Kylie Davis

Every home, apartment block and shopping centre in Australia starts with two questions. What can be built on this site, and will the council approve it? The 26 companies in the Planning & Design category of the 2026 Proptech Map exist to answer those questions faster.

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.

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.