High (~92%)	Number of bedrooms (present on houses/apartments; null on vacant land/plots).
bathrooms	number|null	🟢 High (~92%)	Number of bathrooms (present when specified on the listing).
parkingSpaces	number|null	🟢 High (~80%)	Number of garages / parking bays when specified.
floorSizeM2	number|null	🟢 High (~85%)	Floor area or erf (land) size in square meters (m²).

🖼️ Media, Agency Branding & Rental Availability

Field	Type	Coverage	Description
listingUrl	string|null	🟢 High (100%)	Direct URL to the property's detail page on Property24.com.
image	string|null	🟢 High (~99%)	Primary property photo URL (resolved from lazy-load attributes).
agentTitle	string|null	🟡 Conditional	Real estate agency / branch name when displayed on the listing card.
agentLogo	string|null	🟡 Conditional	Agency logo URL when displayed on featured/boosted cards.
availableBadge	string|null	🟡 Rentals	Availability status badge (e.g., "Available Now", common on to-rent listings).
availableDate	string|null	🟡 Rentals	Move-in availability date when shown on rental cards.
scrapedAt	string	🟢 High (100%)	ISO 8601 UTC timestamp of extraction.

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🔁 Pagination, scale & 1,000+ property crawls

Property24 serves ~20 listings per result page at /for-sale/{slug}/{id}/p2, /p3, /p4…:

• Automatic deep pagination (maxPages: 0): As long as a page returns listings and totalSaved < maxItems, the scraper automatically queues the next /p{N} page (up to 1,000 pages / ~20,000 properties per location).
• 1,000+ properties on any run: Whether you select one province (["gauteng"]), multiple cities, or leave locations empty with maxItems: 1000, the actor honors your requested maxItems without clamping down to 100.
• Transient 503 resilience: Property24 occasionally returns HTTP 503 under load. The scraper uses an 8-retry budget with automatic session/IP rotation so linear pagination chains never break mid-crawl.

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⚙️ How to use

1. Open the Actor in the Apify Console.
2. Pick listingType: choose For Sale, To Rent, or Sold Properties.
3. Select locations: pick one or more South African provinces, cities, or suburbs (or paste custom filtered URLs into startUrls).
4. Set maxItems: keep 100 for a fast 15-second run, or set 1000+ for bulk market extraction.
5. Click Start and export your dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML, or fetch it via the Apify API.

API Example (Python)

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("haketa/property24-scraper").call(run_input={
    "listingType": "for-sale",
    "locations": ["cape-town", "sandton", "umhlanga"],
    "maxItems": 600,
    "maxPages": 0,
})

for prop in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f"{prop['listingNumber']} | {prop['priceFormatted']} | {prop['bedrooms']} bed | {prop['location']} | {prop['listingUrl']}")

API Example (Node.js)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('haketa/property24-scraper').call({
    listingType: 'to-rent',
    locations: ['gauteng'],
    maxItems: 500,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Collected ${items.length} South African rental listings`);

API Example (cURL)

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/haketa~property24-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "listingType": "for-sale",
    "locations": ["gauteng", "western-cape"],
    "maxItems": 1000,
    "maxPages": 0
  }'

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🔄 Automation & integration workflows

Integration	Workflow Example
Google Sheets / Excel	Export ZAR prices, bedroom/bathroom counts, floor/erf sizes (m²), and suburb names directly into investment screening models.
Make.com / Zapier / n8n	Schedule daily runs on target suburbs (sandton, cape-town, umhlanga) and trigger Slack/WhatsApp/email alerts when new properties appear below target price per m².
PostgreSQL / BigQuery / Power BI	Ingest multi-province datasets via the Apify Dataset API, using listingNumber as the primary key to track price history and time-on-market.

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💡 Pro tips for best results

• Scrape any suburb in South Africa via startUrls: If your target suburb isn't in the 31-item locations dropdown, simply search for that suburb on property24.com, copy the URL from your browser, and paste it into startUrls.
• Combine for-sale and sold runs: Compare active asking prices (for-sale) with historical (sold) records in the same suburb to identify over-priced vs. fairly priced listings.
• Keep default datacenter proxies: Property24 does not require costly residential proxies — standard Apify datacenter proxies run fast and cost-effectively.

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⚠️ Honest limitations

• POA listings: High-end luxury properties listed as "POA" (Price On Application) have priceFormatted: "POA" and price: null.
• Plot & vacant land attributes: Vacant land, farms, and commercial plots often do not have bedrooms, bathrooms, or parkingSpaces; those fields are returned as null while floorSizeM2 captures the erf size.

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❓ FAQ

Does Property24 have a public API?

No. Property24 does not offer a public API for downloading listings. This scraper provides a clean, automated JSON/CSV/Excel interface to live Property24 data.

How many listings can I scrape in a single run?

You can scrape 1,000 to 50,000+ listings in a single run. With maxPages: 0, pagination continues automatically across /p2, /p3… until maxItems is reached.

Can I apply price or bedroom filters?

Yes — apply any filter combination on property24.com (price min/max, property type, bedrooms, bathrooms) and paste the resulting URL into startUrls.

Do I need an account or residential proxy?

No account is required, and standard Apify datacenter proxies work out of the box.

How does the scraper handle new-development range prices?

New-development cards on Property24 often display a price range such as "From R 2 388 000 To R 26 938 250". The scraper sets price to the numeric starting amount (2388000) for clean sorting/filtering and preserves the full text in priceFormatted.

What happens if I run the actor with empty input ({})?

If both locations and startUrls are empty, the scraper automatically samples across South Africa's 9 provinces and top metros so you get a clean 100-property dataset (or your requested maxItems).

How are duplicates prevented when scraping overlapping locations?

For example, if you select both "gauteng" and "sandton" in the same run, every property is de-duplicated in memory by listingNumber (with fallback to propertyId), ensuring 0 duplicate rows in the output dataset.

Can I scrape commercial, industrial, or agricultural properties on Property24?

Yes! Navigate to the Commercial, Industrial, or Farm/Agricultural search results on property24.com, copy the search URL from your browser's address bar, and paste it into startUrls. The scraper will extract and paginate all matching cards automatically.

What is the difference between propertyId and listingNumber?

listingNumber is the official reference code displayed on the Property24 listing card (data-listing-number), while propertyId is the numeric identifier extracted from the canonical property URL path. Both uniquely identify the listing.

Can I schedule daily or weekly South African market snapshots?

Yes. Use Apify Schedules to run your saved location configuration automatically on a daily, weekly, or monthly cadence and connect a webhook, Google Sheets, or database integration to track price movements over time.

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📊 Sample analysis metrics you can compute from the output

Metric	Formula / Fields Used	Business Use Case
Price per m² (ZAR)	price / floorSizeM2	Identify undervalued homes or apartments within a specific suburb (location).
Gross Rental Yield (%)	(annual_rent / sale_price) * 100	Compare to-rent vs. for-sale median prices by location and bedrooms.
Suburb Inventory Depth	COUNT(listingNumber) grouped by location	Measure active housing supply and seller competition per neighbourhood.
Agency Market Share	COUNT(listingNumber) grouped by agentTitle	Benchmark real-estate agency footprint across featured listings.

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📋 Changelog

v1.2 (2026-11)

• Unlocked 1,000+ Deep Pagination: Added configurable maxPages (default: 0 = auto up to 1,000 pages per location) and removed the 100-item clamp when maxItems > 100 is requested with default/empty locations.
• Expanded Nationwide Default Locations: Expanded fallback coverage across all 9 SA provinces and 12 major metros (gqeberha and mbombela aliases added).
• Enhanced Status Reporting & Documentation: Added final run summary status messages and comprehensive field coverage tables.

v1.1 (2026-10)

• Added support for boosted/premium development card layouts, range price parsing ("From R ..."), and lazy-loaded image extraction.

v1.0 (2026-08)

• Initial release supporting for-sale, to-rent, and sold listings across South African provinces and cities.