Landlords + Probate & Estate Administration: The Challenge
As landlord, preparing bank statements for probate & estate administration is a common but time-consuming task. Executors and solicitors handling probate need to review the deceased's bank statements to value the estate, identify debts, and distribute assets.
How BankScan AI Helps Landlords with Probate & Estate Administration
Convert your bank statements to Excel to easily categorise rental income, maintenance costs, and mortgage payments for self-assessment. For probate & estate administration specifically, BankScan AI extracts Balance at date of death, standing orders and direct debits payable, regular inc automatically.
How Landlords Handle Probate & Estate Administration
When preparing bank statements for probate & estate administration, landlords need to Landlords review bank statements to confirm tenant rent payments have been received, match maintenance invoices against bank debits, track mortgage in. BankScan AI automates the data extraction step.
Key terms you'll encounter: rental yield, Section 24, allowable expenses, wear and tear allowance.
How It Works
Upload bank statement PDFs
Supports all major banks. Upload Date of death statement plus 6-12 months prior to identify regular commitments, standing orders, and direct debits to cancel of statements for probate & estate administration.
AI extracts what you need
Our AI extracts Balance at date of death, standing orders and direct debits — formatted for landlords workflows.
Complete your probate & estate administration work
Download Excel files ready for probate & estate administration. Date-of-death balance clearly stated, recurring payments listed separately for cancellation, all accounts of the deceased consolidated into one estate summary
Supported Banks
BankScan AI works with all major UK and US banks, including:
Features for Landlords — Probate & Estate Administration
- Built for Landlords — Saves 1-2 hours per property per month on income and expense tracking, with portfolio landlords saving a full day each month across 10+ properties
- Software compatible — Output works directly with Excel, Hammock, Landlord Vision
- Built for Probate & Estate Administration — Convert the deceased's bank statements to Excel for fast estate valuation, identification of standing orders, direct debits, and outstanding payments.
- Key data extracted — Balance at date of death, standing orders and direct debits payable, regular income sources, any joint account contributions, gifts made in the 7 years before death
Compliance: Landlords + Probate & Estate Administration
When landlords prepare bank statements for probate & estate administration, specific compliance requirements apply.
- Landlords must report rental income on their self-assessment tax return and can only claim mortgage interest as a basic rate tax credit since Section 24 restrictions. Records must be kept for 5 years after the 31 January submission deadline. Deposit protection scheme compliance also requires clear financial records.
- Legal basis: Administration of Estates Act 1925; Inheritance Tax Act 1984 sections 4 and 171; Non-Contentious Probate Rules 1987
Probate & Estate Administration — Built for Landlords
IHT400 must be submitted within 12 months of death to avoid interest charges; probate grant cannot be issued until HMRC receives the IHT forms
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