Conventional real estate education emphasises the application of knowledge from disciplines such as economics, law, finance, accounting, construction and architecture. While the emphasis has merit, the efficacy of such application is subject to the development of a discipline. One notable case is adopting financial technologies (or FinTech) in real estate. When the research on FinTech applications on artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud computing, and big data (ABCD) is still relatively immature, adopting those new practices and theories cannot be straightforward. How to prepare our next generation with creative thinking, innovation and a risk-taking attitude to embrace the rapid transformation to an innovation-based economy is therefore critical. In this study, we advocate that the case study method is an effective teaching pedagogy that enables students to learn from analysing real cases and applying knowledge from such a complex discipline in real estate. By “stating and comparing opinions and learning from the differences and similarities,” The method helps students acquire new information to establish new practices and theories in the FinTech application in real estate. This study is a teaching reflection on adopting the case study method in an undergraduate Property Technology (PropTech) course. The case contains problem statements of FinTech applications in real estate markets. A discussion forum is used to encourage peer discussion on innovative solutions to the problem. Students are required to use real business cases to analyse how FinTech is good or bad at solving real estate problems. Discussions with lecturers and peer reviews enable students to wrestle with the knowledge they learn and encourage a knowledge co-creation atmosphere. Exemplars of the case studies are also published on social media such as Linkedin and Medium to share their findings on the latest knowledge of PropTech. The student evaluations of the course are positive and promising; the experience provides a novel knowledge co-creation model of teaching creative thinking.