The last 12 months have been an amazing and often challenging time for proptechs. Yet the passion and innovation in our community continues to rise with new products and solutions for residential and commercial real estate.

Global network Cloudflare has offered all Start-Up and Scale-Up finalists of the 2026 Proptech of the Year awards up to $300,000 in credits to provide access to its developer platform and global network. The credits are available at $10k, $100k and $300k tiers as part of the company’s Start-Up program. It will provide access to the Cloudflare Developer Platform and Global Network to build fast, secure and scalable applications

Sydney, 14 July, 2026 – The 2026 Proptech Awards has raised $6,500 for the real estate charity, The Rise Initiative, through a charity auction held during the gala awards night on at The Ivy, Sydney, earlier this month. Nearly 300 guests from across the Australian proptech and real estate sectors gathered for the industry's premier awards night, celebrating innovation, leadership and excellence in property technology.

Every year when I sit down to review the Proptech Award entries, I get a snapshot of where our industry is really at. Not where the hype cycle says we are. Not where the conference keynotes say we should be. But where the actual companies — the ones building, shipping and selling — are right now. This year, we had 166 entries competing for 35 awards. That's a record. And the standard was exceptional. But what was most interesting wasn't the volume. It was the patterns.

In the race to adopt AI, many proptech organisations are discovering a hard truth – their data is not ready. Fragmented, inconsistent and incomplete datasets are holding back the very innovations that promise to transform the property industry. That is the focus of the next Proptech Spotlight webinar, hosted by Proptech Australia President Kylie Davis on Tuesday, 21 July at 1 pm Sydney time. This free online session brings together two industry experts to tackle one of the s

The Australian Government wants to make credentials digital — driver licences, income statements, qualifications — in a way that's cryptographically secure, privacy-preserving, and instantly verifiable. They've released a proposed framework and are asking the industry how it should be implemented. Property is one of the most credential-heavy sectors in the economy, and verifiable credentials (VCs) will change how tenant verification, agent licensing, and ownership checks wor

Sydney (3 July 2026): Proptech Australia announced the winners of the 2026 Proptech of the Year awards at a gala dinner at The Ivy Ballroom in Sydney on Thursday night, with nearly 300 industry leaders, entrepreneurs, sponsors and supporters in attendance.

Dynamic Methods, Australia’s leading provider of real estate forms and contract technology, has announced that its premier platform, Forms Live, will officially launch as an independent service in Queensland on 30 June 2026. The strategic move allows Queensland real estate agents and property managers to continue to use the digital platform they are familiar with, together with a new set of forms created by legal powerhouse Dentons Lawyers.

There are significant shifts happening across the residential energy efficiency landscape that will impact the proptech ecosystem at every level. From Home Energy Rating Regulation and REEDI to new Energy Efficiency Rental Standards, this is no longer just a niche environmental conversation. It is a fundamental market shift that changes how we value, finance and invest in property.

Proptech Australia member Search X has announced the appointment of Ben Ikin as Chief Executive Officer, marking a major milestone in the company’s continued expansion across the property technology, compliance and professional services sectors. Mr Ikin will lead the next phase of growth for SearchX and its expanding group of PropRT businesses, including SignedX, PropRT Conveyancing and WealthApp.

Proptech Australia, the peak body for the property technology sector, has announced its official Master of Ceremonies lineup for the upcoming Proptech Awards on July 2. Co-hosting the flagship industry event will be the irrepressible Paul Findlay, Director of Real Estate and Proptech at Cloudstaff, and the fabulous Allie Thompson, National Customer Training Manager at REA Group.

Proptech Australia has announced major partnerships with Cloudstaff, Cloudflare and ALRO (Australian Land Registries Organisations) as category sponsors for the highly anticipated sixth annual 2026 Proptech of the Year awards. The Gala Dinner, to be held on Thursday, 2 July 2026, at The Ivy Ballroom, Sydney, will celebrate the best and brightest innovators across 35 categories.

Proptech Australia has officially announced the finalists for the 2026 Proptech of the Year awards. Now in their sixth year, the awards have attracted a huge number of entries from Proptech Australia’s membership base. A total 35 awards are available this year, including Proptech of the Year for start-ups, scale-ups and established suppliers, plus Proptech Leader of the Year and Proptech Team of the Year.

Proptech Australia, the nation's peak industry body for property technology, has announced a major partnership with industry leader Realtair – part of REA Group – as the Gold Sponsor for the highly anticipated 2026 Proptech of the Year awards. The 6th annual Proptech Awards Gala Dinner will be held on Thursday, 2 July, at The Ivy Ballroom in Sydney.

The entries are officially closed, and our judges will soon be reviewing the incredible lineup of submissions for the 2026 Proptech of the Year Awards. We received an unprecedented last-minute surge of high-quality entries, and so we feel we cannot stop the momentum now. We have extended the early bird ticket prices for the 6th Gala Awards Dinner until 25 May.

We have identified 519 businesses in the proptech ecosystem and classified them across 14 categories. This represents a 39% growth from the 374 we identified back in 2023, showing the immense health of the proptech sector.

The property landscape is set for a digital transformation with iGUIDE, the advanced 3D property visualisation technology, officially launching in Australia. This expansion follows REA Group’s 61.5% acquisition of Planitar Inc. in October last year, marking a significant milestone for the local proptech ecosystem.

A powerhouse trio of proptech veterans has officially unveiled Sonar AI (getsonar.ai), a sophisticated performance intelligence platform designed to bridge the critical sales data gap in real estate agency management.

Two of Australia’s leading property technology innovators, Dynamic Methods and RESO (Real Estate Sales Online), have announced a strategic partnership designed to simplify end-to-end real estate transactions. The alliance will see the companies join forces to significantly expand their sales capabilities across their flagship products, Forms Live and RESO.