Homegate.ch Scraper

Scrape real estate listings from Homegate.ch — Switzerland's largest real estate marketplace. Filter by regions, transaction, maxItems and more. No API key required.

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Why this scraper?

⚡ Fast & cost-efficient extraction

No browser required — parses structured JSON embedded in server-rendered HTML. Automatic gzip decompression.

🏠 Market coverage

Switzerland's largest property portal — 9,800+ CHF-denominated listings across all cantons.

💰 Rich structured data

35+ fields per listing including GPS coordinates, full street address, postal code, living space, floor, year built, all characteristics, full description, multiple images, and publish date.

🔍 Flexible filters

Filter by canton or city slug — from kanton-zuerich to ort-genf to kanton-waadt.

📍 Location & GPS

Latitude/longitude returned for nearly every listing. Full street address and postal code included.

🔗 Direct URL support

Paste any Homegate search-results URL into startUrls and the scraper paginates that exact search — every filter you set on the site is preserved.

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Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
transaction	string	"buy"	buy (Kaufen) or rent (Mieten).
regions	array	["kanton-zuerich", "kanton-waadt"]	Homegate geo slugs, one per line — cantons (kanton-zuerich, kanton-bern) or cities (ort-genf, ort-basel). Leave empty to sweep all 11 built-in regions.
maxItems	integer	100	Maximum listings returned across all regions.
minPrice	integer	(empty)	Only listings priced at or above this amount in CHF.
maxPrice	integer	(empty)	Only listings priced at or below this amount in CHF.
daysOld	integer	(empty)	Only listings published in the last N days. Set to 1 for a daily new-listings feed.
startUrls	array	(empty)	Homegate search-results URLs. When provided, regions is ignored and these searches are paginated instead. Price and age filters still apply.

Price filters exclude listings marked price-on-request, since those carry no comparable amount.

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Output schema

{
  "id":               "4002873083",
  "url":              "https://www.homegate.ch/kaufen/immobilien/4002873083",

  "transaction":      "buy",
  "listingType":      "PREMIUM",
  "propertyType":     "Apartment",
  "categories":       ["APARTMENT", "FLAT"],

  "title":            "4.5-Zimmer-Wohnung im OG mit zwei Balkonen",
  "description":      "Ruhe, Sonne und eine beeindruckende Weitsicht...",

  "priceText":        "CHF 1'650'600",
  "priceAmount":      1650600,
  "priceCurrency":    "CHF",

  "postalCode":       "8904",
  "street":           "Eichacherstrasse 21",
  "city":             "Aesch ZH",
  "region":           "kanton-zuerich",
  "country":          "CH",
  "latitude":         47.339204341352,
  "longitude":        8.442492384535,

  "numberOfRooms":    4.5,
  "numberOfBathrooms": 2,
  "floor":            1,
  "livingSpace":      112,
  "lotSize":          1778,
  "yearBuilt":        2026,
  "hasBalcony":       true,
  "hasGarage":        true,
  "hasElevator":      true,
  "hasParking":       true,
  "isNewBuilding":    true,

  "images":           [
    "https://media2.homegate.ch/listings/v2/e218sub/4002873083/image/9cc62bc835cdfce96c839b233969d836.jpg",
    "https://media2.homegate.ch/listings/v2/e218sub/4002873083/image/37c2a85bd065be0d5bec015b2cb4f2fa.jpg"
  ],
  "documents":        [{ "title": "Grundriss Whg. 101", "url": "https://media2.homegate.ch/..." }],
  "externalUrls":     [{ "type": "VIRTUAL_TOUR", "title": "virtuelle Besichtigung", "url": "https://kuula.co/..." }],

  "agencyId":         "e218sub",

  "platforms":        ["homegate", "immoscout24", "alleimmobilien", "home", "immostreet"],

  "publishDate":      "2026-01-26",
  "publishDateISO":   "2026-01-26T17:03:33.924Z",

  "source":           "homegate.ch",
  "scrapedAt":        "2026-05-06T07:30:00.000Z",
  "contentHash":      "a1b2c3d4e5f6a7b8"
}

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Field reference

Field	Type	Coverage	Notes
id	string	100%	Homegate listing ID
url	string	100%	Direct listing URL
transaction	string	100%	buy or rent
listingType	string	100%	PREMIUM, STANDARD, BASIC
propertyType	string	100%	Human-readable: Apartment, House, Villa, etc.
categories	array	100%	Raw categories from API: APARTMENT, FLAT, HOUSE, etc.
title	string	100%	Listing title in German
description	string	100%	Full listing description (HTML)
descriptionMarkdown	string	100%	Description as plain text
priceText	string	~88%	Formatted: CHF 1'650'600
priceAmount	number	~88%	Numeric price; null for price-on-request
priceCurrency	string	100%	Always CHF
postalCode	string	100%	Swiss 4-digit postal code
street	string	~92%	Full street address with number
city	string	100%	City/locality name
region	string	100%	Input slug used, e.g. kanton-zuerich
country	string	100%	Always CH
latitude	number	100%	GPS latitude (WGS84)
longitude	number	100%	GPS longitude (WGS84)
numberOfRooms	number	100%	Room count incl. half-rooms (e.g. 4.5)
numberOfBathrooms	number	~48%	Bathroom count
floor	number	~64%	Floor number (0 = ground)
livingSpace	number	~96%	Living area in m²
lotSize	number	~52%	Plot size in m² (houses)
yearBuilt	number	~96%	Construction year
hasBalcony	boolean	~92%	Has balcony or terrace
hasGarage	boolean	~84%	Has garage
hasElevator	boolean	~48%	Has elevator
hasParking	boolean	~64%	Has parking space
isNewBuilding	boolean	~56%	New construction
images	array	100%	All listing images (typically 5–20 URLs)
documents	array	~56%	Floor plans, brochures (PDF URLs)
externalUrls	array	~36%	Virtual tours, project websites
agencyId	string	~32%	Agency code for the lister
platforms	array	100%	Portals listing is active on
publishDate	string	100%	YYYY-MM-DD
publishDateISO	string	100%	ISO 8601 with time
source	string	100%	Always homegate.ch
scrapedAt	string	100%	ISO 8601 scrape timestamp
contentHash	string	100%	MD5 dedup hash

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Examples

Properties for sale in Zürich canton:

{ "regions": ["kanton-zuerich"], "transaction": "buy", "maxItems": 100 }

Rental listings in Geneva:

{ "regions": ["ort-genf"], "transaction": "rent", "maxItems": 200 }

Multi-region national sweep:

{
  "regions": ["kanton-zuerich","kanton-waadt","kanton-aargau","kanton-bern","kanton-luzern","ort-genf","ort-basel"],
  "transaction": "buy",
  "maxItems": 2000
}

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Daily feed of new listings (run on a schedule):

{
  "daysOld": 1,
  "maxItems": 500
}

Schedule this input to run once a day in the Apify Scheduler — each run returns only listings added in the last 24 hours, ideal as a daily new-listings alert.

💰 Pricing

$1.50 per 1,000 results — you only pay for successfully retrieved listings. Failed retries are never charged.

Results	Cost
100	~$0.15
1,000	~$1.50
10,000	~$15.00
100,000	~$150.00

Flat-rate real estate data providers typically charge $99–$299/month regardless of usage. At 10,000 results/month, this scraper costs significantly less with no subscription.

Use the Max results cap in the input to control your spend exactly.

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Performance

Measured on 28 July 2026 at 512 MB:

Run size	Time
20 listings	~40-60 s
100 listings	~2 min
1,000 listings	~15-20 min

Homegate sits behind Cloudflare, so each search page is fetched through an unlocking layer that takes 30-40 s per page. Pages within a region are fetched in parallel, which is why larger runs scale better than the per-page figure suggests. Runs stop cleanly and return what they collected if they approach the run timeout.

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Known limitations

• Price: ~12% of listings use price-on-request — priceAmount is null, and these are excluded when a price filter is set.
• Street: ~8% of listings omit the street address (postal code + city are still present).
• Agent contact details: not returned. Agent names, direct phone numbers and email addresses are personal data and are deliberately excluded from output.
• Price and age filters are applied to the parsed results, not passed to Homegate. A narrow filter reads more pages to fill maxItems.
• Pagination depth: 50 pages per region, so 1,000 listings per region. Split a large canton across city slugs to go deeper.

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Technical details

• Method: JSON-HTML — parses window.__INITIAL_STATE__ (server-side rendered JSON) from search pages
• Source: Homegate.ch — Switzerland's largest real estate marketplace
• Memory: 512 MB
• Retry: Per-attempt timeouts escalate and the network identity is re-rolled on a stalled fetch
• Deduplication: In-run de-duplication by listing ID; contentHash supports cross-run change detection
• Output fields: 35+ fields
• Pagination: Up to 50 pages per region (1,000 listings per region)

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