Most landlords with a handful of properties run them from a spreadsheet, and the spreadsheet is fine. It holds what was put into it, accurately, forever.
The trouble is that it can only ever tell you what you already knew on the day you typed it.
The questions a spreadsheet cannot answer
Which of these is closest to a compliance deadline. Which has the thinnest record if a tenant disputes something. Which has had no work recorded for two years, and is that because nothing needed doing or because nobody wrote it down.
Those are the questions that matter at portfolio scale, and none of them can be answered by a list.
Honest before impressive
Every property gets a health score built from its actual record. When a score is low it says why and what would improve it. When the record is thin, the score says that too, rather than implying a confidence it has not earned.
For anyone managing property at scale, that honesty is the whole point. You cannot fix what your data will not admit, and a dashboard that renders every property green because every property has a row is worse than no dashboard.
Where it starts
The statutory compliance calendar is free and self-serve, and it is the part that pays for itself first, because the failures it prevents are the ones with fines attached.
There is a landlord view at tradelynx.co.uk/demo/landlord, on sample data.