Acouple of weeks ago, a friend asked me whether it was possible to help him find the perfect property to buy. I thought about it and realised that it’s impossible to run any analysis without data. Since I am based in London, I turned to Rightmove (the UK’s largest property listing website) and I built my own dataset! If you are looking for a tutorial on web scraping and how to use BeautifulSoup, or you’re just looking to run your own analysis on the London property market, you’ve come to the right place.
In this article, I aim to demonstrate how to build a dataset of property listings in London using information from Rightmove.