🔔 Property24 Price-Drop & New Listing Monitor

Watch any Property24 search and get alerted the moment something changes. Point this monitor at a South African property search — for sale or to rent, any city, suburb or filtered search — put it on a schedule, and each run returns only what changed since the last run: brand-new listings, price drops, price increases and delistings. Quiet runs return nothing, so you can watch a search every few minutes, all day, and only ever see real movement.

Built for automation: drop it into Apify Schedules, n8n, Make or Zapier and turn every change into an email, a Slack message, a Google Sheet row or a webhook.

Why a monitor instead of a scraper?

A scraper gives you everything every time — and you then have to figure out what's new. This monitor remembers what it saw last time and hands you a clean feed of just the changes:

• 🆕 New listings — the moment a property matching your search goes live.
• 📉 Price drops — with the old price, new price, amount and percentage dropped.
• 📈 Price increases — optional, on by default.
• 🗑️ Delistings — listings that were sold, withdrawn or expired.

Perfect for buyers hunting a specific area, agents tracking the competition, investors watching price movements, and anyone building property alerts.

How it works

1. Give it a search — a location path like cape-town/western-cape/432, or paste one or more Property24 results-page Start URLs from your browser.
2. Put it on a schedule (e.g. every 15 minutes) in Apify or your automation tool.
3. First run quietly records the current listings as a baseline and returns nothing — so a fresh schedule doesn't dump the whole search at you. (Prefer the full list up front? Turn on Emit all listings on the first run.)
4. Every run after that returns only the changes since the previous run.

Each monitor keeps its own separate memory, so you can run several different searches side by side without them interfering — just give each one a Monitor name.

What you get

One row per detected change:

Field	Description
changeType	new, price_drop, price_increase or removed.
listingNumber	Property24 listing reference.
title	Listing title (e.g. "3 Bedroom Apartment for sale in Marina Da Gama").
price	Current price as a number, in South African Rand.
priceText	Price exactly as shown (e.g. "R 3 300 000").
currency	Currency code (ZAR).
oldPrice / newPrice	Previous and current price (on price changes).
dropAmount / dropPercent	How much the price fell (on price drops).
increaseAmount / increasePercent	How much the price rose (on price increases).
suburb	Suburb / area name.
bedrooms, bathrooms, parking	Room and parking counts.
floorSize, erfSize	Floor and erf / plot size, when shown.
agency	Listing agency, when shown.
image	Main listing image URL.
url	Link to the property page.
firstSeenAt	When this monitor first saw the listing.
lastSeenAt	When the listing was last seen (on delistings).
detectedAt	When this change was detected.

Example change row

{
  "changeType": "price_drop",
  "listingNumber": "117588912",
  "title": "3 Bedroom Apartment for sale in Marina Da Gama",
  "price": 3100000,
  "oldPrice": 3300000,
  "newPrice": 3100000,
  "dropAmount": 200000,
  "dropPercent": 6.06,
  "suburb": "Marina Da Gama",
  "bedrooms": 3,
  "bathrooms": 2,
  "url": "https://www.property24.com/for-sale/marina-da-gama/cape-town/western-cape/10213/117588912",
  "detectedAt": "2026-09-05T12:34:56.000Z"
}

How to use it

1. Add Property24 Price-Drop & New Listing Monitor to your Apify account and open its input.
2. Choose the Listing intent — For sale or To rent — and enter a Location path like cape-town/western-cape/432 (copy it from a Property24 results URL), or paste one or more Start URLs from your browser.
3. Optionally set a Monitor name so this search keeps its own memory.
4. Save it, then create a Schedule (e.g. every 15 or 30 minutes) — or trigger it from n8n, Make or Zapier.
5. Connect the output to email, Slack, a spreadsheet or a webhook and let the alerts come to you.

Input

{
  "intent": "for-sale",
  "locationUrlPath": "cape-town/western-cape/432",
  "maxItems": 200,
  "monitorName": "cape-town-houses",
  "emitBaselineOnFirstRun": false,
  "detectPriceIncrease": true,
  "detectRemovals": true
}

Field	Description
startUrls	Optional Property24 results-page URLs to watch. Overrides intent + location path.
intent	for-sale or to-rent.
locationUrlPath	Location path city/province/areaId, e.g. cape-town/western-cape/432.
maxItems	How many listings from the top of the search to check each run. 0 = no limit.
monitorName	Optional label so this search keeps its own separate memory.
emitBaselineOnFirstRun	Output every current listing as new on the first run instead of seeding silently.
detectPriceIncrease	Also report price increases (default on).
detectRemovals	Also report delisted listings (default on).

FAQ

How often should I run it? As often as you like — every 15 or 30 minutes works well. Runs with no changes return nothing, so frequent checks stay cheap.

Will the first run flood me with results? No. By default the first run silently records a baseline and returns nothing; you only start getting rows from the second run onward. Turn on Emit all listings on the first run if you'd rather get the full list up front.

Can I watch several searches at once? Yes. Give each one a different Monitor name and each keeps its own independent memory of what it has seen.

Does it work for rentals too? Yes — set Listing intent to To rent, or paste a to-rent results URL.

What export and integration options are there? JSON, CSV, Excel and XML, plus the Apify API, webhooks and native integrations with n8n, Make, Zapier and more.