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RealtyAPI sells a "Real Time Real Estate Public Data API": every request fetches live data from portals such as Realtor.com, Redfin, Apartments.com, Zoopla, Rightmove and Idealista, returned as JSON, with a free tier and plans from $49 a month. It is a fast way to read portal pages programmatically. HousingFeed is the other approach: listings collected from property managers' own sites, held and verified, and licensed for display in your product. Which one you need depends on whether the portal's data is yours to show.
| HousingFeed | RealtyAPI | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Manager-direct rental listings, verified weekly, licensed for display; plus a Data API over 90+ sources | "Real Time Real Estate Public Data API": live reads of portal pages, 27 platforms listed in the docs |
| Source of the listings | Property managers' and owners' own websites and leasing software | Consumer portals (Realtor.com, Redfin, Apartments.com, Zoopla, Rightmove, Idealista and others) |
| Freshness, as stated | Re-verified weekly at the source; delistings delivered | "Every request fetches live data directly from the source" |
| Delivery | Exports and API pulls scoped by geography; one schema across sources | REST, JSON, per-request; "300+ endpoints" |
| Pricing | Display Feed by scope, quoted with the sample; Data API from $1.20 per 1,000 rows | Free (250 req/mo) · $49/mo (20k) · $99/mo (85k) · $399/mo (500k); published pricing, checked 2026-09-20 |
| What the terms say about the data | Display licence with attribution and link-back; no resale | "100% Public Data"; terms prohibit reselling API access and scraping beyond authorized usage |
| Licenses listings for public display? | Yes, via the Display Feed (manager-direct listings; portal listings excluded) | Not stated. Its terms cover API-access resale, not whether portal listings may be shown to your users; the portals' own terms govern that (checked 2026-09-20). |
You need rental listings you may display in a consumer product, with the source named and linked, collected from managers rather than portals, verified weekly, with delistings delivered.
You need live reads of specific portal pages for research, monitoring or an internal tool, across many countries, priced per request, and you have settled the portals' terms for your use.
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}'RealtyAPI's terms address resale of API access and scraping beyond authorized use; they do not grant a right to display the portals' listings to your users, and the portals' own terms still apply (checked 2026-09-20). If display is the job, you need a licence from whoever holds the rights.
The Data API holds portal-derived rows for research, without display rights. The Display Feed excludes portals by design: each listing in it was published by a property manager or owner on their own site.
RealtyAPI reads the portal at request time; HousingFeed re-verifies weekly and delivers removals. For a live lookup tool that difference matters; for a marketplace that ingests inventory it usually does not, because you display from your own copy either way.
More comparisons: vs RentCast · vs Zillow API · vs Realtor.com API · vs Redfin API · vs Rentometer · vs HelloData · vs Apartment List API · vs Dwellsy IQ · vs Mashvisor API · vs MLS and IDX feeds · vs Apify portal scrapers
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.
RealtyAPI 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.