12 Marine Drive
Umhlanga · 2 bed apartment
Monthly rentR 18 500
Lease ends28 Feb 2027
Founding cohort open · KwaZulu-Natal
The Trust Layer for South African rentals.
Everything a letting agent does, without the commission. Applicants judged on a fuller picture than a credit score alone, rent collected on the 1st by DebiCheck, and a regulated property-practitioner trust being built for the deposits. You approve. You never chase.
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- 90 secondsScreening decision, by design
- The 1stRent collected by DebiCheck
- PPRATrust account in build
- POPIAInformation Officer registered
The product
Your whole portfolio, on one screen.
Six views, one ledger. Click through the console below. It is a faithful mock-up of the interface, running on invented data so you can see how a month is meant to behave.
Portfolio
Money
Operations
Rent collected · last 12 months
R0
100%
On time rate
no change
9 days
Average days to let
↓ 6 days
0
Arrears cases
no change
| Tenant | Property | Due | Amount | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. Naidoo | 12 Marine Dr, Umhlanga | 1 Jun | R 18 500 | Paid |
| T. Mkhize | 4B Florida Rd, Durban | 1 Jun | R 12 800 | Paid |
| L. van Wyk | 27 Chartwell Dr, Ballito | 1 Jun | R 43 000 | Paid |
Portfolio · 3 doors · 100% occupied
Let
4B Florida Road
Durban · 1 bed loft
Monthly rentR 12 800
Lease ends31 Oct 2026
27 Chartwell Drive
Ballito · 4 bed house
Monthly rentR 43 000
Lease ends31 Jul 2027
R 74 300
Gross monthly
100%
Occupancy
0
Compliance flags
Tenants · Tenant Score at application
14 mo
on time
7 mo
on time
22 mo
on time
| Applicant | Applied for | Received | Score | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N. Dlamini | 4B Florida Rd | 12 Jun | 88 | Awaiting your call |
| R. Pillay | 4B Florida Rd | 12 Jun | 71 | Affordability review |
Collections · last 12 months
R0
1st
Collection date
DebiCheck
Mandate type
0
Failed debits
| Run | Doors | Cleared | Amount | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jun 2026 | 3 | 1 Jun, 06:12 | R 74 300 | Settled |
| 1 May 2026 | 3 | 1 May, 06:09 | R 74 300 | Settled |
| 1 Apr 2026 | 3 | 1 Apr, 06:15 | R 74 300 | Settled |
How deposits will be held · never on our balance sheet
Illustration only. LeasEase does not hold any deposits yet, and the trust account and the principal shown below do not exist yet.
R0
PPRA
Trust regime
Ring-fenced
Never operating funds
POPIA
Every event logged
Audit trail · 27 Chartwell Drive
Deposit received into trust
R 86 000 · 24 Jul 2024, 11:04 · ref DEP-0031
Reconciled and signed off
Principal sign off · 24 Jul 2024, 16:22
Interest apportioned to the tenant
R 4 120 · 30 Jun 2026, 00:05 · automated
Statement shared with the tenant
Viewed by L. van Wyk · 30 Jun 2026, 08:41
Open tickets · 2 active · 0 breaching SLA
Urgent
4 hrs
SLA left
Routine
6 days
SLA left
Closed
R 1 240
cost
R 3 090
Committed, 12 months
1.4 days
Average resolution
100%
Within SLA
Every figure above is sample data, shown to demonstrate the interface Focus the menu, then use ← → to move between views
Why now
The law changed. Most landlords have not.
On 14 April 2026 the Rental Housing Amendment Act came into force and quietly moved the goalposts on written leases, deposit handling and the paper trail behind every eviction. Being organised stopped being optional.
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14 Apr2026
The Amendment Act took effect. Non-compliant lettings now carry real exposure, including fines and, at the serious end, imprisonment. The paperwork you used to shrug at is now the paperwork that protects you.
Rental Housing Amendment Act
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5 of 6
Of South Africa's six largest rental agency brands, five score below 3 out of 10 with their own customers. The service landlords pay a commission for is rated poorly by the people paying for it.
HelloPeter brand ratings
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94%
Of South African evictions skip the tenant-circumstances enquiry the law requires, which is precisely how a landlord with a good case still loses it in court.
Oxford Human Rights Hub
The trust layer
One layer. Three pillars.
The work of an agent, a bookkeeper and a compliance officer, on rails, time-stamped and visible to everyone entitled to see it.
Deposits nobody will be able to touch
Deposits will be held in a PPRA property-practitioner trust account under a registered principal's Fidelity Fund Certificate. Never an operating account. One shared ledger that the landlord, the tenant and the auditor will all read from. We are building the regulated trust the money will flow through.
A POPIA-logged, time-stamped audit trail built for an auditor to read end to end
Rent that arrives on the 1st
Bank-authenticated DebiCheck mandates pull the rent, and the month runs itself from there. Arrears sequences, CPI escalations and compliant notices all fire on schedule. You open the app to make decisions, not to chase people.
Built so the routine month needs nothing from you at all
Protection, built honestly
A rent protection layer is in development and will launch when the underwriting is signed, not a day sooner, and we will not pretend otherwise. What protects you in the meantime is the Tenant Score on every applicant, a bank-authenticated DebiCheck mandate, and early legal action from day 31 while it is still a conversation and not a court case.
No launch date we cannot keep, and no underwriter named until one is signed
How it works
ID number in. Signed lease out.
One identity number goes in one side. A sealed, compliant lease comes out the other, and the screening decision lands in 90 seconds.
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List it in four minutes
Add the property, set the rent, and LeasEase syndicates the listing. Photos, compliance documents and the lease template are already handled.
You spend: 4 minutes
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Every applicant, judged the same way
Each application is assessed on a fuller picture than a credit score alone and returns a Tenant Score. Same criteria, same evidence, every time, which is also what keeps you on the right side of the fairness rules.
Decision in: 90 seconds
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Rent lands, ledger updates
DebiCheck collects on the 1st. The arrears sequence starts the moment a payment misses, and legal action follows from day 31. Every cent shows on a live ledger your accountant can open without phoning anyone.
You do: nothing
Where we actually are
The honest version.
Most rental startups tell you what they will be. Here is what is working today and what is still being built, in plain language, so you can decide with the real picture in front of you.
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Working
Tenant Score
Every applicant assessed on the same criteria, with the reasoning on record.
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Working
DebiCheck collection
Bank authenticated mandates, collected on the 1st, reconciled to a live ledger.
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Working
Early legal action from day 31
The arrears sequence runs automatically and escalates before a small gap becomes a court case.
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In build
PPRA trust account
Deposits will be held in a property-practitioner trust account under a registered principal's Fidelity Fund Certificate. We are building it and we do not hold deposits yet.
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In build
Rent protection
In development. It launches when the underwriting is signed. We will not name an insurer or a date before then.
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Open
Founding cohort
We are signing the first landlords in KwaZulu-Natal now. Seats are open and nothing has been allocated yet.
The honest comparison
Still paying your agent 8%?
The old arrangement works beautifully for the agent. Here is the same month, both ways.
The old way
Your letting agent
Priced as a slice of your income, forever.
- 8% of every rand of rent, every month, plus a full month's finder's fee each time a tenant changes. Your rent goes up and so does their cut.
- Vetting is a gut feel and a phone call. You learn about the arrears the month the rent does not arrive.
- Rent reaches you when their reconciliation clears. Sometimes the 3rd. Sometimes the 7th.
- Statements are PDFs you have to ask for. The deposit sits in their account, on their terms, on their timeline.
LeasEase
A fraction of the cost
One flat monthly fee per door that does not grow with your rent.
- No commission. No finder's fee. One simple subscription with a 14-day trial on every tier, and you can cancel whenever you like.
- Every applicant screened identically, on a fuller picture than a credit score alone, with the reasoning on record.
- Rent collected on the 1st by bank-authenticated DebiCheck, with the arrears sequence running automatically and legal action from day 31.
- A live ledger, and a regulated trust being built for the deposits. You, your tenant and your accountant read the same numbers at the same moment.
Due diligence
Boring where it counts.
If you are a landlord thinking about a deposit, a principal considering acting for us, or an investor running a first pass, this is the part that should reassure you.
PPRA trust account, in build
Deposits will be held in a property-practitioner trust account under a registered principal's Fidelity Fund Certificate
POPIA by design
Information Officer registered with the Information Regulator, published privacy notice, and consent that defaults to decline
Trade mark applications filed
Eight applications lodged with CIPC on 21 July 2026. We use LeasEase™ until they register
Registered in South Africa
LeasEase (Pty) Ltd, registration number 2026/353559/07, incorporated and tax registered
Aligned to the new Act
Written leases, deposit handling and notice trails built to the April 2026 rules
Something you can actually click
The console on this page mirrors the interface we are building, running on invented data
Questions, answered plainly
Before you ask.
If something here is not covered, write to us at info@leasease.co.za and a founder will answer.
When do you launch?
We are signing a founding cohort in KwaZulu-Natal now. The wider rollout follows that cohort, and it follows when the work is finished, not when a date on a slide says so.
Places will be offered in the order requests were received, and founding members will keep their benefits for life.
What is actually working today?
Three things: the Tenant Score on every applicant, DebiCheck rent collection on the 1st, and an arrears sequence with legal action from day 31.
Two things are still being built. The PPRA trust account for deposits is in progress and we do not hold deposits yet. Rent protection is in development and launches once underwriting is signed. We will not quote you a date we cannot keep. The section above sets all of this out line by line.
Where will my tenant's deposit sit?
Deposits will be held in a PPRA property-practitioner trust account under a registered principal's Fidelity Fund Certificate. Never in an operating account and never on our balance sheet.
Every movement will be signed, time stamped and POPIA logged, so the audit trail is something you could hand to an auditor without a covering explanation. To be clear about the timing, we are building that trust now and we are not holding any deposits until it is in place.
What will it cost?
One flat monthly subscription per door with a 14-day trial on every tier. No commission, no finder's fees, and nothing that scales with your rent, which is why it works out to a fraction of what a traditional agent costs over a year.
Cancel whenever you like. Founding cohort members lock in their rate for life.
How do you decide who gets approved?
Every applicant is assessed the same way and returns a Tenant Score built on a fuller picture than a credit score alone. We publish the outcome and the reasoning to both sides.
We keep the underlying method private, partly because it is ours and partly because a scoring model you can read is a scoring model you can game. The decision is always yours. The Score is the evidence.
I already use an agent. Is this a fight?
No. Plenty of good agents do work worth paying for. What we object to is a percentage of your income, forever, for admin that infrastructure now does better.
If your agent earns their commission, keep them. If what you actually get is a monthly statement and a phone number that rings out, you have options.
LeasEase™
Be one of the first.
A founding place in the KwaZulu-Natal cohort. Founding member benefits for life, and a product shaped around your portfolio rather than someone else's.
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