Category · 20 products
Property Management Software
Property management software divides by what you manage, and the divisions are sharper than the marketing suggests. A product built for residential letting and a product built for commercial leases differ in their core data model, not just their feature lists, and neither is a substitute for the other.
Residential and multifamily products optimise for volume: many similar units, recurring rent, tenant screening, maintenance requests and payment collection. Commercial products optimise for complexity: fewer leases, each with bespoke terms, rent reviews, break clauses, service charge apportionment and recoveries. Short-term rental platforms are a third thing entirely, built around listing distribution, channel synchronisation and nightly pricing, and a long-term letting agency would not buy one.
This directory labels each product by which market it serves, and the short-term rental entries say explicitly that they are not substitutes for a residential or commercial system. Comparing them on lease accounting would be meaningless.
This is one of the categories where published pricing genuinely exists. Many vendors publish per-unit or monthly figures, often with a platform minimum, and the profiles record the unit and minimum as stated rather than reducing both to a single number.
Vendors
Aareon, AppFolio, Inc., Buildium, DoorLoop, Entrata, Inc., Guesty, Hemlane, Hostaway, Inhabit, Innago, London Computer Systems, MRI Software, PropertyMe Pty Ltd, Propertyware, A RealPage Company, Re-Leased Software Company Ltd, Realpage, Rentec Direct, TenantCloud, Yardi Systems
20 products
Hostaway
Hostaway
Vacation rental and short term rental management platform combining OTA channel management, a unified guest inbox, dynamic pricing, direct booking websites, owner statements and an open REST API. It is a hospitality operations tool, not a residential or commercial property management system.
Mobile app Documented API Listing and channel management Reporting
- Cloud
- Commercial
- Short-term rental management
- Small, Medium, Enterprise
Guesty
Guesty
Short term and holiday rental management platform: channel management across Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and other OTAs, unified guest inbox, multi calendar, dynamic pricing, guest payments and an open REST API. It is a hospitality operations tool, not a residential or commercial property management system.
Mobile app Documented API Listing and channel management Reporting
- Cloud
- Commercial
- Short-term rental management
- Small, Medium, Enterprise
Arthur
Aareon
UK cloud property management software for letting agents, landlords, student housing and social housing providers, now part of the Aareon group. Covers financials and reporting, occupancy, tasks, documents and workflows, with tenant, owner and contractor apps and published per unit pricing.
Mobile app Reporting Document management Tenant portal
- Cloud
- Commercial
- Residential property management
- Small, Medium
Re-Leased
Re-Leased Software Company Ltd
Cloud commercial property and lease management software for landlords, investors and commercial managing agents, covering lease administration, service charges and outgoings, arrears and credit control, budgets, trust accounting and a documented REST API.
Mobile app Documented API Reporting Tenant portal
- Cloud
- Commercial
- Commercial property management
- Small, Medium, Enterprise
PropertyMe
PropertyMe Pty Ltd
Cloud property management and trust accounting software for residential rental agencies in Australia and New Zealand, with trust accounting, inspections, maintenance jobs, owner and tenant portals and an integrated rent payments product called MePay.
Mobile app Reporting Document management Tenant portal
- Cloud
- Commercial
- Residential property management
- Small, Medium, Enterprise
ResMan
Inhabit
US multifamily and affordable housing property management platform, branded ResMan by Inhabit after its 2021 acquisition by Inhabit. Sold in Start, Scale and Thrive tiers for conventional and affordable portfolios, with pricing by quote only.
- Cloud
- Commercial
- Residential property management
- Medium, Enterprise
Innago
Innago
Rental management software that is genuinely free for landlords with no monthly, yearly or setup fee. Innago earns revenue from tenant-paid fees: 2 USD per ACH rent payment, 2.99 percent on card payments and 30 to 35 USD per screening report paid by the applicant.
Mobile app Maintenance requests Rent collection and payments Lease management and renewals
- Cloud
- Free
- Residential property management
- Small, Medium
Hemlane
Hemlane
US long-term rental management platform that pairs self-serve software with optional human services, including 24/7 repair coordination and tenant placement. Priced per unit per month on top of a flat platform fee, with a free Starter tier.
Reporting Document management Inspections Maintenance requests
- Cloud
- Freemium
- Residential property management
- Small, Medium
Rentec Direct
Rentec Direct
US property management software for landlords and professional managers, with double-entry and trust accounting, online rent payments, tenant and owner portals, screening, a documented REST API and a published minimum monthly fee plus per-unit pricing.
Mobile app Documented API Reporting Document management
- Cloud
- Commercial
- Mixed portfolio property management
- Small, Medium
TenantCloud
TenantCloud
Cloud property management software for residential landlords and small to mid-sized property managers, covering listings, screening, online leases, rent collection, maintenance requests and accounting, sold on flat monthly plans tiered by lease count.
Mobile app Reporting Tenant portal Owner portal
- Cloud
- Commercial
- Residential property management
- Small, Medium
DoorLoop
DoorLoop
DoorLoop is cloud property management software for landlords, managers and investors, covering rent collection, accounting, maintenance, leasing, screening and tenant communication, with published per unit pricing and mobile apps.
Mobile app Maintenance requests Accounting and general ledger Rent collection and payments
- Cloud
- Commercial
- Residential property management
- Small, Medium
Propertyware
Propertyware, A RealPage Company
Propertyware is a Realpage-owned cloud platform for single family and scattered site rental portfolios, covering accounting, owner and tenant portals, maintenance and leasing. It remains available to new customers and publishes per unit pricing with monthly minimums.
Documented API Reporting Tenant portal Owner portal
- Cloud
- Commercial
- Residential property management
- Small, Medium
Published comparisons
How to choose
How to choose in this category
Classify your portfolio first. Residential, commercial, mixed or short-term. If genuinely mixed, be sceptical of products claiming both: in practice most are strong on one side and adequate on the other, and the weak side is usually the accounting.
Interrogate the accounting, not the portal. Tenant and owner portals demo well and are broadly comparable. Trust accounting, service charge apportionment, recoveries and owner statements are where products genuinely differ and where migration pain lives. If you manage property on behalf of owners, client money handling is a hard requirement rather than a feature.
Price on your actual unit count, including the minimum. Per-unit pricing with a monthly platform minimum behaves very differently for 40 units than for 400. Several vendors in this category publish both numbers, and the minimum dominates the cost for smaller portfolios. Where published, both are recorded here.
Check what "free" means. At least one product in this category markets itself as free to landlords while charging for specific services. A free version and a free trial are different things, and this directory records them as separate facts because conflating them is an error we have made before and corrected.
Treat maintenance as an integration question. Most of these products handle a maintenance request and a work order adequately for residential volumes. If you run planned maintenance on building plant, that is a maintenance system’s job, and the boundary between property, facility and maintenance systems is worth understanding before you try to make one product do both. For the maintenance side specifically, see work order software for maintenance teams.
Confirm the product is still sold. This category has consolidated heavily and at least one well-known product may no longer be available to new customers. Where we established that, the profile says so and does not present it as a current option.
Frequently asked questions
Not usually. Free plans in this category are often funded by charging tenants payment or application fees, or by charging for specific services such as screening. A free version is also not the same thing as a free trial, and this directory records those as two separate facts.
Commonly a monthly platform minimum plus a rate per unit, which means the effective cost per unit falls sharply as the portfolio grows. For small portfolios the minimum is the real price. Where vendors publish both numbers this directory records both rather than flattening them into one figure.
Client or trust money handling if you manage on behalf of owners, service charge apportionment and recovery if you manage commercial space, owner statement production, and how the system handles part payments and arrears. Portals look similar across products; accounting does not.
They are a different category of product that happens to share a name. Short-term rental platforms are built around listing distribution, channel synchronisation, nightly pricing and guest messaging. They do not do lease management or service charge accounting, and a long-term letting business would not buy one. They appear here labelled as short-term rental so the difference is visible.
Some claim to, and a few genuinely do, but the data models pull in different directions. Residential optimises for many similar units with recurring rent. Commercial optimises for fewer leases with bespoke terms, rent reviews and service charge recoveries. Mixed products are usually stronger on one side, and the weaker side is normally the accounting. Test your hardest lease, not your simplest.
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