# Homegate.ch Switzerland Real Estate Scraper (`unfenced-group/homegatech-scraper`) Actor

Extract rental and for-sale listings from Homegate.ch, Switzerland's leading real estate portal. Get prices, addresses, rooms, and property details as structured JSON.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/unfenced-group/homegatech-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Unfenced Group](https://apify.com/unfenced-group) (community)
- **Categories:** Real estate
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 42.1% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.20 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Homegate.ch Scraper

![homegatech-scraper](https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/lJlifu6C8YQfZMPKE/records/homegatech-scraper)

Scrape real estate listings from [Homegate.ch](https://www.homegate.ch) — Switzerland's largest real estate marketplace. Filter by regions, transaction, maxItems and more. No API key required.

***

### 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.

***

### 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.

***

### Output schema

```json
{
  "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"
}
```

***

### 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 |

***

### Examples

**Properties for sale in Zürich canton:**

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

**Rental listings in Geneva:**

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

**Multi-region national sweep:**

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

***

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

```json
{
  "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.

***

### 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.

***

### 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.

***

### 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)

***

### Rate this actor

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***

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# Actor input Schema

## `transaction` (type: `string`):

Whether to scrape properties for sale or for rent.

## `regions` (type: `array`):

Homegate geo slugs, one per line — cantons such as kanton-zuerich, kanton-waadt, kanton-bern, or cities such as ort-genf, ort-basel, ort-lausanne. Leave empty to sweep all 11 built-in regions.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of listings to return across all regions. You are billed per listing returned.

## `minPrice` (type: `integer`):

Only return listings priced at or above this amount. Listings marked price-on-request are excluded when any price filter is set. Leave empty for no minimum.

## `maxPrice` (type: `integer`):

Only return listings priced at or below this amount. Listings marked price-on-request are excluded when any price filter is set. Leave empty for no maximum.

## `daysOld` (type: `integer`):

Only return listings published within the last N days. Set to 1 for a daily new-listings feed. Leave empty for no recency filter.

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Optional Homegate search-results URLs. When provided, the Regions field is ignored and these searches are paginated instead. Price and age filters still apply.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "transaction": "buy",
  "regions": [
    "kanton-zuerich"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "minPrice": 500000,
  "maxPrice": 1500000,
  "daysOld": 7,
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.homegate.ch/kaufen/immobilien/kanton-zug/trefferliste"
    }
  ]
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "transaction": "buy",
    "regions": [
        "kanton-zuerich",
        "kanton-waadt"
    ],
    "maxItems": 20
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("unfenced-group/homegatech-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "transaction": "buy",
    "regions": [
        "kanton-zuerich",
        "kanton-waadt",
    ],
    "maxItems": 20,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("unfenced-group/homegatech-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "transaction": "buy",
  "regions": [
    "kanton-zuerich",
    "kanton-waadt"
  ],
  "maxItems": 20
}' |
apify call unfenced-group/homegatech-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=unfenced-group/homegatech-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/2WtItlVFS2X1zdaKI/builds/m1i5NdlvGSg6GiDJB/openapi.json