🏢 OnTheMarket UK Real Estate & Property Scraper

High-speed, institutional-grade scraper for OnTheMarket.com. Extracts real estate properties for sale and to rent across the United Kingdom with prices, coordinates, floor areas, bedroom counts, and estate agent contacts.

---

⚡ Why Use This Scraper?

• Blazing Fast & Cost Efficient: Unlike heavy browser-based scrapers (Puppeteer/Playwright) that consume massive Compute Units (CU) and take hours, this actor directly extracts structured JSON data from OnTheMarket's Next.js application layer via fast HTTP requests.
• Zero Headless Overhead: Consumes minimal memory (~128MB RAM), reducing your Apify cloud execution costs by up to 80%.
• Institutional Quality Schema: Outputs clean, standardized data matching the institutional REAL-ESTATE-BASIC 32-attribute specification.
• Full UK Coverage: Supports all 33 Greater London boroughs, all major UK metropolitan areas (Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, etc.), and UK postal districts (outcodes).
• No API Keys or Login Required: Works out of the box with optional proxy support for high-volume jobs.

---

📋 What Data Does It Extract?

Every scraped property listing includes 32 standardized attributes:

• Listing Details: Unique Listing ID, Title, Property Type (Detached, Semi-detached, Terraced, Flat, Bungalow, Maisonette, etc.).
• Pricing: Current Price (£ GBP), Original Price, and calculated Price per m² (price_per_sqm). Fully supports both sales prices and rental rates (pcm / pw).
• Property Specs: Number of bedrooms/rooms, bathrooms, estimated/extracted floor area in square meters (area_sqm).
• Amenities Detected: Indicators for parking/garage (has_parking), terrace/balcony (has_terrace), garden (has_garden), swimming pool (has_pool), and elevator/lift (has_elevator).
• Location & Geocodes: Full address, city, region, postal outcode, and exact Latitude & Longitude for GIS mapping.
• Estate Agency: Agency brand name, branch phone number.
• Media & URLs: Direct listing URL on OnTheMarket and high-resolution main photo URL.

---

🛠️ Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
locations	Array	No	["camden", "westminster"]	List of UK locations, boroughs, cities, or postal outcodes (e.g. camden, manchester, SW1A, E1).
startUrls	Array	No	null	Optional direct OnTheMarket search or listing URLs (e.g. https://www.onthemarket.com/for-sale/property/camden/).
operationType	String	Yes	"for-sale"	Choose "for-sale" (properties for sale) or "to-rent" (properties to rent).
minPrice	Integer	No	null	Optional minimum price in GBP (£).
maxPrice	Integer	No	null	Optional maximum price in GBP (£).
minBedrooms	Integer	No	null	Optional minimum number of bedrooms.
maxBedrooms	Integer	No	null	Optional maximum number of bedrooms.
maxItems	Integer	No	100	Maximum total records to scrape across all locations (0 for unlimited).
proxyConfiguration	Object	No	null	Apify Proxy configuration (Apify Datacenter or Residential proxy).

Example Input (JSON)

{
  "locations": ["camden", "westminster", "manchester"],
  "operationType": "for-sale",
  "minPrice": 250000,
  "maxPrice": 1500000,
  "minBedrooms": 2,
  "maxItems": 200
}

---

📦 Sample Output Record (JSON)

{
  "website_name": "onthemarket.com",
  "competence_date": "2026-10-04",
  "country_code": "GBR",
  "currency_code": "GBP",
  "listing_id": "19729283",
  "operation_type": "sale",
  "property_type": "Terraced House",
  "title": "2 bedroom terraced house for sale",
  "price": 1225000.0,
  "price_original": 1225000.0,
  "price_per_sqm": 16333.33,
  "area_sqm": 75.0,
  "rooms": "2",
  "bathrooms": "1",
  "floor": "",
  "has_elevator": "",
  "has_parking": "1",
  "has_terrace": "",
  "has_garden": "1",
  "has_pool": "",
  "energy_certificate": "",
  "region": "Camden",
  "city": "London",
  "neighborhood": "Camden High Street, London NW1",
  "address_raw": "Camden High Street, London NW1",
  "latitude": "51.5392",
  "longitude": "-0.1426",
  "agency_name": "Dexters Camden",
  "contact_phone": "020 7483 6390",
  "description": "A charming two bedroom period freehold house...",
  "itemurl": "https://www.onthemarket.com/details/19729283/",
  "imageurl": "https://media.onthemarket.com/properties/19729283/image-0-1024x768.webp"
}

---

💼 Ideal Use Cases

1. Real Estate Investors & Buy-to-Let Analysts: Track rental yields and price-per-sqm trends across UK metro areas.
2. Proptech Startups: Power automated valuation models (AVMs), property search portals, and alert bots.
3. Estate Agencies: Monitor competitor inventory, newly added listings, and local market price movements.
4. Academic & Demographic Research: Urban housing supply studies and regional UK price disparities.

---

🛡️ Privacy & Compliance

This Actor strictly extracts public real estate listings intended for general market viewing. No personally identifiable information (PII) of private home owners is collected. All data outputs are structured for commercial, research, and analysis workflows.