A proptech platform — a property listing app, rental marketplace, home-loan aggregator or property management SaaS — is a data fiduciary under the DPDP Act 2023 because it collects digital personal data at scale: user profiles, location, KYC, financial details and behavioural data. Its obligations include a clear consent-based notice, secure storage, honouring data principal rights (access, correction, erasure), and processor agreements with every vendor and API partner it shares data with. This checker evaluates a proptech product against the core DPDP requirements and highlights the gaps that matter most for a digital-first business.
Listing apps, rental marketplaces, loan aggregators and property SaaS collect data at scale. Check whether your product meets DPDP consent, sharing, storage and rights obligations.
Proptech products sit at the intersection of the most data-hungry parts of real estate and the most scrutinised parts of digital business. A property listing app, rental marketplace or loan aggregator typically collects identity data, financial details, location, and behavioural signals, then shares much of it with banks, agents, analytics providers and ad networks. Under the DPDP Act 2023, the platform is a data fiduciary and must obtain valid consent for each purpose, provide a clear notice, secure the data, honour data principal rights, and hold processing agreements with every partner it shares data with.
Because proptech is digital-first, the Data Protection Board's own digital-first process makes these products easy to scrutinise: consent flows, notices and data-sharing practices are all visible in the product itself. A bundled Terms & Conditions consent, an absent rights flow, or undocumented third-party sharing are the kinds of gaps that surface quickly in a complaint. Niti Bharat works with proptech teams to design consent, notice and rights flows into the product rather than bolting them on after the fact.
The DPDP Rules 2025 were notified in November 2025, and full enforcement is expected around May 2027 — a window that lets proptech teams build compliance into their roadmap rather than scramble later. The highest-value moves are architectural: a granular consent layer, a self-service rights flow, encryption and access controls by default, and a standing set of data processing agreements. Retrofitting these after a product has scaled is far more expensive than designing them in early.
Platforms processing personal data at large scale or handling sensitive financial data should also assess whether they may be designated a Significant Data Fiduciary, which adds obligations such as appointing a Data Protection Officer, running Data Protection Impact Assessments, and undergoing independent audits. Niti Bharat's fixed-price DPDP engagements help proptech companies sequence this work — mapping data flows, closing product gaps, and putting vendor contracts in place — on a defined timeline and budget.
A product-focused PDF covering consent flow design, a data principal rights workflow, a third-party data-sharing register, and the security controls a proptech platform is expected to have.
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