Land & Plot Purchase
We find the plot you actually want, verify it, and handle the purchase while you stay where you are.
Service
Property Management
We stand between you and your tenant — collecting rent, handling maintenance and keeping a paper trail — so a property you own from abroad still earns you an income.
Owning a house or flat in Malawi while you live elsewhere raises a familiar problem: someone has to find a tenant, collect the rent, and pick up the phone when a pipe bursts. That is the job here. We sit between you and the tenant as your property manager, so the property keeps earning you an income without asking you to run it yourself.
Who is responsible for what
Three parties, three roles. Nothing is decided without you knowing about it.
Landlord
- Owns the property
- Approves major repairs
- Pays for structural repairs and normal wear and tear
- May also find tenants, if preferred
Property manager (us)
- Finds tenants
- Collects rent, deducts the fee, remits the balance
- Keeps rental records and statements
- Receives and verifies maintenance reports
Tenant
- Pays rent
- Reports maintenance issues
- Pays for damage they caused
Rent collection
The tenant pays rent to us, not directly to you. We deduct our agreed management fee and remit the balance to you together with a statement, on the schedule set out in your management agreement.
On a monthly rent of MWK 800,000 at a 10% management fee, for example: we deduct MWK 80,000 and remit MWK 720,000, with the statement attached.
Maintenance: who pays
When something breaks, the tenant reports it to us first. We inspect or verify the issue, then work out who is responsible before anyone spends money.
The landlord pays for roof leaks, plumbing failures, electrical wiring faults, water heater replacement, structural damage, and normal wear and tear.
The tenant pays for broken windows, damaged doors, lost keys, furniture broken through misuse, drains clogged by negligence, and damage caused by pets or guests.
Repair approval limits
Your management agreement sets a spending limit — commonly MWK 100,000. Below it, we authorise the repair immediately so a small job never sits waiting on an email from abroad. Above it, we get quotations, you approve the spend, and only then does a contractor start work.
Emergency repairs
A burst pipe or an electrical hazard does not wait for a quotation round. Where your agreement authorises it, we arrange the repair immediately to stop the damage spreading, then tell you what was done and why as soon as it is dealt with.
End of tenancy
When a tenant moves out, we inspect the property against the condition recorded when they moved in. Any damage that is theirs to answer for is deducted from the security deposit; the remainder is returned to them.
Two agreements, not one
We work under two separate agreements, because the landlord relationship and the tenant relationship are not the same thing.
The property management agreement, between you and us, sets our management fee, our spending authority, the repair approval threshold, and how often and how you are paid.
The tenancy agreement, between you and the tenant and administered by us, sets the rent, the deposit, who maintains what, the rules of use, and what happens at the end of the tenancy.
Keeping the two separate is what keeps disputes rare — everyone has signed a document that actually describes their side of it.
