Swiss PropTech Study 2021

PropTech companies in real estate, construction and finance sectors. The PropTech innovation evaluation process was developed in Switzerland and is the first process of its kind in the world. It was used in the creation of the International PropTech Standards.

The methodology symbolizes innovation and invention. PropTech Academy developed a new method to evaluate companies according to innovation degree in many categories and with more than 100 criteria in real estate, construction and finance sectors.

Insurance companies plays an important role as investor in Swiss PropTech market.

Mobiliar insurance company, which based in Bern, acquired PropTech startups Buildigo and Flatfox to build own ecosystem. Through PropTech network Mobiliar opens new channels for the insurance services and products. Helvetia insurance company has shares by MoneyPark, PriceHubble and readydata. Baloise and UBS has shares by Houzy.

Swiss Life insurance company has shares by Archilyse. The banks or individual investors stay still distanced. The most of investors has not experience about the new market: PropTech. PropTech is not only ICT sector, or not only real estate or construction sector.

PropTech is new common market, which contains all four sectors (real estate, construction, finance and ICT). That’s why we should have to know rethink about the digitization or digital transformation. PropTech academy built the first property technology research center and analysis the sectors, companies business models, services and products regularly. It publishes studies, reports and books about the international PropTech market. However the academy offers investment analysis to the investors. The research center will have an important role and build a bridge between science and business.

The future of Swiss PropTech market; we are not expecting any Swiss unicorn in next 10 years. However, the Swiss PropTech market is limited and too small for the unicorns. The most of Startups will be integrated into the established investment companies or they must have to build joint ventures. Matchmaking solutions will playing an important role in near future. The classical property listing platforms will lose more market shares.

Some of them will be acquired or build joint venture with competitors to stay alive. Real estate and construction giants will collaborate with the tech sector to build industry best practices. All classical real estate and construction companies will have to use PropTech solutions, such a immersive reality, data analytics, sustainable products, automated valuation models, workflow management tools, cloud-based solutions, building information and simulation models etc. PropTech companies, which produce software and tools, will create flexible solutions to build API (application programming interface) ecosystem. The PropTech companies should have to change their mindsets and start to create all in one solution for the lifecycle of building. The cooperations and partnerships will be key features of success and growing.

PropTech Academy and PropTech Switzerland Associations are keeping the leading role as regulator, educator and initiator and they are building the bridges between market players and institutions.

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