# Changelog of Housing.com Property Scraper - India Buy, Rent, PG & Commercial (`sian.agency/housing-com-property-scraper`) Actor

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## Changelog

All notable changes to Housing.com Property Scraper will be documented in this file.

### \[2026-09-08]

#### 🐛 Fixed

- **Sale and rent searches return listings again.** Housing.com had begun asking the sale and rent
  result pages to prove they came from a browser, and the check could not be completed, so those
  two markets came back with "retry in a few minutes" instead of rows. Paying guest and commercial
  were never affected. Fixed in how the pages are requested; no input change is needed, and any
  saved run or task keeps working as it is.

### \[2026-09-06]

#### 🎉 Housing.com Property Scraper 1.0 - Launch!

- **The Whole Rent Bill, Not the Headline Rent** - Every rental row carries the security deposit in rupees and in months, the brokerage in rupees and in months, the monthly maintenance, the lock-in period and the total move-in figure. A Dadar East flat asking ₹1,90,000 a month also wants ₹3,80,000 down and ₹1,90,000 to the broker, maintenance included, six months locked.
- **Paying Guest and Co-Living as a Real Market** - India's PG and shared-accommodation stock, priced per bed, with the sharing arrangement and whether the listing takes women, men or both. Bengaluru's paying-guest search held 493 listings when last read.
- **Five Markets in Any Indian City** - For sale, for rent, paying guest, commercial for sale and commercial for rent, in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Noida and Gurgaon, down to tier-2 towns like Ahmednagar and Zirakpur. The city index runs past 900 entries.
- **115 Fields Per Listing** - Exact rupee price, built-up and carpet area apart, BHK, bathrooms, balconies, parking, floor out of total floors, facing, furnishing, age, possession and GPS. Each row also carries the seven-level locality hierarchy with stable ids, the photos and the posting agent.
- **An Area Column You Can Divide By** - Built-up area is a number with its reported unit kept beside it, and price divided by it reproduced Housing.com's own published rate on all 110 rows measured across sale, rent and commercial. Carpet area ships as its own column.
- **The Whole Market on Every Row** - Each row states how many listings the search holds and, on sale searches, how that splits between new-launch and resale. Mumbai sale is 61,127 listings, 37,175 resale against 23,952 new-launch.
- **Resale Listings or New-Launch Projects, Your Choice** - The plain city sale page leads with developer adverts by design. Set the extra filter to resale for individual properties, or to new projects when the adverts are what you want.
- **Commercial Economics as Columns** - The annual return the listing quotes, freehold or leasehold, the location hub such as a business park, and the construction state of the unit.
- **Demand and Trust Signals** - How many people viewed a listing in the last 24 hours, the site's own satisfaction score, the bank-auction flag, the locality-champion flag and the certified-pro-agent flag.
- **Fair-Price Band and Locality Rates** - Turn on full property pages and each listing brings Housing.com's own low, high and estimated value for that unit, plus the locality's average rate per square foot. The amenity matrix comes with it, and every nearby school, hospital and metro station with its distance.
- **Paste Your Own Search** - Build any filter combination on Housing.com, including budget and area bands, and hand the result URL over. The page applies it and every row honours it.

#### 💎 User Benefits

- $1.20 per 1,000 listings, at the cheap end of the Housing.com board, with money columns the expensive end does not carry either.
- Relocation and co-living teams get what a tenancy actually costs to take, instead of a monthly figure they have to phone around to complete.
- Valuation teams get a price per square foot that means the same thing on every row, plus the portal's own estimate to check it against.
- 25 listings free before you spend anything. No account, no portal key, no browser to babysit.
- You are charged for listings returned. A search that matched nothing, and any input that could not be read, cost nothing.
- When Housing.com cannot serve a combination, the run says which property types, BHK values and filters that city does publish, instead of quietly returning something else.

#### 🎯 Use Cases

- A relocation manager ranking 2 BHK rentals in Powai and Andheri West by total move-in cost rather than by monthly rent.
- A student-housing investor mapping every paying guest listing in Bangalore by sharing type and tenant preference.
- A valuation team benchmarking a locality on built-up price per square foot against Housing.com's own fair-price band.
- A commercial investor screening Mumbai office and shop stock on the annual return each listing quotes, then filtering to freehold.
- A broker ranking a micro-market's agents by live inventory and verification status before working the list.
- A proptech team running a nightly refresh across ten cities and five markets to keep an Indian comparables feed current.