Built in Nairobi for serious Kenyan landlords.
We are a small team building the operating system Kenyan rental property actually needs, M-Pesa-native, KRA-aware, audit-ready, and a tenant portal that does not embarrass anyone.
Why we are building EzRent
Kenyan landlords run real businesses, often serious ones, but the tooling looks like 2008. Excel sheets sent over WhatsApp, M-Pesa codes hand-matched to invoices, KRA filings reconstructed from memory at the end of the month, tenants chasing receipts on a Sunday afternoon.
The big international SaaS tools assume an American or British rental market, with credit checks and ACH and tenancy laws that do not apply here. The local options are usually a thin payment page bolted onto a spreadsheet. We thought serious landlords deserved a serious platform, built around the way M-Pesa, KRA, and Kenyan leases actually work.
So we are building it.
What we believe
Money is the product
If a single shilling reconciles wrong, nothing else matters. Every decision starts from the ledger.
Tenants are users too
We serve the landlord, but we ship the tenant portal in English and Swahili because rent is a relationship, not a transaction.
Boring on the things that matter
Auditability, signed webhooks, immutable logs, and clear refund policies. Less novelty, more trust.
Built in Kenya, for Kenya
M-Pesa, KRA eTIMS, ODPC, the Rent Tribunal, the local context is not an after-thought. It is the spec.
Where we are
- Late 2025First sketches and conversations with Nairobi landlords managing 5 to 500 units.
- Q1 2026Staging build of rent collection, M-Pesa reconciliation, tenant ledger, and KRA eTIMS receipts.
- Q2 2026Private pilot opens with founder-led onboarding for the first cohort of landlords.
- H2 2026Public launch with published customer outcomes and the full Trust Centre.
Want to talk?
We answer every email personally during the pilot.
Or write directly to demo@ezrent.co.ke.