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Best Real Estate APIs & Scrapers on Apify (2026)

· 5 min read
Yassine El Haddad
Software Developer & Automation Specialist

I build production AI agents, web scrapers, and automation pipelines. Most of what I publish here comes from the actual problems they run into: proxies that get banned, anti-bot stacks that fingerprint your client, RAG that drifts when the underlying data moves. Stack: Python, TypeScript, Go, FastAPI, LangChain, Crawlee, Playwright, deployed on AWS, GCP, and Cloudflare.

Real Estate actors cover public property listings, skip-tracing owner data, and market trends from major portals.

Acquiring accurate, up-to-date real estate data is essential for investors, wholesalers, and agents. The Apify Store hosts powerful APIs that bypass the anti-scraping defenses of major property portals to deliver clean MLS data at scale.

Top Actors in This Category

1. Zillow Detail Scraper4.2K users · 4.8 ⭐ · $3/1,000 results

Rated 4.8 ⭐. Scrape full Zillow listing details from property URLs. Extracts address, price, Zestimate, GPS coordinates, agent contact info, full description text, and current listing status. Try Zillow Detail Scraper on Apify →

2. Skip Trace API1.2K users · 4.0 ⭐ · $5/1,000 results

Skip-trace real estate prospects directly on Apify. Input names and physical addresses to find current property owner contact information, phone numbers, and associated relatives from public records. Try Skip Trace API on Apify →

3. Zillow ZIP Code Search Scraper2.4K users · 3.1 ⭐ · $2/1,000 results

Search the Zillow map by ZIP code for properties for sale, for rent, or recently sold. Returns the high-level listing grid: price, square footage, bed/bath count, and URL per property. Try Zillow ZIP Code Search Scraper on Apify →

4. Apartments.com Scraper 🏡959 users · 5.0 ⭐ · $30/month + usage

Rated a perfect 5.0 ⭐. Scrape Apartments.com for US rental and multifamily listings. Extracts detailed building specs, dynamic pricing tiers, amenity lists, and leasing office contact info. Try Apartments.com Scraper 🏡 on Apify →

5. Zillow Search Scraper

A broader scraping tool for Zillow map searches. Pass in city, state, or neighborhood queries and extract all matching property URLs to feed downstream into detailed listing scrapers. Try Zillow Search Scraper on Apify →

6. Realtor.com Scraper

Bypass Realtor.com's strict Datadome protection cleanly. Scrape real estate listings for pricing history, market value estimates, property tax records, and assigned school districts. Try Realtor.com Scraper on Apify →

7. UAE Dubai Property Leads Unit Number Finder

A highly specialized real estate actor. Extracts specific unit details and owner information from UAE/Dubai property registries, designed for Middle Eastern real estate brokers. Try UAE Dubai Property Leads Scraper on Apify →

8. Airbnb Scraper

Monitor the short-term rental (STR) market. Scrape Airbnb listings across entire cities to analyze nightly rates, occupancy estimates, host details, and amenity offerings for arbitrage research. Try Airbnb Scraper on Apify →

9. Idealista Scraper (Spain, Italy, Portugal)

Extract real estate listings from Idealista, the dominant property portal in Southern Europe. Pull pricing, square meterage, and seller details for properties across Spain, Italy, and Portugal. Try Idealista Scraper on Apify →

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Why These Tools Stand Out

Real estate portals like Zillow and Realtor.com use enterprise-grade anti-bot software (like Datadome and Cloudflare) to prevent manual scraping. These actors are maintained by specialists to navigate CAPTCHAs and proxy rotation automatically.

Free Credits

Apify offers $5 in free monthly credits you can put toward building lists of real estate leads on the free tier.


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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, you can use actors like the Zillow ZIP Code Search Scraper to pull thousands of properties matching a specific ZIP code, city, or bounding box map coordinate.

Yes, the Apify Store features Skip Trace APIs where you can input property addresses and receive public record data, including the owner's phone numbers and contact details.

Absolutely. Every Apify actor provides an auto-generated REST API. You can trigger scraping runs via webhook and pipe the extracted property leads directly into CRMs like Follow Up Boss, Salesforce, or GoHighLevel.