LetCompliance vs Property Hawk

Yes for the platform fee, but watch the indirect costs: ad-supported referrals to insurance, mortgage and tenancy products often pay the platform a commission, which subtly shapes the recommendations you see. The bigger cost is risk: a single missed EICR (up to £30k civil penalty), a missed deposit Prescribed Information (1–3× deposit penalty + blocked possession), or an out-of-date Gas Safety record sinking a Section 8 claim, easily costs more than a year of paid software.

Yes. Export properties and tenancies from Property Hawk as CSV; LetCompliance ingests the addresses, tenancy dates and rent details and our AI expiry detection pre-fills Gas / EICR / EPC dates the moment you upload the certificates.

Property Hawk provides basic Section 21 and Section 8 letter templates. It does not ship a Section 13 rent-increase notice, Awaab’s Law SLA→ engine, Pet request→ 28-day tracker or RRA 2025 toolkit, the toolkit landlords need post-1 May 2026.

No, it predates MTD ITSA. LetCompliance ships a Section 24 calculator, SA105-shaped Tax Pack, MTD-dated quarterly summary and 45p / 25p mileage log so the numbers are ready to paste into an HMRC-recognised filing tool (Hammock, Landlord Vision) or hand to your accountant.

It runs the whole let, not just compliance. In one login you advertise, take applications and viewings, reference tenants, e-sign the tenancy, collect rent by Direct Debit and chase arrears, track a 0-100 compliance score, draft Section 8 and Section 13 notices, manage HMO rooms, book done-for-you property services and prepare your SA105 tax. The compliance score is one feature among many, not the whole product.

The table above compares them feature by feature. For most UK landlords and small-to-mid agencies who want the whole tenancy in one place, LetCompliance covers more of the let; Property Hawk is the better pick for the specific areas it leads on, which are called out honestly above. LetCompliance is free for your first property, then from £14.99/mo.

LetCompliance ships an SA105-shaped Tax Pack, a Section 24 personal-vs-limited-company calculator, MTD-dated quarterly summaries, a capital-gains calculator and a mileage log — the landlord tax layer most tools skip. It is not HMRC-recognised for the direct press-submit step, so above the £50,000 MTD threshold you pair it with a recognised filer or hand the pack to your accountant.

They are written by the LetCompliance team, and we say so plainly — but each one names where Property Hawk is the better choice and the two things LetCompliance does not do (Open Banking bank-feed reconciliation and HMRC direct-submit filing). Pricing and feature rows are re-verified every quarter.