Buy Leads For Real Estate

Scraping this niche was a nightmare because listing sites rate-limit aggressively and hide emails behind contact forms. We finally cracked the API from the MLS syndication feeds to extract agent names, brokerage, and direct office lines. Still, a third of the records needed manual verification.

We started with public tax records and county registries. That gave us properties but not owners' emails. So we cross-referenced with voter registration and utility records, but the data quality was all over the place. Ended up writing a deduplication algorithm that catches 98% of the junk.

The real estate market is a swamp of stale listings. We built a scraper that hits Zillow, Realtor.com, and Redfin every night, but they block us after a few thousand requests. So we rotate proxies and use headless browsers. Took two months to stabilize, but now we get 90% accuracy.

People think buying leads is easy. It's not. We sell raw CSV files with property addresses, estimated values, and owner contact info. We don't guarantee conversion rates. We just give you the data. If you can't close from that, that's on you.

We spent a week arguing about whether to include phone numbers. Some states have strict telemarketing laws. We decided to include them anyway because buyers keep asking. Just don't call before 8 AM or after 9 PM. That's your problem, not ours.

The CSV is ugly. It's got nulls, duplicates, and weird characters. We're not going to clean it for you because that costs money. But we guarantee the columns are there and the data is as fresh as the day we scraped it. If you need clean data, hire a data engineer.