Riyadh is turning property into a technology story. When Cityscape Global 2025 opens November 17 at the Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Center in Malham, developers, investors, and PropTech startups will meet on the same floor to trade code, data, and deals.
The four-day event, backed by the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing, has become the main stage for Saudi Arabia’s $3.3 trillion real-estate pipeline under Vision 2030. Organizers are leaning on technology this year—an expanded PropTech Innovators Zone, an AI & PropTech Forum, and a PropTech Hackathon offering a $100,000 prize for early-stage ventures.
Startups will show tools already shaping the region’s skyline—AI-driven digital twins for megaprojects, blockchain registries for property titles, and IoT systems for building automation. Many are targeting Saudi Arabia’s fast-moving giga-developments like NEOM and New Murabba, where digital modeling and real-time data are embedded into design and construction.
Foreign-ownership reforms have opened new corridors for PropTech. Platforms offering digital escrow, AI-based verification, and cross-border transaction management are drawing attention from regional venture funds. Gulf investors are tracking startups able to plug into public-sector projects or digitize housing markets in line with regulatory change.
Cityscape will serve as a match-point. Dedicated networking zones and demo stages let founders pitch to developers and institutional backers. Exhibitors span AI-driven facility management, 3D mapping, predictive maintenance, and cloud leasing platforms. The goal is speed—compressing development cycles with data, not blueprints.
Venture activity in PropTech across the Gulf has risen steadily, buoyed by state-linked accelerators and sandbox programs testing smart-city integrations. Saudi initiatives such as the National Real Estate Digital Services Center and private-sector incubators are feeding the pipeline of startups now reaching scale.
Cityscape’s attendance is expected to top 180,000, with more than 20 countries represented. For founders, the show offers capital and contracts in the same room. For the Kingdom, it marks another step in wiring the world’s newest property market for data.
Saudi Arabia’s real estate turns digital ahead of Cityscape2025