Roughly 1 in 5 Realtors (22 percent) have faced situations that made them fear for their personal safety or the security of their personal information, according to the National Association of Realtors’ latest member safety research.
Open houses were the most commonly cited trigger. About a third of those Realtors polled (34 percent) pointed to them specifically as the fraught moment when an agent is most likely to be alone with someone whose identity may not have been verified.
That vulnerable moment has built out a real proptech category, not a fringe one. And September’s Realtor Safety Month is prompting a fresh round of rollouts and renewed pitches from vendors already in the space.
7 real estate safety resources agents are using in the field
Here are the real estate safety resources agents are actually adopting, organized by the problem each tool solves:
1. Bond
The newest name in the category, and the one with a news hook: Watson Realty is rolling Bond out to more than 1,000 agents across Florida and Georgia this month, timed to Safety Month.
Through Bond, agents get preventative security tools plus a team of live security professionals who monitor situations in real time and step in before they escalate.
Bond’s existing client list of Apple, Walmart, Disney and Verizon skews toward retail floors and corporate campuses, where a security team can lean on cameras, badge access and a controlled perimeter.
Real estate offers none of that. Agents work alone, in homes they don’t control, with people whose identities often haven’t been verified. This deployment is a bet that the same monitoring model built for stores and office buildings can carry over to an industry with a much rougher physical environment to secure.
2. Tether RE
Tether RE is one of the leading safety and productivity apps built specifically for real estate professionals.
Tether RE bundles many tools agents have cobbled together individually, such as reverse phone and address lookups, criminal background checks, SOS alerts, proximity timers tied to showing appointments and motion-based struggle detection, into one subscription. Plus, the app offers a live monitoring team on the other end of the SOS button.
Last summer, Bright MLS began offering its subscribers discounted access to Tether RE. The deal covered more than 100,000 agents across six states and Washington, D.C.
Tether RE has been steadily adding Realtor association and MLS deals, expanding into five new association markets in the first quarter of 2026 alone.
For Realtor Safety Month, Tether RE co-founder Vanessa Martin is delivering live safety training to agents at five Realtor associations through in-company webinars this September.
Tether RE has also partnered with NAR to make an on-demand Martin webinar available nationwide through the Realtor Store, extending the training beyond this month’s private sessions.
3. Forewarn
Most real estate transactions still start the same way they did decades ago: an agent agreeing to meet a stranger, alone, at a property, based on nothing more than a phone number and a name.
Forewarn, an identity-verification app aimed at that problem, lets agents run a prospect’s phone number or name through a national database and get back an identity, address history, financial red flags and criminal record. Agents can do this all before the appointment, and without pulling any fair-housing-protected information.
Forewarn says it can positively identify more than 80 percent of prospects from a phone number alone, returning results in seconds rather than the minutes a manual background check would take.
Rather than selling primarily to individual agents — Forewarn runs about $20 a month on its own — the company has built its base through Realtor associations, which negotiate bulk pricing and hand the app to members, often for free.
Florida Realtors covers all 238,000 of its members, while Chicago, Hawaii and a string of smaller associations offer it the same way. Several association executives have called it their most-requested member benefit.
4. SentriLock
SentriLock is “the official lockbox solution” of NAR. It’s also a wholly owned NAR subsidiary, a detail the marketing copy tends to soft-pedal. As of 2022, the SentriGuard lockbox and SentriKey app serve more than 400,000 agents through over 350 MLSs and associations.
It pairs Bluetooth property access with SentriKey Showing Service, the scheduling-and-feedback platform SentriLock built in 2021 after Zillow acquired ShowingTime.
That lockbox-plus-showing bundle is the core of SentriLock’s pitch against Supra, its Carrier-owned rival. The two have been in a patent fight since SentriLock sued Supra in 2022 over lockbox technology.
Supra has since launched its own showing app to keep pace, which cuts against the “only platform that combines” claim. Agents can also issue time-limited access through SentriConnect or FlexCodes for contractors and stagers, with real-time alerts when a box gets opened.
5. Real Safe Agent
Real Safe Agent bills itself as a “crime prevention system” rather than a personal-safety app. Their pitch is community-wide participation of agents, brokerages and associations, rather than just an individual panic button.
The system was built on what its founder, behavioral criminologist Lee Goldstein, calls the Collaborative Prevention Model, developed from more than 1,400 hours working directly with violent and sexual offenders.
The idea is to deny predators the setup conditions such as isolation and uncertainty about who else knows an agent’s whereabouts before an attack can happen, rather than reacting once one is underway.
The app has been adopted widely through associations and MLSs. One 2022 deployment figure put usage above 100,000 agents nationally.
Features include Prospect Link and reverse-phone lookup for pre-showing red flags, “Accompany Me” pairing for agents who don’t want to show alone, drop-in requests from nearby colleagues and direct emergency alerts.
Real Safe Brands, the company behind the app, also sells a white-label version to associations and brokerages. It’s a fully branded safety program with the app, training videos, and books, alongside what it calls the industry’s only Fair Housing-compliant background check.
6. See Something Send Something
See Something Send Something isn’t a real estate product. It’s the mobile arm of the Department of Homeland Security’s national “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign.
A company called My Mobile Witness built it, and several states adopted it (New York runs its own branded version) to report suspicious activity tied to terrorism and public-safety threats.
Tips get routed through a state’s Fusion Center — the same intelligence-sharing hubs run by State Police and homeland security offices that handle other public tip lines — rather than to a real estate association or brokerage.
It has no showing timers, no panic button, no live monitoring team, and nothing connecting it to an MLS or brokerage.
My Mobile Witness pitches it to agents as a way to report suspicious activity around a listing or open house, such as a loitering car or someone casing a vacant property, directly to state law enforcement intelligence centers rather than a non-emergency line that may go unanswered.
Several Realtor associations list it on their safety pages for that reason, though it’s a general civic reporting tool rather than something built around the specific risk of an agent meeting a stranger alone at a showing.
7. SolusGuard
SolusGuard’s wearable panic button pairs over Bluetooth with an agent’s phone, letting them trigger an alert — and, if contacts don’t respond, an automatic 911 call — without ever pulling out or unlocking the phone.
The company’s Monitored Events Technology adds a proactive layer. Agents start a timer before working alone and end it when they’re done. If they don’t, the system notifies emergency contacts and, when needed, SolusGuard’s 24/7 monitoring center. A discreet in-app SOS button covers situations where placing a call isn’t an option.
SolusGuard requires a minimum of 10 users per account, so it’s built for brokerage- or association-level rollout, not solo practitioners.
And it isn’t purpose-built for real estate. The Saskatoon, Saskatchewan-based company sells the same wearable-and-monitoring platform to property managers, utilities, home builders and social workers, with real estate treated as one vertical among several rather than the core design target.
