Bayut vs Property Finder: Which Has the Data You Need?
Bayut and Property Finder are the UAE’s two biggest dedicated property portals — both expose rich off-plan, agent and price-trend data, with Bayut part of the Dubizzle Group stack and Property Finder an independent, multi-country group. For most UAE data use cases you want both, and PropAPIS extracts each through one unified API.
At a glance
| Bayut | Property Finder | |
|---|---|---|
| Owner | Dubizzle Group (EMPG / OLX) | Property Finder Group (Permira / Blackstone / General Atlantic) |
| Monthly visits | ~1.68M UAE (Apr 2026) | ~1.45M UAE; 10M+ MAU group (2025) |
| Markets | UAE (+KSA) | UAE, QA, EG, KSA, BH (+Sarouty.ma) |
| Listing types | New-build, resale, rental, commercial, land | New-build, resale, rental, commercial, land |
| Strength | Off-plan + agent data, Dubizzle Group reach | Multi-country single codebase, per-area price trends |
| Public API | Partial (agency feed/CRM, not open) | Partial (agency/CRM integrations) |
When to use which
- Choose Bayut data for deep UAE coverage with rich off-plan and agent profiles, and for the broader Dubizzle Group reach (Bayut sits alongside Dubizzle in the same group).
- Choose Property Finder data when you need multiple Gulf/MENA markets from one source — it runs a single codebase across UAE, Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain — and for its published per-area price-trend data.
- Use both for cross-validation in the UAE: compare agent listings, off-plan inventory and price trends across the two leading portals to gauge coverage and confidence.
Access both through one API
PropAPIS normalizes Bayut and Property Finder into a single schema, so you query both the same way and merge results without maintaining two scrapers.
See the Bayut and Property Finder platform pages for the full data fields and code examples.