Guides, Tutorials & Insights
Learn about residential proxies, web scraping, data collection strategies, and industry best practices from the Shifter team.
Aggregating Property Listings Across Global Real Estate Portals
Aggregating listings across portals and countries is a normalisation problem. Taxonomies, area units, price semantics and how to reconcile disagreement.
Chris Collins · September 13, 2026 White-Label Data Collection: Managing Many Clients on One Account
White-labelling makes you the data provider of record. What that means for isolation, compliance and pricing, and how to structure one account to do it.
Matt Brown · September 13, 2026 Building a Real-Time Housing Market Data Feed
Housing has no price tick. A real-time feed detects listing events, and its hardest problems are property identity and stable coverage, not speed.
James Meadow · September 12, 2026 Scraping Valuations, Rents & Mortgage Data for PropTech Platforms
Valuations, rents and mortgage rates are three different data problems with three different sources. How to collect each one and label what you collected.
Chris Collins · September 12, 2026 How to Set Up Sub-Accounts and Usage Tracking for Multiple Clients
On Shifter the sub-account is a workspace, and usage is tracked per plan. How agencies should structure clients, roles and plans so spend is attributable.
Chris Collins · September 11, 2026 Running Client SEO, Ad Verification & Competitive Intel on One Network
Agencies run three collection workloads with different needs. Why one network with one targeting model beats three vendors, and how to keep clients apart.
Matt Brown · September 11, 2026 How to Detect Third-Party Sellers Hijacking Your Listings
A hijacker does not steal your product, they attach to your listing. The signals that give it away, how to watch for them, and what evidence to keep.
James Meadow · September 11, 2026 Building a Competitor Creative Library with Automated Scraping
A creative library is a deduplication and metadata problem, not a download problem. How to build one that stays searchable and stays legal.
Chris Collins · September 10, 2026