What's New
Product changelog
Every improvement we ship to Property Compass, newest first. We release continuously, so this is where you can see exactly what changed and when.
Latest changes
Next release · v1.71.0 (in progress)- New Set your usual mortgage rate, deposit and buying costs once under You, then Calculator defaults, and each calculator opens with them. Clear them any time to go back to the Property Compass defaults.
- New Full members now find Messages in the Community menu and the search, with a count of unread messages beside it, and a message link opens that message.
- New A link to a property opens that property in Explore, and the Listing URL in a CSV export now does the same.
- New On a computer you can now make the sidebar narrower or wider by dragging its right edge, or fold it down to a slim strip of icons with the button beside the logo. While it is folded, point at it or move to it with the keyboard and it opens over the page with every label, then folds away again. Your sidebar stays the way you left it on that device. Phones keep the slide out menu.
- New The property detail panel and the Property tab of Area Research now show planning constraints at the property: conservation areas, listed buildings within 50 metres, tree preservation order zones, green belt, National Landscapes and Sites of Special Scientific Interest, each linked to its official record.
- New When nothing is recorded, a planning constraint says none is recorded rather than that there is no constraint, and a dash explains when a council has not published its data or the property is outside England.
- New Serviced accommodation and rent to serviced accommodation results now tell you when projected takings go over the VAT registration threshold, and show the same takings with VAT taken out so you can see the size of the drop.
- New Your Portfolio page now has a Forecast card. The five-year forecast shows each year's rent income, running costs, mortgage, cash flow and equity for the properties you own, and the rate stress test shows how your cash flow and DSCR change if every mortgage rate rises by 0.5% up to 2.5%. A portfolio with no mortgage is shown as having no mortgage rather than a negative result.
- New The HMO and HMO Conversion calculators can show local room rents for the postcode district, by room type, with the range, number of listings and date, and you can use one as your room rent in a click.
- New Deal Finder now lists landlord sales: tenanted homes that landlords are selling off-market to other landlords, each with its stated gross yield and the date it was released. We refresh the list every week.
- New The Cookie Policy page is live at /cookies, listing every cookie we set, who sets it, what it is for and how long it lasts, with a link from every page footer and from the Privacy Policy.
- New How our data works now lists every data source we use, the credit its publisher asks for and a link to its licence.
- New Residential calculators now show the Bank of England market average for 2 year and 5 year fixed mortgages at 75% loan to value, and the month it covers, under your mortgage rate. Your own rate is never changed.
- New A new Legal page brings together our financial disclaimer, cookie information, data sources and company details, and every page footer is now one short line that links to it.
- New You can now download a copy of your personal data from your account page, including your profile, consents, watchlist, saved searches and saved analyses.
- New New members see a one-time card on the dashboard where they can choose to get marketing emails, starting with three short emails about Deal Finder, the calculators and Area Research. The box is never ticked for you.
- New New members now get a welcome email soon after they join, unless they've switched off Email me about my account. If you've agreed to marketing emails, three short emails follow over your first nine days, showing Deal Finder and saved searches, the calculators and Area Research. Each email has a link to stop them.
- New A home in England or Wales with an energy rating of F or G now shows Below legal minimum to let on its Explore card and property page, naming the minimum energy efficiency rule and noting that registered exemptions apply. A home rated D or E shows a note, labelled proposed, about the planned rise to the equivalent of a C rating from 1 October 2030.
- New Properties in your portfolio and on your Watchlist that have a known property reference now offer a full property profile, with sales, estimated value, floor area, energy rating, council tax and registered leases where available. Each month includes three new profiles, and opening a profile you have already opened is free while it is still saved.
- New Deal Finder can now summarise listing counts, yields, and cash flow by strategy for your selected areas and budget. Coming soon
- New Our team is now alerted when a card dispute is opened against a payment, so each one gets a timely response.
- New If Property Compass is updated while a page is open in your browser, a banner now asks you to reload, with a short list of recent changes and a note from us when there is one, so you do not keep seeing errors from the older version.
- New The Features, Pricing, Mentorship and coach session types pages, and the newsletter confirmation page, now have a "How this page works" guide that explains what each page is for.
- New The Admin overview, Members, Member detail and Content pages now have a "How this page works" guide that explains what each page shows and what each action does.
- New The Profile, Support, Glossary, Feedback and Messages pages now have a “How this page works” section that explains who can use each page, what it shows and what you can do there.
- New The Contact and Roadmap pages now have a short "How this page works" guide under the heading, which explains what each page is for and what it does not do.
- New The Blog, Newsletter and Resources pages in Admin now have a “How this page works” section that explains who can use each page, what each button does and what members see afterwards.
- New The Developer page now has a "How this page works" guide that explains webhooks, signing secrets, test events and delivery logs.
- New Deal Finder now tells you how many of the homes in your search could be assessed for a strategy, and the main reason for the rest, such as a missing floor area or rent estimate. It reports on your first preferred strategy, or on the one with the fewest assessed homes.
- New Area Research now shows the population of the council area and how it changed over five years, using the Greater London Authority's projections for England and Wales with the source credited. Coming soon
- New London districts now show a public transport access rating (PTAL, from 0 to 6b) in the area research infrastructure section, taken from Transport for London data.
- New You can view London brownfield sites and planning details in Property Search with Full membership or retrieve them through the Developer API.
- New Property Search can now filter by Bungalow, End of terrace and Maisonette, and the Houses map view now includes bungalows and end-of-terrace homes.
- New Administrators can control external API operations, set cache and retention lifetimes, and review usage and change history.
- New If a new way of signing in is waiting for you to confirm that it belongs to your account, our support team can now review it and decide it for you.
- New Properties in England now show a flood risk worked out from the Environment Agency flood zones at the property's own location, with the source credited wherever it appears. Coming soon
- New Confirming an account erasure request by email now blocks account access and starts subscription cancellation without a refund. Data deletion is not yet included.
- New In project management you can now edit and delete projects, phases and calendar events, set planned dates for phases and tasks so the Gantt timeline fills in, add task dependencies and budget figures, and add, edit and delete certificates. Coming soon
- New The Deal Board moderation, Deal of the Week and Deal analysis request pages in Admin now have a “How this page works” section that explains who can use each page, what each button does and what members see afterwards.
- New You can now stop sharing a saved calculator analysis, which turns its public link off.
- New Keyboard users can press Tab once to reach a Skip to content link that jumps past the navigation straight to the page.
- New The Flip calculator has a Disposal Marketing Cost field for photography, floor plans and listing fees, and it comes off your profit like the agent and sale solicitor fees.
- New The Community, Forum, Member directory, Events, Blog, Gallery and Partners pages now have a “How this page works” section that explains what each page shows, who can see it and what you can do there.
- New The Buy-to-Let, Buy-Refurbish-Refinance, HMO, and Serviced Accommodation calculators have a Mixed-Use / Commercial Purchase option in Advanced mode, so stamp duty uses non-residential rates for a mixed-use or commercial property.
- New Deal Finder, Saved searches, and Watchlist now each have a "How this page works" section under the page title. It explains what the page is for, what each part shows, and what you can do there.
- New Every calculator page now has a "How this page works" guide that explains what the calculator is for, who can use it, what each panel shows, and what you can do there. Admins can edit the text.
- New The Calculators page, Compare Strategies, shared analyses, and the six conversion calculators each have a "How this page works" guide that explains what the page shows, who can use it, and what you can do there.
- New Your dashboard, subscription, free trial, email verification, and Redeem a Code pages now have a "How this page works" guide that explains what each part of the page shows and what you can do there. The free trial and subscription guides also explain which prices you keep if your subscription or free trial started before 1 October 2026.
- New The Flip calculator now estimates Scottish Income Tax on a personal purchase when your tax residence is Scotland, using your other annual income, the Scottish tax bands, and the reduced personal allowance on income over £100,000.
- New Explore's Properties view can limit results to exactly the selected postcode district, matching Property Search and Deal Finder.
- New Mixed Use deals are now scored on both lender tests: debt cover for the whole building, and stressed interest cover for the flats on their share of the loan. When both can be measured, the weaker of the two sets the verdict.
- New Set cleaning cost per turnover and monthly turnover frequency in the Rent-to-SA calculator.
- New Search the Heatmap by district and use its controls, satellite view, and legend comfortably on smaller screens.
- New Mixed Use (Shop + Uppers) calculator models an existing shop with flats above as a standing investment, separately from the Mixed-Use Development calculator.
- New Off-Plan calculator now models post-completion cashflow, net yield, and debt service coverage with interest-only and repayment mortgage options.
- New Risk analysis on the calculators: a Monte Carlo simulation of thousands of outcomes for your deal, a prioritised risk register scored on your own numbers, and an automatic stress test — with the risks ranked by what actually matters to that strategy (a flip is tested on sale price and works budget, a buy-to-let on the rate reset, an HMO on voids and bills).
- New Coaches can add a meeting link on a confirmed consultation so both sides can join.
- New Admins now manage site copy, glossary terms, and page help in one place, with preview, history, and one-click revert.
- New Your earnings statement now shows the server-computed total for a closed period — the exact amount to put on your invoice — instead of asking you to add up the pages yourself. If the total cannot be loaded it says so; it never shows £0.00 in place of an answer.
- New Becoming a coach is now a guided journey from the invitation email to your first booking setup: dead links say exactly what happened (expired, already accepted, or withdrawn) before you sign in, the invitation states who it is for and confirms you are signed in with the invited address, your pay terms are stated in full before you accept, and accepting opens "My practice" immediately — no sign-out — with the two setup steps that make you bookable.
- New "My practice" is now a six-area workspace — Today, Schedule, Services, Clients, Earnings and Profile — so a coach can see what needs their response, when members can book them, what they offer, who they have worked with, what they have earned, and how members see them. Older links open the matching area.
- New Schedule now previews the next fortnight of bookable capacity alongside your weekly hours, counting only hours a member could still take — anything already booked is never offered as free.
- New Live coaches can now see an Earnings statement on their dashboard, showing what they have earned, what has been reversed, what is allocated to a payout and what is already paid for a period they choose, with a plain note that payouts run monthly and they invoice for the closed total.
- New The public pricing page now explains Consultations up front: three example sessions at exact VAT-inclusive prices, how booking works, and the small print — a Member subscription unlocks booking and never includes a session.
- New Members and coaches now get a warning four hours before a consultation's payment deadline, so an unpaid booking is never lost without notice.
- New A finished, declined, expired or cancelled consultation now offers "Book again", which reopens its request form — shown only while that consultation is still offered and new bookings are open.
- New Coaches can now see what they have earned, session by session, in their own statement — including any goodwill or corrective adjustments an administrator has recorded. Amounts are shown only to the coach they belong to.
- New Administrators can prepare a monthly payout for a coach, attach the coach's invoice, approve it, and record that it was paid. Recording a payment does not send money; payments are still made separately, and the page says so at the point of the action.
- New Administrators can record a reasoned adjustment against a coach's earnings, and correct an earlier one. Nothing is ever edited or deleted: a correction is a new opposite entry, so both the original and the correction stay visible.
- New Administrators can check the recorded figures against the payment provider on demand, and export a bookkeeping spreadsheet for a chosen period. The check reports what disagrees and never changes anything by itself.
- New Coaches now have an attention-first dashboard for requests needing a response, sessions waiting on a member, upcoming work, and filterable history. Session notifications open the selected detail, and existing work stays available if new consultation bookings are paused.
- New Choose an available fixed time slot for a consultation request, with availability checked again when you submit it.
- New Coaches can now set a weekly availability pattern in their IANA time zone from Coach services. Multiple local-time periods stay aligned through seasonal clock changes, and revision checks prevent one browser from overwriting another coach edit.
- New Live coaches can now create, price, edit, suspend, and reinstate their own consultation types. Members browse active offerings by coach, while administrators retain cross-coach oversight and can safely bring legacy offerings under a coach once.
- New Coaches can now join through a secure invitation without being given site-admin access, and admins can manage pending coach invitations from Consultations.
- New Coaches can now join through a secure invitation without being given site-admin access, and admins can manage coach invitation lifecycles from Consultations. Invitation credentials are kept out of logged paths, paused or suspended coaches are hidden, and role changes invalidate existing sessions.
- New Your property notes now follow the property: notes you write on a portfolio property appear on any saved calculation linked to it, and you can write notes from the calculator too. A calculation not yet in your portfolio shows a one-click "add to portfolio" prompt so its notes have somewhere to live.
- New Stress-test any calculator result with one-click scenarios — rent down, rates up, longer voids.
- New Opportunity Nuggets now has a dedicated home — browse the full weekly series by month, search it, and filter by topic at /app/nuggets.
- New The six conversion calculators are now fully usable. Commercial-to-residential, HMO conversion, multi-flat, multi-serviced-accommodation, mixed-use, and ground-up new build now have proper input forms instead of a "coming soon" placeholder — set up the site, add each output unit (type, size, build cost, sale value, rent), and get an instant appraisal with GDV, build costs, profit-on-cost, a planning verdict, and a per-unit breakdown. Each calculator starts from a sensible worked example you can edit.
- New Search by town or village name: type "Buxton" (or any of 32,000 GB places) in Property Search, Research, or the Deal Finder area picker and jump straight there — duplicate names are labelled with their council so you always pick the right one.
- New Jump anywhere instantly: press Ctrl-K (or Cmd-K on Mac), or use the new Search button in the top bar, to open a command palette listing every page you can access.
- New See every improvement we ship, right inside the app, on the new What's New page.
- New Rental yield data restored across more areas.
- New See average rent and gross yield broken down per bedroom for any area.
- New Your Portfolio now greets you with a clear "add your first property" call to action.
- New Book and pay for consultations directly, with scheduling built in. Coming soon
Milestones
The bigger releases in our journey since launch. Dates lead; version numbers are for reference.
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v1.69.0
Private address lookups, Corporation Tax in the Flip calculator and a reload prompt after updates.
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v1.61.0
Every calculator shares one design language and one lexicon, with information icons on every input, and the new Mixed Use shop + uppers calculator arrives.
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v1.58.1
Deal Finder strategy picker hotfix
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v1.58.0
Opportunity Nuggets get a dedicated, searchable home — and Deal Finder searches return far faster.
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v1.57.0
Rent price filters compare like with like
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v1.56.0
Six conversion calculators + full glossary coverage
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v1.55.0
Listing pipeline overhauled: sweeps twice as fast, price history preserved for delisted properties, stale listings cleaned up again, and stronger sign-in protection.
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v1.52.0
Command palette, faster property search, and a wave of fixes
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v1.51.40
Public Feedback Portal, unified Research, dark-mode polish, and an accessibility pass.
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v1.51.0
Post-acquisition lifecycle — track properties from Owned through to Sold.
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v1.50.0
Property Project Manager — phases, tasks, budget, Gantt and calendar.
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v1.49.0
Area median comparison — see how a property stacks up against the local market.
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v1.45.0
Share your calculator results with a one-click link.
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v1.38.0
Refurbishment cost fields — total cash required and cash-on-cash now include works.
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v1.32.0
Deal verdict engine — traffic-light scoring on every deal.
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v1.20.0
Area Research Hub — demographics, yields, crime, schools and more in one view.
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v1.14.0
Deal Finder arrives — surface opportunities matched to your criteria.
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v1.0.0 · Launch
Launch — investment calculators, area research, and property search go live.