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Compliance cost calculator

What is manual compliance really costing you?

Enter your portfolio details below. See the true cost of manual compliance across admin time, fine exposure, missed revenue, and reactive stress — then see how much you could take back with a structured England-and-Wales compliance workflow.

In Wales, Rent Smart Wales licence audits already make evidence discipline part of agency life. In England, local authority MEES checks, HHSRS enforcement, and the Renters' Rights Act 2025 landlord database are pushing agents in the same direction. This is what compliance is costing you. Right now. Every month.

Your estimated annual compliance exposure
£0

Illustrative estimate. These figures model typical compliance time and exposure using standard assumptions (e.g. admin hours, rework, fine likelihood) — they are an indication of the cost of manual compliance, not a quote or a measurement of your actual costs. The statutory penalty maxima referenced are the legal ceilings, not the amount you would necessarily be charged.

Updates live as you adjust your details below
Your portfolio details
#
properties
Total rental units in your portfolio.
£
/ hour
Property manager or admin hourly rate.
3 hrs
1 hrSite visit + report write-up + filing8 hrs
Time for one full inspection and report. Most agents spend two to four hours per property.
10%
5%Missing cert, expired doc, unverified check70%
Estimated proportion of units where something is missing or needs chasing after the visit.
Compliance fine reference
Wales — exposure points

Under Renting Homes (Wales) Act duties, Rent Smart Wales licence conditions, and related Welsh private rented sector requirements.

Rent Smart Wales non-registration£150 / £250 fixed penalty
EICR non-complianceup to £30,000
EPC not provided£200
Gas safety breachcriminal / unlimited
FFHH unfitnessrent not payable while unfit
England — exposure points

For English letting agents and landlords under Renters' Rights Act 2025 and Housing Act 2004 enforcement.

HMO & improvement notice breachup to £40,000
Information Sheet 2026 non-serviceup to £7,000
Banning order breachup to £40,000
Gas safety breachcriminal / unlimited
Smoke & CO alarm breachup to £5,000
Where the cost is going
Admin payroll
£0
0 hrs/yr
Fine exposure (indicative)
£0
0 gaps × £1,500/gap (indicative)
Missed revenue
£0
0 hrs redirectable
Reactive stress days
0
0 scrambles/yr
Before vs after HouseComply
Compliance admin hours per year
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Manual process (inspections + rework + monthly admin)With HouseComply
Return visits and rework events per year
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Back to site, re-enter data, chase missing docsValidation catches gaps before leaving the property
What those freed hours could do instead
New lettings
0 viewings
Hours redirected to tenant finding, viewings, and onboarding instead of chasing compliance paperwork.
Portfolio growth
0 new properties
Capacity freed up to bring on new landlord clients. Each new property managed becomes recurring monthly income.
Stress days returned
0 days
Reactive scrambles, last-minute certificate chasing, and unexpected council queries — largely eliminated.

That number is the cost of doing it manually.

HouseComply turns one site visit into a structured, time-stamped report. The inspection is captured on site, checked against required evidence in real time, and locked into a report with photos, timestamps, signatures, and a clear audit trail — before you leave the property. No return trips. No re-entry. No "I'll find that cert later." No file going cold.

Estimated annual saving
£0
based on the figures above

Three of your own properties. Thirty days. No card.

Don't take our word for the saving. Run three real properties through the full HouseComply workflow — office pre-fill, on-site inspection, automated checks against our 110-rule England & Wales compliance library (in qualified legal review) — and see the reports and the record of what was checked for yourself before committing to anything.

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