Portfolio Strategy and Execution: Accountability across Markets

PropTech venture investment reached $16.7 billion in 2025, a 67.9% year-on-year increase that surpassed pre-pandemic levels, with AI-centred PropTech companies growing investment at 42% annualised, nearly double the rate for non-AI PropTech. Several workplace technologies have already surpassed 80% adoption rates for operational functions; predictive maintenance, data warehousing, energy and emissions management, demonstrating that the infrastructure layer is maturing. The strategic intelligence layer is what remains underdeveloped. And the organisations that are closest to having it are not necessarily those that spent the most on technology, they are those that made …

Research in the Corporate Real Estate Journal (Vol. 14, 2024–25) draws a sharp distinction between organisations that have deployed PropTech tactically i.e. a new IWMS here, a sensor layer there, and those that have used it to fundamentally redesign their target operating model (TOM). The latter group report materially better cost transparency and decision speed. The honest version of this conversation in most organisations is: we bought the technology, but we didn't change the org chart, the governance or the data ownership — and so it hasn't changed much at all. In summary, most organisations appear to have gone down the tactical deployment route, buying technology with…

Does your IWMS software platform outperform across all aspects of the end-to-end life cycle of corporate facilities, from workplace resources to employee experience and make a real difference to your estate and workplace team day-to-day?Interested to hear from peers who have recently changed vendor, insourced or upgraded their IWMS ... have posted a few questions below - Which IWMS are you currently running How long have you been using it? What single feature or capability genuinely impresses you — the one you'd miss most if it disappeared tomorrow? Does your IWMS system anticipate auto-abstract and auto-populate contract-based datasets, automate bill payments and flag ma…