# Scrape Listings, Rents, and Locality Insights from Housing.com
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Extract property listings, rents, and locality data from Housing.com at scale. Scrape.do bypasses Akamai WAF and India-geo throttling automatically.
**Scrape Listings, Rents, and Locality Insights from Housing.com**
Extract property rents, sale prices, BHK distributions, and locality insights from one of India's leading real estate portals. Housing.com sits behind an Akamai WAF that blocks plain HTTP requests, headless browsers, and most rotating proxies on sight, and gives non-India traffic the slow lane. Scrape.do handles them automatically.
## How to Scrape Housing.com
### Property Detail Page
Extract rents, BHK, area, locality, and seller details from any Housing.com property detail page with a single API call.
**Example response**
```html
3 BHK Flat for Rent in Shrachi Greenwood Nest, New Town, Kolkata | Housing.com
₹36,000/month
Price breakup
1,421 sqft Built-up
Unfurnished
2 Bathrooms
Available now
5 of 12 floors
1 Parking
If you are looking for a modern house on rent in Kolkata, this Flat in New Town can be your perfect home. It is a 3 BHK Flat designed to meet your space and lifestyle needs...
Lift
Power Backup
Security
Gymnasium
```
Scrape **Housing.com** (https://www.housing.com) and receive the data as structured JSON.
**Example extracted fields**
| Field | Example |
| ----- | ------- |
| Rent | ₹36,000 |
| Area | 1,421 sqft |
| BHK | 3 |
| Locality | New Town, Kolkata |
### 13.6M Monthly Visits. REA India's Flagship Portal. One API.
Housing.com is the consumer flagship of **REA India**, a subsidiary of Australia-listed REA Group and majority owned by News Corp. It pulls in around **13.6M monthly visits** with **86% of traffic from India** in 2026, covers 40+ Indian cities, and sits alongside sister brands PropTiger and Makaan under the same parent.
For scrapers this is *the* dataset for Indian residential real estate. With Scrape.do you can pull **per-square-foot benchmarks across every Indian metro**, monitor new project launches from developers like Lodha, Prestige, and DLF, track BHK-level rent distributions in localities like Whitefield, HSR Layout, or Bandra, and feed valuation models, lead-gen tools, and Indian PropTech analytics with real-time inventory through a single API call.
### Akamai WAF. India-Geo Throttling. Handled.
Housing.com is one of the most aggressively protected real estate portals in India. **Plain HTTP requests return 502s**, headless browsers get caught by Akamai's sensor fingerprint and rotation challenges, and standard datacenter or residential rotation still trips Akamai's behavior models within a handful of requests. Non-Indian traffic is also deprioritized, with slower responses and partial pages.
Scrape.do routes Housing.com requests through *high-trust residential IPs* with full Akamai bypass, rotates sessions automatically, and dodges the rate-limit thresholds that kill homemade scrapers in minutes. No proxy lists, no captcha solvers, no sensor reverse-engineering, with success rates above 95% on listing, detail, and locality pages.
## FAQ
### Can Scrape.do bypass Housing.com's Akamai WAF?
Yes. Scrape.do routes Housing.com requests through high-trust residential IPs with built-in Akamai bypass, rotates sessions automatically, and handles the IP-based rate limits that block back-to-back requests. Success rates exceed 95% on detail, listing, and locality pages.
### What data can I extract from Housing.com?
You can extract property titles, sale prices, monthly rents, price per square foot, carpet and built-up area, BHK and bathroom counts, furnishing status, availability and floor details, amenities, locality and city, posted-by (owner, dealer, builder), seller and agent contact details, listing photos, and locality-level price trends and heat maps.
### Do I need to send Indian IPs to scrape Housing.com?
Housing.com deprioritizes non-Indian traffic with slower responses and partial pages, so Indian IPs return cleaner HTML faster. Scrape.do handles this automatically when you pass super=true; you do not need to maintain your own India residential proxy pool.