One property free. £5 a property a month after that, never more than £50.
The whole product, on one property, for as long as you want it, and it never asks for a card. Not a trial, not a cut-down tier. Beyond that you pay a stepped rate per property: the more you manage, the less each one costs. Adding your second property saves a payment method and starts billing for that property. Every feature is on every account.
Your first property is free for good — the billing choice only matters once you have a second. Annual means you pay for 10 months instead of 12.
Your first property is always free. After that it’s one rate per property, stepping down as you grow — and adding one more only ever adds that one property’s rate. No bracket to jump, ever.
No card required. One property free, every feature included.
- Compliance calendar with email reminders
- Rent tracker & arrears at a glance
- Maintenance that chases late repairs & schedules recurring jobs
- Evidence-led case builder for possession
- Remortgage & ICR health check
- Portfolio yield, LTV & equity
- Unlimited documents, 20MB per file
- Making Tax Digital records in HMRC’s categories
No card required — ever, if you stay on one property.
What the price is set against
The obvious comparison for a subscription is another subscription. A better one is what it's there to prevent. These are the maximum penalties for four of the obligations LetBuddy tracks, each with its government source.
Protecting a deposit, and serving the prescribed information, within 30 days
Getting it wrong: A court order to pay the tenant between one and three times the deposit
What you have to show: The scheme reference, the date it was protected, and proof the prescribed information reached the tenant
Housing Act 2004, s.214Licensing, and the other breaches a rent repayment order can follow
Getting it wrong: Repaying up to two years' rent — doubled from one year on 1 May 2026
What you have to show: The licence, its dates, and a rent ledger showing what was actually paid over that period
GOV.UK — rent repayment ordersKeeping an in-date electrical installation report, and giving it to the tenant
Getting it wrong: A civil penalty of up to £40,000, raised from £30,000 on 1 May 2026
What you have to show: The EICR itself, its expiry date, and the date a copy went to the tenant
GOV.UK — electrical safety standardsRegistering on the PRS Database, and the new duties under the Renters' Rights Act
Getting it wrong: Up to £7,000 for a first or minor breach, and up to £40,000 where it is serious or repeated
What you have to show: Registration, the written statement of terms, and the certificates the register expects you to already hold
GOV.UK — civil penalties under the Renters' Rights Act 2025A capped year of LetBuddy is £500, whatever the size of the portfolio. Next to one deposit penalty on a £1,200 deposit, or a rent repayment order on one tenancy, it isn't the number that decides anything.
To be clear about what software can do: LetBuddy doesn't stop a penalty. A deposit that was never protected was never protected. What it helps with is the other case, where you did comply and have to prove it two years later to a council officer or a judge, from a record you kept at the time rather than one assembled afterwards. That's the case most landlords are in, and the one they most often can't evidence.
What the rate already includes
The per-property rate above is the whole cost of using LetBuddy. These are the things other landlord software commonly charges separately for; here they are in the rate, on the free property too.
Bank statement import and matching
Import a statement from your online banking and match it against rent due or expenses. No surcharge, no per-connection fee, no cap on statements.
Making Tax Digital for Income Tax
When MTD goes live in LetBuddy it is part of the per-property rate. It will never be a paid add-on, a separate module, or a per-submission charge.
Extra users on your account
Add your partner, your letting agent, or your accountant as a team member with their own login. We bill for properties, not seats, so a second user costs nothing.
Document storage
Certificates, tenancy agreements, invoices, photos. No storage tier, no per-gigabyte overage, no archiving fee.
The case builder and the ICR health check
The two things most likely to be sold as a premium module elsewhere are on every account, including the free one.
Setup, onboarding, and support
No implementation fee and no priority-support tier. Everyone gets the same inbox and the same response times, on the free property and on the fiftieth.
Getting your data back out
Export your records at any time, including on the way out. Data is not held hostage to a subscription.
The price promise
If we raise our published rates, your rate doesn't move. Subscribers keep the per-property rates in force on the day they subscribed, for as long as the subscription stays continuously active, and no feature you already rely on will be moved behind a paywall. This is written into our terms, not just stated here.
Read the full promise, including where it stops →Six questions to ask any landlord software
Including us. Headline prices in this market are rarely the whole bill, and the gap usually shows up in the same few places.
- Is Making Tax Digital included, or is it a paid add-on on top of the subscription?
- Is there a separate charge for connecting a bank account or importing statements?
- Does adding your accountant or a second user cost extra per seat?
- Which features sit behind the higher tier, and would you need them within a year?
- Is the tenancy count or property count what drives the price, and what happens when one changes mid-year?
- If they raise prices, does your rate move too, and how much notice do you get?
How the answers compare
LetBuddy beside the three names a UK landlord searching for this software meets first, at the portfolio sizes most landlords have.
| Monthly, with MTD included | LetBuddy | Landlord Vision +VAT | Landlord Studio +VAT | August |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 property | Free | £19.97 | £12 | £8.99 |
| 3 properties | £10 | £19.97 | £12 | £8.99 |
| 5 properties | £18 | £29.97 | £14 | £14.99 |
| Free plan | 1 property, every feature, no expiry | None — a 2-week trial | MTD Go: up to 3 units, manual tracking, £5 per MTD submission | 1 property, without MTD |
| Making Tax Digital in the price | In the price on every account, the free one included | Yes, on every plan | Pro and above; £5 per submission on the free plan | Growth and above |
| A second user | Unlimited, free | Unlimited | 1, 3 or 10 logins by plan | Not stated on their pricing page |
| A five-room HMO counts as | 1 property, however many rooms | 5 active tenancies | Priced per unit | Plan limits on properties and tenancies |
Their figures are from their own pricing pages, checked on 19 September 2026: Landlord Vision, Landlord Studio, August. The current prices there always win over ours. Their cost rows are the cheapest plan on their page with Making Tax Digital in it for that many properties; Landlord Vision prices by active tenancy, so a property let as one tenancy is counted as one. LetBuddy’s column is the same calculation that produces your bill.
Common questions
- Is there a free plan for landlords with one property?
- Yes. Your first property is free permanently, with every feature and no card. There's no trial clock and nothing held back. A landlord with one property can use LetBuddy indefinitely without paying anything.
- What happens when I add a second property?
- It asks you to save a payment method, and billing starts from then, for the properties beyond the first only. The free one stays free. There's no trial period on top, because you've already had one: your first property gave you the whole product for as long as you've had it. Your first property never asks for a card, however long you stay on one.
- Does LetBuddy charge extra for Making Tax Digital?
- No. Making Tax Digital for Income Tax is included in the per-property rate, not sold as an add-on or charged per submission.
- Does LetBuddy charge per user?
- No. Pricing is by the number of active properties only. Adding your partner, your staff, your letting agent or your accountant costs nothing extra, and each can be restricted to the properties you name.
- Is there a limit on how many properties I can manage?
- No, and there's no larger edition to move up to. The same account runs one property or several hundred, your own or managed for other landlords, with every feature on from the start. The per-property rate falls as the portfolio grows and then stops: nothing from property 15 upwards is charged, so the bill is £50 a month (£500 a year) at that size and at every size above it. Users are unlimited and free at every size, each limited to the properties you choose, and properties can be grouped into portfolios.
- How is an HMO counted?
- As one property, however many rooms it has. Each room runs as its own tenancy — its own tenant, rent, deposit and reporting link — on the one property, and the property is what the bill counts. A five-room HMO is one property on the invoice and five tenancies in the ledger.
- Will my price go up if LetBuddy raises its prices?
- No. Existing subscribers keep the per-property rates in force when they subscribed, for as long as their subscription stays continuously active. A published increase applies to new subscribers only.
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Questions? hello@letbuddy.co.uk