Private Property Listings Extractor: Scrape privateproperty.co.za Homes for Sale and Rent

Private Property Listings Extractor pulls property listings from privateproperty.co.za, one of South Africa's biggest real estate portals. Paste a search URL for any town, suburb, or province and you get a clean dataset of houses, apartments, and townhouses with price, address, bedrooms, bathrooms, floor size, agent, photos, and GPS coordinates.

It reads search result pages only, so runs are fast and cheap. Sale and rental searches both work, and every value comes straight from what the site shows. Nothing is guessed or padded.

Who uses it

• Estate agents tracking what competitors list in their patch
• Investors comparing asking prices and rental yields across suburbs
• Property data teams building price indexes or valuation models
• Developers feeding listings into a CRM, map, or alert bot
• Researchers studying the South African housing market

What you get per listing

Fields are only written when the site actually shows them, so you won't see columns full of null.

Field	Example	Notes
listingId	T5598246	Listing number (T for sale, RR for rent)
internalId	12031231	Numeric id used by the site
url	https://www.privateproperty.co.za/...	Public listing page
listingType	For Sale	Or To Rent
propertyTitle	2 Bedroom Apartment
headline	2 Bedroom Apartment in Umhlanga Rocks
price	3500000	Rand, as a number
priceText	R 3 500 000	As displayed, also covers On Auction
currency	ZAR	When a price is shown
pricePeriod	per month	Rentals only
suburb, locality, region	Umhlanga Rocks, KwaZulu Natal
streetAddress	701 Villa Pax, 2 Ocean Way	When the agent publishes it
latitude, longitude	-29.7297, 31.0859	When published
bedrooms, bathrooms, parkingSpaces, garages	2, 2, 2, 1
floorSize, landSize	190 m²	Kept with the unit (m² or ha)
shortDescription	Choose from flexible lease options...	Teaser text on standard cards
agentName, agentImageUrl	Jarryd Jeffery
agencyName, agencyLogoUrl	SA Property Sales
imageUrl, images		High-resolution photo links from the card
badges, isPromoted	["New"], true
pageNumber, totalResults	2, 19836	Where the row came from
sourceUrl		Results page URL
scrapedAt	2026-09-27T09:22:50Z	UTC

How to use it

1. Go to privateproperty.co.za and run a search. Pick the area, sale or rent, price range, bedrooms, whatever you need.
2. Copy the URL from the address bar.
3. Paste it into Start URLs. Add as many searches as you like.
4. Set Max items per URL. The default is 20, which is one results page.
5. Click Start, then download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML.

The filters you set on the site are kept in the URL, so the extractor returns the same listings you saw. It moves through the result pages on its own until it hits your limit or runs out of listings.

Supported URLs

Type	Example
For sale search	https://www.privateproperty.co.za/for-sale/kwazulu-natal/durban/16
To rent search	https://www.privateproperty.co.za/to-rent/western-cape/cape-town/55
Province search	https://www.privateproperty.co.za/for-sale/gauteng/3
Starting from a later page	https://www.privateproperty.co.za/for-sale/kwazulu-natal/durban/16?page=3

Single listing links (ending in something like /T5598246) are skipped. Use a search results URL instead.

Input

Field	Type	Default	What it does
startUrls	array		Search results URLs
maxItemsPerUrl	integer	20	Listings to save for each URL (max 1000)
requestTimeoutSecs	integer	30	Per-request timeout

Example input

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.privateproperty.co.za/for-sale/kwazulu-natal/durban/16",
    "https://www.privateproperty.co.za/to-rent/western-cape/cape-town/55"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerUrl": 20
}

This returns up to 40 rows: 20 from Durban sales and 20 from Cape Town rentals.

Example output

{
  "listingId": "RR4766759",
  "internalId": "12057792",
  "url": "https://www.privateproperty.co.za/to-rent/western-cape/cape-town/atlantic-seaboard/foreshore/no-1-harbour-arch/11-christiaan-barnard-street/RR4766759",
  "listingType": "To Rent",
  "propertyTitle": "Studio Apartment",
  "headline": "Studio Apartment in Foreshore",
  "price": 13500,
  "priceText": "R 13 500 per month",
  "currency": "ZAR",
  "pricePeriod": "per month",
  "suburb": "Foreshore",
  "streetAddress": "No 1 Harbour Arch, 11 Christiaan Barnard Street",
  "bedrooms": 0.5,
  "bathrooms": 1,
  "parkingSpaces": 1,
  "floorSize": "35 m²",
  "agentName": "Kyle Illman",
  "imageUrl": "https://images.pp.co.za/listing/12057792/q9VCJuAbwQqOKOJL3WJqv0/1600/1066/contain/jpegorpng",
  "images": [
    "https://images.pp.co.za/listing/12057792/q9VCJuAbwQqOKOJL3WJqv0/1600/1066/contain/jpegorpng",
    "https://images.pp.co.za/listing/12057792/HG2oou0CMehxIcTzdMCK93/1600/1066/contain/jpegorpng"
  ],
  "badges": ["Available now"],
  "isPromoted": true,
  "locality": "Foreshore, Atlantic Seaboard",
  "region": "Western Cape",
  "latitude": -33.9213705616998,
  "longitude": 18.43379259109497,
  "pageNumber": 1,
  "totalResults": 3326,
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.privateproperty.co.za/to-rent/western-cape/cape-town/55",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-27T09:22:50.170872+00:00"
}

Studios show 0.5 bedrooms because that is how the site records them.

Speed and cost

One request covers about 20 listings. The default of 20 per URL costs a single request per search, and 100 per URL is about 5. Runs with a handful of searches usually finish in under a minute.

Tips

• Narrow the search on the site first (price, bedrooms, property type). It is cheaper than scraping everything and filtering later.
• Run the same search on a schedule to catch new listings and price drops. listingId stays the same between runs, so you can use it to compare them.
• Promoted listings show up at the top of each page. Within one URL, each listing is saved once.

Integrations

Send results to Google Sheets, Slack, Airtable, a webhook, or your own database using Apify integrations, or call the actor from the Apify API with Python, JavaScript, or plain HTTP.

FAQ

Can I scrape a whole province? Yes. Use a province URL such as /for-sale/gauteng/3 and raise maxItemsPerUrl. Big provinces have tens of thousands of listings, so split them into cities if you need more than 1000.

Why is the agent name missing on some rows? Some cards don't name an agent. You still get the agency logo, and on standard cards the agency name too.

Why don't all listings have coordinates? Agents choose whether to show the exact location. Rows without it still have suburb, locality, and province.

Does it work for commercial property? Yes. Commercial search URLs use the same layout.