Highlights from NYC Real Estate Tech Week 2025
NYC Real Estate Week 2025 underscored a defining shift in the industry’s evolution—where AI, innovation, and collaboration are accelerating real estate’s transformation.
NYC Real Estate Week exists to unite our city’s brightest minds to pioneer strategies, technologies, and innovations shaping the future of global real estate.
What began nearly a decade ago as an intimate industry gathering has since evolved into a global platform—one that convenes leading owners, operators, developers, executives, and tech entrepreneurs to advance innovation across the built world.
This year marked a particularly pivotal moment for our ecosystem, as the real estate industry navigates an unprecedented wave of AI-driven transformation and operational reinvention. At MetaProp, we’re proud to help power this momentum and grateful to the community driving it forward.
We’re proud to partner with CREtech — Michael Beckerman, Lindsey Imperatore, Kyle Hall, and their team — whose unwavering commitment to this mission helped make this week a record-breaking success. Their leadership continues to cement New York City as the global hub of real estate innovation. For those who couldn’t attend or want to relive the week, here’s a look at a few highlights:
MetaProp Annual General Meeting & LP Dinner
To kick off the week, we brought together our global community of Limited Partners, portfolio founders, and industry leaders to share insights on the trends, challenges, and emerging opportunities in real estate and technology.
MetaProp is dedicated to building impactful relationships that empower our investors, portfolio, and team to collectively drive the long-term resilience of the built world. Our AGM is a direct reflection of this mission. We're deeply grateful for the continued trust of our LPs and energized by the boundless potential within our portfolio and the broader tech ecosystem. Thank you to our many speakers for their insights and contributions:
- Greg Schwartz (Tomo)
- Landon Cooley (Pest Share)
- Andrew Borovsky (Rent App)
- Hiro Kawashima (H2 Corporation)
- Mike Delprete
CREtech New York
CREtech New York once again served as the anchor of Real Estate Week, drawing thousands to the Javits Center for two days of high-impact programming and deal-making. With a deep agenda built around real business outcomes—featuring curated 1:1 meetings and executive-led panels—this year’s event captured the intensity and opportunity of a market in transition.
Here are several of the notable panels and sessions that stood out:
- Real Estate Tech’s Next Investment Frontiers: MetaProp VP Jackson Feder joined investors from JLL Spark, Fifth Wall, and Stackpoint to discuss what innovation categories VCs are paying close attention to for the year ahead.
- The State of the CRE Marketplace: Featuring senior executives from Tanger Inc., Bozzuto, Link Logistics Real Estate, Ares Management and PGIM Real Estate.
- Strategies from the Leading Corporate Occupiers: Featuring leaders from IBM, Oracle and The Cigna Group exploring how the built world is adapting to hybrid work, digital transformation and shifting occupier demands.
- Powering AI, Digital Innovation & the Transformation of Multifamily Operations: Led by AvalonBay Communities executives Sean Breslin, Rukevbe Esi, Lisa Bongardt.
- Smart Construction: Building Faster, Cleaner, Smarter: Featuring senior leaders from Prologis Ventures, Suffolk Technologies, RXR and The Durst Organization.
- Building Healthy & Sustainable Spaces While Achieving Measurable ROI: Featuring voices from Jamestown LP, Tishman Speyer Properties and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
MetaProp Labs: Nordic AI in Real Estate Lunch & Learn
MetaProp Labs co-founder Marko Pavlovic joined a private lunch & learn hosted by PropTech Sweden at the Consulate General of Sweden in New York with leading Nordic real estate companies. The group explored how AI is transforming real estate operations and what best practices from the U.S. can be adapted globally. One theme kept surfacing: the biggest barrier isn't just AI adoption, it's data integration and organizational change.
AI x Built World Dinner
Co-hosted with F-Prime, MetaProp, and Fifth Wall, this dinner brought together investors and AI-native startup founders building solutions for every real estate asset type. The evening served as a forum for cross-sector dialogue on how AI is reshaping operations, design, and construction.
JP Morgan 270 Park Development Tour
JPMorgan Chase’s new global headquarters at 270 Park Avenue served as the backdrop for a behind-the-scenes tour of one of the world’s most ambitious real estate developments. Designed with sustainability and innovation at its core, the tour offered insights into the building’s LEED Platinum aspirations and forward-thinking workplace strategy. Thank you to our hosts, JP Morgan, for showing our team and valued Limited Partners a look at NYC's largest all-electric tower.
Women Leaders Real Estate AI Roundtable
This roundtable brought together senior women executives leading AI adoption across real estate. The conversation explored real-world implementation, ethical frameworks, and pathways to more inclusive innovation—reinforcing the critical role of diverse leadership in shaping the future.
LMRE & CREtech PropTech Run in Central Park + Poker Night
Operators, investors, and tech founders joined LMRE and CREtech for a networking run that blended energy, connection, and conversation in Central Park. LMRE then hosted an evening of competition and connection at LMRE and MetaProp’s third annual Poker & PropTech Night.
MetaProp Padel Invitational
A spirited afternoon of competition and connection, MetaProp GP Zach Aarons hosted a Padel Invitational that welcomed our portfolio company founders, team members, and community.
CRE TechWalk
Participants joined a guided architectural and technology tour through the city’s evolving urban landscape. The CRE TechWalk offered a tangible look at how physical spaces are adapting to meet the demands of the modern world.
The Hardy Group’s Radical Innovation Competition
This year’s Radical Innovation Competition, hosted by The Hardy Group, spotlighted boundary-pushing ideas in hospitality and the built environment. The finalists demonstrated how bold thinking can redefine user experience, sustainability, and design impact.
NYC Real Estate Week 2025 marked a clear inflection point: real estate’s innovation curve is steepening, and industry leaders are leaning in with renewed urgency. Thank you to everyone who made this week a record-breaking success.
See you in 2026!