Product updates29 August 20264 min read

Introducing Tenarize

Tenarize is new software for private landlords in England — vetting, compliance, tenancy agreements and rent collection, in one place, from £15 a month.

By The Tenarize team

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Tenarize is software for private landlords in England who manage their own properties, rather than paying a letting agent to do it. It opened for signups on 27 August 2026. This post is what it does, what it costs, and where the honest limits are — because that's what you'd want to know before trusting anything with a statutory duty.

Why this exists

A landlord who self-manages carries the same legal duties as a professional one, with none of the infrastructure. Four things make that harder than it needs to be.

Compliance keeps changing. Gas safety, EICR, EPC, Right to Rent, the Renters' Rights Act — it's a moving target, and getting it wrong is a criminal offence, not a paperwork problem.
Nobody tells you the steps. A first-time landlord has no checklist for vetting, compliance and move-in. You're guessing, and finding out what you missed after the fact.
Agencies take around 10% of your rent for work you could track yourself with the right tools.
Rent collection over a bank transfer feels unofficial — no record, no reminders, and nothing to show if a payment history is ever needed.

Section 21 was abolished on 1 May 2026, which is part of why the second problem got sharper. Every assured tenancy is now periodic from the outset — there's no fixed term, so there's no renewal date to hang your certificate checks and rent review on. You have to set that date yourself, or have something that does it for you.

What Tenarize does

A vetting checklist — Right to Rent, ID, income, credit, references and guarantor, in order.
A compliance checklist — gas safety, EICR, EPC, alarms, the Renters' Rights Act information sheet, Legionella, deposit protection, insurance, the tenancy agreement itself, and furniture fire safety where the property is let furnished — with reminders before certificates and licences expire, in one notification feed.
A tenancy agreement, generated and e-signed. The e-signature is real and legally binding, recording who signed and when. The agreement itself is not solicitor-reviewed — worth saying plainly, because it's the kind of thing that's easy to gloss over and shouldn't be.
Rent collected by Bacs Direct Debit, tracked automatically with a full payment history, plus optional recurring auto-pay that the tenant switches on and controls.
A tenant portal — documents, rent, e-signing and maintenance reporting, on the other side of the same tenancy.
Room-by-room HMO letting and multi-unit building grouping, for licensing tracked as structured data rather than a note in a folder.
A supplier database of real local tradespeople, filtered by area and category.
An audit trail export per tenancy, for a dispute or a tribunal.
Rent and maintenance reports, PDF or CSV, with UK-tax-year presets — a CSV counts as a valid digital link for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax, which applies above £50,000 gross rent from 6 April 2026.

The Tenarize compliance checklist, showing gas safety, EICR and EPC items with their expiry dates — The compliance checklist, with each item tracked against its own expiry date.

What it costs

Starter — £15/month, 1–5 properties
Growth — £35/month, 6–10 properties
Portfolio — £75/month, 11–20 properties, plus £1/month per property above that
Annual billing saves 20% — £144, £336 or £720 a year
One month free to start, card required up front, skippable, once per account
A full refund if you cancel within the first three months and don't have an active tenancy

No VAT is added to any of these.

The honest limits

Bacs is not instant. Up to 7 business days on a new mandate, around 4 once it's established.
Your tenant's bank statement will show Stripe's name, not yours. That isn't currently something you can change.
Tenarize tracks your deposit protection deadline. It doesn't protect the deposit for you — you still register it with a scheme.
It's new. There's no long list of existing customers to point to yet. What's checkable today: payments run on Stripe, e-signatures on BoldSign, the help centre publishes 125 answers openly, and a full data export is one click away if you ever decide to leave.

Where to check this yourself

Tenarize is software, not a solicitor. This is general information about the rules in England, not legal advice for your situation.

If you self-manage in England, see pricing or start with the compliance checklist the product is built around.

Not legal advice

Tenarize is software, not a solicitor. This is general information about the rules in England, not legal advice for your situation, and the law changes. For free independent help, Citizens Advice and Shelter both cover renting in England; for anything unusual or contested, take advice from a solicitor.