Almost every business in the Sales & Marketing category of the 2026 Proptech Map is chasing the same customer: a residential sales agent, or the principal who signs off on the agency’s tech stack. That single fact explains most of what is happening in this corner of our industry. The full map now counts 571 companies across 14 categories, and Sales & Marketing is one of the largest, with 58.

Our new Satellite Event gives founders, developers and product teams live access to Australian property data and APIs. On Thursday 12 November from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm, Valocity will open its Sydney office for Beyond the Blueprint: Let's Build Something, a hands-on property data and API lab workshop.

Property management has always been the steady engine of real estate. Sales rise and fall with the market, but the rent is due every week, the smoke alarms need checking every year and the lift in a 200-lot building still has to work on a Sunday. That steadiness is why the Property Management & Strata map is one of the largest on the Proptech Map with 59 companies, and it’s why it attracts some of the sector's most ambitious builders.

On Thursday 12 November from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm, JLL will take a small group underground at Barangaroo to explore the 77,000m² of basement that keeps the precinct running. International Towers Sydney runs on far more than you can see from street level. Below the towers sit the technology and sustainability systems behind one of Australia's most sustainable developments.

Buying off the plan has always asked for a leap of faith. A buyer signs today, hands over a deposit that, as The Urban Developer noted this month, can run to $100,000 or more held in trust for two years or longer, and waits for a home that does not yet exist.

Australian property has turned, and the businesses that connect buyers, renters and sellers are among the first to feel it. Cotality's Home Value Index, released on 1 September, showed national values fell 0.9% in August. It was the fifth monthly decline in a row and left values 3.6% below the March peak, with Cotality finding that 93% of capital city suburbs recorded a fall through winter.

Most of the 2026 Proptech Map is made up of technology companies. One category is not, and it may be the one that explains all the others. When we began rebuilding the map with The Proptech Gurus this year, Proptech Australia’s update counted 519 businesses across 14 categories, up 39 per cent on the 374 we identified in 2023. The map now lists 571 organisations. The message in those numbers is simple: Australian proptech is no longer a handful of startups. It is an ecosyste

Here's a fun problem. In August 2026, two of Australia's most respected property data houses looked at the same month, using the same underlying transactions and came back with answers that were nearly four times apart. Cotality's Home Value Index said national values fell 0.9%, putting the median dwelling at $912,885 and the market 3.6% below its March peak. PropTrack's Home Price Index said the dip was 0.2%, with values 2.7% below peak and still 1.8% up on a year ago (PropT

For three years, buying property has been a contest of speed – beat the next bidder, beat the auction clock, beat the fear of missing out. That contest has just eased. Cotality's national Home Value Index fell 0.9% in August 2026, a fifth consecutive monthly decline that leaves values 3.6% below the March peak.

On 19 August 2026, founders and leaders behind some of Australia's most-awarded proptech companies came together for one hour to answer an all-important question: what does it take to build a proptech that wins?

In August, Australians bought more electric cars than petrol ones for the first time. The numbers are stark. VFACTS data published by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries on 3 September, combined with Tesla and Polestar registrations reported by the Electric Vehicle Council, put battery electric vehicle sales at 27,078 for the month, ahead of 25,824 petrol cars and 23,608 diesel.

BuildBuddy is a case study in what happens when that wall is approached from the inside — not by outsiders, but by an operator running one of the country's larger residential builders who set out to compete with his own business model.

The Australian proptech sector is no stranger to consolidation. Over the past decade, the market has cycled through fragmentation — agencies accumulating point solutions across CRM, property management, leasing, and websites — and is now swinging back toward the appeal of integrated, full-stack platforms. Reapit's experience navigating this cycle offers one of the most instructive case studies currently available to the sector.

Australia's proptech sector is entering a new phase. After years of innovation focused primarily on agents, developers, and property managers, a growing cohort of technology companies is turning its attention to the most underserved participant in the real estate ecosystem: the buyer.

Building and Construction companies are tackling arguably the most expensive and wasteful issue that faces the property industry – the reality gap between a home that's been approved and a home that is built. In this year’s Proptech Map, the association has found 23 proptechs who are working diligently to help combat and resolve time challenges and building waste issues that inflate the cost of building.

There are 69 companies in the Asset & Facilities Management category of the 2026 Proptech Map, which makes it our second-largest cluster, and arguably our most consequential. Why do we say that? This genre of technology will stay with a building for 60 years and more, whereas other segments, such as sales and marketing technologies, might touch a property and its owner for perhaps a few months before a transaction is complete and the world moves on.

Each year, the Proptech Forum brings together the sharpest minds in our sector to shape where proptech goes next. This year, we want your voice on our stage.

Pitch in the Pub is back at Proptech Australia’s 2026 Forum, to be held in Sydney from November 12-13. We're calling for the sector's boldest early-stage founders to step up and compete for the title of Best Proptech Pitch in a Pub.

Fourteen. That is how many companies sit in the Affordability & Social Solutions category on the 2026 Proptech Map — the smallest cohort on the board, pointed at the largest problem in Australian property.

Mark your calendars: Proptech Forum 2026 is set for two big days this November, and we can't wait to bring our community together again. This year the Forum returns to Sydney, running from Thursday, 12 and Friday, 13 November with a theme built for where our sector sits right now.