🏡 Why Landlords Are Switching to Letting Agents Offering Affordable, Professional Service (APS Lettings)

Managing student properties has changed. Today’s landlords are looking for more than just a tenant-find service and the occasional rent reminder — they want affordable professional service, smart systems, and total transparency.

Whether you’re managing a single student house or multiple student HMOs, having access to cloud-based lettings software, clear rent statements, and a responsive support team is essential — especially in cities like Lincoln, Nottingham, and Hull, where demand is high and expectations are even higher.

💼 What Do Landlords Mean by “Affordable Professional Service”?

If you’ve been researching your options, you’ve probably come across phrases like affordable professional service, APS student lettings, or APS student properties. These aren’t just buzzwords — they reflect a growing demand for letting agents who offer a fair, transparent, and student-focused approach.

But what does that actually look like?

At Student Housing, our focus has always been clear:

• Competitive pricing without hidden fees

• Local experts who know the student market

• Full legal compliance and property support

• Access to real-time information via a cloud-based landlord dashboard

In short, it’s lettings the way landlords wish more agencies delivered — reliable, responsive, and built around student needs.

📊 Landlord Packages That Fit Your Needs

We offer three core service levels, designed to suit different landlord profiles — whether you’re after something similar to traditional APS properties management or a fully tech-enabled experience.

🟢 Tenant Find (£259 + VAT per tenant)

For landlords who want help with student marketing, viewings, and paperwork but still prefer to self-manage day-to-day.

🟠 Tenant Let (£429 + VAT)

Adds rent collection, arrears tracking, and student support to your letting process — ideal for bills-included setups and group tenancies.

🔵 Fully Managed (12.5% + VAT)

The complete solution. We handle everything: maintenance, inspections, licence compliance, and even energy usage tracking — all with zero contractor mark-ups and full visibility.

If you’re currently working with a provider offering an APS-style lettings experience, this might feel familiar — but with better systems and more landlord control.

☁️ Meet Bric: Our Cloud-Based Landlord Dashboard

One of the most requested features by landlords looking for an APS alternative is tech. They want everything in one place, accessible anytime — and that’s exactly what Bric delivers.

Included with every service, Bric gives landlords instant access to:

• Real-time rent data

• Maintenance logs and cost breakdowns

• Digital tenancy agreements and compliance certificates

• Energy usage snapshots (perfect for managing utility allowances)

• Live compliance alerts for HMO licences, gas safety, EICRs, and more

Whether you’ve got one house or twenty, Bric makes portfolio management feel effortless.

🎓 Why Student-Led Experience Matters

Student lettings require a different approach. From handling group contracts and guarantors to managing move-ins aligned with academic terms, it’s not a “copy and paste” model.

If you’ve been working with an agent offering APS-style student property services, you might already know the challenges:

• Missed renewals

• Delayed maintenance

• Confused utility tracking

• Long response times

We built our services specifically for student properties. Our staff are former students, and we’ve designed everything — from contracts to checkouts — around the real student rental cycle.

💬 What Landlords Are Saying

Landlords switching to our service often say the same thing:

“I didn’t realise how much time I was wasting chasing updates.”

With Bric and a clearly structured service model, you don’t need to chase — it’s all in the dashboard.

And because we operate on a truly affordable professional service model, you’re not paying over the odds for features that should be standard.

✅ Ready for a Better Way to Let?

If you’ve been exploring options for student property management, or have come across agents offering terms like APS student or APS properties and want something more intuitive and transparent, we’d love to show you what we do differently.

👉 Contact us today for a free consultation or to explore our fully-managed landlord service — powered by people who get student lettings.