Propertybook Scraper - Zimbabwe Property Listings & Prices

Zimbabwe's biggest property portal as a clean table: about 7,000 adverts, USD prices, every town

For analysts, agencies, developers and diaspora buyers who need Harare and Bulawayo as rows, not browser tabs

🔎 What is the Propertybook Zimbabwe Property Scraper — and when should you use it?

The Propertybook Zimbabwe Property Scraper turns public propertybook.co.zw adverts from anywhere in Zimbabwe into clean, structured rows you can filter, export and feed straight into a spreadsheet, database or AI agent. No account, no portal API key, no browser automation to maintain.

Use it when you need: Zimbabwean sale and rental adverts as rows. The asking price comes back as a number with its currency (almost always US dollars) and the period for rents. Every search row carries the suburb, area and town, bedrooms, bathrooms, the stand or floor size as the agent entered it, a thumbnail, the listing agency and the advert address. Open each advert in full and you also get the description, the general, external and internal feature lists, room counts, every photo and the last-updated date.

Use something else when: you need a different portal or country. Use Property24 Scraper for Property24 in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique and Kenya. Use Private Property Scraper for South Africa's Private Property portal. This actor reads propertybook.co.zw only: houses, flats, townhouses, cottages, stands, farms and commercial property, for sale and to rent. Agent phone numbers and emails are not collected, and there are no GPS coordinates. The site shows what is advertised now, so there is no sold-price history.

🤖 Use with AI agents

Already connected to the Apify MCP server? Just ask for this Actor by name: sian.agency/propertybook-property-scraper

Your agent can pay for its own runs. This Actor is eligible for agentic payments, so an agent can discover it, run it and settle the bill over x402 (USDC on Base) or Skyfire — without an Apify account or API token of its own. Billing is the same either way: per successful row, never for errors.

Otherwise copy this prompt into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP-enabled assistant:

I want Zimbabwe property listings and asking prices from propertybook.co.zw using the Apify Actor `sian.agency/propertybook-property-scraper`.

Use it when I need: Zimbabwean sale and rental adverts as rows. The asking price comes back as a number with its currency (almost always US dollars) and the period for rents. Every search row carries the suburb, area and town, bedrooms, bathrooms, the stand or floor size as the agent entered it, a thumbnail, the listing agency and the advert address. Open each advert in full and you also get the description, the general, external and internal feature lists, room counts, every photo and the last-updated date.

Don't use it when: you need a different portal or country — use property24-property-scraper or privateproperty-property-scraper instead.

How to call it: set `listingType` to `for-sale` or `to-rent`, `propertyType` to one of the site's categories (`houses`, `flats-apartments`, `townhouses-clusters`, `residential-stands`, `commercial`, `offices` and more, or empty for all), and `location` to a place path from the site's own list: a town (`harare`), a Harare or Bulawayo area (`harare/harare-north`) or a suburb (`harare/harare-north/borrowdale`); empty means the whole country. Narrow with `minPrice`, `maxPrice` and `minBedrooms`. `includeDetails` opens each advert for features and photos, for an extra charge per advert. To expand adverts you already have, set `operation` to `detail` and pass `listingUrls`.

Start with this input:
{
  "operation": "search",
  "listingType": "for-sale",
  "propertyType": "houses",
  "location": "harare/harare-north",
  "maxResults": 50
}

Ask me which town or suburb to cover, sale or rent, which property type, and whether the full feature lists and photos are worth the extra per-advert charge, then run the Actor and summarise the results as a table.

Things you can ask your agent for:

• Pull houses for sale in Borrowdale and Mount Pleasant and compare the median asking price per bedroom.
• List residential stands for sale in Ruwa with size and price, sorted by price per square metre.
• Find 3-bedroom houses to rent in Harare North under 2,000 US dollars a month, with photos and features.

Machine-readable API, MCP config and OpenAPI definition for this Actor are published at apify.com/sian.agency/propertybook-property-scraper.md.

📋 Overview

Propertybook Scraper reads propertybook.co.zw, Zimbabwe's most-visited property portal. Pick a town, an area or a suburb and you get its adverts as rows: price and currency, suburb, bedrooms, bathrooms, stand size, agency and photos.

What you get:

• ✅ The whole portal: about 5,900 adverts for sale and 1,000 to rent, from 106 towns and 428 suburbs.
• 🏙️ Harare and Bulawayo in depth: pick a town, an area such as Harare North, or one suburb such as Borrowdale.
• 💵 Prices you can compute with: the number, the currency and the rent period sit in separate columns.
• 📐 Stands and land: residential, commercial and industrial stands with the size the agent entered.
• 📄 Full adverts on request: description, feature lists (borehole, solar, title deeds, walled), room counts and every photo.
• 💰 Pay per advert: you pay for the rows you get. Adverts your filters drop cost nothing.

✨ Features

• 🔍 Search by place: towns, Harare and Bulawayo areas, and suburbs from the site's own location index.
• 🏠 16 property types: houses, flats, townhouses, cottages, stands, farms, offices, shops, warehouses and more.
• 🏷️ Sale or rent: rents come back with pricePeriod set to month.
• 🔎 Price and bedroom filters: minimum and maximum price, minimum bedrooms.
• 🏢 Agency on every row: the agency name and its Propertybook page, ready for market-share counts.
• 🖼️ Photos: a thumbnail on every search row and every photo when you open adverts in full.
• 🔗 Paste a page: drop in a Propertybook search address and the actor reads it.
• 📊 Run report: each run writes a short report listing the adverts, the charges and a fix for anything that failed.

🎬 Quick Start

Choose sale or rent, a property type and a place, then press Start. The actor reads the result pages in order and saves one row per advert. A bare run returns 20 adverts for sale in Harare.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sian.agency~propertybook-property-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"listingType": "for-sale", "propertyType": "houses", "location": "harare/harare-north/borrowdale", "maxResults": 50}'

🚀 Getting Started (3 Simple Steps)

Step 1: Pick sale or rent and a property type

Leave the type on All property to get everything in the place you choose.

Step 2: Pick a place

Choose a town (Harare, Bulawayo, Gweru), an area (Harare North) or a suburb (Borrowdale) from the list. Start typing to find it, or pick All of Zimbabwe.

Step 3: Press Start

Set Max listings to how many adverts you want and run it.

A few minutes later you will have:

• Every advert with its price, currency and location split into suburb, area and town
• Bedrooms, bathrooms and size where the advert states them
• The agency and the advert link for each row

📥 Input Configuration

Field	Type	Required	Description
operation	string	No	search (default) reads result pages; detail opens the advert addresses you paste
listingType	string	No	for-sale (default) or to-rent
propertyType	string	No	Empty for all, or houses, flats-apartments, townhouses-clusters, residential-stands, commercial, offices and more
location	string	No	Place path from the site's list: harare, harare/harare-north, harare/harare-north/borrowdale. Default harare; empty for the whole country
maxResults	integer	No	How many adverts to return. Default 20
minPrice / maxPrice	integer	No	Price band in the advert's currency. Rents are per month
minBedrooms	integer	No	Keep adverts with at least this many bedrooms
includeDetails	boolean	No	Open every advert for the description, features and all photos
searchUrls	array	No	Propertybook search addresses to read instead of the fields above
listingUrls	array	No	Advert addresses for the detail operation

Search example:

{
  "operation": "search",
  "listingType": "to-rent",
  "propertyType": "houses",
  "location": "harare/harare-north",
  "maxPrice": 2500,
  "minBedrooms": 3,
  "maxResults": 100
}

Detail example:

{
  "operation": "detail",
  "listingUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.propertybook.co.zw/listings/for-sale/5-bedroom-house-avondale-harare-54018" }
  ]
}

📊 Output

Every advert is one row with up to 42 fields. The most useful ones:

Field	Type	Description
propertyTitle	string	The advert title, for example "House to Rent in Borrowdale"
price	number	Asking price or monthly rent
currency	string	Almost always USD
pricePeriod	string	month for rents, empty for sale prices
suburb / region / city	string	Suburb, area (Harare and Bulawayo only) and town
bedrooms / bathrooms	integer	As stated on the advert
size / sizeUnit / sizeText	number / string	Stand or floor size and unit, plus the text exactly as shown
propertyType	string	House, Flat/Apartment, Residential Stand, Office and so on
agencyName / agencyUrl	string	The listing agency and its Propertybook page
thumbnail / photos	string / array	Main photo, and every photo when the advert is opened in full
generalFeatures / externalFeatures / internalFeatures	array	Feature lists from the advert page
listingId	string	The agency's reference code
lastUpdated	string	Date the advert was last updated
url	string	The advert address

Example row (advert opened in full):

{
  "thumbnail": "https://images.propertybook.co.zw/full/14928_1592396132_pPW18i.webp",
  "listingId": "54018",
  "propertyId": "7696",
  "propertyTitle": "5 Bedroom House for Sale in Avondale",
  "url": "https://www.propertybook.co.zw/listings/for-sale/5-bedroom-house-avondale-harare-54018",
  "dealType": "for-sale",
  "propertyType": "House",
  "price": 750000,
  "currency": "USD",
  "priceText": "USD 750,000",
  "suburb": "Avondale",
  "region": "Harare North",
  "city": "Harare",
  "bedrooms": 5,
  "bathrooms": 3,
  "garages": 2,
  "storeys": 2,
  "boreholes": 1,
  "generalFeatures": ["Cottage", "Generator", "Internet Connection", "Reliable Zesa"],
  "externalFeatures": ["Electric Fence", "Swimming Pool", "Tennis Court", "Walled/Fenced"],
  "photoCount": 20,
  "agencyName": "Laws Real Estate",
  "lastUpdated": "2025-12-29",
  "status": "success",
  "_operation": "search"
}

🎯 Use Cases & Examples

1. Harare asking-price index

Property analysts track what sellers ask, suburb by suburb. Input: houses for sale in Harare North, 500 adverts. Output: price, bedrooms, stand size and suburb per advert. Use: a monthly median asking price per suburb.

2. Rental yield screens

Investors compare rent with price before they buy. Input: the same suburb twice, once for sale and once to rent. Output: asking prices and monthly rents. Use: gross yield by suburb for Harare and Bulawayo.

3. Stand and land supply tracking

Developers watch how much serviced land is on offer. Input: residential stands for sale in Ruwa, Norton or Harare. Output: stand size, price and suburb. Use: price per square metre and a weekly count of new stands.

4. Agency market share

Agencies want to know who holds the stock in their patch. Input: all property in one town. Output: the agency on every advert. Use: a count of adverts per agency by suburb.

5. Diaspora buyer research

Zimbabweans abroad buy and rent at home without visiting first. Input: houses to rent or for sale with full details on. Output: photos, features and prices. Use: a shortlist the family can review in a spreadsheet.

6. Commercial property scouting

Businesses looking for offices, shops or warehouses in Harare and Bulawayo. Input: offices or warehouses to rent in a town. Output: size, monthly rent and location. Use: a site-selection shortlist.

🔌 Integration Examples

JavaScript/Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('sian.agency/propertybook-property-scraper').call({
  listingType: 'for-sale',
  propertyType: 'houses',
  location: 'harare/harare-north/borrowdale',
  maxResults: 100,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items[0]);

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient('YOUR_TOKEN')

run = client.actor('sian.agency/propertybook-property-scraper').call(
    run_input={'listingType': 'to-rent', 'location': 'bulawayo', 'maxResults': 100}
)

for item in client.dataset(run['defaultDatasetId']).iterate_items():
    print(item['propertyTitle'], item.get('price'))

cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sian.agency~propertybook-property-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"listingType": "for-sale", "propertyType": "residential-stands", "location": "ruwa", "maxResults": 50}'

Automation Workflows (N8N / Zapier / Make)

1. Trigger: a weekly schedule
2. HTTP Request: call the actor with your town and property type
3. Process: keep the adverts that are new since last week
4. Action: append them to a Google Sheet or post them to Slack

💰 Performance & Pricing

FREE plan

• 20 adverts per run, with every field
• Enough to check a town or a suburb before a bigger pull

PAID plans

• Unlimited adverts per run, up to the whole portal
• You pay per advert returned, plus a small fee when a run starts
• Opening adverts in full costs one extra charge per advert, and only when you turn it on

A search page yields 10 to 17 adverts, and the actor reads a page about every three seconds. 1,500 Harare adverts took seven and a half minutes in testing; all of Harare for sale (about 3,500) takes around 20.

🔗 See the current prices

❓ FAQ

Q: Do I need an API key, a login or a proxy? A: No. Pick a deal, a property type and a place, then press Start.

Q: Which places does it cover? A: All of Zimbabwe: the site's 106 towns, the areas of Harare and Bulawayo, and about 420 suburbs, all in the location list. Pick All of Zimbabwe for the whole country.

Q: How many adverts can one search return? A: Everything the site lists for that place. All of Harare for sale is about 3,500 adverts, and the whole site holds about 7,000.

Q: Why are prices in US dollars? A: Zimbabwean property is advertised almost entirely in US dollars. The currency is read from each advert and kept in its own column.

Q: Do I get the agent's phone number? A: No. The site hides it behind a click, and this actor does not collect personal contact details. You get the agency name and its Propertybook page.

Q: Why does a stand show a size in hectares that looks wrong? A: Sizes come back exactly as the advert prints them, in sizeText, and split into size and sizeUnit. Some agents type square metres into a hectare field. The description usually states the real figure.

Q: What does a run cost? A: A small start fee plus one charge per advert returned. Opening adverts in full adds one charge per advert. Adverts your price or bedroom filter drops are free.

Q: Is there GPS? A: No. The site's map view is closed to automated access, so each row carries suburb, area and town instead.

🛠️ Troubleshooting

"… is not a town, area or suburb"

• Pick the place from the location list in the input form.
• Through the API, send the place's path, for example gweru/gweru/riverside (lowercase, hyphens, town first).

A search returns nothing

• Nothing may be advertised for that combination today. Set Property type to All property or widen the place.

"This advert is no longer listed"

• The advert was sold, let or taken down. Run the search again for live adverts. You were not charged for it.

Fewer rows than Max listings

• The place has fewer adverts than you asked for, or your price and bedroom filters removed the rest.

⚖️ Is it legal to scrape data?

Our actors are ethical and do not extract any private user data, such as email addresses, gender, or location. They only extract what the user has chosen to share publicly. We therefore believe that our actors, when used for ethical purposes by Apify users, are safe.

However, you should be aware that your results could contain personal data. Personal data is protected by the GDPR in the European Union and by other regulations around the world. You should not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so. If you're unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers.

You can also read Apify's blog post on the legality of web scraping.

Propertybook is a trademark of Propertybook (Pvt) Ltd. This actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Propertybook.

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