Research & Resources

Renters abandon long, clunky applications the same way shoppers abandon carts. Here’s what property managers can borrow from e-commerce checkout.

Your listings now syndicate to Dwellsy, plus Command Center, listing fee, application, and reporting updates.

Property managers can now list single-family and multifamily vacancies on Dwellsy, a free US rental marketplace, straight from RentEngine.

Q3 2026 single-family rental data: preleasing cuts vacant days, one price cut adds 17 days on market, special offers make no difference, and AI answers 87.1% of prospect messages.

A rebuilt rental application with customizable income requirements and instant document checks, a new fraud flag for last-minute self-guided bookings, plus Command Center, fees, and reporting updates.

RECON 2027 is a two-day conference for leasing leaders in Park City, Utah, March 31 to April 2.

You can now pause RentEngine AI for 30 minutes or 1 hour while you take over a conversation and attach files to approval and rejection emails, plus Command Center and API updates.

Sign in to RentEngine with Google or Microsoft, Command Center 2.0 comes to the mobile app, plus a longer move-in window on rental applications.

Command Center 2.0 is here, with a new Board view for working your pipeline, urgent tasks pinned to the top of your Inbox, and email conversations alongside your texts and calls.

Command Center 2.0 is live for every RentEngine account. Leasing agents get a Board view by stage, email alongside texts, saved filters, and Broadcast.

Catch every RentEngine update in a new changelog panel, read a note's full edit history right under the note, sync specific Buildium property groups, and check fraud flag status in the Prospect report.

The One-Person Leasing Playbook

Customize the fields that sync from your PMS, add conditions when approving an application, plus new API functionality.

New agent performance dashboard, custom KPI scorecards, scheduled reports, tons of new filters, and activity heatmap

The One-Agent Leasing Playbook

Record and transcribe calls between your team and prospects, and set how early a self-guided access code works.

Leasing Office Hours recap — August 20, 2026

Connect the RentEngine MCP to your AI assistant, then ask it to pull comps, analyze applicants, schedule showings, and more in plain English.

RentEngine MCP connects to your AI assistant, collect rental applications for off-market units, and log showings held outside RentEngine.

Live tour assistant, security deposit ranges, instantly filtered matching listings and customize who gets notified for unregistered leads.

The Mixed-Portfolio Leasing Playbook

How leasing software is priced in 2026: compare per-unit, per-seat, and per-application models, plus the add-on fees to check before you choose.

Instantly translate messages inside the Command Center, self-touring prospects can tour a new unit in one tap, plus more application and reporting updates.

Connect RentEngine to monday.com to sync your leasing performance data directly to your team’s workspace.

Q2 2026 SFR leasing data: record lead volume, DOM below 30 days, and AI now resolving 55% of applications without a human. Get the full report.

Situation-based coupon codes for applications, persistent follow-ups for missing documents, special offer mass texts, and smarter Command Center search.

Multifamily communities get their own settings hub, community-level defaults, and a self-guided tour flow that cross-sells the whole building.

Connect RentEngine to PropertyManagement.com to automatically sync verified leasing performance metrics and earn the Speedy Leasing certification.

Accompanied showings can now run as video tours, Fraud Guard gains new flags and holds, and applications open up to international applicants.

Market Tool sets your comp filters automatically, new fraud prevention settings, and showing types can change after a showing is booked.

Reference checks now carry the applicant's signed permission, the Agent Performance report adds five new columns, and Market Tool picks up year built on comp listings.

New activity indicators on rental applications, auto-saved Market Tool searches and price drop history, and Google Tag Manager tracking for ad attribution.

Fraud Guard 2.0 is live: AI-powered ID forensics, behavioral fraud detection, and the full seven-layer protection stack

Canadian property managers can now get their vacancies in front of renters on one of the country's most-visited rental platforms.

New fraud detection forensics, more updates to RentEngine Applications, and a slate of changes to how you manage and edit Properties.

Handling for unassigned leads, two new Fraud Guard protections against ID scams, the ability to skip sections in rental applications, and a batch of dashboard, mobile, and API improvements.

RentEngine and Rental Beast Partner to make your listings searchable across MLS networks.

A new co-signer flow, support for paper applications, customizable owner reports, post-showing feedback forms, and a slate of application and mobile fixes.

Summer is peak season for rental fraud. RentEngine tracked four active scam patterns, including a new victim-led approach that's replaced scammer-led as the dominant method.

Are self-guided showings better than accompanied showings? Q1 2026 data says yes — on schedule rates, completion rates, days on market, and applications.

Pull rental comps inside RentEngine. Full U.S. rental data, owner reports, API and a lead widget.

Catch up on our live Q&A session on rental comps and pricing trends.

PropertyManagement.com's 2026 VPI report names RentEngine the leasing software category leader, with the highest support, credibility, and 30-day fill rate