PricingJurisdiction packs
The law your lease is under changes with the address.
A deposit that is legal in one region is over the cap in the next one along, and the border can run between two postcodes. Every building you add is filed under the housing law its address actually sits in, and every figure the product uses comes from there.
On every plan, at no extra cost. You never pick one, and you can see which pack a building stands on at any time.
One country, 3 sets of letting rules
Three housing codes, one per region, and the postcode is what tells them apart.
Three of them, and the postcode is what picks one.
- 1000Brusselsbe-bru
- 2000Flandersbe-fl
- 4000Walloniabe-wa
The deposit cap, the notice period and the paperwork differ across these, so filing a lease under the wrong one is not a rounding error.
- Jurisdictions
- 311Every country, and every division of the ones that legislate letting below the country.
- Read by hand
- 5Packs where somebody sat down with the statute and read every figure out of it.
- Countries split
- 5Where a country is not one jurisdiction, a pack per country would be a guess in a fact's clothes.
What one is
A pack is the letting rules, written down as data.
Not a document you read, and not a setting you fill in. It is the deposit cap, the indexation formula, the notice periods, the registration deadline and the certificates, in a shape the product can compute with. Every figure carries the source it was read from.
One researched pack, opened up
Belgium, Flanders
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- Deposit
- 3 months of rent, at mostIn a source
- Indexation
- Gezondheidsindex (health index), base 2013 = 100In a source
- Registration
- Within 60 days of signatureIn a source
- Notice
- Per lease type, per side, in monthsIn a source
- Certificates
- 5 tracked, each with its own validityIn a source
- Written for
- 6 kinds of residential lettingIn a source
Every line carries the source it was read from, and the screen it appears on shows that source beside it.
- It works out the new rentThe formula is the region's own, applied to the original base rent rather than last year's, which is the mistake the arithmetic is written to avoid.
- It knows what you may ask forA deposit over the cap, or held in the wrong kind of account, is caught while the lease is being drawn rather than after it is signed.
- It counts the notice periodPer lease type and per side, with the early-exit indemnity where the law sets one, so a date on a letter is a date you can stand behind.
- It watches what expiresEach certificate the jurisdiction requires, with its own validity, so the one that lapses is the one you are told about.
- It drafts against the right lawA lease is drawn from the pack the building stands on, in the currency and the language that jurisdiction lets in.
How a building gets one
Read off the address, never chosen from a list.
A dropdown asking an owner which housing code applies is a question most owners cannot answer, and a wrong answer is silent. The address settles it, and where the address genuinely cannot, the product says so instead of picking.
- Step 1
You type the address
The same address the building is filed under. Nothing extra to fill in, and no legal question to answer.
- Step 2
The postcode is read
In the five countries where letting is devolved, the postcode is what separates one code from the next.
- Step 3
The pack is attached
From then on every figure about that building, in every screen and every workflow, comes from that pack.
- Step 4
Or nothing is attached
A postcode area that straddles a border settles nothing, so it resolves to no pack rather than to a neighbour's law, and asks you.
What it will not claim
A figure nobody confirmed is marked, and it stops the product.
Most of these jurisdictions have not been researched, and the packs for them carry plausible defaults rather than read figures. That is not hidden behind a reassuring number: every unconfirmed rule is marked, and the marking is what holds the product back.
Read in a source
Somebody opened the statute and read the figure out of it, and the pack carries the instrument it came from. The product will compute with it and act on it unattended.
Deposit
Three months of rent, at most
Acts on it, and shows the source
Not confirmed
A plausible default nobody has checked. It becomes a blocking item: the product will show it, will not act on it unattended, and will not quietly promote it to a fact to make the warning go away.
Deposit
Two months of rent, placeholder
Waits for you, every time
This is not legal advice, and the product never says it is.
A pack is a set of figures with sources beside them, so you can check one against the law rather than take our word for it. It never reaches a legal conclusion on your behalf, and a rule that was never confirmed says so on the screen it appears on rather than in a footnote.
How far it reaches
Everywhere, and honest about which is which.
A pack exists for every country, and for every division of the five where residential tenancy is genuinely devolved rather than merely administered locally. A handful were researched line by line; the rest are placeholders that say so.
Where a country is not one jurisdiction
79 divisions
United States
51
Landlord and tenant law is state law, and each state and the District writes its own.
Canada
13
Residential tenancies are a provincial matter, under a separate act per province and territory.
Australia
8
State and territory law, under eight separate residential tenancies acts.
United Kingdom
4
Housing is devolved: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland each legislate their own tenancies.
Belgium
3
Three housing codes, one per region, and the postcode is what tells them apart.
Belgium, Flanders
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Vlaams Woninghuurdecreet
Three months of deposit, health-index rent, and an expired EPC blocks indexation.
Researched
Belgium, Brussels-Capital
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Brussels Housing Code
Two months of deposit, and a correction factor tied to energy performance.
Researched
Belgium, Wallonia
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Decret du 15 mars 2018
A base-rent reset on energy performance, and no correction factor.
Researched
Netherlands
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Huurrecht, Burgerlijk Wetboek 7
A capped annual increase, the WWS points system, and no lease registration.
Researched
France
fr
Loi 89-462
IRL revision, and indexation blocked outright on a DPE of F or G.
Researched
Everywhere else
generic
A placeholder pack, built to the same shape, with a marker on every line that has not been confirmed.
40 rules to confirm
Add one building and see which law it lands under.
Type the address, and the pack it resolves to is on the building from that moment. Nothing is switched on until you say so.
No pack to pick · On every plan