The Consumer Data Right (CDR) started in open banking in 2020, then moved into open energy in 2022, and non-bank lending will be next.

I am very excited about my next guest, Andrew Cox, because he is from a brand new proptech just launched called SensorGlobal.

Sensor Global is doing groundbreaking work saving lives with next generation internet of things software designed specially for residential properties.

IoT are smart devices that are connected to cloud-based software. Sensor Global’s first product is a new automated smoke alarm system that will revolutionise how smoke alarms are monitored and managed in rental properties across the country because the fact that they are constantly connected means they no longer require annual physical inspections to remain compliant. And this will make life easier for both tenants and property managers. But they also have a raft of new devices planned for market. 

Andrew has extensive experience in both the property, construction and proptech industry, having successfully exited Property Safe to Australia’s Home Trades Hub (a Joint Venture between IAG Insurance and RACV)  in 2021. He’s a proptech entrepreneur who knows his product, knows its purpose and is very clear on his company’s vision and how he is going to achieve them. 

My guest in this episode is Jennifer Harrison, a communications and PR expert with Reputation Edge and the vice president of the Proptech Association of Australia, where she was one of the first to put up her hand and get involved in the association.

Jennifer had an extensive career in the corporate banking sector and fintechs, is part of IdeaSpies which specialises in identifying emerging exciting technology, and is one of the powerhouses behind the Proptech Awards, working on the mammoth task of finding and coordinating the judging. 

In this episode, we give an overview on the winners of the 2023 Proptech Awards and provide some tips and insights into why they won and how to create a winning entry for next years awards. 

With 33 winners - this is a longer episode - but well worth the listen, so buckle up. 

My guest in this episode is Jennifer Harrison, a communications and PR expert with Reputation Edge and the vice president of the Proptech Association of Australia, where she was one of the first to put up her hand and get involved in the association.

Jennifer had an extensive career in the corporate banking sector and fintechs, is part of IdeaSpies which specialises in identifying emerging exciting technology, and is one of the powerhouses behind the Proptech Awards, working on the mammoth task of finding and coordinating the judging. 

In this episode, we give an overview on the winners of the 2023 Proptech Awards and provide some tips and insights into why they won and how to create a winning entry for next years awards. 

With 33 winners - this is a longer episode - but well worth the listen, so buckle up. 

This week on the Proptech Podcast my guest is Shelley Horton, the executive manager of mortgage solutions at PropTrack, the property data arm of Realestate.com.au

Shelley has a long track record in the property industry, starting her career as a property valuer holding various roles at Genworth, and then becoming a buyers agent and consultant to large corporates including Macquarie and CoreLogic. So she’s experienced the property valuation and the risk analysis of the industry from nearly every angle. 

Now at REA, she’s responsible for PropTrack expanding the valuation, risk and mortgage products being created from their data with a keen eye to the kinds of insights that property buyers and sellers want to know. 

And in this interview we discuss the importance of good quality data in helping consumers make confident decisions and how the property data industry is changing. 

My guest in this episode is Joe Rossi, the national sales and go-to-market director of the property data provider National Property Group. 

National Property Group connects Australian property professionals with ready-to-use, property data, marketing and sales platforms to power strategic business growth. They have a long heritage in the property industry - for those with long memories, they were born out of EAC and Red Square which makes them - as they state - a 60 year old startup. 

But they launched as National Property Group in 2020 and now boast 12 million property records, 107 million property images and 250 m records on sales and lease listings - and an API that is open and affordable for proptechs to experiment with.

In this episode we meet Andy McColgan, CEO and director of construction Proptech Procuracon. 

Andy's 15 years combined experience as a site inspector at Ogilvie Construction and project manager and project director at APP Construction gave him first hand experience into the pain and inefficiencies around construction tendering processes. And Procuracon is working to remove the pain points - and even inherent bias - that exists in traditional ways of trying to find the right suppliers and contractors. 

The Perth based startup came through the Curtain University accelerator program and was recently the winner of the Proptech HubWA Emerging Technology of the Year

My guest is this episode is Will Alexander, CEO of New Zealand Proptech Renti, which is making it easier for property managers to provide a better service to tenants, and help them to  apply for rental properties more easily and move in more quickly. 

Will has had an extensive career in real estate. Before joining Renti, he was the general manager of Property Brokers, spent a total of seven years at Barfoot & Thompson, represented the property management sector to the REINZ and worked at Auckland Property Management. 

Renti and MoovMe are his second tech startup after he spent two years as founder of MoreMinutes, a proptech designed to help property managers get more out of their day.

My guest in this episode is Scott Bateman, CEO of property management proptech Kolmeo. Scott’s career started in banking, working for BT Financial Group and Bank of Melbourne, before he was convinced to join Little Real Estate, founded by billionaire businessman and philanthropist Paul Little who was managing director of Toll Holdings from 1985 until his retirement in 2011.

In this interview, Scott tells us the rather fabulous story of how the legacy technology stack of AgentPlus both pivoted and accelerated to become Kolmeo during the Covid pandemic and lockdowns - a transformation that Scott describes as jumping out of a plane and assembling the parachute. But it took Kolmeo from concept to running some of the largest rent rolls in the country and it’s a cracking interview. 

My guest in this episode is Jake Isman, founder of new proptech startup Propti - that’s spelt P.R.O.P.T.I

Propti is a one stop shop for the plethora of property reports needed across a property transaction - whether that’s building and pest, strata management, property valuations and even more technical reports like engineering and soil analysis - creating a simple, verified and faster way to identify the right information provider and obtain the right report quickly and affordably. 

In this conversation, we discuss the hidden labour of reports - the thousands of hours and emails that are undertaken weekly by administrators across the property ecosystem to find specialists who can provide the right report in the right area, brief in the request and manage its delivery. 

Just like banks have a valuation panel of verified experts that they go to to provide valuations, Propti takes this concept and expands it across the entire report ecosystem that saves agents, conveyancers, mortgage brokers and buyers time and a lot of stress.