National Awards to Recognise Proptech Excellence
Imagine the excitement of you and your team standing on stage in front of a room full of your peers holding the trophy that confirms your status as an innovator and proptech success!
Think of applause and cheers – and the photos on social media!
The Proptech Awards enter their fifth year this year, and we will present 36 awards to the most innovative, successful and transformational proptechs and their leaders.
The 2025 Proptech of the Year awards are a pivotal part of Proptech Australia’s commitment to supporting, celebrating, connecting and advocating for our industry.
We are here to ensure our industry, your company and your career receives the respect and recognition it so rightly deserves.
In the previous four years, proptech Australia’s awards have become recognised as a game-changer for both finalists and winners. They have thrown the brightest light on the quality and impact of Proptech solutions being offered today.
And they have created powerful proof-points for marketing and sales initiatives – not to mention an incredible boost for the teams named finalists and winners.
This year, entries close April 17, 2025.
The Gala Awards Dinner will be held at the Fullerton Hotel, Sydney, on July 3, 2025. It’s truly a night of nights for the Proptech industry.
Entry is free to members of Proptech Association of Australia. If you’d like to join the association, click here. If you have any questions about membership, please email members@proptechassociation.com.au.
Championing Excellence
We believe in level playing fields at Proptech Australia, and so the majority of our awards are divided into three categories to ensure SMEs don’t have to be compared with established industry players with greater resources.
DIVISIONAL AWARDS
Our Divisional Awards are broken into Start-Up, Scale-Up and Established Supplier categories. And the divisional awards for these categories are:
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Administration and Efficiency
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Asset & Facilities Management
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Buying & Ownership
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Data Solutions
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Property Management & Maintenance
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Sales & Marketing
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Valuation & Financial Solutions
OPEN AWARDS
Together with our new 2025 awards, “Open Category” awards will be presented across specialty areas. They’re open to any member company regardless of the age or position in the industry. You don’t have to be a big company to carry away one of these. Disruptors and innovators do really well in these Open Awards:
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Affordability & Social Solutions
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AI Empowered Solutions
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Construction
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Environment & Energy Efficiency
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Off The Plan
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Planning & Design
MAJOR AWARDS
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Proptech to Watch
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“Best of the Best” Start-Up
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“Best of the Best” Scale-Up
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“Best of the Best” Established Supplier
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Commercial Proptech of the Year
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Residential Proptech of the Year
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Proptech Leader of the Year
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Proptech Team of the Year
HOW TO ENTER
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Work out which award fits your business
Identify which award best fits your proptech and gives your proptech the best chance to shine. To do this is to consider your core purpose and ask yourself - “Which award best reflects my solution and would impress the customers I am trying to attract?”
Don’t overthink it too much. For example, if you are a sales and marketing solution that specialises in the off-the-plan or the developer industry, you are best entering the “Off The Plan” award, not the broader Sales & Marketing award, where entries are likely to be across a bigger field and more varied. Go where you’ll impress future customers.
Note, too, that in the Divisional Awards, three awards are presented for each category. This ensures you are competing against peers with the same level of experience and resourcing as you. For definitions of a Start-Up, Scale-Up and Established Supplier, see below.
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Make sure you have your Membership number
The Proptech Awards are free to enter for Proptech Association Australia members. To confirm your membership number, please email members@proptechassociation.com.au. Our Member Services Specialist, KC Rodriguez, will send you your number and/or provide you with the details to sign up.
Note: Your membership must be current and financial by the time judging starts. If your membership is not current, your entry may be removed from judging. If you have any questions, please contact KC.
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Register your account and name your entry
We use a specialist awards website called AwardForce. It’s super-simple. We’ve tried to make your experience stress-free. Once you’ve registered an account on AwardsForce and started your entry, you will be asked to “name your entry”. Please ensure this name reflects either your Company or Product/Service that is being entered - NOT your own name.
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Read the criteria
Check out the specific criteria for each award and familiarise yourself with what the judges are looking for. Remember these are annual rewards so you should focus on your achievements over the past 12 months.
We strongly recommend you write up your answers in a document BEFORE you start writing in AwardForce. This will allow you to take your time and edit answers and cut and paste your responses. It also protects you from any glitches or crashes in AwardForce.
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Word Counts
Please note the word count for each answer. Please don’t write War & Peace. The AwardForce system will not accept entries that break the word count.
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Start your entry
Register here to get started. https://proptech.awardsplatform.com/
If you have any questions about entry, please check the Terms and Conditions of Entry before emailing awards@proptechassociation.com.au
AWARD CATEGORIES
There are six main entrant categories in the Proptech Awards 2025. These are designed to reflect the level of resources available to your proptech in terms of funding, sales and people power, and/or recognise the specific needs of the sector that you serve.
Open Awards
These are single awards presented across a specific industry subsector and are open in as much as all entrants compete against each other regardless of the age or experience of the proptech. In the Open Awards you will still be asked to identify if you are a start-up, scale-up or established supplier however so that winners can be included in the final judging for Best of the Best.
Divisional Awards
Divisional awards recognise the experience, resourcing and time in market of the solutions that enter to ensure that peers compete with peers.
Divisional awards are broken into Startup, Scaleup and Established Supplier. Definitions below:
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Start-Ups
Startups are defined as proptechs that are up to 3 years old as of April 17, 2025 and based on the time from which the Proptech became a full-time concern for its founders. Start-ups may be working on an MVP or have developed a product that is in the process of winning its first customers. As a start-up you must be an independent Proptech. If you are part of a larger organisation you are most likely to be part of an Established Supplier.
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Scale-Ups
These proptechs have been operating continuously for a minimum of three years but less than 10 years as of April 17, 2025. You have a viable product and are rapidly growing your business and technology. As a Scale-up, you must be an independent Proptech. If you are part of a larger organisation you are most likely to be part of an Established Supplier.
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Established Suppliers
These are proptechs which have been continuously operating in the property, real estate or construction industry for 10 years or more as of April 17, 2025. The technology you enter may reflect your entire platform, be a new product you’ve launched over the past 12 months or a product that you’ve recently acquired into your portfolio of businesses. Proptech businesses that have been acquired by a major supplier qualify under the Established Supplier category, regardless of how long their product has been in the market.
Best of the Best
The Best of the Best Awards are presented to the best Start-Up, Scale-Up and Established Supplier. These are second-tier awards in which the successful winners of each award are judged for a second time against their peers across all categories. Open Award entrants are asked to nominate their proptech stage so that winners of these awards can also be included in the Best of the Best judging. Entrants do not need to do anything at the time of submission to enter these awards. Winning your category automatically enters you into the second round.
Proptech to Watch
This is a President's Award presented to an early-stage proptech that has shown significant promise and/or has transformative technology. All early-stage start-ups are considered for this award. You must make an entry to be considered by the President.
Team of the Year
could be your entire company, or maybe the sales folks who close the business, or the code-cutters who work into the small hours of the night to ensure their product stays at the cutting edge.
Residential Proptech of the Year
will focus on proptechs delivering solutions to real estate agents and property managers in the residential sector.
Commercial Proptech of the Year
is another foray by Proptech Australia into the Commercial sector of the real estate industry after launching a Construction category in 2023 and also the Asset & Facilities Management category in the Divisional Awards. Could your company be the inaugural winner of the 2025 Commercial Proptech of the Year award?