Industry

Microsoft solutions for Real Estate

Property, tenants, and transactions, on an estate that grows by acquisition.

Context

What this sector is dealing with

Real estate and property businesses handle high value transactions and tenant data, often across entities that were acquired rather than built. The result is a Microsoft estate with several tenants, several ways of doing things, and no single view of anything.

We consolidate that estate, secure the transaction and tenant data inside it, and put the property and client information somewhere it can be worked with.

Pressures

The problems we get called in for

Growth by acquisition

Every acquisition brings another Microsoft tenant, another way of working, and another set of security gaps.

High value transaction fraud

Completion payment redirection is a well-known attack on this sector, and it targets email.

Tenant and client data

Personal and financial data across leases and transactions, with retention obligations attached.

Distributed sites and agents

Branch offices and agents on the move, on devices of varying provenance.

Microsoft solutions

What Microsoft brings to real estate

The products that genuinely apply to this sector, and what each one is actually for here. Much of this sits inside licensing you may already hold.

Microsoft Defender XDR

Defender for Office 365 is the direct answer to completion fraud: impersonation protection, anti-phishing policy, and safe links against the emails that redirect a payment. Endpoint and identity protection sit behind it.

Microsoft 365

Tenant consolidation is usually the first real project after an acquisition, bringing mailboxes, files, and Teams onto one estate with one set of policies. Exchange Online transport rules and external sender warnings do quiet, useful work here.

Microsoft Entra ID

One identity across the consolidated group, with Conditional Access covering agents on the move and B2B for the solicitors, surveyors, and brokers who need access without an account.

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Sales and Customer Service for client and tenant relationships, with Business Central where property finance needs to sit close to operations.

Microsoft Purview

Classification, DLP, and retention for lease, transaction, and tenant data, with eDiscovery for the disputes that arrive years later.

Microsoft Power BI

Portfolio, occupancy, and pipeline reporting across entities that previously each reported their own way.

How we help

Typical engagements in this sector

The projects we are most often brought in to deliver for real estate, from full implementations to targeted uplifts.

01

Tenant consolidation after acquisition

Mailboxes, files, and Teams migrated onto one estate with one policy set and no long tail of leftovers.

02

Payment fraud hardening

Defender for Office 365 impersonation protection, anti-phishing policy, and external sender warnings tuned to the completion fraud pattern.

03

Dynamics 365 CRM implementation

Sales and Customer Service for client and tenant relationships, built on data your team will actually keep current.

04

Power BI portfolio reporting

Occupancy, portfolio, and pipeline reporting across entities that previously each reported their own way.

Compliance

Frameworks that shape the work

These are the frameworks and regulations we most often design against in real estate. We map Microsoft controls to the framework you are actually held to, and build the evidence trail as we go rather than reconstructing it the week before an audit.

GDPR

GDPR and UK GDPR

Lawful handling of personal data, with real duties around retention, subject access, and breach notification timelines.

ISO

ISO 27001

The information security management standard most enterprise buyers and auditors ask for by name. It wants a system, not a set of tools.

AML

Anti-money laundering requirements

Duties to verify who you are dealing with and to keep the records that prove you did.

CE+

Cyber Essentials Plus

A UK baseline that is independently tested, and increasingly a condition of winning public sector and enterprise contracts.

Working in real estate? Let us look at your estate.

Book a discovery call and we will walk through what you already own, what is switched on, and where the gaps are that matter in your sector.