The Proptech Association Australia has released a new map of the national proptech ecosystem that shows the dynamic growth of the sector.  The 2023 Australian Proptech Map identifies 478 different proptech products,  startups and established companies across eight major categories revealing the key areas where solutions are both established and emerging.  The data reveals that the proptech ecosystem has grown 2.5 times since the industry was last mapped in 2019.  “The 2023 Au

A new generation of proptech apps is saving tenants time, money and hassle when applying for rental accommodation in a crowded market.Against the background of Australia’s ongoing rental crisis, proptech apps can deliver tenants a winning edge in a tight market by saving them time, money and hassle when applying for a rental property.  Additionally, lease applications that are processed using cloud-based technology solutions benefit from a standardised approach that is consis

Proptech Association Australia is delighted to announce the finalists in the 2023 Proptech Awards, the only nationally coordinated awards for Australia’s booming property technology sector.     “We received 153 entries in total, a 23% increase on last year, and today we are announcing the finalists across 26 awards,” said Kylie Davis, Founder & President of Proptech Association Australia. “There will be 5 additional ‘best of the best’ winners revealed at our awards ceremony i

Proptech President Kylie Davis gave her annual overview of the past 12 months in proptech, based on observations of the Proptech Award entries. I am absolutely delighted to be here with you all live and in person this year. For those who were here last year, you’ll remember I managed to catch Covid just before the awards and spent the night watching you all on Zoom and missing all the fun. The only upside was that I was able to beam in secretly wearing my trackie dacks and ug

At a gala dinner in Sydney on Wednesday evening, Proptech Association Australia announced the winners of the third annual Proptech Awards. Over 350 people attended the sold-out event at The Fullerton Hotel to congratulate the winners of 24 category trophies, 5 best of the best awards, 2 open awards and the prestigious Proptech Leader of the Year accolade. “The Proptech Awards are Australian proptech’s night of nights,” said Kylie Davis, Founder & President of Proptech Assoc

The hottest tickets in the proptech calendar are now on sale! With more than 150 entries to this year’s Proptech Awards, tickets to the Gala Dinner in Sydney are selling fast.  The fancy but fun awards dinner will be held at the Fullerton hotel in Sydney on Wednesday July 19. It’s going to be a great night celebrating the success of proptech and the growth of the industry in 2023.  There are 33 awards to present to discover this year’s best proptechs across categories includi

An Annual General Meeting of the Proptech Association of Australia will be held as detailed below: Date of Meeting: Wednesday, 27 November 2024 Time of Meeting: 4:00 pm Location of Meeting: Virtual via Zoom The business to be conducted at the Annual General Meeting is in the meeting’s agenda attached to this Notice. Those wishing to nominate for a board position need to email the Secretary by 16 November 2024 – email accounts@proptechassociation.com.au with the full name

Rising interest rates and cost of living, wage pressure and unaffordable housing are creating a perfect storm in the property market.  Proptech Association Australia founder and president Kylie Davis said the big question for the proptech industry was, would the economic impact create more business or less? “There are two trains of thought happening currently – that in a downturn, real estate and property businesses need to embrace the efficiency and innovation offered by pro

Proptech Association Australia’s inaugural Proptech Forum, Disrupting the Disrupters, explored the technology that is happening adjacent to the sector and the market forces happening around it. The day was wrapped up by New South Wales Property Services Commissioner John Minns who said the Forum had raised a number of items that he was particularly excited about. “As a passionate property person for quite a number of years, and committed to the innovation and transformation o

At a gala dinner in Sydney on Wednesday evening, Proptech Association Australia announced the winners of the second annual Proptech Awards.  Over 300 people joined the sold-out event at Dockside Cockle Bay to congratulate the winners of 19 category trophies, 3 best of the best awards, 3 special prizes, and the Proptech Leader of the Year accolade.  Additionally, 50 people watched the event live via video connection.   “We are ecstatic to be celebrating with so many people thi

by Benn Dorrington The Australia and New Zealand Property Journal The proptech investment boom that began amid the COVID pandemic has slowed, with start-up companies facing a tougher environment to raise money.  The fundraising slowdown spells trouble for fledgling start-ups, which are working on ways to innovate the real estate experience and the wider property industry. Square Peg Capital’s Jethro Cohen (pictured left) said investments into start-ups had fallen back to pre-

Being a proptech founder can be hard – mentally, emotionally and physically.  In this interview, Ash Farrugia from Active Pipe opens up about the life lessons he learned to become one of Australia’s most successful proptech entrepreneurs.  Earlier this year, Active Pipe was purchased by Moxiworks – a comprehensive open platform system serving more than 800 brokerages and 400,000 agents across the US, accounting for more than 20% of the country’s transactions.  Ash told the Pr

PROPTECH BY THE NUMBERS  147 members 4393 LinkedIn followers 1600 mailing list  124 award entries 78 award finalists  23 award winners 8 panels hosted 13 roundtables 1 government consultation 1 invitation to a government advisory committee 1 position paper 23 podcast interviews with members 16 live representations at conferences and events Introduction “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African proverb On reflection, 2022 feels like the ye

Lessons learned from two of the world’s largest technology platforms – Google and Uber – are part of the Proptech Association Australia’s main agenda at the Proptech Forum to be held in Sydney on October 13. Forum keynote speaker, Tech Council of Australia director Mina Radhakrishnan, will reflect on lessons from Silicon Valley and share how she’s using these to disrupt Australian property management. A co-founder of :Different, Mina’s years of experience include joining Uber

Debate continues in technology circles about just when human intelligence will be overtaken by robots, but even the sceptics agree it will likely happen within the next couple of decades. So as socio-technological singularity looms, Proptech Association Australia will meet next month to take a look at what a further disrupted future could look like for the proptech industry. Social scientist Nigel Dalton from Thoughtworks will headline the conversation as a keynote speaker at

by Benn DorringtonThe Australia and New Zealand Property Journal Proptech founders, investors and thought leaders shared their insights on the industry at the Proptech Association Australia’s 2022 Proptech Forum in Sydney this month. Here are our favourite insights from the conference:   Work with your critics   “I don’t think you can actually ask your customers today what they want. You’re going to have to just go and build it. So when Edward Land was making the polaroid cam

Proptech Association Australia has announced that entries are now open for the national Proptech Awards 2023. Presented by Proptech Association Australia and sponsored by Ashurst, the third annual awards will celebrate the extraordinary innovation, solutions and achievement occurring across the dynamic property technology sector.   Proptech Association Australia founder and president Kylie Davis said after a year of constant change, competition was expected to be fierce acros

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) has the ability to completely change how real estate is transacted.  At the Proptech Forum 2022, ASX general manager of DLT Dennis Hoenig (pictured) shared important insights into how blockchain may affect the industry’s future. “I think my objective really is to whet your appetite around this blockchain distributed ledger technolog,y and leave you thinking about what opportunities are out there,” he told the crowd. “There’s a lot of ideas

The closing date to the Proptech Awards is fast upon us. Whether it’s fame, fortune or just an opportunity to frock up with your team, there are some great reasons to get your entry in. Refine your pitch or marketing Regardless whether you are a start-up or scale-up, you can never practice your elevator pitch too often. In fact, you’d be surprised just how many established suppliers struggle to summarise their business in a simple sentence or two. The 2022 Proptech Awards ent

In isolation due to Covid, Proptech President Kylie Davis shared the following insights into the past 12 months of proptech via Zoom for the Proptech Awards 2022. I am absolutely heartbroken that I cannot be with you all in person. However, as you can probably tell, Covid caught me. And as I’m still testing positive and coughing, I figured it was safest to stay home and not turn the awards night into a super spreader event. That’s not the kind of legacy for proptech I envisio