As a real estate agent, or as a broker, your business will steadily go paperless if it isn’t already. Clipboards are replaced by tablets and quick phone calls substitute office time. All this means a change in how you keep your data secure. Locking your filing cabinet just isn’t going to do it anymore, because you might not even have a filing cabinet.  Here are a few ways to keep your office and your customer’s sensitive data safe.

1 – Use Cloud Storage

Small to medium businesses don’t often have the most up to date and high level security antivirus, malware programs and server hardware used by cloud services due to rising costs – both of hardware and software. Onsite servers are at risk of disasters such as fire or floods, mistakes from employees and theft. If your data is in the cloud, you have a ready-made backup and disaster recovery plan that can enable you to get back to work sooner after something goes wrong – for a price you can afford. read more

Since the dramatic fallout of the major economic US recession around 2007, the real estate ecosystem certainly took some major blows. It’s taken years to slowly unwind the damage done and the post-recession effects still hurt. But, as technology evolved and finances stabilized, the real estate industry got a second wind, largely thanks to the steady integration of information technology.

IT in general is tremendously useful. The world is more and more connected with the growth of internet tech, and with major investments from power players like Google to create wireless access points, we’re only getting more connected. This said, the same is for the real estate industry. There are many reasons why it’s so crucial in any modern real estate platform. read more