Licensing & Trust Accounts

Leasily is an Australian software platform for self-managing landlords and renters. Leasily is not a licensed real estate agency, property manager, letting agent, buyer's agent, lawyer, conveyancer, trustee, bond authority, bank, credit provider, insurer, financial adviser, or regulated payment institution.

Leasily provides tools for record keeping, workflow support, reminders, documents, communications, and payment-enabled status tracking. Users and partners remain responsible for the legal character of their own activities.

Australian real estate licensing and property-management requirements differ by state and territory. Depending on the facts, a person or business may need a licence if they manage property, collect rent, negotiate leases, act for others, advertise property, handle trust money, or perform other regulated activities for reward.

Leasily's position is that it provides software to support self-managing landlords rather than acting as the landlord's licensed agent. If a user or partner uses Leasily while providing regulated services to others, that user or partner should obtain its own legal advice and hold any required licence or authority.

Leasily is not designed to operate a statutory real estate trust account for rent or bond money. Payment-enabled workflows depend on Stripe connected accounts, Stripe services, banking rails, and user-controlled records.

If a landlord, agent, partner, or representative is required to use a trust account, lodge bond with a statutory authority, issue receipts, reconcile trust money, or comply with trust-account audits, that obligation remains with that person or business.

Leasily may show templates, labels, compliance guardrails, state rules, reminders, and help text. Those materials are general product information and workflow support, not legal advice or property-management advice tailored to your circumstances.

Users should obtain independent advice before relying on a notice, lease term, bond step, rent increase, termination, entry notice, disclosure, tenant screening process, or payment demand where legal consequences may follow.

Partners, agencies, accountants, mortgage brokers, software platforms, white-label operators, and referral businesses must not use Leasily to avoid licensing, trust-account, professional-conduct, privacy, consumer-law, or disclosure obligations that apply to them.

A partner must not imply that Leasily's software-only position authorises the partner to provide regulated property, agency, legal, financial, or trust-account services without its own compliance review.

You should obtain independent legal or regulatory advice if you manage property for someone else, receive rent or bond for someone else, charge a fee for property services, operate a portal for clients, advertise or screen tenants for others, hold yourself out as a property professional, or are unsure whether your conduct requires a licence or trust account.