These days you can find an app for most things, from brushing your teeth in the morning to monitoring your night’s sleep; one example or another of these mini-applications covers your whole life. The problem with apps though is that there are so many of them, including a whole bunch of apps that have been designed to suit investment landlords. Landlord apps cover most of the insights and services that you will need to keep your property investment business running smoothly.

Among the plethora of landlord apps, there are interior design apps to help you make sure your properties fit in with the latest in luxury home ideas, mortgage apps to help you with quick mortgage calculations, and even apps that will keep you up to date with your stamp duty obligations. We understand that landlords are busy people so have done the research for you. Here are our top five landlord apps.

Landlord apps to help you manage your property – Property Buddy

Managing one property may seem like a handful but keeping track of important information as your portfolio grows can, at times, be a mammoth task. The Property Buddy app does everything your property management spreadsheet did, but better and with one of the most intuitive dashboards we have seen.

Property Buddy allows you to record and track all rent payment and expenses and keep a clear eye on both your overall rental finance picture and your individual properties.

Platform: iOS only
Cost: 20-day free trial followed by in-app upgrades (starter £8.99)
Cloud: Sync between iPad and iPhone devices
Offline: Yes
Notifications: Yes
Purchase: iTunes
Printing: Directly from app (PDF and AirPrint)
Main features: quick look dashboard, income and expense calculator, transaction reporting, invoicing
 

Mortgage apps to speed up decision making – Mortgage Calculator UK

The luxury London property market moves quickly and you need to be able to make quick and accurate decisions to keep up with it. Losing a purchase while you wait for mortgage advice can be both annoying and costly.

The Mortgage Calculator UK app has been designed to completely remove the wait from this process. With instant mortgage calculation that gives you monthly payments and best mortgage rates on a range of mortgage types, this is the app that will help you to decisively and accurately build your portfolio.

Platform: iOS only
Cost: Free
Cloud: No
Offline: No
Notifications: No
Purchase: iTunes
Printing: No
Main features: mortgage calculator, monthly repayments, best rate finder
 

Interior Design apps to sell your property – Hutch

We all know that high-end interior design can make or break a luxury property rental but there are few of us who have either the design flair to achieve this or the time to shop around designer stores. Hutch is one of the best of a bunch of interior design apps and allows you to become an interior designer from a distance and without all of the usual design hassle.

Using the Hutch interior design app you can envisage your space via photographs, use a range of 3D tools to try new furnishings and décor and then shop in-app for your chosen items.

Platform: iOS and Android
Cost: Free
Cloud: No
Offline: No
Notifications: No
Purchase: iTunes and Google Play
Printing: No
Main features: 3D interior design tools, works with your own interior images, in-app purchasing
 

Maintenance apps to deal swiftly with issues – Fixflo

All landlords have experienced it, that irritating phone call in the middle of dinner about a trivial property maintenance issue. Maybe a tap is dripping or a piece of carpet has become worn. You need to know about it, but not right now.

Fixflo takes the headache out of managing maintenance issues by making reporting easier for tenants and agents, through their intuitive, picture-based system. Not only does Fixflo save you time, it can also save you money by offering tenants information about their responsibilities. Fixflo will even offer your tenants maintenance advice about more simple maintenance problems, making life easier for them and less costly for you.

Platform: Android and iOS
Cost: 14-day free trial followed by 35p (Fixflo) or 55p (Fixflo Plus) a month
Cloud: No
Offline: No
Notifications: Yes
Purchase: Fixflo
Printing: Yes
Main features: detailed repair reports, in-system guidance, 24/7 repair reporting, 40+ languages
 

Apps to improve your landlord organisation – Scanbot

Scanbot isn’t a specific landlord app but it does offer a way to help landlords deal with the mountains of important paperwork that each property seems to develop.

Scanbot instantly generates quality, high-resolution copies of property documents in either JPEG or PDF format and presents them on-demand in readable, perspective-corrected layout. Scanbot can deal with all kinds of landlord related media including receipts, notes, flip charts and business cards.

Platform: iOS and Android
Cost: Free with in-app upgrade to Scanbot Pro
Cloud: Yes
Offline: Yes
Notifications: No
Purchase: iTunes and Google Play
Printing: Yes
Main features: premium quality PDF or JPEG scans, QR and barcode scanning, multipage documents, one-tap email.

Of course, no matter how good the landlord apps, there is no substitute for sound, up to date, local advice. Our property specialists at Arlington understand the special nuances and uniqueness of all of the Central and North West London locations in our marketplace. Our clients return to us time and time again because they find our property advice to be both informative and lucrative. For those seeking professional help to find investment properties in these sought after areas, we offer a superior and long-standing service. Get in touch with our consultants today and let us help you with your property investment needs.