IT and security that protects your client money and your reputation
Estate and letting agents move deposits and rent, hold sensitive landlord and tenant data, and sit right next to conveyancing — which makes you a prime target for payment-redirection and impersonation fraud. We build the security that protects the money and the data.
The problems we solve for estate & letting agents
You move client money
Deposits, rent and completion monies flow through your accounts — and deposit-redirection and bank-detail-change fraud target exactly that. One intercepted email can mean a client's money is gone.
Conveyancing-adjacent fraud aims at you
You sit in the property chain alongside solicitors, so the same impersonation and email-interception attacks aimed at conveyancing land in your inbox too. Email security is a front-line defence, not a nice-to-have.
Tenant & landlord data is your responsibility
You hold ID, financial and referencing data for every applicant and landlord. A breach is a GDPR problem and a reputational one — in a business that runs on trust.
Cyber Essentials is entering property supply chains
Corporate landlords, build-to-rent operators, portals and larger partners increasingly expect certification from the agents they work with. A panel or contract renewal is the worst time to find you're not ready.
How we help
Email & payment-fraud defence
Anti-impersonation, link and attachment protection, and monitoring focused on the deposit-redirection and bank-detail-change fraud aimed at client money.
Cyber Essentials readiness & security baseline
A gap-check against the five Cyber Essentials controls plus a vulnerability report — so you can answer a landlord, portal or partner requirement with evidence.
Client & tenant data protection
The referencing, ID and financial data you're obliged to protect — backed up, access-controlled and recoverable, to UK GDPR.
Managed IT for busy branches
Proactive monitoring and a UK helpdesk that keeps branches, portals and property software running so viewings and lettings don't stall.
We keep the agency stack you already run fast, secure and available — we support it, we don't replace it.
Why Smart Path IT
Cyber Essentials certified
We hold Cyber Essentials ourselves (verifiable via the IASME registry) — the baseline we help you reach is one we live by.
Fraud-defence experience next door in legal
We defend solicitors against the exact conveyancing and client-money fraud that targets agents too — the same playbook protects your branch.
UK-based and responsive
Remote-first and UK-wide, working to UK GDPR, with a partner who picks up when client money is on the line.
Know where your agency actually stands
A qualified review of your IT and security — devices, backups, email security and where client data sits — with a plain-English report in five working days. Fixed price, credited against your first month if you go on to a retainer.
Book a healthcheckFrequently asked questions
Can you help protect us from deposit and completion-money fraud?
Yes — it's a priority. We layer email anti-impersonation, attachment and link protection, and monitoring specifically at the interception and bank-detail-change attacks aimed at the money you move.
Can you support Reapit, Alto and our agency software?
Yes. We support the mainstream property stack — Reapit, Alto, Jupix, Dezrez, Acquaint, Expert Agent and portal feeds — plus Microsoft 365, keeping it fast, secure and backed up.
A landlord or portal is asking for Cyber Essentials — can you help?
Yes. Our free Cyber Essentials gap-check shows where you stand against the five controls with a prioritised fix list. We get you certification-ready; certification itself is issued by an IASME body.
Are you UK-based?
Yes — Smart Path IT is a UK company, remote-first, supporting agents across the UK to UK GDPR.
Protect the money and the data
Start with a free Cyber Essentials gap-check, or book a 20-minute call to talk through your agency's security.