When travelling across the UK and Ireland you can see the exponential growth of cities everywhere you go – often due to the number of cranes in the skyline, a useful proxy for the economic health of an area.

Proptech remains a relatively new term – and one that means many different things to different parts of the real estate industry. Despite this, delivering on the promise of smart building technology remains one of the core pillars of the proptech proposition, using data to optimise the use and increase the value of properties.