The Proptech Podcast with Kylie Davis Kylie Davis

The first Virtual Reality headset was invented in 1968, and the technology got a huge bump in 2014 when Facebook bought Oculus VR, so why has it taken so long for real estate and property to embrace it?

On our first Proptech Panel for 2024, our President, Kylie Davis explores three different and compelling use cases for VR across both residential and commercial real estate.

Josh Callaghan from Little Hinges
Christian Schwerdtfeger from IMMERSIV
Michael Shaw from EnvisionVR

Gain exclusive insights into how to use VR in designing, buying, building, selling and maintaining property plus insights into how to integrate VR seamlessly into your real estate business.




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Creating new value from existing assets is one of the big benefits of digital disruption. So how is this playing out in the commercial property sector?

Our Proptech Panel for February explores new ways commercial property owners can improve efficiency and realise new revenue streams in their existing buildings to revitalise and add value to tenants without even moving a brick.

Join our host Carolyn Trickett from JLL Spark, together with our expert panel Chris Mason from MobileDock, Sean Lucas from Essensys, and Mosstyn Howell from UbiPark as we discuss how delivering better connectivity, parking and loading dock solutions can reduce return-to-office friction and support better building experiences.




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Now one of the biggest growth categories in the Proptech Awards for 2023 was tech for developers and off the plan sales. 

And our next guests are a brand new startup specialising in disgitising how land is sold.

Landnow is a real time marketplace for land sales allowing the building industry to see exactly which blocks are available, their location and specifications to ensure they are suitable for different house designs and most importantly, the ability to put a block on hold. It replaces the very slow and laborious system of emailing pdfs of stock lists and constant phone and email tag - sometimes over a week or more - to see if a block was available to purchase. 

Landnow launched in October in Perth where builder reps sell more than 70% of all land but they have big plans to go national. 


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So buckle up for a niche - but super fascinating - Proptech in this episode with my guest Sean Lucas from Essensys. 

Essensys deliver end to end solutions for digital access for flex spaces including connectivity, access control and network infrastructure. 

Sounds simple but you know what they say - simple at the front means a lot of complication out the back. And the nature of shared office space with all different types of computers and systems plugging in exponentially increases that complication. 

And with hybrid working changing so many of our office spaces, and flexible working space growing by a huge 30% globally, the services Essensys offers are in strong demand from commercial office owners. 


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Brene Brown said famously that data is a story with soul. And our next guest is a Proptech founder working to put the soul into the development of new communities through the smart use of data. 

Jessica Christiansen-Franks is the co-founder and CEO of Neighbourlytics, a data company that specialises in helping developers understand what makes communities genuinely tick. 

From online restaurant reviews to event check-ins, the Neighbourlytics technology synthesises data from digital sources to see places through the eyes of local residents - helping citymakers understand, measure and monitor social wellbeing in the places they create and manage. 

Jess co-founded Neighbourlytics in 2017, as digital transformation was starting to shape the future of citymaking and urban design and Neighbourlytics is now  used by the majority of Australia’s leading property developers, asset managers, and urban planners to create better, connected neighbourhoods. 

The ground-breaking technology was a multiple award winner at the Proptech Awards and has scaled rapidly, providing data and insights today  for more than 2000 neighbourhoods across 12 countries. 






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Now have you heard about the push to electrify Australia’s residential sector? It’s a concerted campaign driven by the Australian Government to meet a target where 82 per cent of our energy is generated through renewable sources rather than coal and gas by 2030.

And to hit this target, the vast majority of Australia’s 12 million existing home owners need to switch their homes off fossil fuels and onto solar or wind power. But where on earth do you start? This is something that I’m personally looking at for my home and the options - and the adulting required - is exhausting. 

But my next guest is changing all that. Alex Houlston is the CEO and cofounder of Boom - also known as BoomPower - is an Aussie climate-tech business that delivers building electrification needs all in one platform to simplify electrifying homes, help with decisions and get access to reliable suppliers, while veryifying emission impacts. It’s being used by the banking sector to help their customers plan upgrades to their homes.  

Alex has had an extensive career in the renewable energy sector before starting Boom in 2018 - and I don’t think his timing could have been any better






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