Author: Omobolanle Adekola

As artificial intelligence adoption accelerates across South Africa’s property and real estate sector, industry voices are warning that enthusiasm for the technology is outpacing the governance needed to manage it safely. The real estate sector handles some of the country’s most sensitive data and highest-value transactions: conveyancing and transfer instructions, tenant and applicant records containing personal and financial information protected under the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), and lease documents carrying significant legal and financial weight. A single manipulated payment instruction, or one exposed applicant file, can cost the equivalent of a year’s technology budget and expose it to…