March 2026

New Features, Improvements, and Updates 

• Going forward, rent assessments performed using the current version of city and county council rent policies will provide workings as to how the calculation was arrived at. These are available by clicking on the magnifying glass alongside the completed rent assessment.
• Support added for the 2026 version of the Fingal County Council differential rent policy.
• Minimum rent values associated with Galway City Council differential rent policy updated to reflect increases in social welfare/pension rates.
• It's now possible to include a Payment Reference when defining a (P&A) funding schedule. This will be used as the primary match when importing local authority transactions in bulk, falling back to the property reference when a match isn't found.
• When viewing a tenant, the summary info displayed at the top of the screen now includes the tenant's account number, in addition to their name, contact number and email address.
• Update the Local Authority Audit report to generate this in Excel format. This update also reflects updates agreed by the AHB Allocation Process Working Group and the CCMA HBLU Committee. The report has moved to "Reports > Local Authority > Audit".
• Local Authority Statement feature relocated to "Reports -> Local Authority > Statements".
• Standard social welfare and pension rates for 2025 and 2026 have been added. These will primarily be used when the minimum value for rent calculations is based on the prevailing rate as of the assessment effective date. 
• Local Authority added to the exportable version of the Rent Assessment Report.
• Introduced new "Purchases" privilege to the default Account Owner and Manager roles. Only users with this privilege can authorise a property limit increase or purchase SMS credits.
• Updated property bolt-on pricing to reflect pricing changes - https://www.tiltaffinity.com/pricing/.
• Payment Reference field added to Tenant entity. This will primarily be used for bulk imports of tenant payments. Affinity will first try to match each account reference in the payment file to the new Payment Reference, then fall back to the tenant's Account Number, and finally the (existing) tenant Reference field.
• New section added to Performance Report providing metrics on Response Repairs and Maintenance.
• Major performance enhancements to the "Properties > List Properties" page.
• South Dublin City Council rent calculation updated to reflect 2026 State Pension (Contributory) rate, used to determine eligibility for rent discount.
• Updates to list properties, list tenants, and the list properties tab within a housing group to display the current rent being paid by the tenant, along with a breakdown showing the tenant/benefit split. Additionally, the current tenant balance is colour-coded to indicate whether the tenant is in arrears or in credit (including a zero balance). 

Bug Fixes

• Description missing from Work Orders export.
• Error thrown when exporting a list of Insurance Policies (Property)
• When adding a new tenant, if invalid data had been supplied, the screen displayed to correct the errors did not include a list of country codes for the mobile number.
• Clarification received on section 5a of the 2026 version of the Westmeath differential rent policy. This relates to allowances given to the principal earner.
• Error reported when accepting a supplier quote.
• Incorrect value set for monthly rent assessment tag when creating a tenant letter.
• Delete option missing from Performance Report
• The 'Tenant Arrears' total within the Alert Summary dashlet was incorrectly including tenants whose Alert Ind had been set.
• Meath County Council differential rent policy - Incorrect rent contribution applied for OAPs who are subsidiary earners.
• Rent Assessments - monthly rental values not being converted to weekly equivalents when required for maximum rent increase clauses.
• When navigating to the add work order screen from the Work Orders tab of the Property view, property details, including existing, open work orders are not being displayed.
• Error reported when attempt made to export list of Work Order Notes.
• Work Order description missing from 'View Work Order History' option when raising new work order.
• Invalid void end date reported in Void Report if property Disposed of Date unset incorrectly.