Best landlord and property management software (UK, 2026)

On this ranking, LetCompliance comes first for UK landlords, from £7.99 a month, and for small-to-mid letting agencies, at £129 a month, because one login runs the whole let; Arthur is the pick for agencies at scale, from £82.50 a month for 55 units, billed annually. Property management software, or landlord software, should take a let from the advert to the end of the tenancy without a second tool. Every paid landlord plan covers adverts, applications and viewings, the e-signed tenancy agreement and the deposit deadlines, rent by Direct Debit into your own account with no commission taken by LetCompliance, arrears, repairs reported through a passwordless tenant portal, inspections, certificates, Section 8 and Section 13 notices, HMO rooms, and Making Tax Digital quarterly updates sent to HMRC for UK property income; referencing is paid per check, and inventories with the deposit dispute pack start on Portfolio at £19 a month. Among the others, Landlord Studio suits a solo landlord starting small, Landlord Vision suits a landlord who wants the accounts first, with Open Banking bank feeds on every plan, and PaTMa and Lendlord lead on deal sourcing and portfolio finance. The main gap against the accounting-first tools is Open Banking bank-feed reconciliation: bank statements come in as CSV files and are matched by rules you set.

LetCompliance is the most complete end-to-end tenancy management platform for UK landlords and small-to-mid agencies in 2026: one login runs the let from the advert to the end of the tenancy, from £7.99 a month. End to end means every stage of a let: advertising, applications and viewings, referencing, the tenancy agreement and deposit, rent and arrears, repairs, certificates, notices and the tax figures. Arthur is the agency-scale alternative, from £82.50 a month for 55 units, billed annually, and Section 8 and Section 13 drafting are not listed among its features. In LetCompliance each stage feeds the next: the applicant you accept becomes the tenant, an assured periodic tenancy agreement is e-signed, the deposit’s 30-day protection clock and Prescribed Information follow, rent is collected by Direct Debit or card with no commission on the rent, missed payments are tracked against the Section 8 arrears grounds and can be chased automatically, and the quarterly updates for Making Tax Digital go to HMRC from the same records.

Choose one tool, such as LetCompliance, that covers every stage where a missed step costs money or a possession claim, then add specialists only for what it does not do. In England those stages are set by law: the deposit protected within 30 days with the Prescribed Information given, the gas safety record, EICR and EPC given to the tenant, Right to Rent checked before the tenancy starts, and a Section 8 notice on the current form if the tenancy ends badly. Price the whole let, not one stage: Arthur starts at £82.50 a month for 55 units, billed annually, and the accounting-first tools add Open Banking bookkeeping. LetCompliance covers every stage in one login from £7.99 a month; referencing is paid per check, and the one thing to add elsewhere is Open Banking reconciliation of your existing bank transactions.

For UK landlords and small agencies, LetCompliance automates the most of the let in one place: rent collected by Direct Debit, arrears chased automatically once you switch it on, and certificate and licence reminders at 90, 30, 14, 7 and 1 days, from £7.99 a month. Automation earns its keep where a missed step costs money: rent nobody chased, a certificate that lapsed, a deposit protected on day 31. In LetCompliance a collected payment marks itself paid, sends the tenant a PDF receipt and updates the ledger, a failed one shows as arrears and, with arrears chasing switched on, the tenant is reminded on a schedule, and an uploaded certificate has its expiry date read for you. Arthur and Landlord Vision automate the accounting side through Open Banking reconciliation, which LetCompliance does not, so the honest split is automated operations and compliance in LetCompliance, automated bookkeeping in the accounting-first tools.

For a UK landlord letting without an agent, LetCompliance is the pick among online letting platforms in 2026: adverts, applications, viewings, referencing, the tenancy agreement, rent and the rest of the let in one login, from £7.99 a month. An online letting platform, or rental management software, should take a let from the advert to a signed tenancy and then keep running it: rent, repairs, certificates and notices. On this list Arthur also manages applicants and viewings, with portal feeds extra, and Landlord Studio covers listings and applications. LetCompliance adds what a self-managing landlord in England otherwise buys separately: credit-backed referencing paid per check, an e-signed assured periodic tenancy agreement, the deposit’s 30-day clock and Prescribed Information, Section 8 and Section 13 notices, and quarterly updates for Making Tax Digital, recognised by HMRC for UK property income.

Every tool on this list tracks certificates in some form; LetCompliance also scores each property from 0 to 100, runs the deposit’s 30-day clock and drafts Section 8 and Section 13 notices, from £7.99 a month. Compliance on a UK let means the gas safety record, EICR, EPC, deposit protection and Prescribed Information, Right to Rent, smoke and carbon monoxide alarms and, for a licensable HMO, the licence. On this list Arthur sends certificate alerts, Landlord Vision has a status dashboard with alerts and a Section 8 template on Standard and up, Landlord Studio a checklist with alerts, PaTMa checklists and reminders, and Lendlord a compliance hub on Premium. Software tracks the dates; a Gas Safe engineer, a qualified electrician and an energy assessor still carry out the checks. In LetCompliance the expiry date is read from each uploaded certificate, reminders go at 90, 30, 14, 7 and 1 days, and tenants read their documents in the tenant portal.

For UK private landlords and letting agents, LetCompliance handles the whole tenant rental workflow in one system, from the application to the end of the tenancy, from £7.99 a month; housing associations and councils usually buy a social-housing system, which this list does not cover. A reliable workflow is one where each step starts from the last without retyping: the applicant becomes the tenant, the signed agreement sets the rent, the deposit clock starts, and a failed payment shows up as arrears without anyone checking a bank statement. In LetCompliance tenants report repairs with photos, submit meter readings and message the landlord through a passwordless portal, repairs go to contractors as work orders, and every document sent is logged with its date. Arthur is the choice for an agency running maintenance at scale, with work orders that collect quotes from several contractors.

For private landlords and letting agents, the UK housing software platforms compared here include LetCompliance, Arthur, Landlord Studio, Landlord Vision, PaTMa and Lendlord, with LetCompliance ranked first for running the whole let in one login, from £7.99 a month. Housing associations and councils usually buy a social-housing system, which this list does not cover. Among the private rented sector tools, Arthur suits agencies at scale, from £82.50 a month for 55 units billed annually; Landlord Studio suits solo landlords; Landlord Vision is accounting-first, with Open Banking bank feeds on every plan; PaTMa pairs property management with deal sourcing; and Lendlord leads on portfolio finance and refinancing. LetCompliance takes a let from the advert and the application through the e-signed assured periodic tenancy agreement, rent collected by Direct Debit into a landlord’s own account with no commission, repairs and certificates, with Section 8 and Section 13 notices and Making Tax Digital quarterly updates on paid plans, recognised by HMRC for UK property income.

The tools that keep a property manager organised hold every property, tenancy, document and deadline in one record, with reminders, so nothing depends on an inbox or a spreadsheet; LetCompliance does this for UK lets from £7.99 a month. Look for one record per tenancy that everything hangs off, dated documents, reminders you do not have to set up yourself, and a view across the portfolio of what is due next. LetCompliance imports the portfolio from a spreadsheet, and on Portfolio and above the properties table sorts, filters and groups every property and downloads it as a CSV. Every plan has the maintenance board for planned servicing, safety checks, insurance, mortgages and keys out, inspection days planned with a warning when a visit is under 24 hours away, certificates uploaded in bulk with their dates read for you, and documents uploaded twenty at a time. A calendar feed puts certificate expiries, rent days, inspections, viewings and possession dates into Google, Apple or Outlook calendars with alarms, each property has a 0 to 100 compliance score and a tenancy timeline, and a letting agency gets a shared workspace with roles for its team. Arthur suits a larger agency, with linked accounts for franchises, separate offices and SPVs, and reporting across accounts.

Move the spreadsheet into software that keeps each property, tenancy and rent payment as its own record; LetCompliance imports the spreadsheet itself, from £7.99 a month. The import takes each property’s value, mortgage balance, ownership share and tax treatment, so equity and loan to value are there from the first day, and it also takes addresses, tenants, rent (weekly, fortnightly, every four weeks or monthly), certificate expiry dates, licences, insurance renewals and mortgage end dates. A later file updates the properties already there: LetCompliance finds each one by postcode and the first line of the address and shows what would change before it changes anything. From there, the rent that arrived can be confirmed across every property in one go, bank statement CSV files are matched to the rent and filed by rules you set, and Insights downloads each property’s rent, costs, net yield and loan to value as a CSV. Plans are priced by the number of properties, a month: £14.99 for up to 3, £19 for up to 10, £29 for up to 20 and £49 for unlimited.

For UK landlords, LetCompliance uses AI where it saves time on a let, from £7.99 a month: it reads the expiry date from an uploaded gas, EICR or EPC certificate, triages repair reports, and reads receipts into draft expenses for you to confirm. AI in property software is most useful on the paperwork a landlord would otherwise type in, and least safe where a decision carries legal weight, so check what it does on its own and what it asks you to confirm. In LetCompliance the AI suggests and you decide: a date read from a certificate sets the reminders, a receipt becomes a draft expense against the right property, and the arrears on a Section 8 notice are worked out from your own rent records. Whatever the software reads, a qualified engineer still carries out the safety checks.

LetCompliance handles enquiries, viewings, applications, the holding deposit and referencing in one landlord dashboard, from £7.99 a month; on this list Arthur also manages applicants and viewings, from £82.50 a month for 55 units, and Landlord Studio covers listings and applications. Two sets of fees are worth comparing: the software’s own, and what a tenant may be charged. Under the Tenant Fees Act 2019 a holding deposit in England is capped at one week’s rent, and most other payments from a tenant are banned. In LetCompliance an advert collects applications, enquiries wait on a waiting list until a property is free, viewings are booked against the property, the holding deposit is recorded against the one-week cap, and the applicant you accept moves in with one click. Referencing is paid per check.

This list does not rank on user reviews, because star ratings are hard to verify; read recent reviews on an independent site such as Trustpilot, and weigh a product’s track record, published prices and how easily you can leave. Track record matters: Property Hawk, long a popular free choice, told users to move to another platform, with Property Manager shutting down at the end of July 2026. Published prices matter too: Arthur’s pricing page routes buyers to “Book a demo”. LetCompliance publishes every price, from £7.99 a month, bills monthly with no fee for leaving, exports your records as PDF and CSV on any plan, and is recognised by HMRC for Making Tax Digital for UK property income, a listing you can check on GOV.UK’s software finder. Its own reviews are on Trustpilot.

Property management software handles the day-to-day operations of a let: rent ledger, maintenance tickets, tenant portal, statements and accounts. Compliance software handles the legal artefacts (Gas, EICR, EPC, deposit Prescribed Information, Section 8 readiness). Historically landlords ran one of each side by side. LetCompliance is unusual in doing both in a single platform: a full lettings-and-PM workflow (advertise, reference, e-sign, rent, arrears, maintenance work orders, tenant portal and letting-agency back-office) with the compliance and Section 8 / 13 legal layer built in, so for most UK landlords and small-to-mid agencies it replaces the pair rather than bolting on to a separate PM tool. The main thing the accounting-first tools still do that it does not is Open Banking bookkeeping.

You do not need a heavyweight agency PM suite like Arthur (from £82.50/mo with 55 units included) for one or two properties. But you do still want one place for rent, the tenancy and compliance rather than a spreadsheet plus scattered reminders. LetCompliance starts at £7.99 a month for one property and runs the whole let end to end, which at that size is usually a better fit than stitching a free rent ledger to a separate compliance tool. (Note Property Hawk, long a popular free choice, told users to move to another platform, with Property Manager shutting down at the end of July 2026.) Above roughly 20 units, the multi-branch agency depth and supplier marketplace in a tool like Arthur start to pay for themselves.

Landlord Studio (Pro), Landlord Vision, PaTMa (Pro) and Lendlord (Premium) list Open Banking bank feeds, and Arthur offers a live bank feed as a £12.99-a-month add-on. LetCompliance collects rent by Bacs Direct Debit (via Stripe Connect, paid into your own account) but does not do Open Banking bank-feed reconciliation of your existing transactions.

No, but LetCompliance, Landlord Vision and Hammock can take over the record keeping and the quarterly updates for MTD ITSA. Most portfolios still hand the year-end pack to an accountant for tax planning, Section 24 strategy and any incorporation decision: software shapes the data, the human shapes the strategy. In LetCompliance the accountant gets a read-only link on every plan to the SA105 figures, the ledger and the receipts, for the current tax year or any of the five before it.

For full rental management in one app, Arthur leads on agency scale and LetCompliance covers the widest span for UK landlords and small-to-mid letting agencies. LetCompliance runs a lettings CRM and tenancy onboarding (advertise, reference, e-sign, move-in), rent collection with landlord payouts, arrears chasing, Client Money Protection reconciliation, landlord statements and reporting, a 0-100 compliance score and Section 8 / 13 drafting. It starts at £7.99 a month and scales to an unlimited Agency plan.

On 2026-09-24, on each provider’s own website and HMRC’s Making Tax Digital software finder. Plans and prices change without notice, so check a provider’s own site before you buy.