Real Estate · head to head
Rent Manager vs Reonomy
Rent Manager
Real Estate
Property management for mixed portfolios, with on-premises deployment and built-in telephony
- From
- On request
- Rated
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Reonomy
Real Estate
Commercial property ownership and contact data platform, acquired by Altus Group for roughly $202 million and now sold on unpublished, increasingly enterprise-focused pricing
- From
- On request
- Rated
- -
The short version
- Each has a real cost: Rent Manager the interface is dense and dated relative to newer cloud products, so onboarding site staff takes longer and training costs are real.; Reonomy pricing is not published, and the sales process has become more enterprise-focused since the Altus Group acquisition, which reportedly makes it less accessible for smaller, self-service buyers than it once was.
- They diverge on capability: Rent Manager covers Mixed portfolio support, Reonomy covers Ownership records.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Rent Manager and Reonomy actually diverge.
| Attribute | Rent Manager | Reonomy |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | Web, Windows, iOS, Android | Web |
Identical on both: starting price (On request), pricing model (quote), free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Real Estate).
What each one covers
Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.
Only in Rent Manager
- Mixed portfolio support
- On-premises or hosted
- rmVoIP telephony
- Report writer
- Open API
- Owner portals
Only in Reonomy
- Ownership records
- Transaction history
- Off-market prospecting
- Portfolio analysis
- Contact data
- Market and property search
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Rent Manager
- A regional operator with apartments, retail and self-storage that wants one general ledger across all of themnot Reonomy
- An organisation whose data policy or insurer requires tenant and financial data to stay on its own serversnot Reonomy
- A management company running an in-house call centre that wants calls attached to tenant recordsnot Reonomy
- A third-party manager that needs owner statements and distributions without a bolt-on accounting productnot Reonomy
Reonomy
- A broker sourcing off-market deals by identifying and directly contacting property owners matching acquisition criterianot Rent Manager
- A lender researching an owner portfolio and financing history before extending creditnot Rent Manager
- An investor doing outbound outreach to owners of a specific property type or size in a target marketnot Rent Manager
- A firm already using ARGUS Enterprise considering Reonomy for data given the shared Altus Group ownershipnot Rent Manager
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Rent Manager
- The interface is dense and dated relative to newer cloud products, so onboarding site staff takes longer and training costs are real.
- Pricing is quoted with monthly minimums, which makes portfolios under roughly 100 units poor value compared with published per-unit competitors.
- Useful reporting depends on someone learning the report writer, and firms that never assign that role end up exporting to spreadsheets anyway.
- Mobile applications lag the desktop experience, so field staff get a narrower feature set than office users.
- The partner and integration ecosystem is smaller than Yardi or RealPage, so specialist proptech tools more often need custom API work than an off-the-shelf connector.
Reonomy
- Pricing is not published, and the sales process has become more enterprise-focused since the Altus Group acquisition, which reportedly makes it less accessible for smaller, self-service buyers than it once was.
- It is a data and contact-sourcing tool, not a valuation platform, so firms needing DCF modelling still need ARGUS Enterprise or an equivalent separately, even though both are Altus Group products.
- Coverage and data freshness for ownership and contact information vary by market, and off-market sourcing quality depends on how current that contact data actually is.
- Shared ownership with ARGUS under Altus Group means a firm concentrating spend with both products has less independent competitive leverage across its CRE software and data budget.
- As with any owner-contact database, deliverability and accuracy of contact information degrade over time, and there is no independent public benchmark of Reonomy data accuracy to check ahead of purchase.
Pricing, plan by plan
Rent Manager
On request- Rent Manager$undefined/year
- Quoted on unit count with monthly minimums
- Express, Basic and Professional tiers gate modules such as API access and work orders
- On-premises licensing priced differently from the hosted service
Reonomy
On request- Reonomy$undefined/year
- Monthly and annual subscription options, annual saves roughly 30%
- Pricing not published, increasingly enterprise-focused sales process since Altus Group acquisition
- Cost scales with data access scope and seats
Which should you pick?
Choose Rent Manager if
- You need mixed portfolio support.
- You work on Web, Windows, iOS, Android.
- You also want on-premises or hosted.
Questions people ask
- Is Rent Manager or Reonomy better?
- Neither clearly leads. Rent Manager starts at On request and Reonomy at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Rent Manager or Reonomy?
- Rent Manager starts at On request and Reonomy at On request.
- Does Rent Manager or Reonomy run on more platforms?
- Rent Manager runs on Web, Windows, iOS, Android. Reonomy runs on Web.
- What is Rent Manager best used for?
- Rent Manager is most often used for a regional operator with apartments, retail and self-storage that wants one general ledger across all of them, an organisation whose data policy or insurer requires tenant and financial data to stay on its own servers, a management company running an in-house call centre that wants calls attached to tenant records, a third-party manager that needs owner statements and distributions without a bolt-on accounting product. Of those, a regional operator with apartments, retail and self-storage that wants one general ledger across all of them and an organisation whose data policy or insurer requires tenant and financial data to stay on its own servers are not what Reonomy is typically brought in for.
- What can Rent Manager do that Reonomy cannot?
- Rent Manager covers Mixed portfolio support, On-premises or hosted, rmVoIP telephony, Report writer. Reonomy covers Ownership records, Transaction history, Off-market prospecting, Portfolio analysis.
Answered from the vendors’ own pages
Rent Manager: Can Rent Manager be self-hosted?
Yes. It is one of the few current systems still offered for installation on customer servers as well as hosted.
Reonomy: Who owns Reonomy?
Altus Group, which acquired it in November 2021 for roughly $202 million; it sits in the same portfolio as ARGUS Enterprise.
Rent Manager: Does it handle commercial leases?
Yes, including CAM reconciliation and commercial lease terms, which is why mixed portfolios choose it.
Reonomy: Is Reonomy the same as CoStar?
No. Reonomy focuses on ownership, contact and off-market sourcing data; CoStar is broader, covering listings, lease comparables and market analytics at larger scale.
Rent Manager: Who owns the company?
London Computer Systems, privately held and founder-led since 1987, not a private-equity roll-up.
Reonomy: Is pricing available online?
No. Reonomy offers monthly and annual subscriptions with roughly 30% savings annually, but exact rates require a quote.
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