4 essential apps for property investors and landlords in 2022

As much as you might try to resist modern technology taking over every aspect of life and business, you simple can’t argue that apps have become an essential part of everyday life.

It’s no different in the professional world of property investing where apps are saving property investors and landlords a huge amount of time and effort when it comes to sourcing, assessing, and renting a property investment.

To help you navigate the vast number of apps available in this sector, we’ve highlighted four which we feel bring something a little bit different to the table.

1) PlaceBuzz

PlaceBuzz is a property search app like Rightmove and Zoopla, except it has one key advantage – it combines property listings from all the major property portals into one single place, making it much easier for property investors to source potential deals. With large photos and Google street view built-in, it’s a great time-saver to narrow down the type of property investment you are looking for.

2) Landlord Studio

With Making Tax Digital fast approaching, this app is highly praised from hundreds of UK landlords for it’s incredibly helpful rental accounting and property management tools, making it easy and simple to track income and expenses for every property, manage tenants, set important reminders (such as when landlord gas certificates are due), and lots more.

You can create professional tax reports, connect to your bank account to import transactions, and even upload and file relevant documents. It gives you a total platform to manage your landlord tasks with ease, and makes it easier and faster to meet HMRC requirements for Making Tax Digital when the time comes.

3) Rate People for Homeowners

If you own a buy-to-let property or holiday let in a location that you don’t reside in, sourcing a trusted tradesperson can be time-consuming and stressful. There are a number of apps that provide a directory of recommended tradesmen to connect with, but this particular app has a number of benefits.

It’s completely free to post a job (which can be anything from a simple boiler service, to the installation of a new kitchen), you can read all the reviews of tradespeople before you contact anyone, and you can chat directly through the app so you don’t need to give away your contact details initially. With over 50,000 registered local tradespeople, it’s a great place to get started for fixing any works on your rental properties.

4) Sourced Property Investment

If you are looking to grow your property investment portfolio with your next buy-to-let or HMO, this app could save you hours of time sourcing and qualifying potential properties.

The app provides its users with more than 50 packaged property investment deals every week – so instead of searching for a ‘4 bed house’ in Rightmove, you can simply search for an ‘HMO’ in a certain location, and be presented with pre-qualified and packaged deals. Each property has already been matched with an investment strategy and carefully financially assessed, taking away the leg-work and guess-work of the initial research and assessment phase for property investors.

You can filter search results by investment strategy, yield, or type of property. With deals provided from a network of over 150 sourcing agents nationwide, it’s easy to see why this pioneering app could be the fast answer to growing your property portfolio.

Conclusion

Investing in property is a time consuming business and for many landlord, can be a 24/7 job. It’s great that technology can take away a huge amount of that stress and allow landlords and property investors the luxury of free time whilst earning money from their property portfolio, which is ultimately, the main reason most people invest in property to start with.

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