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Forecast your next 12 months
See expected rent and costs month by month, which tenancies could leave a unit empty, and when rent can next go up.
Go to Reports and choose the Forecast tab. It projects the next 12 months from the records you already keep, on every plan.
Expected income and costs
A chart shows each month’s expected income, costs and net, with the year’s totals and the lowest month. Choose Show table for the figures.
- Income starts with rent charges already set up, then each tenancy’s rent on its due dates until any end date. A rent increase you’ve served counts from the date it takes effect.
- New lets: after a tenancy ends, and for empty units from today, the unit is let again after the empty weeks you choose, at its target rent (or the last rent). If you’ve already set up the next tenancy, that’s used instead.
- Costs are your running costs at the average of the last 12 months, and the mortgage payment saved on each property (or the average you’ve recorded) until its end date.
Change the assumptions
Under Assumptions, set the empty weeks between tenants and a rent rise at each review. The forecast recalculates straight away, so you can see how a quiet year or a longer void would look. Set a target rent on a unit’s property page and the forecast includes it.
Void risk
Void risk lists tenancies that could leave a unit empty:
- High: the tenancy is ending, or arrears are over 2 months’ rent.
- Medium: arrears over a month, urgent repairs or 3 or more open repairs, or a rent increase challenged at the tribunal.
Empty units show when they’re forecast to be let and the rent lost while empty.
Rent reviews
Rent can go up once a year with a Section 13 notice (Form 4A), served at least 2 months ahead. Rent reviews shows, for each ongoing tenancy, when you can serve notice, the earliest date a new rent could start if you served it today, and how far the rent is below the unit’s target. See Rent increases for serving the notice.
Ask Keymews AI to explain it
On Premium and Enterprise, owners and admins can choose Explain with Keymews AI to have the forecast talked through in plain English: what drives the lowest month, which tenancies to watch and what the reviews mean. It sees the forecast’s figures and assumptions, with property and unit names but no tenant names. Each explanation uses one message of your allowance. See Keymews AI.
The forecast projects your records forward. It isn’t a promise of rent or financial advice.