Managed IT and cybersecurity for real estate brokerages and property managers.
EDG.tech runs IT and security for brokerages, teams, and property managers across Gaithersburg, Rockville, Bethesda, Germantown, Washington, DC, and Frederick: protection against the closing wire fraud that reaches buyers through an agent's email, multi-factor authentication on MLS, transaction, and e-signature logins, and agent devices managed. Complete is $100 per user per month; Essentials is $45 per device per month.
Who this is for
For independent brokerages, franchise offices that run their own technology, high-producing teams, and residential or commercial property management companies of roughly 5 to 150 agents and staff. Agents are often independent contractors on their own devices; we are built for that. National franchisors that provide the full platform are a fit only for what the office still owns.
What is at stake for a brokerage?
Real estate wire fraud took $275 million from victims in 2025
The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center recorded 12,368 real estate fraud complaints and $275 million in losses in 2025, with $124 million of it from victims over 60. The typical case is a buyer who received wiring instructions from an email that looked like their agent's or the title company's, days before closing, and sent the down payment to a criminal.
An agent's inbox is the attacker's way in
Business email compromise accounted for 24,768 complaints and $3.05 billion in losses in 2025. In a brokerage, one agent's compromised mailbox gives the attacker the transaction calendar, the parties, and the perfect moment to send revised instructions, and the agent's name is on the email the buyer trusted.
Client and tenant records are personal information under Maryland law
Lease applications, pre-approval letters, copies of identification, and the CRM full of past clients are personal information under Maryland's Personal Information Protection Act, which requires reasonable security and notice to affected individuals within 45 days of a breach. Property managers hold the most sensitive of it, for years, on behalf of owners.
Source: Maryland Attorney General: PIPA guidelines for businesses
What do Maryland law and your clients' lenders ask of a brokerage?
Real estate has no single data security regulation, and the pressure arrives from the transaction itself. Lenders and title companies increasingly require that wiring instructions never travel by plain email and that parties verify by phone, and brokerages that cannot show a process are the ones named in the lawsuit after a diverted closing. Maryland's Personal Information Protection Act covers client, tenant, and applicant records, with a reasonable-security duty and a 45-day breach notice. Property managers handling tenant screening fall under the Fair Credit Reporting Act's disposal and access rules, and brokerages with in-house mortgage or title affiliates inherit those entities' requirements. Errors-and-omissions and cyber-insurance carriers now ask about email security and wire-fraud procedures specifically. EDG.tech builds the controls, writes the wire-fraud procedure with you, and keeps the evidence that the brokerage did what a reasonable brokerage does.
How does EDG.tech serve real estate brokerages?
The closing, protected from both ends
Email authentication so no one can send mail as your brokerage, impersonation detection on any message about wiring or closing funds, a written wire-fraud warning and verbal-verification procedure that goes to every client at listing or contract, and a quick check we run on a transaction's email chain when something feels off.
Agents on their own devices, still protected
Independent agents keep their phones and laptops; we give them multi-factor authentication on MLS, transaction management, e-signature, and brokerage email, a secure path to shared files, and encryption on the device, and we remove brokerage access the same day an agent moves to another firm, without touching their personal data.
The office that runs itself for a workforce that is never in it
The brokerage's own systems, the back-office accounting, the commission and escrow trust-account software, the printers and conference rooms agents drop in to use, and the broker's and staff's machines are managed and backed up, with remote access that works from an open house or a car.
Onboarding and offboarding at the speed agents move
A new agent has brokerage email, file access, and the right logins the day they sign; a departing agent loses them the day they leave, with their transaction files retained to the broker's record-keeping obligation. Property managers get the same for leasing staff and maintenance coordinators.
Which plan fits a brokerage?
Enterprise-grade managed IT & cybersecurity, fully managed, 24/7.
See EDG.tech CompleteBrokerages and property managers belong on Complete for staff and for the agents the brokerage covers, because the exposure is each person's mailbox and logins, and the 24/7 security operations center is what catches a compromised agent account before closing instructions go out. Essentials fits a small team office with a few shared machines and agents who stay on their own plans.
EDG.tech Essentials is $45 per device per month. Compare both plans
"Nobody wires a down payment because they trust a website. They wire it because they trust their agent's email. Our job is to make sure that email is actually from the agent," says Duane Epperly, founder of EDG.tech.
Real estate IT questions, answered
How do you stop wire fraud on our closings?
Four controls: email authentication so no one can send mail as your brokerage, impersonation detection on messages about wiring or closing funds, a written wire-fraud warning and phone-verification procedure that every client receives early in the transaction, and multi-factor authentication on agent mailboxes so they cannot be taken over. We also train agents to spot the pattern.
Our agents are independent contractors on their own phones. Can you cover them?
Yes. We protect the brokerage's side of their devices, email, MLS, transaction management, and e-signature logins with multi-factor authentication, device encryption, and secure file access, without managing their personal data, and we remove brokerage access the day they leave. The brokerage chooses which agents it covers under the plan.
What does managed IT cost for a brokerage?
EDG.tech Complete is $100 per user per month for the broker, staff, and any agents the brokerage covers, and includes helpdesk, patching, encryption, multi-factor authentication, backup, email and identity protection, and 24/7 monitoring. A brokerage covering 15 people pays $1,500 per month. Essentials is $45 per device per month for a small team office.
Do you support property management companies as well as sales brokerages?
Yes. Property managers hold the most sensitive data in real estate, tenant applications, identification, and owner financials, for years. We secure the property management and accounting systems, encrypt and retention-limit applicant records, protect owner and vendor payments from email fraud, and manage leasing and maintenance staff devices.
Ready for IT you never have to worry about?
Book a free 30-minute consultation, or start with a free security assessment. You get a fixed price within two business days. No pressure, no jargon.