Proptech
The software and services changing how property is listed, sold and managed.
Dubai Land Department's digital tools: who uses each and what it costs
Dubai REST, Trakheesi advertising permits, the Madmoun QR code, the Smart Rental Index and the broker e-card, read from the Dubai Land Department's own pages: uses, users and stated fees.
Dubai's property portals: owners, listing rules and broker costs
Who owns Property Finder, Bayut and Dubizzle, what the Dubai Land Department requires of every online listing, and what brokers have said in the press about the price of advertising there.
Dubai's REES initiative and PropTech Hub: targets, entry routes, delivery
What the Dubai Land Department, the Dubai Media Office and the DIFC have announced for property technology firms since May 2024: targets, named partners, entry routes and delivery.
New South Wales property data tools: what each official one shows
Land values, published sales, title searches and planning maps in New South Wales sit in four official systems. Who runs each one, what it shows, what it costs and where it stops.
New South Wales Strata Hub: what schemes report, fees and penalties
How the New South Wales Strata Hub works: the twenty items a strata scheme reports each year, the three-month deadline, the A$3 per lot fee, who sees what, and the fines.
Singapore's official property tools: what HDB, URA and CEA put online
A guide to the property tools Singapore's public bodies run themselves: HDB's flat portal and resale price files, URA's transaction searches and map portal, and CEA's register.
Singapore property portals: who owns them and what agents pay
Who owns Singapore's main property portals, what PropertyGuru's published package grid charges agents, and what CEA's advertising rules ask of every online listing, as read in October 2026.
Singapore land records online: what SLA's INLIS and OneMap show
What the Singapore Land Authority's INLIS, MyProperty, OneMap and Land Titles Registry counter each give, what the fee schedule charges for a search, and where the published pages stop.
US federal AVM rule: who it covers and what its five factors require
Since 1 October 2025 a federal rule has set quality control standards for automated valuation models in US mortgage lending. Who is covered, the five factors, and the gaps.
USA: when a home loan can close without a traditional appraisal
How Fannie Mae's value acceptance, its property data option, hybrid appraisals and Freddie Mac's ACE work in the United States: which loans qualify, the limits, and who gets what.
US listing data rules: the 2008 VOW judgment and what followed
How United States multiple listing services let brokers show listings online: the 2008 federal judgment on virtual office websites, seller opt-outs, and the 2024 and 2025 changes.
USA: how UAD 3.6 and the new URAR replace numbered appraisal forms
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are replacing their numbered appraisal forms with one dynamic report. The dates, the duties of each party and how the new report reads.
Western Australia's official property tools: titles, alerts, values
Landgate runs Western Australia's map viewer, title searches, interest report, title alerts and valuation extracts. What each one shows, what it costs and where it stops.
US proptech raised $2.21 billion in Q3 as seven deals took 58%
CRETI data reported by Inman put third-quarter proptech financing at about US$2.21 billion, with seven deals taking 58 per cent. Homeward's US$450 million shows how such totals are built.
USA: HouseCanary signs Google listings deal during Chapter 11 fight
Inman reports that HouseCanary has a national listings agreement with Google while it asks a bankruptcy court to value a US$43 million lender claim at US$85,061.56 secured.