# realestate.com.au Scraper (`unfenced-group/realestate-au-scraper`) Actor
Scrape Australia's #1 property portal: 1.2M+ listings. Buy, rent & sold data with prices, addresses, beds/baths, photos & agency info. No proxy needed.
- **URL**: https://apify.com/unfenced-group/realestate-au-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Unfenced Group](https://apify.com/unfenced-group) (community)
- **Categories:** Real estate
- **Stats:** 4 total users, 3 monthly users, 96.6% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet
## Pricing
from $0.68 / 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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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.
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# README
## realestate.com.au Scraper
Extract property listings from **realestate.com.au** — Australia's largest real estate portal with over 1.2 million active listings. Scrape for-sale, rental, and recently-sold listings across all of Australia with prices, addresses, property features, photos, and agency information.
### Features
- **Full Australia coverage** — scrape any suburb, city, state, or all of Australia in a single run
- **Three listing types** — for sale (buy), for rent, and recently sold
- **Rich property data** — price, full address, bedrooms, bathrooms, parking, building size, land size
- **Media** — main photo and up to 20 listing images per property, floorplan URL
- **Agency & agent info** — agency name, agent names and profile photos
- **Inspection & auction times** — structured datetime data for open homes and auctions
- **Advanced filters** — property type, price range, bedrooms, bathrooms, keywords
- **Deduplication** — cross-location deduplication prevents duplicate results
- **Fast & efficient** — no browser or proxy required; runs at ~1,000 properties/minute
### Why this scraper?
#### 🎯 Purpose-built
A dedicated scraper for this portal, tuned to its locations, price formats and property types.
#### 💶 Structured pricing
Asking price or rent as a clean number. Price-on-request listings return `null`, never a guess.
#### 🏠 Property characteristics
Bedrooms, rooms, surface and property type in structured fields, ready for filtering and analysis.
***
### Input Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Description | Default |
|-----------|------|-------------|---------|
| `location` | String | Suburb, city, state, or `Australia` for nationwide scrape | `Australia` |
| `transaction` | Select | `buy`, `rent`, or `sold` | `buy` |
| `propertyTypes` | Array | Filter by type: `house`, `unit apartment`, `townhouse`, `villa`, `land`, `acreage` | All |
| `minPrice` | Integer | Minimum price in AUD (0 = disabled) | `0` |
| `maxPrice` | Integer | Maximum price in AUD (0 = disabled) | `0` |
| `minBedrooms` | Integer | Minimum bedrooms (0 = disabled) | `0` |
| `maxBedrooms` | Integer | Maximum bedrooms (0 = disabled) | `0` |
| `minBathrooms` | Integer | Minimum bathrooms (0 = disabled) | `0` |
| `surroundingSuburbs` | Boolean | Include listings from surrounding suburbs | `true` |
| `searchQuery` | String | Keyword search within listing descriptions | \`\` |
| `maxItems` | Integer | Maximum listings to return (0 = unlimited) | `100` |
| `startUrls` | Array | Specific realestate.com.au search URLs to scrape | `[]` |
### Output Fields
Each result contains:
| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `id` | String | Unique REA listing ID |
| `url` | String | Full listing URL |
| `transaction` | String | `buy`, `rent`, or `sold` |
| `shortAddress` | String | Street address |
| `fullAddress` | String | Complete address including suburb |
| `suburb` | String | Suburb name |
| `state` | String | State code (NSW, VIC, QLD, etc.) |
| `postcode` | String | Postcode |
| `propertyType` | String | House, Unit, Townhouse, etc. |
| `price` | String | Price display text |
| `bedrooms` | Integer | Number of bedrooms |
| `bathrooms` | Integer | Number of bathrooms |
| `parkingSpaces` | Integer | Number of parking spaces |
| `buildingSize` | String | Floor area |
| `landSize` | String | Land area |
| `mainImage` | String | Primary photo URL |
| `images` | Array | Up to 20 photo URLs |
| `floorplan` | String | Floorplan image URL |
| `agencyName` | String | Real estate agency name |
| `agents` | Array | Agent names and profile photo URLs |
| `auctionDate` | String | Auction datetime (if applicable) |
| `dateSold` | String | Sale date display (sold listings) |
| `inspections` | Array | Open for inspection times |
| `badge` | String | Listing badge (New, Under offer, etc.) |
| `description` | String | Full property description |
| `descriptionMarkdown` | string | Full description converted to Markdown. |
| `scrapedAt` | String | ISO timestamp of extraction |
#### Example record
```json
{
"id": "151669400",
"url": "https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-qld-highfields-151669400",
"slug": "property-house-qld-highfields-151669400",
"transaction": "buy",
"listingType": "BuyResidentialListing",
"productDepth": "standard",
"shortAddress": "Highfields Qld 4352",
"fullAddress": "Highfields Qld 4352",
"addressWithheld": true,
"suburb": "Highfields",
"state": "Qld",
"postcode": "4352",
"propertyType": "House",
"propertyTypeId": "house",
"price": "From $827,904",
"priceDisclaimer": null,
"bedrooms": 4,
"bathrooms": 2,
"parkingSpaces": 2,
"buildingSize": "185",
"buildingSizeUnit": "m²",
"landSize": "509",
"landSizeUnit": "m²",
"preferredSize": "509",
"preferredSizeUnit": "m²",
"preferredSizeType": "LAND",
"mainImage": "https://i2.au.reastatic.net/800x600-resize/17d94aa2db642f059b2cb137585279666889e4c531aa5f90a955afc699780ba8/image.png",
"images": [
"https://i2.au.reastatic.net/800x600-resize/17d94aa2db642f059b2cb137585279666889e4c531aa5f90a955afc699780ba8/image.png",
"https://i2.au.reastatic.net/800x600-resize/40b2499c92640c5699def84e694493201688deb471033f13bcfc7e7fa0bfea4b/image.png",
"https://i2.au.reastatic.net/800x600-resize/aecbce4dadb6497430237e38a84e082246eda8a50ce5db38b4fcdefdf6bc2383/image.jpg",
"https://i2.au.reastatic.net/800x600-resize/d19073d334ffbc1ef23a100f402ae927393dad70e88c0141606877d80631e4ad/image.jpg"
],
"imageCount": 10,
"floorplans": [],
"videos": [],
"virtualTours": [],
"statementOfInformation": null,
"agencyId": "HKOJES",
"agencyName": "Chinoz Real Estate",
"agencyPhone": "0438947930",
"agency": {
"id": "HKOJES",
"name": "Chinoz Real Estate",
"phone": "0438947930",
"address": null,
"profileUrl": "https://www.realestate.com.au/agency/chinoz-real-estate-HKOJES",
"logo": "https://i2.au.reastatic.net/200x80-resize/aa6c312762e2f576c0849ba15f8ea4ff662e27b6b67313290922175a7af773e4/logo.jpg",
"primaryColour": "#fefefe",
"textColour": "#000000"
},
"bond": null,
"availableDate": null,
"auctionDate": null,
"auctionDisplay": null,
"auctionOnlineUrl": null,
"dateSold": null,
"inspections": [],
"description": "House & Land Package – Full Turnkey - Highfields
Discover an outstanding opportunity to secure a brand-new, ful …",
"descriptionMarkdown": "House & Land Package – Full Turnkey - Highfields \n \nDiscover an outstanding opportunity to secure a brand-new, full tu …",
"badge": "Added 3 hours ago",
"badgeColour": "#00BEB3",
"searchLocation": "Toowoomba QLD",
"scrapedAt": "2026-07-02T15:19:54.346Z"
}
```
### Example Output
```json
{
"id": "151060696",
"url": "https://www.realestate.com.au/property-apartment-nsw-sydney-151060696",
"transaction": "buy",
"shortAddress": "2702/1 Macquarie Place",
"fullAddress": "2702/1 Macquarie Place, Sydney NSW 2000",
"suburb": "Sydney",
"state": "NSW",
"postcode": "2000",
"propertyType": "Apartment",
"price": "$1,850,000",
"bedrooms": 2,
"bathrooms": 2,
"parkingSpaces": 1,
"buildingSize": "105",
"landSize": null,
"mainImage": "https://bucket-2.zobj.net/...jpg",
"images": ["https://i2.au.reastatic.net/example.jpg", "https://i2.au.reastatic.net/example.jpg"],
"agencyName": "Knight Frank Residential",
"agents": [{"name": "Emma Vadas", "photo": null, "profileUrl": "https://www.realestate.com.au/agent/emma-vadas"}],
"auctionDate": null,
"inspections": [{"display": "Sat 3 May 12:00pm - 12:30pm"}],
"description": "Set in the heart of Sydney's CBD...",
"scrapedAt": "2026-04-30T10:00:00.000Z"
}
```
### Usage Examples
**All houses for sale in Sydney:**
```json
{ "location": "Sydney NSW", "transaction": "buy", "propertyTypes": ["house"] }
```
**Rental apartments in Melbourne under $700/week:**
```json
{ "location": "Melbourne VIC", "transaction": "rent", "propertyTypes": ["unit apartment"], "maxPrice": 700 }
```
**Recently sold 3+ bedroom homes in Brisbane:**
```json
{ "location": "Brisbane QLD", "transaction": "sold", "minBedrooms": 3, "propertyTypes": ["house"] }
```
**Nationwide for-sale listings:**
```json
{ "location": "Australia", "transaction": "buy", "maxItems": 5000 }
```
**From a specific search URL:**
```json
{ "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.realestate.com.au/buy/in-bondi-beach,-nsw/list-1" }] }
```
### Pricing
**$0.85 per 1,000 results.** A full nationwide scrape of all for-sale listings (~500,000 properties) costs approximately $0.43.
### Performance
- Speed: ~1,000 results/minute
- Memory: 512 MB
- No proxy required
***
### Run it on a schedule
This actor is built for repeat use. Set it to run daily, weekly, or hourly, and the data keeps flowing without you touching it.
- **Schedule runs** — open the actor, go to Schedules, and pick a cadence. Each run only charges you for the results it returns.
- **Connect it to your stack** — push results straight to Google Sheets, Slack, a webhook, or your database using Apify Integrations. No glue code needed.
- **Pull results via API** — every run writes a clean dataset you can fetch with one API call, ready for whatever you build on top of it.
Set it once and it runs on its own.
***
### Known limitations
- Some fields (surface, year built, energy label) are only returned when the lister publishes them — expect `null` on a share of records.
- Listing photos and agent details vary per listing; the scraper returns what the source publishes and never invents data.
- Very large result sets are bounded by the source's own paging limits.
- Listings can be withdrawn at any time, so a small share of URLs may expire shortly after scraping.
***
### Technical details
- **Coverage:** everything the public search exposes, filterable via the input parameters above
- **Retry:** automatic retry on network errors with exponential backoff
- **Formats:** results export to JSON, CSV and Excel from the dataset
***
### Need a custom scraper?
**[Unfenced Group](https://www.unfencedgroup.nl)** builds Apify actors for any website — for free.
If the site you need isn't in our portfolio yet, just ask. We scope, build, and publish it at no cost to you. You only pay for results — we absorb the compute and proxy costs ourselves. Same pay-per-result pricing, same quality, same standards as every actor in this portfolio.
**Get in touch:** [www.unfencedgroup.nl](https://www.unfencedgroup.nl)
# Actor input Schema
## `transaction` (type: `string`):
Type of listings to scrape.
## `location` (type: `string`):
Suburb, city, region or 'Australia' for nationwide. Examples: Sydney NSW, Melbourne VIC 3000, Brisbane QLD, Australia
## `minPrice` (type: `integer`):
Minimum price filter. Set to 0 to disable.
## `maxPrice` (type: `integer`):
Maximum price filter. Set to 0 to disable.
## `minBedrooms` (type: `integer`):
Minimum number of bedrooms. Set to 0 to disable.
## `maxBedrooms` (type: `integer`):
Maximum number of bedrooms. Set to 0 to disable.
## `minBathrooms` (type: `integer`):
Minimum number of bathrooms. Set to 0 to disable.
## `daysOld` (type: `integer`):
Only return listings published within the last N days. Leave empty for no recency filter.
## `fetchDetails` (type: `boolean`):
If true, opens each listing detail page to extract additional fields (description, floor plan, agent contact). Increases run time and cost.
## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):
Maximum number of listings to return. Set to 0 for unlimited.
## `startUrls` (type: `array`):
Optional: provide specific realestate.com.au search URLs to scrape instead of using the filters above.
## `propertyTypes` (type: `array`):
Filter by property type. Leave empty for all types. Options: house, unit apartment, townhouse, villa, land, acreage, retire, unitblock
## `surroundingSuburbs` (type: `boolean`):
Also return listings from suburbs surrounding the specified location.
## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):
Optional keyword filter applied to listing descriptions. Examples: pool, waterfront, renovated
## Actor input object example
```json
{
"transaction": "sale",
"location": "Australia",
"minPrice": 0,
"maxPrice": 0,
"minBedrooms": 0,
"maxBedrooms": 0,
"minBathrooms": 0,
"fetchDetails": false,
"maxItems": 100,
"startUrls": [],
"propertyTypes": [],
"surroundingSuburbs": true,
"searchQuery": "developer"
}
```
# 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 '' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
token: '',
});
// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
"maxItems": 100,
"searchQuery": "developer"
};
// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("unfenced-group/realestate-au-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 '' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("")
# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
"maxItems": 100,
"searchQuery": "developer",
}
# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("unfenced-group/realestate-au-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 '{
"maxItems": 100,
"searchQuery": "developer"
}' |
apify call unfenced-group/realestate-au-scraper --silent --output-dataset
```
## MCP server setup
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"apify": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"mcp-remote",
"https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=unfenced-group/realestate-au-scraper",
"--header",
"Authorization: Bearer "
]
}
}
}
```
## OpenAPI specification
Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/UU4EN2LR4ahDDyi7L/builds/2U7nEKHezeqhLa5NT/openapi.json