xe.gr Real Estate Scraper — Scrape Greece Property Listings & Prices

Scrape property listings from xe.gr, Greece's largest classifieds portal with 500K+ active listings and 1.5M+ monthly visitors. This xe.gr real estate scraper extracts apartments, houses, land, commercial space and parking — by area, transaction type (sale or rent), price, size and bedrooms — and returns structured Greek property data: price, m², €/m², floors, bedrooms, year built, location and agent. It runs on fast direct HTML scraping (no browser) and exports to JSON, CSV or Excel. Covers Athens, Thessaloniki, Piraeus, Patras and all of Greece.

✨ What this Actor does / Key features

• 🏠 All property categories — apartments, maisonettes, detached houses, land, commercial property, parking and storage.
• 🔁 Sale or rent — 16 listing variations covering every transaction × property-type combination.
• 📍 Area targeting — search any area using xe.gr's Google Place IDs; multiple areas run as separate tasks.
• 💶 Powerful filters — filter by price range (EUR), surface range (m²) and bedroom range.
• 📊 Rich listing data — price, €/m², size, bedrooms, bathrooms, year built, floors, renovated/furnished flags, location and agent.
• 🖼️ Images & agent info — main image URL and agent logo URL for every listing.
• 🌐 English or Greek — choose the URL language prefix for output.
• ⚡ Fast HTML scraping — pure HTTP with __NEXT_DATA__ JSON extraction and a cheerio fallback; no browser overhead.
• 🛡️ Proxy support — Apify Proxy integration (residential + country=GR recommended for scale).

🔍 Input

Field	Type	Description
geoPlaceIds	array	Google Place IDs used by xe.gr for geo-filtering. Each ID becomes its own task. Required.
areaSlugs	array	Optional URL slugs paired 1:1 with geoPlaceIds for cleaner request URLs.
variation	string	Listing variation — transaction type × property type (e.g. apartment-for-sale, property-to-rent).
priceMin	integer	Minimum price filter in EUR. 0 = no minimum.
priceMax	integer	Maximum price filter in EUR. 0 = no maximum.
sqmMin	integer	Minimum surface area in m². 0 = no minimum.
sqmMax	integer	Maximum surface area in m². 0 = no maximum.
bedroomsMin	integer	Minimum bedroom count. 0 = no minimum.
bedroomsMax	integer	Maximum bedroom count. 0 = no maximum.
language	string	URL language prefix: en (English) or el (Greek).
maxListings	integer	Total cap across all area tasks. 0 = unlimited.
maxPagesPerTask	integer	Pagination depth per Place ID (xe.gr caps deep pagination around page 295).
requestDelay	integer	Delay between sequential requests, in milliseconds.
maxRetries	integer	Retries per request on HTTP errors (rotates proxy IP).
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy settings. Residential with country=GR recommended for scale.

🚀 Example input

{
  "geoPlaceIds": ["ChIJ8UNwBh-9oRQR3Y1mdkU1Nic"],
  "areaSlugs": ["athens"],
  "variation": "apartment-for-sale",
  "priceMin": 100000,
  "priceMax": 500000,
  "sqmMin": 50,
  "sqmMax": 150,
  "bedroomsMin": 1,
  "bedroomsMax": 3,
  "language": "en",
  "maxListings": 500,
  "maxPagesPerTask": 20,
  "requestDelay": 800,
  "maxRetries": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"], "apifyProxyCountry": "GR" }
}

Finding a Place ID: open any area page on xe.gr (e.g. /en/property/r/property-for-sale/ChIJ8UNwBh-9oRQR3Y1mdkU1Nic_athens). The 27-character segment between /r/{variation}/ and _{slug} is the Place ID. Athens = ChIJ8UNwBh-9oRQR3Y1mdkU1Nic, Thessaloniki = ChIJ7eAoFPQ4qBQRqXTVuBXnugk, Piraeus = ChIJRzGst-u7oRQR9_0w_5XaINg.

📦 Output

Each property listing is saved as a structured item in the dataset. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or pull via the Apify API.

Field	Description
adId	Listing's stable UUID
detailUrl	Full xe.gr listing detail URL
title	Listing title
propertyType	Property type (Apartment, Maisonette, etc.)
transactionType	buy or rent
itemType	xe.gr item type (re_residence, re_land, etc.)
price	Numeric price
priceText	Price as displayed (e.g. "€1,150,000")
currency	Currency code (EUR)
pricePerSqm	Price per square meter (€/m²)
sqMeters	Surface area in m²
bedrooms	Number of bedrooms
bathrooms	Number of bathrooms
yearBuilt	Year of construction
floors	Array of floors the unit occupies
isRenovated	Renovated flag (from image alt text)
isFurnished	Furnished flag (from image alt text)
location	Full location label
city	City
area	Neighborhood / area
mainImageUrl	Main listing image URL
agentLogoUrl	Agent / agency logo URL
agentName	Agent name (often null — xe.gr usually shows only a logo)
isMultipleListings	Flags multi-agent listings of the same property
postedRelative	Relative posting time (e.g. "3 weeks ago")
searchGeoPlaceId	Place ID used for this search
searchAreaSlug	Area slug used for this search
searchVariation	Listing variation used
searchTransactionType	Transaction type used
searchItemType	Item type used
searchBuildingType	Building type used
scrapedAt	Scrape timestamp (ISO 8601)

💡 Use cases

• Market research — build €/m² heatmaps by neighborhood, track listing density and time-on-market trends.
• Investment screening — calculate rental yield ratios (rent vs. sale price) per area.
• Competitive analytics — track competing agencies via agent logos and listing volume.
• Lead generation — discover every active agency in a target area and property segment.
• Price tracking — re-run on a schedule and diff against prior datasets to catch price changes.
• De-duplication research — use the isMultipleListings flag to detect multi-agent ads for the same property.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Is it legal to scrape xe.gr? The Actor only collects publicly available property listing data. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with xe.gr's terms and applicable laws such as GDPR.

Do I need an API key or a login? No. There is no xe.gr account, login or API key required — only an Apify account.

Do I need a proxy? xe.gr does not appear to deploy heavy bot defense, so a datacenter proxy is usually sufficient at low volume. For sustained, large-scale scraping, residential Apify Proxy with country=GR is recommended.

How do I target a specific city or neighborhood? xe.gr filters geographically by Google Place IDs. Open any area page on xe.gr and copy the place ID from the URL — common IDs for Athens, Thessaloniki, Piraeus and more are listed above.

How much data can I get? You can scrape thousands of listings per run — xe.gr returns ~30–100 listings per page and allows up to ~295 pages per filter set. For saturated areas, narrow the search with price ranges for full coverage.

Can I filter by price, size or bedrooms? Yes. You can filter by price range (EUR), surface range (m²) and bedroom range, and choose any of 16 sale/rent variations across property types.

What output formats are supported? Results are stored in a structured Apify dataset and can be exported as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or accessed via the Apify API.

⏰ Scheduling & integration

Schedule this Actor on Apify to track the Greek property market daily or weekly. Export results to JSON, CSV or Excel, sync to Google Sheets, or push to your database, BI tools and webhooks through the Apify API.