A common refrain we heard at CREtech's well-attended gathering of the proptech tribe in NYC this week is that the proptech universe is "filled with solutions looking for a problem."

The CREtech 2022 confab showcased a proliferation of SaaS-oriented data integration platforms that are gaining wide acceptance as essential tools to manage CRE portfolios and operations—and to glean real-time analytics of the performance of both—all from a dashboard you can access with the device in your pocket.

But when the conversation turned to problems that are desperately looking for solutions—like how to speed up and reduce the cost of construction deliveries, say, or where we find the yellow brick road that leads directly to decarbonization—the data-crunching gurus turn their 8 Ball over and it says: "That's a really good opportunity for proptech!"