Insights
Curated reads on the trends shaping real estate technology.
Proptech in 2026: How Agentic AI Is Reshaping Retail and Real Estate
Explores how agentic AI (autonomous systems that execute multi-step workflows) is moving beyond chatbots into procurement, lease negotiation, and compliance monitoring. Walmart achieved 1.5% savings using AI for 64% of vendor negotiations.
Why we recommend: Agentic AI is the next leap past generative AI, and this piece explains the difference clearly. If you are evaluating AI pilots, understanding the agentic model will change what you ask vendors for.
2026 Proptech Trends Real Estate Pros Can't Afford to Ignore
Covers the convergence of AI-driven operating systems, centralized workflows, and platform consolidation across the proptech market. Highlights how companies are racing to unify fragmented tools into single platforms.
Why we recommend: The push toward consolidated "propOS" platforms is something we walk clients through regularly. This piece makes the case for why your integration strategy will matter more than any single tool you pick in 2026.
The Proptech Landscape in 2026: How It's Changing Real Estate
Traces proptech from early property listings to today's smart building tech, covering contactless access, IoT climate systems, self-guided tours, and AI-driven marketing tools that have gone from nice-to-have to baseline expectation.
Why we recommend: Good primer for teams still early in their smart building strategy. The breakdown of which technologies residents now expect vs. which ones still differentiate is useful framing for prioritizing your next round of upgrades.
How $16.7B in 2025 Proptech Funding Is Rewiring Commercial Real Estate
Analyzes the $16.7 billion deployed into CRE, construction, and infrastructure technology in 2025. The capital is flowing into financial and operational backbone systems: underwriting, energy management, and capital markets tech.
Why we recommend: Follow the money. The data shows where the industry is placing its biggest bets, and it's not consumer apps. It's back-office infrastructure. Good grounding for any tech roadmap conversation with your leadership team.
Smart Building Technology: A First Look at 2026
Covers IoT-driven building ecosystems, digital twins, edge computing, and Smart Building as a Service (SBaaS) models delivering 15–30% energy reductions in year one.
Why we recommend: The SBaaS model shifts smart building upgrades from capital expense to subscription. That changes how you'd evaluate and budget these projects. Read this before your next capital planning conversation.
Reality Check: The True Pace and Payoffs of AI Adoption in Corporate Real Estate
Survey finds 92% of CRE companies are piloting AI, yet only 5% have achieved most program goals. Warns that AI adoption is widening the gap between technology leaders and laggards.
Why we recommend: Sobering numbers. The gap between piloting and getting real results is exactly where most teams get stuck. That's the problem we build roadmaps to solve. Pass this to your IT lead before committing to another AI pilot.
AI in Real Estate: Innovations Reshaping the Real Estate Sector
Projects $34 billion in real estate efficiency gains by 2030, with 37% of tasks automatable. Highlights firms achieving 30% labor reductions and 15%+ operating cash flow improvements through AI.
Why we recommend: The hard numbers here match what we see in our engagements. This is the business case document to send to leadership when you're building the case for a technology investment.
How the Biggest PropTech Companies Are Integrating AI Into Their Products
Details how AppFolio, JLL, MRI Software, Berkadia, and Procore are embedding AI into their platforms, from AI-drafted tenant communications to multi-model orchestration layers.
Why we recommend: If you run any of these platforms, this is a practical look at what AI features are already available to you. We use this as a reference when helping clients activate capabilities they are already paying for.