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Property Week’s Tech Innovation Awards celebrate the technologies transforming the UK property industry. With 21 categories, this is the perfect chance to showcase your achievements. You can enter yourself, nominate others, or enter as a company. Entries are free of charge and unlimited. 

Entries are welcome for projects delivered within the last two years. Each category includes clear judging criteria; supporting material may include KPIs, case studies, testimonials, or metrics where relevant.

If you have any questions about your entry, please contact logistics@emap.com .

Best Affordable Housing Innovation

Recognising tech improving access, cost or speed of delivery in affordable housing. This includes planning, modular design, funding or allocation platforms.

Best Community & Social Impact Technology

Celebrates PropTech improving accessibility, inclusion or community engagement. Projects that enable social value creation through technology are encouraged to apply. Entries must show tangible social impact.

Best Governance & Risk Solution

Awarding technology that improves compliance, transparency or risk mitigation in real estate. Solutions may include legal, audit, regulatory or data-focused applications. Open to legal, financial and operational risk platforms.

Best International PropTech Company

For a non-UK headquartered PropTech company with a strong UK presence. Entries must demonstrate strong traction in the UK and value creation for the local market. Entries must show relevance, growth and adoption in the UK market.

Best Property Management Solution - Commercial

Celebrating tech that enhances property operations and tenant services. These may include integrated platforms used by landlords, agents or operators to streamline day-to-day management. Solutions may cover maintenance, compliance or tenant communication.

Best Property Management Solution - Residential

This includes entries for BTR, Rental Living and SFR.

Celebrating tech that enhances property operations and tenant services. These may include integrated platforms used by landlords, agents or operators to streamline day-to-day management. Solutions may cover maintenance, compliance or tenant communication.

Best Smart Building Technology

Awarding tech that enhances building performance, automation and user experience. Open to building management platforms, sensor-led systems or intelligent infrastructure solutions. Judges are looking for innovation and quantifiable outcomes.

Best Use of AI in Property

Celebrates an outstanding application of AI in residential, commercial or mixed-use property. Entries should demonstrate how AI is delivering real-world performance and insight.

Sustainability Tech Award

Recognising PropTech that supports ESG goals or carbon reduction in the built environment. Entries should demonstrate how tech is enabling measurable progress towards sustainability targets. Entries should show measurable environmental benefit.

Commercial Innovation in PropTech

Open to PropTech companies offering products or platforms designed for the commercial property sector. This category also welcomes entries where innovation applies to predominantly commercial elements of mixed-use schemes. Commercial includes office, industrial, logistics, retail, leisure, life sciences and data centres.

Digital Transformation & Data Excellence

Combining digital transformation and analytics into one award for outstanding use of tech and data to modernise operations. Entries should demonstrate process improvement and insight-driven innovation.

Marketing & Brand Awareness Innovation

Recognising marketing campaigns, personalisation tools or research-led initiatives that raise brand profile or deliver measurable impact. This category includes brand strategy, market insight and communications tech. Includes innovations in content, strategy and digital engagement.

Disruptive Innovator of the Year Award

This award recognises technology that makes a real difference to how the industry functions and clearly demonstrates a shift in industry behaviour.

Property Company – Tech-Led Innovation

Honouring a real estate company driving meaningful change through technology across any property type. This award looks at cross-team adoption and the integration of PropTech into business strategy. Entries should demonstrate leadership, results and cross-functional adoption.

PropTech Collaboration of the Year

Recognising a successful partnership between a PropTech company and a property business that has delivered tangible impact through collaboration.

PropTech Leader of the Year (Individual)

Recognising an individual who has driven digital transformation within commercial and/or residential real estate. This award celebrates leadership, vision, and measurable change through tech adoption. It is open to senior leaders or emerging voices who are helping reshape the industry through technology.

Residential Innovation in PropTech

This includes entries for SFR, BTR & PBSA.

Open to PropTech companies offering products or platforms designed for the residential property sector. This award looks at cross-team adoption and the integration of PropTech into business strategy. Entries should demonstrate leadership, results and cross-functional adoption.

This category also welcomes entries where innovation applies to predominantly residential elements of mixed-use schemes. Residential includes later living, build-to-rent (BTR), co-living and student accommodation.

Rising Star – PropTech Company

Recognising an early-career individual within a PropTech business delivering standout innovation.

Rising Star – Real Estate Company

Awarding an emerging individual in a real estate firm championing technology and innovation.

Agency Tech Impact Award

For agencies use of technology. This includes tools supporting digital applications. Entries should show cost, time or risk improvements.

Legal Technology Excellence Award

This category recognises the companies successfully bridging the gap between pure legal tech and its practical application in the real estate cycle.