Guidance for people running property portfolios.
Practical writing on gas safety, electrical testing and tenancy compliance, from the team building PropertyOptix.
Right to Rent follow-up checks: who needs one and when
Not every Right to Rent check is a one-off. Time-limited statuses need a second look later in the tenancy, on a date that has nothing to do with the tenancy agreement itself.
Tracking Gas Safety, EICR and EPC expiry across a multi-property portfolio
Three certificates, three independent clocks, on every property. Here's why the spreadsheet that worked at ten properties usually stops working well before a hundred.
Compliance software vs all-in-one property management platforms
An all-in-one platform promises to cover everything from marketing to accounting to compliance. Whether that's an advantage or a compromise depends on what actually matters most to you.
Building an out-of-hours emergency repair process that actually works
A boiler failing on a Friday evening doesn't wait for Monday morning. An out-of-hours process only works if it's been tested before the emergency, not during it.
Renewing a tenancy: the compliance checklist behind the paperwork
A renewal can feel like the easy part of a tenancy — the tenant's known, the property's known. It's also an easy point to let compliance quietly roll over unchecked.
What to do when a tenant won't give access for a Gas Safety Check
A tenant who won't answer the door doesn't make the legal requirement go away. It just moves the risk from a scheduling problem to a documented right of entry.
Migrating a portfolio's compliance records into new software
The software itself is rarely the hard part of a switch. Getting years of scattered certificates, dates and tenancy files into it cleanly is where the real effort goes.
What a property inspection report actually needs to record
A good inspection report isn't the longest one. It's the one that's specific enough for someone who wasn't there to understand exactly what was found and act on it.