Best proxies for scraping real estate listings in 2026

I’m Xavier Fok, based in Singapore, and I run proxy infrastructure for a living. Property listings are one of the most common scraping jobs I get asked about. The data is public, it changes daily, and it feeds things people actually pay for: price trackers, rental yield models, agent lead tools, market reports. It is also guarded harder than most public data, because the portals know their listings are the product.

This list is for anyone pulling listing pages at a scale where a single home IP gets throttled within an hour. That means analysts tracking a city, small proptech teams, investors building a deal screener, and developers maintaining a scraper for a portal like PropertyGuru, 99.co, Rightmove, Zoopla or Realtor.com. If you only need a few hundred listings once, you don’t need any of this. A slow script and patience will do.

I picked providers by what actually matters on property sites: city-level targeting, how well the IPs survive on portals that run commercial bot protection, and whether the cost per successful listing stays sane. Prices below are from my own notes and the vendors’ public pages, and they move often, so check the current page before you buy. Nothing here is a guarantee of access to any specific portal. Sites change their defenses without telling anyone.

how I picked

geo precision: listings are local. I need city or at least state level targeting, and ideally mobile or ISP-level granularity for portals that serve different results by region.
pass rate on protected portals: datacenter IPs are fine for some sites and useless on others. I weighted residential and ISP quality heavily, and I noted where a vendor also sells an unblocking API.
cost per successful page: per-GB pricing looks cheap until a listing page with images and scripts eats 2 MB. I looked at how each vendor bills and what a realistic listing crawl costs.
session control: search result pages need sticky sessions for pagination, while detail pages are fine with rotation. A provider that only does one of these is a problem.
support and docs: when a portal changes its markup or bot protection at 2am, I want a dashboard that shows what failed and a human who answers.
compliance posture: I prefer vendors with a documented KYC and sourcing process for their residential pools. It protects you as much as them.

the picks

Bright Data

Bright Data is the biggest name in the space and I reach for it when a job has to work on the first try. The residential pool is large, geo targeting goes down to city level in many countries, and they sell Web Unlocker, which handles retries, fingerprinting and CAPTCHA solving on their side so you pay for successful requests instead of raw bandwidth. For hard portals that is often the cheaper path even when the sticker price looks higher. They also sell ready-made datasets, which is worth a look if you don’t actually need to run a scraper yourself. Their documentation is thorough.

The tradeoff is complexity and cost. The dashboard has a lot of products in it, and it is easy to sign up for the wrong zone type. I’ve watched people burn credit on residential bandwidth for pages a datacenter IP would have fetched fine.

very large residential pool with fine geo targeting
Web Unlocker bills on success, which suits heavily protected portals
mature docs, SDK examples and a dataset marketplace as a fallback

Cons:

priciest option on this list at low volume
too many product lines, easy to pick the wrong one

Pricing: residential is billed per GB and the unlocker per successful request, both with pay-as-you-go and committed tiers. Check the Bright Data pricing page for current rates. Read my Bright Data review for the long version.

Oxylabs

Oxylabs is the other enterprise-grade choice and the one I recommend when a team wants a contract, an account manager and predictable invoices. Their residential and ISP proxies are solid, and the Web Scraper API returns parsed results for supported targets, which removes the most annoying part of a property pipeline: rewriting selectors every time a portal redesigns a listing card.

I’ve found their support quicker than most at this tier, and their sourcing and compliance documentation is among the clearest. For a business that has to answer a procurement questionnaire, that matters more than a few cents per GB.

strong residential and ISP pools with broad country coverage
Web Scraper API can return structured data so you skip the parsing work
good compliance paperwork for company buyers

Cons:

minimum commitments are higher than hobby budgets want
the parsed-data API only helps on targets they support, so check your portal first

Pricing: residential proxies start on a per-GB plan and scale down with volume, scraper APIs are billed per result. See Oxylabs for current tiers, and my Oxylabs review for how I tested it.

Decodo

Decodo is the rebrand of Smartproxy, and it is where I send most small teams. The residential pool is big enough for city-level property crawls, the dashboard is clean, and the entry price is a lot friendlier than the two giants above. They also sell a Site Unblocker and scraping API for when a portal fights back, so you can start cheap and step up without switching vendors.

It is the provider I’d pick for a first real estate project. You can get a sticky-session pagination crawl running in an afternoon, and the price of being wrong is low.

low entry price with pay-as-you-go available
straightforward dashboard and endpoint setup
has an unblocking API for when plain proxies stop working

Cons:

pool is smaller than Bright Data’s, so very niche locations can be thin
support at the cheapest tier can be slower than enterprise vendors

Pricing: residential per GB with cheaper rates at higher plans, plus a separate scraping API. Current numbers are on Decodo. I wrote up setup in my Decodo review.

IPRoyal

IPRoyal is my budget pick for people who crawl irregularly. Their residential traffic doesn’t expire, which suits property work perfectly. Most of us scrape in bursts around a weekly or monthly refresh, and paying for a monthly allowance that vanishes is a waste. You buy bandwidth, use it across a few months of crawls, and top up when needed.

They also sell static residential (ISP) proxies, which are useful for logged-in portal features like saved searches, where a rotating IP would get your session killed. Quality is decent rather than best in class, and I’d expect a lower pass rate than the premium vendors on the most protected sites.

non-expiring residential traffic fits bursty crawl schedules
static residential option for logged-in sessions
simple, low-friction signup and pricing

Cons:

lower success rate than premium vendors on heavily protected portals
no full unblocking API to fall back on

Pricing: residential per GB with discounts on larger packs, static residential billed per IP per month. See IPRoyal for current numbers, and my IPRoyal review.

SOAX

SOAX earns its place on targeting. You can filter by country, region, city and ISP on the residential and mobile pools, and for property work that granularity is the whole point. If you are comparing how rental listings look to a user in Bukit Timah versus Jurong, or checking whether a portal shows different inventory by region, SOAX makes that experiment easy.

The pool isn’t the largest, and I’ve seen some city selections come back sparse. I’d use it for targeted verification and medium crawls rather than a bulk harvest across a whole country.

granular city, region and ISP filters
mobile proxies available, useful for portals that treat mobile traffic kindly
flexible plans including a low-cost trial

Cons:

city-level pools can be thin in smaller markets
per-GB cost climbs faster than Decodo as volume grows

Pricing: plans are based on data allowance per month, with a small trial offered at signup. Check SOAX for what’s live today.

NetNut

NetNut routes residential traffic through ISP connections rather than relying purely on peer devices, and in my use that gives steadier sessions. For crawls that paginate through hundreds of result pages, a session that doesn’t drop midway saves a lot of retry logic. Speed has been consistently good too.

Where it falls short is the self-serve side. It leans toward business customers, and the smaller plans feel like an afterthought compared with Decodo. If you’re a solo builder, there are friendlier ways in. For a team with steady volume, it’s a good fit.

stable sessions for long pagination crawls
fast response times in my tests
business-friendly support and account handling

Cons:

less friendly to very small budgets
fewer extras like parsed-data APIs than the big two

Pricing: residential per GB with committed monthly plans. Current tiers are on NetNut.

Webshare

Webshare is the pick when the target doesn’t need residential IPs. Plenty of smaller regional portals, agency websites, local council planning registers and developer sales pages have weak or no bot protection. Sending those through residential bandwidth is burning money. Webshare sells cheap datacenter and static residential proxies, bills by proxy count and bandwidth, and has a free tier of a handful of datacenter proxies that is perfect for testing.

I use it as the first line in a tiered setup: datacenter for easy sites, and escalate to residential only for the pages that fail. That alone has cut bandwidth spend on my own crawls by a noticeable margin.

very low cost for datacenter IPs
free tier for testing before you pay
simple API to manage and rotate proxy lists

Cons:

datacenter ranges get blocked fast on major portals
residential quality and geo control are a step below the specialists

Pricing: datacenter plans are priced per proxy per month, with a free plan available at time of writing. See Webshare for current pricing.

comparison table

provider	price (entry level)	primary strength	primary weakness
Bright Data	high	Web Unlocker and largest pool	cost and product sprawl
Oxylabs	high	parsed scraper API, compliance docs	commitment size
Decodo	low to mid	best value for first projects	smaller pool
IPRoyal	low	non-expiring traffic	lower pass rate on hard sites
SOAX	mid	granular city and ISP targeting	thin pools in small markets
NetNut	mid to high	session stability	weak for tiny budgets
Webshare	very low	cheap datacenter IPs, free test tier	blocked fast on big portals

how to choose

Start with the portal, not the vendor. Open the site in a normal browser, then try fetching one listing page with plain requests and a datacenter IP. If it works, you may never need residential at all, and Webshare will do the job for a few dollars. If you get a challenge page or a 403, you know you need residential or an unblocking API. Ten minutes of testing saves weeks of overspending. Also watch for soft blocks, where the portal returns a 200 with empty or stale results. I covered that failure pattern in my post on soft blocks that return two hundred.

Next, match your budget to your crawl rhythm. If you refresh listings weekly or monthly, non-expiring bandwidth from IPRoyal beats a monthly subscription. If you crawl daily at steady volume, a committed plan from NetNut, Oxylabs or Decodo gives a better rate. If you need parsed results and don’t want to maintain selectors, price the scraper APIs from Bright Data and Oxylabs against your own engineering time. A developer hour costs more than most proxy bills.

Third, think about concurrency before you buy bandwidth. Listing portals punish bursts. A crawl that hammers a site with fifty parallel requests gets flagged even on clean residential IPs, while the same crawl at a modest rate sails through. I wrote about choosing a concurrency level your proxies can sustain, and it applies directly here. Slow and steady also keeps your cost per listing down, because you waste less bandwidth on retries. If you’re running a logged-in flow or juggling several accounts on a portal, the browser fingerprint matters as much as the IP, and the antidetectreview.org blog covers that side in more depth than I do here.

Finally, the legal side. Scraping public listings is common, but the rules depend on the site’s terms, what data you collect, and where you and the site are based. Listings often include agent names, phone numbers and sometimes photos that carry copyright, and personal data is regulated. In Singapore, the Personal Data Protection Commission publishes guidance on the PDPA. Respect the site’s robots.txt as the baseline courtesy, which is standardised in RFC 9309, and keep personal data out of your dataset unless you have a clear reason to hold it. This is not legal advice. If your project is commercial, talk to a lawyer who knows your jurisdiction. You can find more guides in the blog index.

verdict / top pick

For most people reading this, Decodo is the one I’d start with. It is cheap enough to test on, big enough to work for city-level crawls, and it has an unblocking API waiting if a portal gets aggressive. I’d pair it with a Webshare free tier for the easy sites, which keeps the expensive residential bandwidth for pages that need it.

If you’re a company with a serious budget and a portal that fights back, pick Bright Data or Oxylabs and use their unblocking or parsed APIs instead of fighting bot protection yourself. If you crawl in occasional bursts, IPRoyal’s non-expiring bandwidth is the most sensible money. SOAX makes sense when region and ISP precision is your core requirement, and NetNut when session stability across long crawls is what you’re missing.

Whatever you choose, run a small paid test first. Fetch 200 real listing pages, measure the success rate and the bandwidth per page, and do the math on cost per successful listing before you commit to a plan. That number is the only one that matters.

Written by Xavier Fok

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