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Lanten vs
PropServ and Lanten solve the same problem in opposite ways. PropServ is a service: you hand property management work to their team and their systems, and they handle it under your brand. Lanten is software: your own team keeps the work, and the inbox drafts every reply in their voice, proposes the plan and updates the CRM when they approve. One takes the work away; the other makes it three times faster. This page is our honest attempt at the difference.
The short version
Outsource it, or keep it and get faster.
You don’t want to run property management in-house — or can’t staff it — and you’d rather pay per unit for someone else to handle tenants, contractors and out-of-hours calls under your name. You’re comfortable with less visibility in exchange for less work.
Property management is part of your business and your reputation, you want your own people talking to your landlords and tenants, and the problem is volume, not willingness. Lanten keeps the work in-house and takes most of the typing out of it — for PM, lettings and sales alike.
Side by side
Based on PropServ’s published services and pricing as of September 2026. If we’ve got something wrong, tell us and we’ll fix it.
Lanten is the best PropServ alternative for agencies that want to keep property management in-house
The capacity of outsourcing, without handing over the relationship.
The landlord who chose you for the personal service still gets it — from the property manager they know, replying in minutes instead of hours. Nothing is routed to a third party working under your logo.
One property manager on Lanten handles what used to take two or three, because the reply is drafted, the job is pre-filled for Street or Acquaint and the contractor WhatsApp is ready. That’s the economics of outsourcing, kept in-house.
Every message, every draft, every approval is in your inbox and your CRM. No monthly report telling you what happened — you were there when it did.
Where it actually matters
Three questions to ask before you pick.
If you have no property management team and don’t want one, an outsourced service fills the gap and Lanten doesn’t. If you have a good team that’s drowning, outsourcing replaces them with strangers; Lanten gives them their hours back.
Management fees are the recurring revenue of an agency, and landlords stay for the person they deal with. Handing that person to a service provider is a strategic decision, not an operational one. Lanten keeps it yours.
A per-unit service fee grows with every door you take on, forever. Lanten is per seat — as your book grows, the same team handles more of it and the bill barely moves.
