What software runs a whole building rather than scattered units?

Look for shared-expense splitting, a gate/visitor log, staff payroll and per-building reporting. Among imports, AppFolio and Yardi Breeze handle multi-unit buildings natively but assume US banking; Premises carries the shared-bill split, the gate and Philippine payroll on one login.

Is enterprise software like MRI or Yardi worth it for one building?

Usually not: their minimums, implementation projects and per-unit pricing assume portfolios of hundreds. A single building is better served by small-portfolio products — or by a platform built for its own market.

How were these ten compared?

Every card was checked against the company's own public pages on the date shown, prices are quoted in their published shape, and claims we could not verify are marked as unverified rather than guessed.

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Building & portfolio management software, compared for the Philippines

Managing a whole building is a different job from managing scattered doors: one roof, shared meters, a guard at the gate, staff on payroll. Here are ten real platforms a building owner will be offered, and what each one would and would not carry here.

By the end of this pageYou will know which platforms are actually sized for one building or a small portfolio, which assume an institution, and what every import leaves for you to carry by hand in the Philippines.

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1. AppFolio 2. Yardi Breeze 3. MRI Software 4. Re-Leased 5. Buildium 6. DoorLoop 7. Rentec Direct 8. TenantCloud 9. Hemlane 10. Condo Control And Premises, honestly

Premises is on this page’s side of the counter. This guide is written by the team behind Premises, so read our closing section as the interested party it is. The company cards above stand on their own sources either way.

A building concentrates everything: one Meralco bill split across the floors, one guard post, one payroll, one association of everything that can leak. The software question is whether the platform thinks in buildings (shared spends, a gate, staff) or only in doors. Half the field below is honestly the second kind.

1. AppFolio

What it is. The heavyweight of US residential management — residential, community associations and commercial on one platform, with AI-assisted leasing and deep automation, priced per unit with minimums that assume hundreds of doors. (Home: Santa Barbara, US.)

Genuinely good at. At scale, in America, the automation genuinely earns its keep — leasing, maintenance and accounting flow with very few hands.

What a Philippine estate would miss. The minimums price out a small estate before the geography even comes up — and the geography comes up: US rails, US law, no Philippine paper at all.

The price shape. Per-unit USD, about $1.49+/unit, with monthly minimums in the hundreds of dollars. Facts checked 31 Aug 2026 against appfolio.com. We also keep a cell-by-cell sourced comparison of Premises and AppFolio.

2. Yardi Breeze

What it is. Yardi's small-portfolio product — the enterprise vendor's machinery cut down to a per-unit price for residential and commercial buildings. (Home: Santa Barbara, US.)

Genuinely good at. The pedigree: Yardi runs a large share of institutional real estate, and Breeze inherits real accounting bones.

What a Philippine estate would miss. Nothing Philippine, and the interesting features climb into Breeze Premier and full Yardi Voyager, where the price climbs with them.

The price shape. About $1 per unit a month residential, $2 commercial, with monthly minimums. Facts checked 31 Aug 2026 against yardibreeze.com.

3. MRI Software

What it is. Enterprise real-estate software — commercial and residential, leases, accounting and a partner ecosystem, sold to institutions and large managers by quote. (Home: Cleveland, US.)

Genuinely good at. Flexibility at institutional scale; big landlords with odd portfolios bend it to their shape.

What a Philippine estate would miss. It is bought through a sales cycle and an implementation project, not a sign-up form — the wrong size and the wrong country for a Philippine mid-market estate.

The price shape. Quote-based, enterprise. Facts checked 31 Aug 2026 against mrisoftware.com.

4. Re-Leased

What it is. A cloud platform for commercial property — office, retail, industrial — with lease-event automation and accounting integrations, strong in the UK, NZ and Australia. (Home: Napier, NZ.)

Genuinely good at. Commercial lease events (reviews, breaks, renewals) handled like a calendar with teeth — genuinely good at the thing it chose.

What a Philippine estate would miss. Commercial-first and Commonwealth-market-first: no Philippine rails or papers, and residential is not its game.

The price shape. Quote-based tiers. Facts checked 31 Aug 2026 against re-leased.com.

5. Buildium

What it is. One of the two big names in American residential property management — rentals and community associations on one platform, with accounting, leasing, a tenant portal and US payments. (Home: Boston, US.)

Genuinely good at. Association accounting. A US HOA or a mixed rentals-plus-associations portfolio is genuinely well served, and the product has years of depth behind it.

What a Philippine estate would miss. Nothing Philippine: its online payments collect in the US and Canada only, so no GCash or Maya; no BIR official receipts; no SSS, PhilHealth or Pag-IBIG payroll.

The price shape. USD tiers, $62–$400 a month, plus per-transaction fees on payments. Facts checked 31 Aug 2026 against buildium.com. We also keep a cell-by-cell sourced comparison of Premises and Buildium.

6. DoorLoop

What it is. The friendliest of the American imports — a modern rentals platform that is quick to start, with leasing, accounting, a tenant portal and US/Canada payments. (Home: Miami, US.)

Genuinely good at. Ease of starting, and flat tiers that are the honest shape of pricing. Small US landlords get going in an afternoon.

What a Philippine estate would miss. Nothing Philippine: payments collect in the US and Canada, the cash lane rides Western Union in the US, and there is no BIR or statutory payroll machinery.

The price shape. USD tiers from about $69 a month covering 20 units, then per-unit on top. Facts checked 31 Aug 2026 against doorloop.com. We also keep a cell-by-cell sourced comparison of Premises and DoorLoop.

7. Rentec Direct

What it is. A veteran US property-management platform — trust accounting, screening, payments and a tenant portal, popular with small US management companies. (Home: Oregon, US.)

Genuinely good at. Trust accounting done properly, and two decades of the unglamorous depth that comes from age.

What a Philippine estate would miss. Nothing Philippine, and the dress shows its age. US rails, US reports, USD pricing per unit bracket.

The price shape. From about $50 a month, scaling with units. Facts checked 31 Aug 2026 against rentecdirect.com.

8. TenantCloud

What it is. A budget-friendly US landlord platform — listings, screening, leases, accounting and a tenant portal. Acquired by TurboTenant in 2026, so its road map is now theirs. (Home: Austin, US.)

Genuinely good at. A lot of product for a small flat price, and a real free-adjacent entry point for a landlord with a handful of doors.

What a Philippine estate would miss. Nothing Philippine: US payment rails, US screening, US tax shapes. The 2026 acquisition also makes its future shape a question its own pages cannot yet answer.

The price shape. Flat USD tiers from about $18 a month. Facts checked 31 Aug 2026 against tenantcloud.com.

9. Hemlane

What it is. A US platform that mixes software with a marketplace of local agents — self-manage the money while a licensed local shows the unit and answers the 2 a.m. call. (Home: San Francisco, US.)

Genuinely good at. The hybrid idea itself: software plus a human network is a real answer for a long-distance US owner.

What a Philippine estate would miss. The human network is American, which is the whole product — from the Philippines you would be buying the software half only, with US rails and none of the local paper.

The price shape. From about $2 per unit a month plus a $28 base; management tiers above. Facts checked 31 Aug 2026 against hemlane.com.

10. Condo Control

What it is. Condo and HOA operations software — announcements, amenity booking, visitor parking, packages, service requests and board approvals, for managed buildings. (Home: Toronto, CA.)

Genuinely good at. The daily operations of a managed tower: amenities, parcels, visitors and board workflows are a real strength.

What a Philippine estate would miss. Operations more than money: the accounting depth lives elsewhere, and the rails and price are North American.

The price shape. Quote-based, per community. Facts checked 31 Aug 2026 against condocontrol.com.

And Premises, honestly

Premises thinks in buildings because it was run on one: the shared bill splits across the doors to the centavo, the gate logs the visitor and the parcel, the cleaner and the guard are on statutory payroll, and the whole thing is priced flat in pesos. Where an import honestly wins: an institutional portfolio with an accounting department will get more from Yardi or MRI than from anything in our size class — that is their game, in their market. The nameless comparison holds the cell-by-cell version.

How this page was made. Every card above names the company’s own website and the day we checked it; prices are given in their shape (“from about”, “quote-based”) rather than invented to the peso, and anything we could not verify says so. Our deploy pipeline refuses to keep any of these claims on the wall once its checked date is more than 90 days old — the page is re-verified or it does not ship. Something wrong, or newly fixed on their side? Tell us and the card changes, with a new date on it.

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