🏠 Rightmove UK Real Estate & Property Scraper

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

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⚡ Why Use This Scraper?

• Blazing Fast & Cost Efficient: Unlike heavy browser-based scrapers (Puppeteer/Playwright) that waste huge Compute Units (CU) and take hours, this actor directly extracts structured JSON data from Rightmove'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.
• No API Keys or Login Required: Works out of the box with optional proxy support for high-volume jobs.

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📋 What Data Does It Extract?

Every scraped property listing includes:

• Listing Details: Unique Listing ID, Title, Property Type (Detached, Semi-detached, Terraced, Flat, Bungalow, etc.).
• Pricing: Current Price (£ GBP), Original Price, and calculated Price per m² (price_per_sqm).
• 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), and swimming pool (has_pool).
• Location & Geocodes: Full address, postal outcode, district, exact Latitude & Longitude for GIS mapping.
• Estate Agency: Agency brand name, branch name.
• Media & URLs: Direct listing URL on Rightmove and high-resolution main photo URL.

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🛠️ Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
outcodes	Array	No	["SW1A", "W1K"]	List of UK postal districts / outcodes to scrape (e.g. SW1A, W1K, E1, M1, BS1).
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 (£).
maxItems	Integer	No	100	Maximum total records to scrape across all outcodes (0 for unlimited).
proxyConfiguration	Object	No	null	Apify Proxy configuration (Apify Datacenter or Residential proxy).

Example Input (JSON)

{
  "outcodes": ["SW1A", "W1K", "NW1"],
  "operationType": "for-sale",
  "minPrice": 250000,
  "maxPrice": 1500000,
  "maxItems": 200
}

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📦 Sample Output Record (JSON)

{
  "website_name": "rightmove.co.uk",
  "competence_date": "2026-09-21",
  "country_code": "GBR",
  "currency_code": "GBP",
  "listing_id": "148920194",
  "operation_type": "sale",
  "property_type": "Apartment",
  "title": "Apartment in Mayfair, London, W1K",
  "price": 850000.0,
  "price_original": 850000.0,
  "price_per_sqm": 12500.0,
  "area_sqm": 68.0,
  "rooms": "2",
  "bathrooms": "2",
  "has_parking": "1",
  "has_terrace": "1",
  "has_garden": "",
  "has_pool": "",
  "region": "UK",
  "city": "London",
  "neighborhood": "Mayfair, London, W1K",
  "address_raw": "Mayfair, London, W1K",
  "latitude": "51.5112",
  "longitude": "-0.1492",
  "agency_name": "Dexters Mayfair",
  "contact_phone": "",
  "description": "A stunning 2 bedroom apartment situated in the heart of Mayfair...",
  "itemurl": "https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/148920194",
  "imageurl": "https://media.rightmove.co.uk/dir/crop/10:9-16:9/property/148920194_IMG_00.jpg",
  "outcode": "W1K"
}

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💼 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.

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🔒 Proxy & Anti-Scraping Guidance

Rightmove serves lightweight Next.js pages. For regular batches (< 500 listings), standard connections or default Apify Proxy work seamlessly. For large-scale national sweeps (> 10,000 listings), we recommend enabling Apify Proxy (Automatic or Residential) with slight request delays.

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📞 Support & Custom Orders

Need custom fields, full UK historical census dumps (> 500,000 listings), or specific cadence feeds? Feel free to reach out via Apify Actor issues or contact the developer directly.