Property24 Scraper — South Africa Property & Prices

Export listings from Property24, South Africa's largest property portal — price, suburb, bedrooms, bathrooms, parking and erf size — to JSON, CSV or Excel. Keyless, no login.

What does Property24 Scraper do?

Property24 renders its results server-side, so this Actor parses the cards directly and walks the pagination. No API key, no account, no cookies.

Two things in the markup decide whether the numbers come out right, and both were caught by testing rather than assumed.

The price node also contains the description, and South African descriptions start with a digit — "4 Bedroom House in Dwarskersbos". A digit-greedy read of that cell returns 58500004: the price with the bedroom count glued on. This Actor removes the description text before reading the price, so R 5 850 000 parses as 5850000.

The counts are matched by their own labels, not by position. Each feature carries a title of Bedrooms, Bathrooms, Parking Spaces or Erf Size. Reading them by index breaks the moment a listing omits parking — every value after it shifts one column left, quietly turning bathrooms into bedrooms across the export.

Who is it for?

• Estate agencies benchmarking competing stock by suburb.
• Property investors filtering on price per bedroom or erf size.
• Bond originators and valuers building local price references.
• Proptech builders who need a South African feed.
• Analysts tracking supply across Gauteng, Western Cape and KZN.

Use cases

• Compare asking prices for 3-bedroom houses across Cape Town suburbs.
• Track how many new listings appear in a suburb each week.
• Filter to a price band and erf size for a development shortlist.
• Rank agencies by how much stock they carry in an area.
• Snapshot rentals and sales separately to model gross yield.

Why use this Actor?

• Keyless — no account, no token, no login.
• Correct prices — the description is stripped before parsing, so no glued-on digits.
• Label-matched counts — bedrooms, bathrooms and parking never swap columns.
• Numeric erf size ready for filtering.
• Sale and rental through one deal-type switch.
• Agency name included for market-share analysis.

What data can you extract?

Every row carries the listing ID and URL, title, price in label and numeric form, suburb, bedroom / bathroom / parking counts, erf size in label and square metres, the listing agency and the thumbnail. See the Output tab for types.

How to use it

1. Choose sale or rental.
2. Set the area path — copy it from the Property24 URL, e.g. western-cape/9.
3. Optionally set a price band and minimum bedrooms.
4. Set Maximum results and run, then export JSON, CSV or Excel.

Input example

{
  "deal": "for-sale",
  "areaPath": "western-cape/9",
  "minPrice": 1000000,
  "maxPrice": 5000000,
  "maxResults": 1000
}

Notes and limits

• Bathrooms are often published as halves (3.5), which is how South African listings describe an en-suite plus guest toilet; the field keeps the decimal rather than rounding.
• Some listings omit parking or erf size; those stay null rather than being filled from a neighbouring value.
• Prices are asking prices, not transaction prices.
• This Actor exports result cards, not full listing pages — open the listing URL for the full description and agent contact.
• You are responsible for how you use listing and agency data.

FAQ

Do I need a Property24 account? No. Listings are public and this Actor needs nothing from you.

Why is the erf size sometimes missing? Sectional-title listings often publish floor size instead, or nothing at all. The field is left null rather than guessed.

Are rentals supported? Yes — switch the deal type to "To rent".

How do I find the area path? Open the area on Property24 and copy the path from the URL; it always ends in a numeric ID.

How am I charged? Pay per result — you pay for the listings delivered.