Rent — Lease & Short-Term: Big 2026 Update for French Landlords

Rent started life as a mobile app for landlords. This update brings the web back-office to feature parity and adds a layer that didn't exist before: deadline tracking. Concretely, the update ships four things worth your attention. First, a maintenance and compliance tracker that watches the obligations attached to a property — boiler service, ramonage, heat-pump/AC upkeep, gas and electrical safety checks, DPE validity — and reminds you before each one lapses. Second, a **vault-linked compliance récap you can generate as a single document proving where each obligation stands. Third, tenant-side maintenance cards, so the people living in your property can see the same obligations you do — useful when the boiler service needs access. Fourth, a new-user onboarding wizard** and plainer in-app language: less jargon, more "do this next." The whole thing is bilingual EN/FR and synced between mobile and web.

If you only remember one line: the app now manages the property's calendar, not just its documents — and the web back-office finally matches the app.

Open Rent on the web or jump straight to the app pillar page.

For a landlord who lives abroad, the phone is where the work actually happens — a tenant messages at 9pm, a lease anniversary lands, a deposit needs returning. The mobile app is built around exactly those moments, and it's a rental management app for France that ships natively on both stores.

On the landlord side, the app generates the documents that define French renting:

• Bail (lease) — furnished and unfurnished, in the standard ALUR format with the mandatory annexes.
• Quittance de loyer — the monthly rent receipt, in ALUR format, with automatic monthly sending once the lease is configured. This is the application quittance de loyer use case people actually search for: set it once, stop thinking about it.
• État des lieux — entry and exit inventory, with dated photos taken in-app. A proper état des lieux app flow rather than a PDF you fill by hand.
• Deposit management — track the deposit and generate the restitution document at move-out.
• E-signature — send the lease for signature and get it back signed, without printing anything.

On the tenant side, the same app (when you activate the portal) gives your tenant their own logged-in experience: rent status, structured requests, and — new in this update — maintenance cards showing their property's upcoming obligations. That matters when the obligation needs the tenant's cooperation, like letting the chimney sweep in.

Get it on Google Play (Android) or the App Store (iPhone).

Not everything is comfortable on a phone screen. Setting up a new property, reviewing a year of rent collection, or checking your fiscal picture before declaration season — that's desk work. This update brings the web back-office at adminlanding.com up to the job, so the choice of surface is yours, not the tool's.

What the web side now does well:

• Richer property editor. Enter and edit the full detail of a property — address, lease terms, rent and charges breakdown, tenants, deposit, attached documents — in a layout that's actually pleasant on a large screen. This is where most landlords will do the initial setup, then let the app handle the monthly rhythm.
• Portfolio overview. One screen showing every property, its occupancy and its rent-collection status — the bird's-eye view you can't get on a phone.
• Rental analytics. Revenue, charges, occupancy and collection ratios across all properties, so you can see how the portfolio is actually performing.
• Fiscal overview. A consolidated view of your rental income to help you prepare — useful context, not tax advice or a filed return.

Because it's the same account, a lease you start on the phone shows up on the web instantly, and a property you build on the web is ready in the app. For a landlord managing a French rental from abroad, that two-surface flexibility is the point: do quick things on the phone, do considered things on the laptop.

This is the part of the update that earns its keep over a full year. French rental property carries a slow stream of legal obligations, and missing one is the kind of thing you only discover at the worst moment. The new Compliance Cockpit gives each property a single score — what's done, what's due and what's missing — covering the obligations a landlord actually has to meet, on both app and web:

• DPE letting-ban status — class G can no longer be let on a new lease since 1 Jan 2025, class F from 2028, class E from 2034. The cockpit shows your status from the class on file so you know if the property is still rentable.
• Mandatory diagnostics & maintenance — boiler service (entretien chaudière), chimney sweep (ramonage), heat-pump/AC upkeep, gas and electrical safety checks (every 6 years), DPE validity, septic-tank emptying — each detected for your property and tracked with email reminders before each deadline.
• SIRET / LMNP — furnished rentals must register on the INPI guichet unique within 15 days; the cockpit flags it when your property is furnished.
• Short-term registration & taxe de séjour — for a meublé de tourisme, the cockpit tracks your registration number and tourist-tax rate.

Each item links straight to where you fix it, and a **vault-linked compliance *récap*** lets you generate a single document showing where everything stands. We even put this engine behind a free public checker — check your property's compliance without an account. None of it is legal advice — it's a checklist and a calendar, automated — but for a non-resident landlord, automating the calendar is exactly the part that's hard to do at distance.

The single biggest addition in this update is that Rent is no longer long-term only. You set each property to long-term or short-term, and the app reshapes itself — documents, tax regime and tracking all follow the type. If you let a place on Airbnb, Booking or directly as a meublé de tourisme, the short-term side now covers the obligations that are genuinely fiddly to get right from abroad:

• Stays log — record each booking (nights, dates, amount) with no guest personal data stored. This feeds everything below.
• Taxe de séjour — set your commune's rate (the app can fetch the official rate from the government dataset) and it computes what you owe per stay. It also makes the liability clear: Airbnb and Booking usually collect and remit it for you; for direct bookings you collect and remit it yourself.
• Guest invoices (factures) — generate a proper per-stay invoice in seconds.
• Micro-BIC guidance — live advice on your regime under the loi Le Meur (2024): classified meublé de tourisme gets a 50% allowance (up to €77,700), unclassified 30% (up to €15,000). The app shows whether getting classé is worth it for your income.
• Registration & night cap — store your registration number (mandatory on every listing; fines reach €10,000 unregistered, €20,000 for a false one) and track the 120-night cap for a primary residence.
• Seasonal documents — a contrat de location saisonnière and an état descriptif, on top of the long-term set, for 23 templates in total.

For an expat who bought a place partly to let it short-term when they're away, this closes the loop: the same app that does your long-term bail now keeps your Airbnb compliant and your micro-BIC honest.

A real complaint about French landlord software is that it assumes you already speak fluent administratif. This update pushes back on that in three ways.

A new-user onboarding wizard. When you first set up a property, the app now walks you through it step by step instead of dropping you into a blank form. For a first-time landlord — or an experienced one who's never done it in France — that's the difference between finishing and giving up.

Plainer language. The update trims jargon across the interface. Terms that need explaining get a short, plain-English (or plain-French) gloss rather than assuming you know what a régularisation des charges is. This pairs naturally with the bilingual design: the UI in English, the documents in French, and the in-app help explaining the French terms as you go.

An encrypted document vault. Every document you generate — and any you upload — lives in an encrypted vault, EU-hosted. It's the single filing surface for the lease, which matters because the discipline of keeping everything in one place is what saves you when a tenant disputes an état des lieux two years later. The compliance récap draws from this same vault.

Together these make the product usable by someone who is not a French administrative expert — which, if you're managing from abroad, is most likely you.

The pricing is deliberately not a subscription, which matters if you resent paying 6–10% to an agency or a recurring fee to software you use a few times a month.

There is no subscription and no auto-renewal. The first property genuinely costs nothing to set up and run for its first ten documents — enough to do a bail, a first état des lieux, a deposit document and several months of quittances before you decide whether to buy a full pack. Additional properties are a flat one-time €49 each (50 generations).

Put against an agency's gestion locative fee — commonly 6–10% of the annual rent, every year — a one-time pack is the obvious math for a landlord who's willing to do the admin themselves. Compare the full landscape in our guide to the best rental apps for French landlords.

Ready to try it? Start with the web back-office or download the app — the first property is free.

Plenty of French landlord tools exist. The reason this update matters for the expat and non-resident landlord specifically comes down to three things that are hard to find together.

Bilingual, genuinely. Most French rental SaaS is French-only. If your working language is English, doing a bail and a régularisation des charges in a French-only interface is a slow, error-prone exercise. Here the interface runs in English while the output is correct French — you understand what you're doing and the document is right.

Built for distance. The combination of a native app (act on tenant messages and lease anniversaries from a phone) and a web back-office (set up and review from a laptop) is exactly the shape of managing a French rental from abroad. You're not tied to being in France to keep the paperwork moving.

The calendar problem, solved. The single hardest thing to do at distance is remember the recurring obligations — the boiler service you can't physically check, the ramonage nobody local reminds you about. The new deadline tracker is the part of this update that most directly addresses the non-resident's actual pain: it remembers so you don't have to, and it loops the tenant in via their maintenance cards.

This is the gérer location sans agence case made workable for someone who isn't in the country.

If you want to test it on a real property, here's the fastest path.

1. Pick your surface. If you're setting up a property from scratch, start on the web back-office — the richer property editor makes initial entry easier. If you just want a quittance fast, grab the app.
2. Create your first property. It's free. The onboarding wizard walks you through address, lease terms, rent and charges, and tenant details.
3. Generate your first documents. Produce the bail (or just a quittance if the lease already exists). You have 10 free generations on the first property — plenty to evaluate.
4. Turn on automatic quittances. Once the lease is configured, set the monthly rent receipt to send automatically.
5. Add your compliance deadlines. Enter the boiler, ramonage, heat-pump and DPE dates so the tracker can remind you — this is the bit you'll thank yourself for.
6. (Optional) Activate the tenant portal for €7 if you'd rather your tenant message in-app and see their maintenance cards.

That's a working setup for the price of nothing on the first property. If you later add a second property, it's a one-time €49.

Download on Google Play or the App Store, or start on the web.