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PROPTECH AUSTRALIA NEWS
AI earns its place at the planning counter
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.
7 hours ago
Home Energy Ratings are coming: REA Group's workshop joins Proptech Forum
Our newest Proptech Forum Satellite Event shows how the new Home Energy Ratings will work, and where Proptechs fit in.
On Thursday 12 November from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm, REA Group will host a workshop on residential energy efficiency, an opportunity worth up to $80 billion.
12 hours ago
Fast to build, hard to believe: Domain's design workshop joins Proptech Forum
Our third and brand new Satellite Event for the Proptech Forum shows founders and product teams what changes when AI accelerates your technology build.
On Thursday 12 November, Domain's product design team will host a talk and workshop at Stone & Chalk in Haymarket, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. It's called Fast to Build, Hard to Believe.
1 day ago
Sales tech fights for agents’ attention
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.
4 days ago
Let's build something: Valocity's data lab joins Proptech Forum
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.
4 days ago
Property management steps out of sales shadow
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.
Oct 13
ANALYSIS
AI earns its place at the planning counter
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.
7 hours ago
Sales tech fights for agents’ attention
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.
4 days ago
Property management steps out of sales shadow
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.
Oct 13
Off the plan now sells on certainty
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.
Oct 6
Collaborative construction: what BuildBuddy says about Australia's next proptech frontier
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.
Sep 4
From Console to Reapit One: What a Platform Giant's Integration Story Tells Us About Australian Proptech
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.
Sep 3
INDUSTRY NEWS
Six findings from the Proptech CoLab industry survey
The inaugural Proptech Pulse 2026 surveyed 146 Australian and New Zealand proptech leaders to reveal the data that shows the proptech challenge is no longer just about building tech but how to ensure the tech is adopted, integrated and trusted.
Across six headline findings, the report demonstrates that the hardest challenges are no longer technical - they are deeply human.
Jul 29
The quiet cost the new AML rules added to every property deal — and the model that removes it
Since 1 July 2026, every real estate agency in Australia that brokers a property sale is a reporting entity under AUSTRAC's Tranche 2 AML/CTF regime. Most of the conversation this year has been about the visible work: enrolling with AUSTRAC, writing an AML/CTF programme, training staff, filing the annual report.
There's a quieter cost that hasn't had the same attention, and it's the one now showing up on invoices.
Jul 15
Five Things the 2026 Proptech Award Winners Tell Us About the Future of 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.
Jul 13
Verifiable Credentials: What They Mean for Proptech
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
Jul 7
NRL great Ben Ikin joins Queensland PropTech firm SearchX as CEO to lead national growth
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.
Jun 18
Regional Frontier: Navigating the Rural Property Market
As we look across the 2026 landscape, the rural property market is transitioning from a period of "startup chaos" to one of "scale-up structure".
According to the latest findings from the DAS (Digital Agriculture Services) Australian Rural Property Sales Report 2025, the market is currently a story of quiet resilience, characterised by record-high median prices even as transaction volumes face a significant cooling period.
Apr 30
MEMBER NEWS
Off the plan now sells on certainty
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.
Oct 6
A falling market puts the portals to the test
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.
Oct 1
The 34 partners proptech is built on
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
Sep 29
Data Solutions: Not sexy but it’s an all-action thriller
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
Sep 17
In a falling market, advice beats speed
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.
Sep 14
EVs just overtook petrol cars: What does this mean for Property?
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.
Sep 9
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