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Bookkeeping for rental property owners

Rent often reaches a landlord as one net transfer from the property manager, with fees and repairs already taken out, while loan repayments, rates and levies leave from other accounts. We look after day-to-day bookkeeping for rental property owners across Australia.

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Businesses in Residential Property Operators (ANZSIC class 6711)

Actively trading businesses across Australia
58,084 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, June 2025, checked 15 October 2026
Of those, classified as non-employing
54,386 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, June 2025, checked 15 October 2026
Of those, with 1 to 4 employees
3,132 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, June 2025, checked 15 October 2026

Businesses by main state or territory

These counts are for the ANZSIC class Residential Property Operators, which also takes in residential caravan parks and body corporate or strata corporations. Holiday houses and holiday flats are counted in the Accommodation class, so they are not included here. The ABS counts actively trading businesses, so landlords who are not counted as businesses are not in these figures.

  1. New South Wales21,781 businesses
  2. Victoria15,808 businesses
  3. Queensland10,594 businesses
  4. Western Australia4,411 businesses
  5. South Australia3,629 businesses
  6. Australian Capital Territory833 businesses
  7. Tasmania631 businesses
  8. Northern Territory391 businesses
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, June 2025. Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2: Businesses by main state by industry class by employment size ranges (8165DC02.xlsx). Checked 15 Oct 2026.

Businesses by number of employees

  1. Non-employing54,386 businesses
  2. 1 to 4 employees3,132 businesses
  3. 5 to 19 employees445 businesses
  4. 20 to 199 employees111 businesses
  5. 200 or more employees10 businesses
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, June 2025. Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2: Businesses by main state by industry class by employment size ranges (8165DC02.xlsx). Checked 15 Oct 2026.

What we look after

What the books involve

  • Property manager statements: each monthly rent statement broken into gross rent, management and letting fees, and repairs paid on the owner's behalf, so the net amount that lands in the bank can be traced back line by line.
  • Loan statements: every rental property loan reconciled to the lender's statement, with each repayment split into interest and principal, and any redraw recorded against the loan it came from.
  • Property outgoings: council rates, water charges, strata or body corporate levies, landlord insurance and maintenance invoices entered against the address they belong to, whether the owner or the manager paid them.
  • More than one property: rent and outgoings tracked by address in Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks Online, so the monthly reports show how each property is going on its own.
  • Self-managed tenancies: rent paid straight into the owner's account matched to the tenancy it belongs to, with a running list of any rent that has fallen behind.
  • Bank reconciliation: rent, offset and card accounts reconciled monthly, so the balances in the books agree with each statement and property payments sit against the right address.

Sources

  1. Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2: Businesses by main state by industry class by employment size ranges (8165DC02.xlsx)

    Australian Bureau of Statistics. Actively trading businesses at 30 June 2025, released 16 December 2025. Checked 15 October 2026.

    Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, including Entries and Exits, June 2021 to June 2025, licensed under CC BY 4.0 Licence: CC BY 4.0.

  2. Correspondence, GCCSA 2021 to GCCSA 2026 (CG_GCCSA_2021_GCCSA_2026.csv)

    Australian Bureau of Statistics. ASGS Edition 4, July 2026 to June 2031, released 22 July 2026. Checked 15 October 2026.

    Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Edition 4, licensed under CC BY 4.0 Licence: CC BY 4.0.

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