Proptech: How the world’s biggest asset class faces digital disruption

Proptech: How the world’s biggest asset class faces digital disruption is a Sifted Intelligence report, jointly sponsored by Pi Labs and Shoosmiths, that investigates how tech is reshaping real estate.

A lack of digitisation to date — this bricks and mortar industry still stubbornly relies on Excel and emails — is both a problem and an opportunity.

Many proptech founders have quit their property jobs out of frustration with cumbersome processes, relative to what has become possible with software. They decided to build something new. We talk to these founders as well as industry experts and investors about the trends supporting proptech — and the obstacles still in the way