REA — Real Estate Assistant Beta testing

Know what your property
actually earns you.

REA is a practical real-estate decision-support system designed to help property owners and managers understand performance, monitor cash flow and make better-informed decisions about the assets they manage.

It brings property performance, income, expenses and rent collection into one structured view — while keeping your own properties completely separate from properties you manage on behalf of others.

Operated from the EU · Free to use

I

What is REA?

Property ownership is not simply about collecting rent. The real questions are:

REA brings the financial information needed to answer these questions into one place. For properties you own, REA measures performance using the capital you have actually invested, including acquisition costs, and tracks the resulting cash flows and returns. For properties you manage for others, it focuses on the management ledger — rent collection, outstanding balances, fees and the owner's net position — without treating someone else's money as your own.

The principle is simple: the economics of owning an asset and managing someone else's asset are not the same, so REA does not treat them as the same.

II

Two distinct ways to manage property

Every property in REA follows one of two tracks.

Track 01

Property you own

When your own capital is at risk, performance matters.

  • Return on investment
  • Internal rate of return (IRR)
  • Cash-on-cash return
  • Net yield
  • Capital gain
  • Cash flow over time
  • Acquisition costs and total capital invested

The objective is to give you a clearer picture of what the asset is actually earning you, rather than relying on headline rent or purchase price alone.

Track 02

Property you manage for someone else

When the property belongs to a client, friend, family member or another owner, the economics are different.

  • Rent billed and collected
  • Outstanding and overdue balances
  • Management fees
  • Recoverable costs
  • The owner's net position

Client property remains separate from your own portfolio, so the performance of assets you manage for others cannot artificially improve your own investment returns.

III

From financial data to decision intelligence

REA is designed around a simple principle: better decisions start with a clearer understanding of the asset.

Rather than forcing property owners to reconstruct spreadsheets every quarter, REA turns the information they already have into structured performance measures and cash-flow insights.

For owned properties, returns are calculated from the actual capital invested and dated cash flows — including costs that are often overlooked when assessing performance, such as transfer fees, legal costs and agent commissions. For managed properties, the focus shifts from investment return to collection, billing and the financial position of the property owner.

This distinction is central to how REA works.

IV

Built for real-world property management

REA is designed for situations that standard property trackers often handle poorly. It supports:

Multiple properties Multiple tenants Different lease structures Monthly / quarterly / annual rent schedules Custom payment schedules Security deposits Shared costs Multiple currencies Properties across different countries Separate ownership & management portfolios

It also accommodates payment structures such as dated instalments or post-dated cheques, which are common in some real-estate markets.

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Who is REA for?

Property ownerswho want a clearer view of how their assets are performing.
Landlordsmanaging one or several properties and looking beyond rent collection to actual investment performance.
Property managerswho need to keep client properties and their own investments completely separate.
International investorswith multi-currency portfolios who need a consistent way to monitor assets across markets.
Small management businesseslooking for a structured way to manage rent billing and collection across a portfolio.
VI

What REA is not

REA is deliberately focused.

Not a deal-underwriting platform

REA is designed primarily for assets you already own or manage. It does not provide live market data, comparable transactions or an independent market valuation. Market values and assumptions are entered by the user.

Not accounting software

It does not replace double-entry accounting, tax filing or bank-feed systems. It is designed to complement your existing accounting and professional advisers.

Not financial advice

REA provides calculations and decision-support based on information and assumptions supplied by the user. Decisions should be independently assessed where professional advice is required.

This is intentional. REA is built to help you understand the asset better and make better-informed decisions — not to make those decisions for you.

VII

Why REA exists

REA was built from a practical problem. Existing tools often separate property accounting from investment performance, while real-world property owners and managers need both. They also tend to struggle with situations where one person owns some properties and manages others — particularly when rent, expenses and currencies differ across properties.

REA was designed to keep those realities separate while bringing the underlying financial picture together.

Built from the perspective of someone who has managed investments, finance and complex commercial operations — not simply from the perspective of a software developer.

REA — Real Estate Assistant

Practical real-estate decision intelligence
for owners and managers.

REA is free to use. Operated from the EU. For further information, please refer to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service within the application, or get in touch directly.

StatusBeta testing — Coming soon
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