Real estate disruption: Eight to watch in 2018

Both residential and commercial estate agents have been hit by a wave of proptech disruption since Purplebricks launched in Australia in late 2016, with The Australian Financial Review calling it the industry's "Uber moment".

The London-listed hybrid agency has to date sold about $1.2 billion of property and signed on more than 100 agents to its fixed-fee offering, spawning a wave of imitators and competitors.