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Explore the latest industry news, feature releases, and leasing best practices. Produced by the RentEngine research team.

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Product Updates: Week 38

Catch every RentEngine update in a new changelog panel, read a note's full edit history right under the note, sync specific Buildium property groups, and check fraud flag status in the Prospect report.

Sep 22, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 37

Customize the fields that sync from your PMS, add conditions when approving an application, plus new API functionality.

Sep 16, 2026

New Feature

Announcing: Intelligence 3.0

New agent performance dashboard, custom KPI scorecards, scheduled reports, tons of new filters, and activity heatmap

Sep 09, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 35

Record and transcribe calls between your team and prospects, and set how early a self-guided access code works.

Sep 02, 2026

New Feature

RentEngine MCP: Connect Your Leasing Data to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and More

Connect the RentEngine MCP to your AI assistant, then ask it to pull comps, analyze applicants, schedule showings, and more in plain English.

Aug 26, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 38

Sep 22, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 37

Customize the fields that sync from your PMS, add conditions when approving an application, plus new API functionality.

Sep 16, 2026

New Feature

Announcing: Intelligence 3.0

New agent performance dashboard, custom KPI scorecards, scheduled reports, tons of new filters, and activity heatmap

Sep 09, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 35

Record and transcribe calls between your team and prospects, and set how early a self-guided access code works.

Sep 02, 2026

New Feature

RentEngine MCP: Connect Your Leasing Data to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and More

Connect the RentEngine MCP to your AI assistant, then ask it to pull comps, analyze applicants, schedule showings, and more in plain English.

Aug 26, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 34

RentEngine MCP connects to your AI assistant, collect rental applications for off-market units, and log showings held outside RentEngine.

Aug 26, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 33

Live tour assistant, security deposit ranges, instantly filtered matching listings and customize who gets notified for unregistered leads.

Aug 19, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 32

Instantly translate messages inside the Command Center, self-touring prospects can tour a new unit in one tap, plus more application and reporting updates.

Aug 12, 2026

New Feature

New Integration: RentEngine & monday.com

Connect RentEngine to monday.com to sync your leasing performance data directly to your team’s workspace.

Aug 12, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 31

Situation-based coupon codes for applications, persistent follow-ups for missing documents, special offer mass texts, and smarter Command Center search.

Aug 05, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Multifamily Leasing

Multifamily communities get their own settings hub, community-level defaults, and a self-guided tour flow that cross-sells the whole building.

Jul 29, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 29

Accompanied showings can now run as video tours, Fraud Guard gains new flags and holds, and applications open up to international applicants.

Jul 22, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 28

Market Tool sets your comp filters automatically, new fraud prevention settings, and showing types can change after a showing is booked.

Jul 15, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 27

Reference checks now carry the applicant's signed permission, the Agent Performance report adds five new columns, and Market Tool picks up year built on comp listings.

Jul 08, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 26

New activity indicators on rental applications, auto-saved Market Tool searches and price drop history, and Google Tag Manager tracking for ad attribution.

Jul 01, 2026

New Feature

Introducing Fraud Guard 2.0: AI Document Forensics and Behavioral Fraud Detection

Fraud Guard 2.0 is live: AI-powered ID forensics, behavioral fraud detection, and the full seven-layer protection stack

Jun 24, 2026

New Feature

New integration: RentEngine & Kijiji

Canadian property managers can now get their vacancies in front of renters on one of the country's most-visited rental platforms.

Jun 24, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 25

New fraud detection forensics, more updates to RentEngine Applications, and a slate of changes to how you manage and edit Properties.

Jun 24, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 24

Handling for unassigned leads, two new Fraud Guard protections against ID scams, the ability to skip sections in rental applications, and a batch of dashboard, mobile, and API improvements.

Jun 17, 2026

New Feature

New Integration: RentEngine & Rental Beast

RentEngine and Rental Beast Partner to make your listings searchable across MLS networks.

Jun 11, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 23

A new co-signer flow, support for paper applications, customizable owner reports, post-showing feedback forms, and a slate of application and mobile fixes.

Jun 10, 2026

New Feature

Announcing: Market Tool 2.0

Pull rental comps inside RentEngine. Full U.S. rental data, owner reports, API and a lead widget.

Jun 03, 2026

New Feature

New Integration: TTLock & RentEngine

You can now connect any TTLock-enabled device to RentEngine

May 27, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 21

Intelligence APIs, Rental Beast MLS syndication, tenant acceptance flow for showings, owner summary emails for rental applications, and more.

May 27, 2026

New Feature

New Feature Release: Master Lock Integration

Master Lock devices now integrate with RentEngine.

May 27, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 20

Application-before-showing controls, tenant showing acceptance, application activity logs, office hours for RentEngine AI, and more.

May 20, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 19

Automatic Google review collection after showings, new Prospects API, calendar subscriptions, MasterLock integration, and more.

May 13, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 18

Redesigned Rental Applications interface for property managers, dashboard filtering and sorting, a new Section 8 leasing event, faster Command Center loading, and RentEngine AI prompt updates.

May 06, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 17

Structured pet fees, cross-unit piggybacking for multifamily, and application status tracking in the Command Center.

May 01, 2026

New Feature

Announcing: RentEngine Applications

Run your entire leasing workflow in one platform, from new lead to approved application.

Apr 28, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 15

Intelligence updates, Availability Templates for accompanied showings, and, lockbox troubleshooting.

Apr 15, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 14

Live transfer for Voice AI & general AI updates, new settings for move-in timing, Broker Bay MLS integration, new lease term options & bug fix in owner reports

Apr 08, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 13

RentEngine AI updates: fixed showing sycophancy, multifamily property search improvements, showing cancellation improvements, new prompt updates + Piggyback maximum limit & bug fixes

Apr 01, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 12

Intelligence & leasing report updates, Showing Smart MLS integration, price drop compliance updates & small bug fixes

Mar 25, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 11

Bulk unit updates, leasing report redesign, Availability audit updates + improvements to mobile app, RentEngine AI & Command Center.

Mar 18, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 10

PMDash integration, website widget updates, cancellation reason tracking, automatic missed call messages, reporting & syndication improvements

Mar 11, 2026

New Feature

Your RentEngine Data Is Now Live in PMDash

RentEngine is an early integration partner on PMDash, the KPI dashboard that pulls your entire property management stack into a single view.

Mar 11, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 9

Centralized showing Availability Audit, better mapping provider, notes and follow-ups in mobile app, new notification options, Intercom chat support & Command Center improvements

Mar 04, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 8

Real estate agent tools in the Command Center & improvements to the mobile app, RentEngine AI and reporting.

Feb 25, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 7

Fraud prevention for self-guided showings, RentEngine AI performance upgrades, and new marketing capabilities.

Feb 18, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 6

Mobile app improvements, RentEngine AI response transparency, Multifamily contract management, Team management and showing agent updates, Intelligence & automation updates

Feb 11, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 5

UTM tracking for lead attribution, modify past showings, PointCentral integration, showing management updates & mobile app updates

Feb 04, 2026

New Feature

New Integration: PointCentral

You can now connect PointCentral to RentEngine to power seamless self-guided showings with automated access code generation.

Feb 03, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 4

Redesigned Leasing & Owner reports, new Reporting API, Zumper & Realtor.com fee transparency update, UTM Widget Tracking, and property editing & sync improvements.

Jan 29, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 3

Redesigned owner reports, new reporting API, Intelligence tab & lead tracking updates, mobile app improvements & pre-screening updates

Jan 21, 2026

New Feature

Product Updates: Week 2

Support for security deposit alternatives, new owner report templates, Intelligence page updates & RentEngine AI support for self-guided showings.

Jan 14, 2026

New Feature

RentEngine Leads Adoption of New Fee Transparency Laws

RentEngine supports rent transparency compliance in Colorado, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, automatically showing total monthly rent including mandatory fees.

Jan 13, 2026

New FeatureIndustry News

Product Updates: Week 1

Updates to rent transparency, Intelligence report improvements, listing customization updates, and improvements to the app's Command Center.

Jan 07, 2026

New Feature