Estate Agents + Bankruptcy Filing: The Challenge
As an estate agent, preparing bank statements for bankruptcy filing is a common but time-consuming task. Bankruptcy attorneys and filers need 6+ months of bank statements for means testing, Schedule I/J preparation, and trustee review in Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 cases.
How BankScan AI Helps Estate Agents with Bankruptcy Filing
Convert your client money and office account statements to structured spreadsheets for faster reconciliation and compliance reporting. For bankruptcy filing specifically, BankScan AI extracts Current Monthly Income (CMI) for means test, payments to creditors in the 90 day automatically.
How Estate Agents Handle Bankruptcy Filing
When preparing bank statements for bankruptcy filing, estate agents need to Estate agents reconcile client money accounts holding tenant deposits and rent, match commission income against completed property sales, and track of. BankScan AI automates the data extraction step.
Key terms you'll encounter: client money account, completion statement, exchange of contracts, CMP scheme.
How It Works
Upload bank statement PDFs
Supports all major banks. Upload 6 months of statements for means test (CMI calculation); trustees may request up to 2 years to identify preferential or fraudulent transfers of statements for bankruptcy filing.
AI extracts what you need
Our AI extracts Current Monthly Income (CMI) for means test, payments to cre — formatted for estate agents workflows.
Complete your bankruptcy filing work
Download Excel files ready for bankruptcy filing. Income averaged over 6-month look-back period per means test form (B122A/B122C); expenses categorized per Schedule J; transfers over $600 in prior 2 years identified for SOFA
Supported Banks
BankScan AI works with all major UK and US banks, including:
Features for Estate Agents — Bankruptcy Filing
- Built for Estate Agents — Saves 2-3 hours per week on client money account reconciliation and commission tracking across property completions
- Software compatible — Output works directly with Reapit, Alto by Vebra, Xero
- Built for Bankruptcy Filing — Convert bank statements to Excel for quick means test analysis, income/expense categorization, and complete financial disclosure required by bankruptcy courts.
- Key data extracted — Current Monthly Income (CMI) for means test, payments to creditors in the 90 days pre-filing (preferential transfers), insider payments in prior year, cash on hand at filing date
Compliance: Estate Agents + Bankruptcy Filing
When estate agents prepare bank statements for bankruptcy filing, specific compliance requirements apply.
- Estate agents holding client money must comply with the Estate Agents Act 1979 and Client Money Protection schemes. The Property Ombudsman and NAEA Propertymark require regular client money account reconciliation. Anti-money laundering regulations under the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 mandate due diligence on property transactions.
- Legal basis: 11 USC section 707(b) (means test for Chapter 7); 11 USC section 521 (debtor duties including document production); Bankruptcy Rules 1007 and 4002
Bankruptcy Filing — Built for Estate Agents
Bankruptcy petition triggers automatic stay immediately; however, required documents (including bank statements) must be filed within 45 days or the case may be dismissed
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