Proptech Analysis

Evitat co-founder Sonja Markovic on the e-logbook for renovations, why pre-1980s homes may rate two stars, and how green credentials will set home value.

Allys Todd of ValAi on why 78% of Australian homes predate energy ratings, the free three-minute home health check, and the 5-10% resale uplift.

HID's Steve Katanas tells Kylie Davis why nobody forgets their phone, how credentials are revoked over the air, and what building location data unlocks.

Every conversation about construction lands in the same place: buildings cost too much, take too long, and too often arrive with a list of defects attached. We blame materials, labour and interest rates. But when I sat down with Justin Williams, founder of Construction ID by Wiseworking for The Proptech Podcast, he made the case that a big slice of the cost is far more mundane. It is admin. It is lost information. It is people redoing work that was already done. The problem h

The hardest part of electrifying your home isn't the money. I'm in the middle of it myself. We're looking at solar for our roof, mostly because I want our appliances off gas and onto electricity. But the adulting is exhausting. What do you do first? What changes if you swap the order? Which supplier do you trust? Sonja Markovic from Evitat told me recently that working this out feels like doing a PhD. That lands. So when Alex Houlston, CEO and co-founder of BOOM!, joined me o

About a third of Australians rent, and until recently the way they paid rent looked nothing like the way they pay for everything else in their lives. No app. No choice. No reward for doing it well. Just bank details in an email, a direct debit you cannot control, and the hope that nothing bounces.

When Simon Berglund joined Reapit as General Manager for Australia and New Zealand six months ago, he arrived with a rather unusual CV for a proptech executive. He started out as a scientist, quickly realised he was far too gregarious for a life in the laboratory, pivoted into medical sales, and eventually found himself running platform companies for private equity — integrating disparate, acquisition-heavy tech stacks into something coherent.

The construction industry in Australia is truly broken. It is the slow, grinding, productivity-going-backwards-for-a-decade or more way broken. It’s far more dangerous than a sudden crash, because we've all just accepted it as normal, while we all complain about the lack of new housing.

Property buyers are the most underserved people in the real estate ecosystem. Agents have their CRMs. Developers have their feasibility tools. Mortgage brokers have their aggregation platforms. But buyers? They get portals, PDFs, and a whole lot of "good luck with that."