Cost Rental Guide
How Cost Rental works in Ireland: eligibility, rents, providers, and current schemes.
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Social Housing Software for Ireland's Local Authorities and AHBs
Automate differential rent calculations, cost rental administration, tenant management, and HAPM compliance reporting. One platform for every housing scheme.
31 Local Authorities
Automated Rent Calculations
GDPR Compliant
WHO IS IT FOR
What Type of Housing Organisation Are You?
Rentalize is built for every organisation that manages social, affordable, or cost rental housing in Ireland.
Local Authorities
Manage differential rent schemes across your entire housing stock. Automate rent assessments, arrears tracking, and RTB compliance for all 31 councils.
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Approved Housing Bodies
Manage cost rental eligibility, tenant onboarding, HAPM reporting, and property maintenance across your entire portfolio from one dashboard.
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Housing Associations
Whether you manage 50 units or 5,000, Rentalize scales to your portfolio with role-based access, bulk operations, and automated workflows.
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Facilities Managers
Coordinate maintenance, contractor management, and asset lifecycle tracking for social and affordable housing estates.
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FEATURES
What Does Social Housing Software Need to Do?
Managing social and affordable housing in Ireland requires software that handles Irish-specific rent schemes, compliance frameworks, and reporting requirements.
Differential Rent Engine
Automates rent calculations for all 31 local authority schemes. Applies each council's charge rates, income disregards, child allowances, and rent caps.
Cost Rental Administration
Manage eligibility assessments, income verification, affordability checks, tenant allocations, and rent setting for cost rental developments.
Rent Arrears Management
Real-time arrears tracking, automated payment reminders, one-click arrears analysis reports, and integration with direct debit and GoCardless.
HAPM Reporting
Generate Housing Association Performance Management reports required by the ICSH. Automated data collection, benchmarking, and submission-ready outputs.
RTB Registration
Register tenancies with the Residential Tenancies Board directly from the platform. Track registration status and renewal dates across your portfolio.
Tenant Portal
Self-service portal where tenants can view rent statements, make payments, log maintenance requests, and update their details. Reduces admin calls.
Maintenance and Repairs
End-to-end repair request workflow: tenant logs issue, system triages, assigns to contractor, tracks SLA, and closes with tenant confirmation.
Bulk Tenant Communications
Send rent statements, arrears notices, and general updates via email, SMS, or in-app notifications. Bulk operations for thousands of tenants at once.
GDPR and Data Security
EU-hosted data centres, encrypted storage, role-based access controls, audit logging, and full GDPR compliance for handling sensitive tenant data.
WHY RENTALIZE
What Makes Rentalize Different from Other Housing Software?
| Capability | Rentalize | Legacy Systems |
|---|---|---|
| Differential rent for all 31 councils | Built-in | Manual setup per council |
| Cost rental administration | Full workflow | Not available |
| Tenant self-service portal | Included | Extra cost or not available |
| HAPM compliance reporting | Automated | Manual data export |
| GoCardless direct debit | Native integration | Third-party add-on |
| Cloud-based | Yes (EU data centres) | Often on-premise |
| Mobile access | Fully responsive | Desktop only |
| Setup time | Weeks | Months |
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions About Social Housing Software
Social housing software is a property management platform designed for local authorities, Approved Housing Bodies, and housing associations that manage social, affordable, and cost rental homes. It automates rent calculations, tenant management, arrears tracking, maintenance workflows, and compliance reporting specific to the social housing sector.
Irish housing associations use property management platforms built for the social housing sector. Rentalize is a cloud-based platform that handles differential rent calculations for all 31 local authority schemes, cost rental administration, HAPM reporting, RTB registration, and tenant self-service portals. It is designed specifically for Irish AHBs and local authorities.
Yes. Rentalize has a built-in differential rent engine that covers all 31 local authority schemes in Ireland. It applies each council's specific charge rates, income disregards, child allowances, and minimum/maximum rent caps. Rent assessments can be run individually or in bulk for annual reviews.
Yes. Rentalize includes a complete cost rental workflow covering eligibility assessment (income limits, affordability test), tenant allocation, rent setting based on development costs, income reviews, and reporting. It is one of the few platforms in Ireland with native cost rental support.
HAPM stands for Housing Association Performance Management. It is a reporting framework administered by the Irish Council for Social Housing (ICSH) that measures the performance of Approved Housing Bodies. Rentalize automates the data collection and report generation required for HAPM submissions, reducing the administrative burden significantly.
Yes. Rentalize stores all data in EU-based data centres with encryption at rest and in transit. The platform includes role-based access controls, audit logging, data retention policies, and tools to handle subject access requests and data deletion requests as required by GDPR.
Most organisations are live within a few weeks. Rentalize is cloud-based, so there is no hardware to install. The onboarding team handles data migration, user training, and configuration of your specific rent schemes and workflows. The timeline depends on portfolio size and data complexity.
SPECIALISED MODULES
Built for Specific Housing Schemes
Rentalize includes dedicated modules for the schemes Irish housing organisations administer.
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