Services · Mobile app development · Property management apps
We offer property management app development Manchester letting agents and landlords can use across the whole city region. Our apps put rent, deposits, Right to Rent checks, gas and electrical certificates, repairs and licence records into one tenant app, one landlord portal and one office dashboard. That matters in a market where a single agency may let a city centre apartment, a terraced house in Longsight and a student house in Withington in the same week, each under different rules.
Greater Manchester is ten councils, not one. Salford, Trafford, Stockport and the rest each run their own housing and licensing teams, so the app is designed to hold council specific rules per property from day one. Tenants commuting in by Metrolink or bus can report a fault or pay rent from the platform, and staff see it in the office the same minute.
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What a Manchester lettings app includes
Manchester City Council extended selective licensing in 2025 to more streets in Cheetham, Longsight, Moss Side, and Miles Platting and Newton Heath, with those designations running to 2030. The Greater Manchester Good Landlord Charter, a voluntary standard, asks landlords to show how they meet commitments that go beyond the legal minimum. Meanwhile the city centre keeps adding rental apartment blocks, and the student areas south of Oxford Road turn over every summer. These capabilities respond to that mix. We usually pick five or six for the first release and add the rest once the team relies on the app. Every feature writes to the same tenancy record, so licence evidence, charter evidence and day to day lettings work never drift apart.
Each property carries its council, from Manchester and Salford to Bolton or Oldham, along with any selective or HMO licence, its conditions and its expiry. A Manchester agent letting into three boroughs sees all licences on one screen, filtered by council, with renewal tasks raised automatically.
Licences across Greater Manchester tracked in one place.
Landlords working towards the charter need to show how they handle repairs, communication, affordability and property standards. The app gathers that evidence from the records you already keep, such as repair response times and inspection photos, and exports it for review without a separate spreadsheet.
Charter evidence comes from daily work, not a yearly scramble.
Tenants report damp or mould with photos and a short guided form. The report is triaged by severity, assigned to a surveyor or contractor and tracked to completion. Awaab's Law already applies in social housing and is expected to reach private renting later, so building the habit now protects landlords.
Every damp report has a timeline and an outcome.
Flats in Ancoats, Deansgate, Spinningfields or New Islington often sit in blocks run by separate managing agents. The app records the block agent, fob and parking arrangements, and the communal repair route, so a tenant's report about a broken entry door goes to the right party. Move in slots for the goods lift can be booked too.
Communal and in flat repairs no longer get mixed up.
For houses in Fallowfield, Withington and Rusholme let to students at the University of Manchester or Manchester Metropolitan University, the app runs group applications, guarantor signatures, summer check outs and the move in rush for the new academic year.
Summer changeovers run to a plan, not a whiteboard.
Applicants for a Manchester flat apply on their phone, share income evidence and consent to referencing. Staff record each Right to Rent check, whether by document or Home Office share code, and the app schedules follow up checks for tenants with time limited permission. Holding deposits and their deadlines are tracked so offers do not stall.
Applications move from enquiry to signed tenancy with checks on file.
Since May 2026, most private tenancies in England are periodic. The app drafts rent increase notices on the statutory route, records when a tenant gives notice, and keeps possession grounds and evidence together, so staff follow the right process for each situation.
Notices served correctly, with dates on record.
Deposits are protected with your chosen approved scheme within the deadline and the prescribed information is served through the app. Gas safety records, electrical reports and EPCs are stored with expiry dates, and copies reach tenants automatically when renewed.
No tenancy runs on an expired certificate.
Tenants pay through Open Banking links, Direct Debit or card. The ledger updates on receipt, arrears trigger polite reminders in the order you approve, and staff can set up payment plans that the app then tracks week by week. Students can sort out their share of the rent here too.
Arrears handled early and consistently.
Tenants see their tenancy agreement, deposit certificate, rent balance, repair history and important notices. They can update contact details, request permission for a pet, and message the property manager, with every message kept on the tenancy file.
Fewer calls asking where a document is.
Who this is for
Manchester's rental sector covers new build towers, Victorian terraces, inner suburban semis and large student houses, and each owner type needs something different. A tenant management app development Manchester student landlords commission will lean on group lets and summer turnaround, while a rental property management app development Manchester agents order for family homes leans on licensing and repairs. These are the four briefs we see most often. Each leads to a different first release, and we will tell you plainly which features can wait.
An agency in the Northern Quarter may manage homes in Manchester, Salford, Trafford and Stockport. Each council has its own licensing designations and enforcement team. We give the agency one compliance dashboard, filtered by council, so the person responsible for licences in Salford is not relying on rules learned in Manchester. Staff in the office can still switch to a single council view when they are preparing for a licence inspection.
One dashboard, ten possible councils.
Landlords who want to show tenants and councils that they meet the charter's standards need records that prove it. We build the reporting that turns repair times, inspection results and tenant communication into evidence, so the application or review takes hours instead of weeks.
Owners with houses near the Wilmslow Road corridor deal with intense summer turnover, guarantors and joint tenancies. We plan around those dates, with check out and cleaning schedules, deposit returns, and new group move ins all coordinated in one calendar per house. Bills included houses get meter reading tasks at each change of tenant.
Many city centre flats are owned by investors living elsewhere in the UK or abroad. A landlord portal with rent statements, repair approvals and certificate status keeps those owners informed without calls, while your team handles the block agent and the tenant in one place. Owners approve repair quotes above a limit they set, straight from their phone.
Owners stay informed without phoning the office.
Working together
Codeeo has no office in Manchester. Our team of 80+ is based in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, with a 4.7 rating from 23 Google reviews. Manchester clients work with us through video calls for discovery, design reviews and sprint demos, with notes and recordings shared afterwards. Most start with a fixed scope first release. Owners of whole blocks sometimes add building management app development Manchester caretakers can use for communal checks, which we plan as a later phase. After launch, support continues on a monthly basis so fixes and small improvements keep flowing.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
We build for iOS and Android from a shared codebase, with a browser dashboard for staff and data hosted in a UK or EU cloud region. Integrations with deposit schemes, referencing providers, payments and accounting tools use their official interfaces wherever they are available.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Because off the shelf tools rarely fit a mixed, multi council portfolio well.
Packaged lettings software works well for standard single lets in one area. Manchester agents often mix HMOs, student groups, city centre flats and licensed family homes across several councils. A custom app lets you model those differences properly, connect the tools you already pay for, and avoid paying for modules you never use. Some clients keep their existing software and add a custom tenant app on top. We look at your current tools in discovery and recommend whichever route costs less to run over time.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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