Top Real Estate Startups in 2027

Knock is a caring group of people who came together from across the industry with the belief there had to be a better way to serve people in the journey between homes. We offer a first-of-its-kind Knock Bridge Loan™ that gives everyone in the process more convenience, certainty, and competitiveness. Founded in 2015, we have earned the industry’s trust: an A+ Better Business Bureau rating and relationships with more than 120,000 real estate agents in our 75 markets across the US. Launched by founding team members of Trulia, we are funded by industry leading investors, including Foundry Group, Greycroft, RRI, Parker89, and The National Association of Realtors who serves 1.6 million members. We’re most proud of the stories from people we’ve helped get their new home, and the five star Zillow rating from over 750 reviews. To learn more, Knock.com

We’re the essential technology platform used by hundreds of thousands of homebuyers and sellers to partner with top real estate agents and win at any step of the real estate journey — whether that’s finding a top agent, securing a competitive mortgage, or ensuring on-time, easy close. Every year, we facilitate billions of dollars of real estate on our platform. HomeLight empowers people to achieve better outcomes during one of life’s most important events: buying or selling their home. Our vision is a world where every real estate transaction is simple, certain, and satisfying.

Roofstock is a company that allows people to invest in real estate in an easy and simple way. we offer our users the opportunity to invest in single family rental properties at a low price point. we guarantee above average returns for all of our users. add another revenue stream and allow your money to work for you.

Founded in 2017, Neighbor is a peer-to-peer self-storage company based in the Silicon Slopes of Lehi, Utah. The company connects people who have unused space in their homes, garages or apartments to renters who are looking for affordable storage. Neighbor benefits renters by providing safer, more accessible storage for half the price of a traditional self-storage unit, while giving hosts the opportunity to earn thousands of dollars per year from their empty space. Neighbor's team helps keep the connection safe, easy and friendly and provides an unprecedented $25,000 renter guarantee for items stored and a $1 million host liability guarantee so that good neighbors everywhere can help each other out. Learn more about Neighbor at neighbor.com.

Founded with a mission to revolutionize commercial real estate through innovation, VTS is the industry's leading leasing and asset management platform. By centralizing all of their critical data and workflows in one place, VTS empowers landlords and brokers to better attract, convert and retain their most valuable asset – tenants. Over 7 billion square feet is managed on the VTS platform by a user base exceeding 28,000. The firm's client roster comprises global commercial real estate leaders including Boston Properties, Beacon Capital Partners, Equity Office, LaSalle Investment Management, Hines, JLL and CBRE.

Cher® is revolutionizing real estate by empowering Realtors and homebuyers through innovation, education, and cutting-edge tools. As the first-to-market leader in co-ownership and gamified homebuyer education, we’re transforming the industry with engaging platforms that reward Realtors and homebuyers for progress and achievement. For Realtors, Cher® offers warm leads, personalized marketing resources, and opportunities to grow their business while earning rewards through our unique gamification system. For homebuyers, we simplify the path to homeownership with tailored courses, expert guidance, and co-ownership solutions, making real estate more accessible and exciting. At Cher®, we blend technology, education, and collaboration to create opportunities for success, rewarding milestones along the way. Join us in transforming the real estate experience for Realtors, homebuyers, and communities alike.

PermitFlow is redefining how America builds. We’re an applied AI company serving the nation’s builders, tackling one of the largest information challenges in the economy: understanding what can be built, where, and how. Our AI agent workforce helps the fastest-growing construction companies navigate everything from permitting and licensing to inspections and project closeouts – accelerating housing, clean-energy, and infrastructure development across the country. Despite being a $1.6T industry, construction still suffers from massive delays, wasted capital, and lost opportunity. PermitFlow has already delivered unprecedented speed, accuracy, and visibility to over $20B in development, helping contractors reduce compliance time, de-risk projects, and scale with confidence. America is entering a CAPEX super-cycle, from data centers and factories to housing and renewables, and joining PermitFlow is building the AI at the heart of every construction project powering the next wave of re-industrialization. We’ve raised over $90M, most recently completing our Series B, from top-tier investors including Accel, Kleiner Perkins, Initialized, Y Combinator, Felicis, and Altos Ventures, with backing from leaders at OpenAI, Google, Procore, ServiceTitan, Zillow, PlanGrid, and Uber.

Orchard is transforming the way people buy and sell their homes. Simplifying it, to the way it should have always been; fair and true to market, straightforward, easy. Every year in the U.S., $1.5 trillion of single-family residences transact, generating over $120 billion of fees in a process that has changed little in decades. For the average American, the home purchase and sale process takes months, creates anxiety and is filled with uncertainty and hassle. Orchard offers a modern alternative, making one of life's biggest decisions – the sale and purchase of a home – stress-free, fair and simple. Orchard launched in 2017 and was previously known as Perch. The company is headquartered in New York City, has 200+ employees and has grown 10x year over year. We have raised over $300 million in financing from top tier investors including: Firstmark, Accomplice, Navitas, and Juxtapose.

We have created a brand new class of financial product - an "Obligo". It is something between a security deposit and a pre-auth (billing authorization). Our platform is solving a huge problem for both tenants and landlords, and the demand is out of this world. The conditions are ripe for Obligo to become the new industry standard!

AirGarage is repurposing the 30% of real estate in the average American city currently dedicated to parking. We are building a future where real estate is digitized and can be transitioned from one use to another seamlessly on-demand, moving every piece of urban real estate toward its highest and best use. We are starting with the $131 billion US parking real estate market because it is one of the most offline and mismanaged commercial real estate asset types. As a full-stack parking operator, we automate the operation of parking lots and parking garages. We handle everything from advertising to collecting payments from drivers and enforcing against illegal parking. We already operate 150+ parking lots and parking garages across 30 US states and we are growing quickly. We are backed by top tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Floodgate, Founders Fund, and angel investors who have founded or worked at companies like Uber, Opendoor, Flexport, and more.