🏠 Real Estate Market Analyzer

An Apify Actor that scrapes and analyzes real estate listings from Realtor.com and Zillow to provide comprehensive market insights for any location.

Features

• Multi-source scraping — Combines data from Realtor.com and Zillow for broader coverage
• Deduplication — Removes duplicate listings by normalizing and comparing addresses
• Market statistics — Automatically computes average/median price, price per sq ft, and more
• Configurable filters — Filter by property type (house, condo, apartment) and max results
• Structured output — Clean, normalized data pushed to Apify Dataset with proper schema
• Graceful abort handling — Responds quickly to stop signals to minimize costs

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
location	string	✅	—	Location to search (e.g., san-francisco-ca, new-york-ny, austin-tx)
propertyTypes	array	❌	["house", "condo"]	Types of properties: house, condo, apartment
maxResults	integer	❌	20	Maximum listings to return (1–100)
includePriceHistory	boolean	❌	true	Include estimated price trends
webhookUrl	string	❌	—	Optional webhook URL for run completion notification

Example input

{
    "location": "san-francisco-ca",
    "propertyTypes": ["house", "condo"],
    "maxResults": 20,
    "includePriceHistory": true
}

Output

Each listing contains:

Field	Type	Description
timestamp	string	ISO 8601 scrape timestamp
source	string	Source website (realtor.com or zillow)
address	string	Full property address
price	number	Listing price in USD
beds	number	Number of bedrooms
baths	number	Number of bathrooms
sqft	number	Square footage
propertyType	string	Property type (house, condo, etc.)
listingUrl	string	URL to the original listing
daysOnMarket	number	Days the listing has been active
pricePerSqft	number	Calculated price per square foot

A market summary record is also appended with aggregate statistics.

Use cases

• Market research — Understand pricing trends in a specific area
• Investment analysis — Compare property values and identify opportunities
• Neighborhood comparison — Evaluate different locations side by side
• Price monitoring — Track market changes over time with scheduled runs

Local development

# Clone and set up
cd real-estate-analyzer
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Run locally
APIFY_ACTOR_PYTHON_VENV_PATH=.venv apify run --purge

# Deploy to Apify
apify push

Limitations

• These websites may employ anti-scraping measures; the Actor uses realistic headers and delays
• Some data fields may be unavailable depending on the listing page structure
• Zillow relies heavily on JavaScript rendering — some listings may be missed via static HTML
• This tool is for personal and research use; respect the target websites' Terms of Service