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• Per nation, and explicit about where the line falls. Possession notices, deposit deadlines and property transaction tax are written per nation across all four and selected from the property's own postcode: Section 8 in England, RHW16, RHW20 and RHW23 in Wales, the Notice to Leave in Scotland, the Notice to Quit in Northern Ireland, Land Transaction Tax in Wales and Land and Buildings Transaction Tax in Scotland. Deposit clocks differ too, and Stead runs the right one: 30 days in England and Wales, 30 working days in Scotland, 28 calendar days in Northern Ireland. Tenant rights and landlord duties are a narrower corpus, written for England and Wales; Scotland and Northern Ireland get a referral card to Shelter Scotland and Housing Rights rather than a restatement Stead has not verified.
• The property record survives the move. Property handover is built and in beta, in two forms. Passive inheritance means someone moving into an address Stead already knows picks up the boiler, appliances, rooms and service history that belong to that address. An active single-use handover code lets the outgoing occupant pass it on deliberately, and the move-day archive records what was handed over.
• The tenant owns their account. The landlord and tenant link is built and in beta, and the tenant side is an independent free account, never a guest seat inside a landlord's. The renter keeps the account, the documents and the repair log when the tenancy ends, which is the opposite of how landlord software usually treats a tenant.
• Portfolio and agency tools at no extra price. A portfolio hub, rent roll, an agency organisation of up to 10 staff joined by a rotating code, per-property consent before an agent can see a rent ledger, and a Monday compliance digest for the agent. Built and in beta, and included in the Pro subscription today rather than sold as a separate tier.

• Live EPC lookup across England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland with the full certificate stored
• Smart diagnostics that know your boiler, walls, heating system, and which mode you're in
• 20 UK essential maintenance presets, filtered to your mode, plus unlimited custom tasks, with search and a confirmation prompt before deleting
• Document vault with 95 UK household categories across 15 groups, full text search, amber and red expiry warnings, real PDF certificates generated on demand
• Floorplan editor with walls, stairs, windows, doors, and polygon rooms, shared across users at the same address
• Energy bill tracking with month on month comparison and EPC informed tips
• Smart home picker covering 30 UK providers and 3 voice assistants. Honest status: the Amazon Alexa skill is live; the Octopus Energy smart meter link and Home Assistant, LIFX, SwitchBot and Shelly device control are in beta; Philips Hue, Google Home and SmartThings are in development
• 12 emergency scenario guides, including fire, with the correct UK numbers (gas leak 0800 111 999, power cut 105)
• Moving home toolkit with a 41 item checklist (reorderable, editable, with quick add at the bottom), area research, and a library of 27 viewing questions
• Renters' rights and landlord obligations content written for England and Wales: 25 tenant rights and 30 landlord duties in England, 16 and 19 in Wales, with a postcode-derived jurisdiction picker and a built-in plain English Q&A. Scotland and Northern Ireland get a referral card to Shelter Scotland and Housing Rights instead
• Portfolio and agency tools for landlords with more than one home: a portfolio hub, rent roll, notifications grouped per property, and an agency organisation of up to 10 staff joined by a rotating code, with per-property consent before an agent sees a rent ledger and a Monday compliance digest for the agent. Built and in beta, included in Pro at no extra cost
• Push and email reminders with per category delivery settings and a daily, weekly, or monthly digest option
• Sign in with email, Google, Apple, or Microsoft, with optional two-factor authentication (authenticator app codes, recovery codes, and a trust-this-device option)
• The landlord set: four nation possession notice generator, confirmation of service evidence pack, tax-ready quarterly profit and loss with one tap export, compliance reminders for safety duties, and energy efficiency forecasting. Included in the Pro subscription at no extra cost, with no separate landlord price. Notice wording has not yet been reviewed by a housing solicitor, and every draft says so on its face
• The renter set: repair issue logging with timestamps, a deposit deadline tracker, a tenancy document vault, plain English rights and an exportable evidence pack. Free on principle and never gated, whether or not the landlord uses Stead. A renter linked to a landlord on Stead holds their own independent free account, never a guest seat inside the landlord's, and keeps it when the tenancy ends
• Property handover, built and in beta: the record belongs to the address, so whoever moves in next inherits the boiler, appliances, rooms and service history, either passively or through a single-use handover code, with a move-day archive of what was passed on
• Smart document scanning, built and in beta and a Pro feature: point the camera at a certificate, or drop a PDF in on the web, and the title, category and expiry fill themselves in. Uploading by hand is always free
• Smart meter data through the Octopus Energy link, pulling usage direct from the meter. Built and in beta, not yet verified end to end on a real Octopus account
• Stead Tools: 88 free calculators and checkers on the public website, no sign up, including the Stamp Duty edge case calculator, Council Tax band challenger, leasehold service charge analyser and Child Benefit charge optimiser

Coming through 2026 and early 2027:

• App Store and Google Play release with paid Pro tier
• Professional review of the terms of service and privacy policy (both are published and in force today; the review is the outstanding part)
• n3rgy smart meter support alongside the Octopus link
• Solicitor review of the possession notice wording before any live use

• 1 May 2026: Section 21 (no fault eviction) abolished under the Renters' Rights Act 2025
• Around 11 million renters affected across England
• Awaab's Law: binding hazard response deadlines on social landlords in England since 27 October 2025, broadening to more hazards on 30 November 2026, subject to parliamentary approval. Extension to the private rented sector is provided for by the Renters' Rights Act 2025 but has not commenced and carries no confirmed date
• Making Tax Digital for Income Tax: quarterly digital reporting began on 6 April 2026 for landlords whose qualifying income is above £50,000, dropping to £30,000 from April 2027 and £20,000 from April 2028. Qualifying income is gross property and self-employment income taken from the tax return for the year two years earlier, so entry on 6 April 2026 is decided by the 2024/25 return rather than by what is earned in 2026/27
• The 2030 MEES upgrade, confirmed in the Warm Homes Plan of 21 January 2026: all privately rented homes in England and Wales at EPC band C by 1 October 2030, capped at £10,000 per property, with the implementing regulations still to be laid
• No consumer facing UK tool currently exists that ties all of this together for the household actually living in the property

"UK households deserve a home operating system built around the way British property actually works. EPCs, the Renters' Rights Act, gas safety, council tax, smart devices, every certificate and reminder that keeps a home running. Stead pulls it all into one central place that knows about your specific property."

"The boring bits of running a UK home deserve a considered tool. Not another notification factory, not a generic app that doesn't know what an EPC is. Just something that quietly remembers what your house needs to know about itself."

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