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The industry-focused council has proudly announced the arrival of four new members to its ranks.
Already boasting the likes of Antonia Mercorella, chief executive of the Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ), and Melissa Hardy, director for technology – Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC), Proptech BNE. has now welcomed incoming council members:
- Dustin Welch, general manager, health of Springfield City Group
- Valerie Abbott, global product lead at Host from CBRE
- Brent O’Neill, director of urban design at Wolter Consulting Group
- Luke Borg, development manager of Racing Queensland
Proptech BNE. founder Isaac Coonan said, “the calibre of this year’s council demonstrates that the Australian property industry is taking the digital transformation of this sector seriously and are looking to lead this change from the top”.
He stated that when launching Proptech BNE., the company “knew that there would be a lasting mindset change towards the adoption and utilisation of technology within the Australian property sector”.
“We couldn’t have the proptech economy growing in isolation from the property industry.
“By working directly with the industry council, we are able to ensure that proptech companies and the property industry have an open, two-way dialogue at all times to ensure products being created for the sector are built with the industry in mind,” he said.
Reflecting on the year just gone, Ms Hardy shared, “while there is significant variation in the nature of organisations in our industry, there are common and persistent challenges that many share”.
She added: “Proptechs are bringing focused and innovative thinking to these challenges and the stronger the connections are within the industry, the quicker our shared challenges can be tackled.”
“Necessity is the mother of invention,” regaled Ms Mercorella.
She noted how “the pandemic pushed the real estate profession to embrace new tech quickly, and it’s safe to say this adaptation was a huge success and is now here to stay”.
Describing the COVID-19 pandemic as “the first hurdle”, the REIQ CEO believes “there’s less resistance than ever to new tech and as an industry, we’re ripe for innovation and proptech can strike while the iron is hot”.
From her perspective, delivering successful, industry-specific solutions are born from “intimately understand[ing] the intricacies of the market, the players and the challenges or opportunities”.
“My vision is for Queensland to be the epicentre of proptech in Australia and a natural by-product of developing the local proptech economy is that the Proptech BNE. council is creating a blueprint that can be applied on a state and national level,” Ms Mercorella concluded.
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