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Luxury real estate data,
normalised at scale.

We extract global high-end property listings, agent profiles, office directories, and amenity metadata from sothebysrealty.com. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to your warehouse.

Listings extracted
42.1K /day
Agent profiles
24.5K /run
Media URLs
1.2M /24h
Active pipelines
31
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from sothebysrealty.com

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 sothebysrealty.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

listing_idurltitlepricecurrencybedsbathssq_ftlot_sizeproperty_typeyear_builtdescriptionstatus
property_listings
● 200 OK
"listing_id": "X7B9Q2",
"title": "Villa Firenze",
"price": 25000000,
"currency": "USD",
"beds": 6,
"baths": 8,
"property_type": "Single Family Home",
"status": "Active"
# listing_idurltitlepricecurrencybeds
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Complete list of extractable fields for Agent Profiles objects from sothebysrealty.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

agent_idnametitleoffice_namephone_mobilephone_officeemaillanguagesspecialtiesactive_listings_countprofile_url
agent_profiles
● 200 OK
"agent_id": "AGT-4829",
"name": "Elena Rostova",
"title": "Senior Global Real Estate Advisor",
"office_name": "London Brokerage",
"languages": "['English', 'Russian']",
"active_listings_count": 14,
"phone_mobile": "+44 7700 900077"
# agent_idnametitleoffice_namephone_mobilephone_office
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Complete list of extractable fields for Office Directory objects from sothebysrealty.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

office_idnameaddresscitystatecountrypostal_codephonemanaging_brokerwebsite_urlcoordinates
office_directory
● 200 OK
"office_id": "OFF-112",
"name": "Mayfair International Realty",
"city": "London",
"country": "UK",
"postal_code": "W1K 2TG",
"phone": "+44 20 7495 9580",
"managing_broker": "James Sterling"
# office_idnameaddresscitystatecountry
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Complete list of extractable fields for Media & Virtual Tours objects from sothebysrealty.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

listing_idimage_urlsvideo_urlsmatterport_urlfloorplan_urlbrochure_pdfprimary_imagemedia_count
media_& virtual tours
● 200 OK
"listing_id": "X7B9Q2",
"primary_image": "https://cdn.sothebysrealty.com/img1.jpg",
"media_count": 42,
"matterport_url": "https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=12345",
"floorplan_url": "https://cdn.sothebysrealty.com/floorplan.pdf",
"brochure_pdf": "https://cdn.sothebysrealty.com/brochure.pdf"
# listing_idimage_urlsvideo_urlsmatterport_urlfloorplan_urlbrochure_pdf
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Complete list of extractable fields for Amenities & Features objects from sothebysrealty.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

listing_idarchitectural_stylewaterfrontpoolsmart_homesecurity_systemgarage_spacesview_typeheatingcooling
amenities_& features
● 200 OK
"listing_id": "X7B9Q2",
"architectural_style": "Mediterranean",
"waterfront": true,
"pool": true,
"garage_spaces": 4,
"view_type": "Ocean",
"smart_home": true
# listing_idarchitectural_stylewaterfrontpoolsmart_homesecurity_system
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Sotheby's Realty - nothing you don't

Our real estate scraper handles every layer of the platform: property listings, dynamic map search, agent directories, and high-res media links, with JavaScript rendering and bot circumvention built in.

Global Listing Extraction

Capture all international listings with localised pricing, property metrics, and detailed descriptions across 70+ countries.

Agent Directory Scraping

Extract contact details, spoken languages, and specialties for thousands of global advisors and brokers.

High-Resolution Media Links

Scrape complete galleries, Matterport virtual tours, and floorplan PDFs without downloading heavy files.

Amenity & Architecture Parsing

Extract structured data for luxury features like helipads, deep water docks, and wine cellars.

Multi-Currency Normalisation

Standardise listing prices across various international markets into a single target currency for downstream analysis.

Map-Based Search Crawling

Bypass infinite scroll and map-boundary pagination to ensure 100% coverage of regional and global markets.

Office Location Mapping

Extract physical office addresses, broker details, and contact numbers across the global Sotheby's network.

Property Status Tracking

Monitor listings for price reductions, status changes from active to pending, and calculate days on market.

Scheduled + Streaming Modes

Run one-off bulk exports or configure continuous pipelines at daily cadences with change-detection diffing.

// engagement pipeline

From geographic coordinates to warehouse records

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target regions, minimum price thresholds, or specific agent directories. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, session management, and map-boundary iteration logic.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, currency normalisation verification, and coordinate accuracy checks before launch.

Delivery
ongoing

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

Under the hood

How our Sotheby's pipeline handles the hard parts

Luxury real estate platforms invest heavily in bot protection and dynamic rendering. Here is how we maintain reliable data flows.

pipeline-monitor · sothebysrealty.com · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
// pagination
Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Geospatial crawling
Bypassing map-based pagination limits

Sotheby's uses map bounding boxes for search results, often capping visible listings at 500 per view. We simulate geospatial panning and divide target regions into granular coordinate grids to ensure zero dropped listings.

Anti-bot layer
Residential proxy rotation + TLS spoofing

Real estate portals use advanced perimeter protections to block naive scrapers. We use residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints and full cookie session management to maintain consistent access.

Dynamic hydration
Intercepting XHR payloads directly

Property details and agent metrics load via background XHR requests post-page load. We intercept these structured JSON payloads directly rather than parsing fragile DOM elements, ensuring higher data fidelity.

Localisation state
Forcing consistent regional settings

Prices and measurement units change based on IP location and cookies. We force consistent regional settings and headers to ensure all extracted data is normalised to a baseline standard before delivery.

Change detection
Only re-scrape what has changed

For massive global catalogues, we maintain a hash index of last-seen values per field. Subsequent runs only push diffs, reducing compute cost, storage bloat, and downstream processing load.

Applications

Who uses Sotheby's Realty data - and how

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

01
Market Research & Valuation

Analysts track luxury real estate pricing trends and inventory levels across global ultra-prime markets.

02
Competitor Intelligence

Rival brokerages monitor active listing volumes, agent movements, and market share by region.

03
Wealth Management

Family offices correlate high-end property listings with macroeconomic indicators to advise UHNW clients.

04
PropTech Aggregation

Real estate portals ingest luxury listings to enrich their own global property catalogues.

05
Lead Generation

Service providers target listing agents for home staging, luxury transport, and concierge services.

06
AI & Valuation Models

ML teams train automated valuation models on high-fidelity architectural and amenity data.

Why DataFlirt

"Sotheby's International Realty holds the definitive dataset for global ultra-prime real estate, but standardising cross-border listings requires purpose-built infrastructure."

Extracting luxury property data across 70+ countries introduces massive variance in currencies, unit measurements, and language localisations. DataFlirt normalises this chaos. We handle the geospatial crawling, JavaScript rendering, and bot circumvention, delivering clean, queryable records to your warehouse.

Technical Spec

Sotheby's Realty scraper - technical capabilities

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

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions for map hydration and image galleries
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs to bypass rate limits
Supported
Geospatial map crawling
Bounding box coordinate iteration for full coverage
Supported
Currency normalisation
Standardising local listing prices to USD/EUR
Supported
High-res image URLs
Extracting uncompressed media links from galleries
Supported
Agent contact extraction
Mobile, office, and email addresses where public
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff: only emit records with changed fields
Supported
Saved search alerts
Requires authenticated user session
Partial
Agent backend portal
CRM data, internal commission splits, client lists
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the luxury real estate pipeline

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

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration, deduplication, and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and interaction flows.

Geospatial Crawling Engine

We bypass standard pagination limits by programmatically dividing map viewports into granular coordinate grids, ensuring zero dropped listings.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. 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 records
CSV
Flat file with typed columns
XLS
Excel format for business analysts
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
API
Queryable REST endpoints for on-demand retrieval
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset
Snowflake
Stage and COPY INTO workflow
Postgres
Upsert into your existing schema
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

About sothebysrealty.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping sothebysrealty.com legal?

Scraping publicly available property listings and agent directories is generally permissible under applicable law. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated data. We do not extract personal data beyond public agent profiles, circumvent authentication walls, or violate GDPR. Clients should review terms of service and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.

How do you bypass the 500-listing limit on search results?

We do not rely on standard list pagination. Our crawlers iterate over geographic bounding boxes, dividing regions into smaller coordinate grids until the listing count per grid falls below the limit, ensuring 100% coverage.

Can you extract full-resolution property images?

Yes. We extract the direct CDN URLs for all high-resolution images, floorplans, and virtual tours. We deliver the URLs rather than the files themselves to keep pipeline delivery fast and cost-efficient.

How do you handle multiple currencies and measurement units?

Sotheby's lists properties in local currencies and units. We extract the raw values and can normalise them to your preferred target currency and measurement standard during the transformation phase.

How fresh is the listing data?

Full global catalogue refreshes run daily. Targeted regional pipelines can be configured for hourly execution to track rapid status changes or price reductions.

Do you scrape agent contact information?

We extract all publicly listed agent details, including office numbers, mobile numbers, and email addresses, exactly as they appear on the agent profile pages.

Can I request a sample dataset before committing?

Absolutely. We provide a sample run of up to 500 listings as part of the pre-engagement scoping process so you can validate schema fit and data quality.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=sothebysrealty.com 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 daily sync of global ultra-prime properties or a one-off extraction of agent directories - we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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