Property24 Data Parser & API

Property24 is South Africa’s #1 property portal — ~13.09M monthly visits (Semrush, Mar 2026), owned by Naspers/Prosus — and PropAPIS extracts its resale, rental, new-build, commercial and land listings with agent, photo and geo data through a single REST API. Cover Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and the whole South African market without building or maintaining a scraper.

Platform Overview

Market Position

• South Africa’s dominant property portal: ~13.09M monthly visits (Semrush, Mar 2026)
• Owned by Naspers/Prosus; the same group also runs Property24 Kenya (30,000+ listings)
• Leads #2 portal Private Property (~2.98M) — the most mature, data-rich African real-estate market
• Subject of a 2023+ Competition Commission ruling targeting exclusivity practices between the two leaders

Market Coverage

Geographic Coverage:

• Johannesburg and Pretoria (Gauteng)
• Cape Town and the Western Cape
• Durban and KwaZulu-Natal
• Nationwide provinces and towns

Property Types:

• Houses and Apartments / Flats
• Townhouses and Cluster Homes
• New Developments
• Commercial and Industrial
• Vacant Land and Farms / Smallholdings

Data Availability

Property24 sits in the most mature and data-rich African market and exposes detailed per-property fields — including erf and floor size, levies and rates, and agency/agent profiles. It carries Medium anti-bot (Naspers infrastructure), which PropAPIS handles for you. No open public API exists, so PropAPIS provides structured access.

Listing Categories:

• Buy: Resale and ready-to-move properties
• Rent: Long-term residential rentals
• New Developments: Developer projects
• Commercial: For sale and to let
• Land / Farms: Vacant land and agricultural

Data Fields Available

PropAPIS extracts structured data from each Property24 listing:

Property Information

• Address: Suburb, city and province
• Price: Sale price or rent
• Bedrooms, Bathrooms and Garages
• Property Type: House, apartment, townhouse, land
• Erf Size and Floor Size
• Levies and Rates where shown

Listing Details

• Description: Full listing text
• Amenities: Facilities and features
• Photos: Image URLs
• Listed / Updated date

Agent Information

• Agency: Agency name and branch
• Agent: Listing agent name
• Agent Contact: Phone where published

Location Data

• Suburb, City and Province
• Coordinates: Latitude and longitude where shown

API Endpoints

Get Property Details

from propapis import PropAPIS
 
api = PropAPIS(api_key='your_api_key')
 
# Get a listing by URL or ID
property_data = api.platforms.property24.get_property(
    listing_id='12345678'
)
 
print(f"Title: {property_data.title}")
print(f"Price: ZAR {property_data.price:,}")
print(f"Type: {property_data.property_type}")
print(f"Suburb: {property_data.suburb}")

Search Listings

# Search Property24 listings
listings = api.platforms.property24.search(
    province='Western Cape',
    suburb='Sea Point',
    purpose='for-sale',
    min_price=1500000,
    max_price=6000000,
    min_bedrooms=2,
    property_type='Apartment'
)
 
for listing in listings[:10]:
    print(f"{listing.title} - ZAR {listing.price:,}")
    print(f"  {listing.bedrooms} bed | {listing.suburb}")

Search Rentals

# Search rental listings
rentals = api.platforms.property24.search(
    province='Gauteng',
    purpose='to-rent',
    min_price=8000,    # Monthly rent
    max_price=25000
)
 
for rental in rentals[:5]:
    print(f"{rental.title} - ZAR {rental.price:,}/mo")

Quick Start

from propapis import PropAPIS
 
api = PropAPIS(api_key='your_api_key')
 
# Search Property24 listings in Cape Town
listings = api.platforms.property24.search(province='Western Cape', purpose='for-sale')
 
for listing in listings[:5]:
    print(f"{listing.title} - ZAR {listing.price:,}")

import { PropAPIS } from 'propapis';
 
const api = new PropAPIS({ apiKey: 'your_api_key' });
 
// Search Property24 listings in Cape Town
const listings = await api.platforms.property24.search({
  province: 'Western Cape',
  purpose: 'for-sale',
});
 
listings.slice(0, 5).forEach((l) => {
  console.log(`${l.title} - ZAR ${l.price.toLocaleString()}`);
});

curl "https://api.propapis.com/v1/platforms/property24/search?province=Western%20Cape&purpose=for-sale" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer your_api_key"

Frequently asked questions

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