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Australian property data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract residential and commercial listings, auction clearance rates, historical sales, and agency performance metrics from realestate.com.au. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake.

Listings extracted
184K /day
Auction results
4,192 /week
Price updates
31K /24h
Active pipelines
84
Uptime
99.94%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from realestate.com.au

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for Property Listings objects from realestate.com.au. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

property_idaddresssuburbstatepostcodeproperty_typebedroomsbathroomsparking_spacesland_sizebuilding_sizeprice_guideauction_datedescriptionimage_urlsfloorplan_urlagent_idagency_idlisting_status
property_listings
● 200 OK
"property_id": "142981396",
"address": "42 Wallaby Way",
"suburb": "Sydney",
"state": "NSW",
"postcode": "2000",
"property_type": "House",
"bedrooms": 4,
"bathrooms": 2,
"parking_spaces": 2,
"price_guide": "Contact Agent"
# property_idaddresssuburbstatepostcodeproperty_type
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Complete list of extractable fields for Historical Sales objects from realestate.com.au. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

property_idsale_datesale_pricesale_typedays_on_marketprevious_sale_dateprevious_sale_pricecapital_growthproperty_typeland_sizezoningheritage_overlay
historical_sales
● 200 OK
"property_id": "142981396",
"sale_date": "2023-11-14",
"sale_price": 2450000.0,
"sale_type": "Auction",
"days_on_market": 28,
"previous_sale_date": "2015-04-10",
"previous_sale_price": 1250000.0
# property_idsale_datesale_pricesale_typedays_on_marketprevious_sale_date
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Complete list of extractable fields for Suburb Profiles objects from realestate.com.au. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

suburbstatepostcodemedian_house_pricemedian_unit_pricemedian_rentrental_yieldclearance_ratedays_on_market_avgpopulationdemographic_breakdowntop_agencies
suburb_profiles
● 200 OK
"suburb": "Richmond",
"state": "VIC",
"postcode": "3121",
"median_house_price": 1420000.0,
"median_rent": 650.0,
"rental_yield": 2.4,
"clearance_rate": 72.5,
"days_on_market_avg": 34
# suburbstatepostcodemedian_house_pricemedian_unit_pricemedian_rent
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Complete list of extractable fields for Agency & Agent Data objects from realestate.com.au. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

agency_idagency_nameagent_idagent_namecontact_numberemailactive_listings_countproperties_sold_12mmedian_sale_priceaverage_days_on_marketreviews_countaverage_ratingservice_areas
agency_& agent data
● 200 OK
"agency_id": "AG-9482",
"agency_name": "Ray White Richmond",
"agent_id": "AGT-11294",
"agent_name": "Sarah Jenkins",
"active_listings_count": 14,
"properties_sold_12m": 42,
"median_sale_price": 1350000.0
# agency_idagency_nameagent_idagent_namecontact_numberemail
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Complete list of extractable fields for Rental Listings objects from realestate.com.au. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

property_idaddresssuburbstatepostcodeproperty_typeweekly_rentbond_amountavailable_datepet_friendlyfurnishedlease_termsopen_inspection_timesagent_id
rental_listings
● 200 OK
"property_id": "R-884921",
"address": "12/45 Queen St",
"suburb": "Brisbane City",
"state": "QLD",
"postcode": "4000",
"weekly_rent": 550.0,
"bond_amount": 2200.0,
"available_date": "2024-02-01",
"pet_friendly": false
# property_idaddresssuburbstatepostcodeproperty_type
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Capabilities

Everything you need from REA Group - nothing you don't

Our realestate.com.au scraper handles every layer of the platform: residential listings, commercial properties, historical sales, and agency performance - with JavaScript rendering, session management, and anti-bot circumvention built in.

Full Property Details

Extract bedrooms, bathrooms, land area, floorplans, high-resolution image URLs, and full description text for every active listing.

Price Guide & History

Capture current price guides, statement of information (SOI) documents, and historical sale prices for accurate valuations.

Auction Results & Clearance

Monitor weekend auction results, passed-in properties, sold prior metrics, and clearance rates at the suburb level.

Commercial Real Estate

Extract lease terms, floor space, zoning types, and outgoings for commercial listings on realcommercial.com.au.

Automated Valuations

Scrape realestate.com.au property value estimates, confidence intervals, and rent yield projections.

Agent Performance Metrics

Track properties sold, median sale price, days on market, and active listing volume for individual agents and agencies.

Suburb Demographics

Extract population data, demographic segments, lifestyle indicators, and school catchment zones.

Change Detection

Monitor price drops, status changes (Under Offer to Sold), and days on market with diff-based extraction.

Geospatial Coordinates

Capture latitude and longitude data for precise mapping and spatial analysis in your GIS tools.

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From target postcodes to warehouse records

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target postcodes, property types, or agent IDs. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, session management, and CAPTCHA handling for realestate.com.au.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, price-outlier detection, and coordinate verification before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.

Under the hood

How our REA pipeline handles the hard parts

REA Group invests heavily in scraping detection. Here is how we stay resilient - and why teams choose managed infrastructure over DIY.

pipeline-monitor · realestate.com.au · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
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Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Anti-bot layer
Residential proxy rotation + fingerprint spoofing

REA Group employs sophisticated bot protection. Our crawlers use Australian residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints, randomised request timing, and full cookie session management to blend in.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright execution for SPA content

Property detail pages and interactive maps are heavily JavaScript-rendered. We run full Playwright browser sessions to trigger lazy-loaded images, floorplans, and dynamic pricing widgets.

Schema stability
Resilient selectors with fallback chains

Realestate.com.au frequently updates its DOM and JSON payload structures. We use multiple fallback chains and intercept backend GraphQL responses directly to ensure schema stability.

Change detection
Only re-scrape what has changed

For large national catalogues, we maintain a hash index of last-seen values per property. Subsequent runs only push diffs, capturing price drops and status changes without full re-dumps.

Monitoring & alerting
24/7 pipeline health with anomaly detection

Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes, proxy blocks, schema drift, and coverage drops. SLA uptime is contractual, not aspirational.

Applications

Who uses realestate.com.au data - and how

Teams across industries use realestate.com.au data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Automated Valuation Models (AVM)

PropTech companies feed historical sales, land size, and property features into ML models to generate real-time property valuations.

02
Investment & Yield Analysis

Institutional investors track rental yields, days on market, and capital growth trends to identify high-performing suburbs.

03
Agency Competitor Intelligence

Real estate agencies monitor competitor listing volumes, time on market, and market share across specific postcodes.

04
Mortgage Lead Generation

Brokers monitor 'Under Offer' and 'Sold' statuses to time outreach to potential buyers and sellers.

05
Urban Planning & GIS

Researchers and urban planners analyse zoning data, development approvals, and demographic shifts across metropolitan areas.

06
Insurance Risk Assessment

Insurers cross-reference building materials, roof types, and proximity to hazard zones using property image and description data.

Why DataFlirt

"Realestate.com.au holds the absolute ground truth for the Australian property market. If you are building PropTech, you need this data flowing directly into your warehouse."

Most teams underestimate the investment required: reliable REA scraping requires Australian residential proxies, full JavaScript rendering, CAPTCHA handling, daily selector maintenance, and anomaly monitoring. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on the analysis - not the infrastructure.

Technical Spec

Realestate.com.au scraper - technical capabilities

Everything supported by our realestate.com.au scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions - required for dynamic maps and interactive floorplans
Supported
CAPTCHA bypass
Automated 2Captcha + CapSolver integration with fallback to manual queue
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs from AU pools - rotated per request
Supported
GraphQL interception
Direct extraction from REA Group backend API payloads for structured data
Supported
Historical sales tracking
Extract full sale history and previous listing prices per property
Supported
Statement of Information (SOI)
Download and parse PDF statement of information documents for Victorian listings
Supported
High-res image extraction
Capture unwatermarked, high-resolution image URLs for all property photos
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff: only emit records with changed fields since last run
Supported
User Saved Properties
Gated data (user shortlists, saved searches, viewing history) requires account credentials
Partial
CoreLogic RP Data integration
Proprietary backend valuation models requiring paid enterprise API access
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the REA pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheusGraphQL
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration, deduplication, and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and interaction flows. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.

Australian Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies specifically for the AU region. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions where required. IP score monitoring prevents blacklisted pool contamination.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda (burst) and ECS (sustained). Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state stored in managed Postgres.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested - schema versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns - Excel/Sheets compatible
XLS
Excel format for business analysts and manual review
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery - compatible with any data lake
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
API
RESTful endpoint to query your extracted property data
Postgres
Upsert into your existing schema with conflict resolution
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
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Common questions.

About realestate.com.au scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping realestate.com.au legal?

Scraping publicly available property information is generally permissible under Australian law, provided it does not breach copyright or specific Terms of Service restrictions. DataFlirt extracts only public, non-authenticated listing, agency, and historical data. We do not extract personal user data or circumvent authentication walls. Clients should consult legal counsel for specific commercial use cases.

How do you handle REA Group's anti-bot systems?

We use Australian residential ISP proxies, full Playwright browser sessions with realistic fingerprints, and request timing modelled on human behaviour. We monitor for 403/CAPTCHA rate spikes in real time and trigger pool rotation automatically.

Can you extract historical sales data?

Yes. We can extract the complete sales history for a given address or suburb, including previous sale dates, sale prices, and days on market, where publicly available on the platform.

Do you extract commercial properties as well?

Yes. We support extraction from realcommercial.com.au using the same infrastructure, capturing lease terms, floor space, zoning, and outgoings.

How fresh is the data?

Real-time streaming pipelines achieve sub-60-minute latency for status changes (e.g., transitioning from 'Active' to 'Under Offer'). Full state-level or national catalogue refreshes typically complete within a 12-24 hour window.

Can you download floorplans and Statement of Information (SOI) PDFs?

Yes. We extract the direct URLs for floorplans and high-resolution images. For Victorian properties, we can also extract the SOI PDF link and parse the indicative selling price and comparable sales.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our smallest packages start at a defined postcode list (typically 50-100 postcodes) with weekly delivery. For national coverage or custom schema requirements, we price based on volume and delivery frequency.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=realestate.com.au ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a weekly suburb export or a continuous national feed of every active listing in Australia - we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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