House Hunting Like a Data Engineer

Scrape house prices, and find yourself some sweet deals!

Some time ago, my wife and I decided to buy a house. Like everyone else, we scouted websites such as Zoopla and Rightmove, but after a few days I realized how unsustainable that was:

• I could not find houses that were “recently reduced”
• I could not filter on things like chain vs not chain, renovated, etc
• Every day, I would be looking for “new houses that showed in the last 24 hours”, which involved…