Kylie Davis

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 ecosystem, and every...

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 (PropTrack Home Price...