Prestigious Annual Awards Program Recognizes Breakthrough Innovation in the Global Real Estate Technology Industry
DES MOINES, Iowa, August 13, 2025 – BH Management Services (BH), a Pretium company and one of the nation’s premier property management platforms in multifamily, student, and single-family housing, today announced that BH Align has been selected for a “Property Management Innovation Award” by PropTech Breakthrough, a leading independent market intelligence organization that evaluates and recognizes the world’s most innovative real estate technology companies and solutions.
BH Align is an in-house budgeting and financial reporting solution for the company’s multifamily and build-to-rent (BTR) portfolio that unifies the property budgeting process. BH’s Budget Analytics Team uses history, data, and math to create each property’s budget, and then reviews those budgets with on-site teams and clients. During this process, Align focuses on the uniqueness of each of the 330 properties to help create realistic budgets.
Benefits of BH Align:
- Significantly speeds up the budget review process
- Brings uniformity to each client’s budget and reduces the need for a larger team
- Saves notes and feedback throughout the process, providing easy-to-reference documentation
- Based on company strategy and goals, the budget team can check for budget discrepancies during the creation phase
“It’s an honor to be singled out by PropTech Breakthrough for the Property Management Innovation Award,” said Joanna Zabriskie, President & CEO. “With BH Align, the final product is a budget we all feel confident using as a benchmark for our performance. We’ll continue to deliver in-house solutions that add value for our teams and clients.”
The PropTech sector is rapidly redefining how people buy, sell, manage, and experience real estate, transforming one of the world’s largest asset classes. From AI-driven property insights and digital transaction platforms to smart building technologies and sustainability solutions, PropTech is delivering greater efficiency, transparency and sustainability.
The mission of the annual PropTech Breakthrough Awards program is to shine a spotlight on the innovators and trailblazers who are not only keeping pace with this dynamic industry – but actively driving it forward. By conducting one of the PropTech industry’s most rigorous evaluations of technology companies and solutions, reviewing thousands of award nominations each year, PropTech Breakthrough aims to inspire further innovation and help propel the real estate industry into a smarter, more connected and sustainable future.
“BH Align is a highly efficient proprietary one-stop budgeting and financial reporting solution. The property budgeting process for management companies like BH can take up significant time while also causing stress across teams,” said Bryan Vaughn, Managing Director of PropTech Breakthrough Awards. “BH’s in-house solution, BH Align, speeds up the process and gives clients confidence in each budget. This solution is an incredible breakthrough, through its multiple time-saving benefits, enhancing efficiency and accuracy, and overall reduction in stress for all stakeholders.”
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About BH Management Services
BH is a people-first multifamily owner and operator that grew from a small startup into one of the nation’s largest commercial real estate companies. Founded in 1993, BH is celebrated for its simple commitment to doing business the right way and investing in its team. Today, BH manages approximately 107,000 units, employs 2,800 people, and owns its processes in-house. Powered by innovation and a can-do attitude, BH improves daily, striving to construct a smarter way to live, invest, manage, and grow. For more information, visit livebh.com.
About PropTech Breakthrough
Part of Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for global technology innovation and leadership, the PropTech Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in technologies, services, companies and products that empower remote work and distributed teams around the globe. The PropTech Breakthrough Awards program provides a forum for public recognition around the achievements of technology companies and solutions in categories including messaging & communication, project management, virtual events, team collaboration, virtual offices, collaborative design and more. For more information, visit PropTechBreakthrough.com.
Tech Breakthrough LLC does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in our recognition programs, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with award designations. Tech Breakthrough LLC recognition consists of the opinions of the Tech Breakthrough LLC organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Tech Breakthrough LLC disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this recognition program, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.