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Dwellsy IQ describes itself as "timely, accurate, comprehensive rent data sourced directly from the systems of record": more than 17 million rental listings from 30+ property-management system integrations, updated continuously, sold to operators, fintech, banks, insurers and funds as rent comps and analytics, with pricing on request. It is a strong choice for institutional analytics. HousingFeed sells something adjacent but different: the listings themselves, collected from property managers' own websites and leasing software, with a published licence to display them in your product, published coverage by state, and a sample for your cities within a business day.
| HousingFeed | Dwellsy IQ | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Manager-direct rental listings, licensed for display; plus a pay-per-row Data API | "Unit-level rental comps via API"; rent data and analytics |
| Source | Property managers' own websites and leasing software, read at the source | "30+ direct property management system integrations", "no scraped data" |
| Coverage, as each states it | 850,000+ displayable US listings, live at source within 30 days; counts per state and metro published | "More than 17 million real rental listings", "16K+ ZIP codes and 800+ MSAs", "approximately 75% of professionally managed U.S. rental housing" |
| Freshness, as stated | Re-verified weekly at the source; added/changed/removed sets | "Updated continuously and in real time" |
| Delivery | CSV and JSONL exports plus API pulls; Data API on Apify | "AWS, Azure, SFTP, API, and flat files"; REST API |
| Pricing | Display Feed: monthly licence by scope, quoted with the sample; Data API from $1.20 per 1,000 rows | Not published; contact form |
| Who it is for, in their words | Products that show rentals to users; research via the Data API | "SFR and multifamily operators; PropTech, FinTech ... banks and insurers; ... hedge funds and asset managers" |
| Licenses listings for public display? | Yes, via the Display Feed (manager-direct listings; portal listings excluded) | Not stated on any Dwellsy IQ page we could read (checked 2026-09-20) |
You are building a product that shows rentals to users and need listings you are licensed to display, with the manager named and linked, published coverage for your market, and a sample this week rather than a sales cycle. Or you need the broader Data API for research across 30 countries.
You are an operator, lender, insurer or fund that needs unit-level rent comps, lease activity and history back to 2020 across the professionally managed stock, updated in real time, and a sales-led enterprise contract fits your procurement.
Filter the Data API and get JSON back:
HousingFeedcurl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/housingfeed~rental-listings-api/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"country":"US","maxItems":100}'Its public pages describe rent comps and analytics for institutional users and do not state a display right for third-party products (checked 2026-09-20). Ask them directly. HousingFeed's display licence is public: display rights, explained.
They count different things. Dwellsy IQ counts listings collected since 2020 across its integrations. HousingFeed's headline counts only listings verified live at the source within the last 30 days, so the two are not comparable. Both are honest; read each definition.
Yes, they do different jobs: analytics and comps from Dwellsy IQ, displayable inventory from HousingFeed. Nothing in either licence prevents using both.
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2.1M+ rows of rental listings from 90+ sources across 30 countries in one documented Data API, and a Display Feed of manager-direct listings licensed for display.
Dwellsy IQ is a trademark of its respective owner; HousingFeed is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by it. Comparison reflects public information; competitor pricing is published pricing, checked 2026-09-20, and may change.