Property Forum is inviting its readers to select the winner of one of its CEE Property Forum Awards. Voting for the PropTech of the Year category is now open and closes on Friday morning (22 November, 10:00 CET).
CEE Property Forum Awards celebrate the best projects, most impactful transactions and most inspiring personalities of the CEE real estate market. Our team has received a record number of nominations so narrowing the list down was not an easy task. The shortlist has already been announced and winners of all the other categories have been selected soon by a jury committee comprising leading real estate professionals. The recipients will be announced at our CEE Property Forum Awards Gala on 25 November in Vienna, part of our annual CEE Property Forum conference.
Meet this year's nominees for PropTech of the Year
We're displaying the ten shortlisted nominees in alphabetical order, alongside a snippet of their nomination submission. The texts have been edited for clarity.
Bidrento (Estonia)
Bidrento is available across various CEE countries, supporting multiple languages, currencies, and rental real estate management workflows. In terms of solutions and functionality, Bidrento is comparable to established and expensive software providers like Yardi and SAP, but it offers greater flexibility, includes its own Tenant app, and is much more affordable for real estate companies. Backed by the founders of Pipedrive and Bolt, as well as Morgan Stanley Bank, Bidrento provides powerful tools for professional and institutional landlords.
Bright Spaces (Romania)
Bright Spaces is the AI-powered 3D digital twin platform that helps real estate stakeholders plan, repurpose, and lease spaces with improved clarity and speed. With over 2 million sqm of digital twins created across office, residential, and industrial sectors, their solutions are utilised in 12 countries and across four continents. Bright Spaces allows developers and brokers to showcase properties more dynamically, understand demand patterns, and optimise marketing efforts.
Budovan (Czech Republic)
Budovan is tackling the office industry's long-standing challenge of efficient workspace utilization and user-centric convenience. With seamless integration of cutting-edge technologies — from mobile and parking access to space booking with calendar synchronization, room controls linked to building management systems, and digital concierge services — all housed within a single, intuitive mobile app, Budovan transforms user interactions within office environments. The app even includes advanced wayfinding via digital twin technology, enabling effortless navigation.
iREMS International AG (Switzerland / Hungary)
The iREMS Platform provides clear visuals on a real estate investment portfolio through its 'Financial Data Highway'. The platform collects, automates and delivers the relevant financial information for the various stakeholders of the entire real estate investment value chain. Based upon a Unified Data Model, serving as the backbone of the system, iREMS enables data-driven decision-making from a single source of truth.
ParkingAround (Slovakia)
ParkingAround is a pioneering holistic smart-share platform that focuses on optimizing parking, setting it apart as the only service of its kind in the market within residential developments. It uses IoT sensors to provide real-time parking availability, enhancing urban mobility by reducing traffic and emissions, offering residents flexibility, security and automated monetization of their parking assets. Its innovative approach is a subscription-based added-value model with no financial burden of implementation to the developer, helping to share unused parking spaces, and creating a scalable and sustainable solution for both developers and residents.
Paulinyi & Partners Innovations (Hungary)
Relying on a data-driven decision support system, Paulinyi & Partners Innovations strives to optimize investments so that buildings are not only the most beautiful but also the most efficient. There is no more lost information. It strives for transparency beyond the design phase throughout the project's lifecycle, from urban planning concepts to implementation and retrofitting. Through automated processes and generative algorithms, it is possible to run a large number of scenarios, modelling not only geometric processes but also factors that affect the return on investment.
PlanRadar (Austria)
PlanRadar is a leading platform for digital documentation, communication and reporting in construction, facility management and real estate projects. It enables customers to work more efficiently, enhance quality and achieve full project transparency. By improving collaboration and providing access to real-time data, PlanRadar’s easy-to-use platform adds value to every person involved in a building’s lifecycle, with flexible capabilities for all company sizes and processes.
R8 Technologies (Estonia)
R8 Technologies is a leading AI technology company that helps commercial real estate operate efficiently and decarbonize and manages 4 million sqm across Europe, including office and public buildings, shopping malls, hotels, etc. Its flagship product, R8 Digital Operator Jenny, is a powerful data-driven, human-centric AI solution that enhances building automation systems (BMS) by autonomously optimizing HVAC systems, running 24/7, constantly learning buildings' dynamics, and accounting for external factors.
Realpad (Czech Republic)
Realpad exists to make buying and selling newly built homes an excellent experience. The product suite streamlines and digitizes the sales and aftersales operations of residential real estate developers, with a focus on customer-facing processes. These include everything from inventory management and CRM to financial management, snagging, and the warranty period. Their vision is a world in which Realpad leads European real estate developers to provision excellent customer experience efficiently.
sigtree Technologies (Romania)
sigtree offers tools that make micro-leasing scalable and profitable for asset managers. The platform simplifies leasing by automating workflows, consolidating tenant data, and providing real-time portfolio insights, thus reducing time spent on routine tasks, improving tenant relations, and enabling data-driven decisions. They address the challenge of efficiently managing small, flexible office spaces—a gap in traditional systems designed for large tenants.
workcloud24 (Germany)
workcloud24 is a leading ESG monitoring platform and one-stop shop for ESG compliance services and decarbonizing technology for standing assets across DACH and CEE. The company helps owners and tenants to meet ESG criteria and to ensure a sustainable and profitable operation. workcloud24 is dedicated to the principles of value management and value engineering, to make companies' journey to ESG compliance a success.
