Property Connect Alliance at OrangeTee & Tie
Also written PCA, PCA OrangeTee
Property Connect Alliance (PCA) is a group of agent teams inside OrangeTee & Tie, started by Lawrence Tan in December 2017. EdgeProp reported in October 2019 that it had 1,581 agents; PropKaki has found no later figure.
What is Property Connect Alliance in OrangeTee?
Property Connect Alliance is a group of agent teams inside OrangeTee & Tie, started by Lawrence Tan in December 2017. Its agents are licensed under OrangeTee & Tie, CEA licence L3009250K.
Lawrence Tan started PCA to build a team that offers its agents ready resources and opportunities, EdgeProp reported in 2019. It brings together veteran leaders, some with 10 to 30 years or more in the market, with newer agents they mentor.[1]
PCA began four months after OrangeTee & Tie itself was formed, in August 2017, from the merger of OrangeTee's and Edmund Tie's agents' businesses.
How many agents does Property Connect Alliance have?
EdgeProp reported in October 2019 that Property Connect Alliance had 1,581 agents. PropKaki has found no later published figure.
The one published size, 1,581, comes from EdgeProp's October 2019 profile, less than two years after PCA started.[1]
OrangeTee & Tie as a whole has shrunk since: it had 2,803 salespersons in February 2025 and about 2,567 in June 2026, by EdgeProp's and The Business Times' counts of CEA's register. PCA's size today is not known.[2]
| When | Size claimed | Who said it |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 2019 | 1,581 agents | EdgeProp reports that Property Connect Alliance has 1,581 agents.[1] |
Sizes are the group's own claims. CEA's register records the agency an agent is licensed with, not the group, and divisions inside a group are counted again in its total.
Who founded Property Connect Alliance?
Lawrence Tan, a senior associate executive director at OrangeTee, started Property Connect Alliance in December 2017, EdgeProp reported in 2019. He had then been in real estate for close to 20 years.
EdgeProp's 2019 profile says Tan had close to 20 years in the industry, putting his start around 1999, and that he founded PCA in December 2017.[1]
No other source PropKaki read covers PCA's founding or Tan's earlier career.
Who leads Property Connect Alliance today?
Lawrence Tan led it when EdgeProp profiled it in 2019, with Jeffrey Sim, an OrangeTee senior vice-president known as a landed-property specialist, among its veteran leaders. PropKaki has found no later source on its leadership.
EdgeProp's 2019 profile names Tan as PCA's founder and Sim as one of its veterans. Sim's title, senior vice-president, is an agency-level role at OrangeTee.[1]
If a later source names PCA's leaders, they will be added here with the date.
- Lawrence Tan[1]Founder
Senior Associate Executive Director, in 2019 · what this title means
Close to 20 years in real estate by 2019.
CEA profile R013482E · 24 deals on CEA's record. A leader's own count can be low, because the title reflects building a team.
- Jeffrey Sim[1]Veteran leader
Senior Vice-President, OrangeTee, in 2019 · what this title means
Landed-property specialist.
How has Property Connect Alliance grown?
Property Connect Alliance grew from its start in December 2017 to 1,581 agents by October 2019, EdgeProp reported. No later figure has been published.
PCA's published history is short: its start in December 2017 and its size less than two years later, both from EdgeProp's 2019 profile.[1]
Its agency changed around it: OrangeTee & Tie merged with ETC under Realion Group in 2025, and agreed in July 2026 to take in eligible salespersons from Knight Frank's KF Property Network.[2]
Who has joined or left Property Connect Alliance?
PropKaki has found no published report of a leader or division leaving Property Connect Alliance, or of the group moving agency.
How do you join Property Connect Alliance?
Agents join Property Connect Alliance by joining OrangeTee & Tie through one of its leaders. EdgeProp reported in 2019 that its learning and development team ran training every week, and that it had its own legal counsel to advise agents.
There is no application to PCA as such: a new agent registers with OrangeTee & Tie through a leader. EdgeProp's 2019 profile describes weekly training covering landed, commercial and industrial property, an in-house app with session materials and calculators, and an in-house legal team.[1]
The profile describes mentoring by veteran leaders as the centre of how new agents are brought on.[1]
Before you join any group, read what to ask when joining a property agency, and check the leader's own record on their CEA profile.
How does Property Connect Alliance compare with other groups?
Property Connect Alliance's 1,581 agents (October 2019) compare with AAG, OrangeTee's other large group, whose careers page counts more than 3,000 people recruited over 12 years. Navis, at OrangeTee from 2017 to 2021, had more than 800 in 2018. Each is the group's own count.
Inside OrangeTee, AAG's careers page counts more than 3,000 people recruited over 12 years from 2012, and Navis Living Group had more than 800 in March 2018, 99.co reported, before it moved to Huttons.[5],[6]
The figures are each group's own count, taken in different years, so this is a list of similar groups, not a ranking.
Common questions about Property Connect Alliance
Who founded Property Connect Alliance?
Lawrence Tan, a senior associate executive director at OrangeTee, started Property Connect Alliance in December 2017, EdgeProp reported in 2019.
How many agents are in Property Connect Alliance?
EdgeProp reported 1,581 agents in October 2019. PropKaki has found no later figure.
How many agents are in OrangeTee & Tie?
OrangeTee & Tie has 2,660 agents on CEA's register, by PropKaki's count from CEA's public records. CEA records the agency an agent is licensed with, not the group, so Property Connect Alliance's share of them is not on record.
Where do these facts come from?
6 dated sources, each re-read by PropKaki. Last checked 6 November 2026.
- [1]EdgeProp, OrangeTee's Property Connect Alliance taps tech and mentors to groom new talent, 4 Oct 2019. Checked 6 November 2026.
- [2]The Business Times (via Tabla), Consolidation continues among property agencies, 28 Jul 2026. Checked 6 November 2026.
- [3]EdgeProp (via Yahoo Finance), OrangeTee aspires to be third-largest real estate agency, 17 Jun 2017. Checked 6 November 2026.
- [4]EdgeProp, Huttons Asia claims its place among the Big Three agencies, 6 Jan 2022. Checked 6 November 2026.
- [5]OrangeTee & Tie, Career seminar: AAG, Undated (read Nov 2026). Checked 6 November 2026.
- [6]99.co, Property agent success stories: Navis Living Group, 16 Mar 2018. Checked 6 November 2026.
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