Data collection

Listings, pricing and inventory across regional portals

Aggregate property data from fragmented local marketplaces.

340

cities

69

countries

Unmetered

on ISP proxies

The problem

Property data is intensely local and lives on hundreds of regional portals, each with its own structure, language and defences. There is no global source of truth, and the national aggregators lag the local ones by days.

Many portals restrict access by geography outright, serving nothing useful to requests from outside their country.

The solution

Residential exits in each target country unlock portals that geo-restrict, and city targeting matches the collection to the market being studied.

For high-volume repeat collection from a small set of portals, static ISP addresses per market are considerably cheaper than metered residential.

Mechanics

How proxies solve it

1

Unlock geo-restricted portals

Many regional property sites serve only local traffic. A local exit is the requirement, not an optimisation.

2

City-level market matching

Collect Manchester listings from a Manchester connection, which also fixes the default search radius.

3

Cheap repeat collection

Static ISP addresses make daily full-portal sweeps affordable at flat monthly cost.

4

Local language and currency

Locale defaults follow the exit, so listings come back in their native form.

Workflow

How we would build it

  1. 1

    Map portals to markets

    Local portals lead national aggregators. Collect from the source with the freshest inventory.

  2. 2

    Normalise ruthlessly

    Area units, price semantics and property types differ by country. Build the normalisation layer before you scale.

  3. 3

    Track delistings

    A listing disappearing is the strongest available signal of a completed sale.

  4. 4

    Respect personal data

    Vendor names and contact details are personal data in most jurisdictions. Have a lawful basis or do not store them.

FAQ

Real estate data questions

That is personal data under GDPR and equivalent regimes. You need a lawful basis, and you must be able to honour access and erasure requests. Most of our customers deliberately exclude it.
Start residential to confirm access, then move the recurring high-volume portals to static ISP addresses. It is usually a large cost reduction for the same result.
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