Home of REIWA's 2025 Property Manager of the Year.
And how to find one for yourself, whether or not that turns out to be us.
Local Property Partners is led by Daria Tedling, named REIWA Residential Property Manager of the Year for 2025 and a finalist in the 2026 REIA National Awards for Excellence. This page explains what separated that work, and what to look for in any Perth property manager you are considering.
Get the tenant right, and the rest follows.
Everything on this page comes back to that sentence. A well chosen tenant pays on time, reports the small problem early, looks after the place and renews. Every expensive thing that happens to a rental property starts with getting that decision wrong.
Built from scratch, on purpose.
Before founding Local Property Partners I was looking after a portfolio of roughly 250 properties. Here is the uncomfortable part. The vast majority of them, I had never physically walked through.
Inspections were rushed. Maintenance decisions were made from photographs. Landlords were left trusting a process they could not actually see. I had five star reviews the whole time, which tells you something about how little reviews capture.
I did not want to keep working that way, so I built something smaller on purpose. The portfolio is capped so every property still gets a real walk through, a real conversation with the tenant, and a manager who can answer a question about it without opening the file.
What follows is what I learned in those years, written for landlords who already suspect their current manager is not watching closely enough. Four situations I see often, and what we do so they do not happen here.
What it costs when your manager does not know your property.
None of these are dramatic. All of them are expensive. Every one is the quiet result of a portfolio too large for one person to manage properly.
The $300 callout that should have been a $150 fix.
An electrician is on site to install a smoke alarm. It is a $150 job. He needs a quick approval before he goes ahead, calls the property manager, gets a virtual assistant and leaves a message. The manager is in another inspection and does not see it for three hours. By then the electrician has left for his next job and charges another callout to come back. The $150 job is now $300 and you are paying it. Not because anything went wrong, but because nobody was reachable when it mattered.
We answer, and our trades have a fallback when we cannot. The real fix is being reachable, so a trade on site gets a decision instead of a voicemail. Tapi handles the round the clock coordination, but the platform is not the safeguard. The safeguard is that on the rare occasion we cannot be reached, our trades are authorised to contact the owner directly, so the job is never left stranded and a second callout is never racked up.
The insurance policy nobody remembers selling you.
An insured event happens at your property. Your manager arranges trades and starts charging you. You ask whether it is covered under the landlord insurance arranged at signup. She asks what policy you have. You explain it was sold to you twelve months ago on the day you signed the management agreement, except it was not her, it was the business development manager, who handed your file off on day two and has not been heard from since. Nobody owns the file. You are left educating your own agent about your own cover.
One file owner, from appraisal to bond return. The person who appraises your property, signs you up, configures your insurance, meets your tenant and approves your maintenance is the same person. There is no business development manager and no handover on day two.
The fence that has been falling down for six months.
A tenant emails to say the side fence is leaning. The manager does not know which fence, because she has never been to the property. She does not know which neighbour to contact. She does not know whether it was already leaning at the start of the tenancy, because the condition report was done by the leasing agent. She has never met your tenants either. She is managing a file she has never seen, for people she has never met.
Every property walked, every tenant met. I personally walk every property I take on and meet the tenants on every lease. When a fence falls down I know which fence, which neighbour, and what condition it was in on day one. The portfolio is capped so that stays true as we grow.
The inspection report nobody actually reviewed.
Your routine inspection report arrives and flags a leaking tap. You ask which one. The photograph shows a tap. It could be the kitchen or the ensuite. The manager has to ask the outsourced inspections company, who have to work out which inspector attended, and that inspector did twenty properties that day and cannot remember. Meanwhile your tenant is tired of explaining, again, that a tap is leaking. Three people are now involved in identifying one tap.
Tours reviewed before they reach you. Routine inspections are captured in 360 degrees with dated photographs and a written report, but the report does not go anywhere until I have walked through the virtual tour myself. I am the one who sends it and the one who flags the leaking tap. Because I have stood in your property, I know which tap.
None of that is accidental. Tapi for maintenance coordination, MyPlace for owner visibility, a capped book, every property visited, every tenant met, every report personally reviewed. Each one exists because I have watched the alternative cost landlords money.
What the best property managers in Perth actually have.
Most landlords focus on the headline rate. The fee is only part of the picture, and it is the smallest number in your investment. Here is what separates good property management from great, and you can hold any agency against it, including this one.
Counting two owners and two tenants behind an average property. Any of those four can ring at any moment and expects to reach someone who knows the property. Eight hundred people is not a book anyone holds in their head, so the manager triages. That is not laziness, it is the only rational response, and it is why the cap matters more than the fee.
Bars are the fee in dollars a week. The percentage beside each is the rate that produces it. The fee rises as the rent rises and the rate comes down, because a more expensive property is more work but not proportionally more. Excludes GST. These are the figures the calculator returns, not band headlines, and the rate moves smoothly between these points.
Read the two ends together. The rent rises just under five times across that range. The fee rises less than three. That gap is the work that does not scale, and it is the whole reason the percentage slides rather than sitting flat.
What is included, without an invoice attached.
The headline percentage is easy to compare, which is why everyone compares it. What actually decides the cost is what sits underneath. Ask any agency for a full written fee schedule before you sign anything, and read it for what is charged separately.
The fee calculator gives you the exact weekly and annual figure for your property, and the arithmetic behind why the rate slides is set out in the article on management fees.
The Landlord Control Centre.
Eight categories and more than fifty on demand services, included in your management fee. Here are six things you can request from the couch on a Sunday night without emailing anyone.
MyPlace. Your property, at 9pm on a Saturday.
The MRI MyPlace owner app puts your property on your phone. Not next month's statement, and not what your manager remembers when you ring. Right now, in real time, without phoning anyone.
Transparency is not a claim you make in a brochure. It is something a landlord should be able to check at nine on a Sunday night, from the couch, without emailing anyone.
Seven questions worth asking before you sign anything.
Not to catch anyone out. These are the ones whose answers predict what the next three years will actually be like. Any agency worth signing with will answer them without hesitating, and this one will too.
When could you actually switch?
Most owners assume they are stuck until the anniversary. Usually they are not. Put in the date your current management agreement ends and this works out the deadline, then maps what happens after it.
Put in your end date and this works out the deadline for you. Twenty eight days notice is the usual requirement, and we serve it on your behalf with you copied in.
Twenty eight days is the usual notice period but your agreement governs. Send it to me and I will read it and tell you the real date, including whether there is a fixed term still running.
What Perth landlords say.
Three of them. You can read the rest on realestate.com.au, including any that are less flattering.
She took over the management authority seamlessly and handled a break lease professionally and without stress. Her appraisal achieved a better price than we expected.
DianLandlord, BrabhamShe consistently attends to details, follows up proactively, and manages the property with genuine ownership. It is rare to find someone who does so with such dedication.
ArvindLandlord, ClarksonNext day payments are such a blessing. All standard inclusions, no extra fees. Daria's honesty and reliability, she is genuine and acts with integrity.
PreethamLandlord, LandsdaleWhere we manage.
Perth metropolitan, weighted to the northern and inner northern suburbs, with the coastal corridor running up to Two Rocks.
Stirling, Clarkson, Yokine, Butler, Balga, Padbury, Landsdale, Brabham, Innaloo, Iluka, Kinross, Carramar, Joondalup, Hillarys, Warwick, Wellard and the surrounding suburbs. If your property sits outside that, ask anyway. The answer is sometimes yes and it is always honest.
Common questions.
Who is the best property manager in Perth?
It depends what you are optimising for, and anyone who answers that question with their own name and nothing else is selling. For landlords who want individual oversight, fees they can check themselves and direct access to a senior manager, Local Property Partners is led by the REIWA 2025 Residential Property Manager of the Year and operates with no lock-in. For landlords who want institutional scale and cover for leave and turnover, a larger agency is a reasonable choice and I would say so.
Who won REIWA Property Manager of the Year in 2025?
Daria Tedling, Director and Licensee of Local Property Partners in Perth, was named the 2025 REIWA Residential Property Manager of the Year. She is also a finalist in the 2026 REIA National Awards for Excellence.
How much do the best Perth property managers charge?
Most Perth agencies sit between 6 and 11 per cent of rent collected, plus GST. Local Property Partners uses a sliding scale from 9.90 per cent down to 5.75 per cent as the rent rises, with a minimum of $45 a week. The headline percentage matters less than what sits underneath it, because report fees, end of financial year charges and fees applied to tenant reimbursables can add more than the percentage difference you negotiated. The fee calculator gives you the exact number.
Why does the rate go down as the rent goes up?
Because the work and the rent do not move together. A more expensive property is usually more work, but it is not twice the work of one renting at half the price. A sliding scale reflects that, so the dollar fee rises while the percentage comes down. The full arithmetic is in the article on fees.
How do I switch property managers in Perth?
Check your current agreement for the notice period, then we serve the notice for you with you copied in. You do not have to have the awkward conversation. We handle the file transfer at no cost and there is no letting fee to start again. Most transfers complete within a few business days. How switching works.
What is the Landlord Control Centre?
An online hub where you can request rent reviews, log maintenance, reach compliance documents and use the calculators at any hour, without needing to call or email. It is included with management.
What is MyPlace?
The MRI Software owner app, provided free to every Local Property Partners landlord. It shows rental income, available funds, outstanding invoices, maintenance status, compliance status, lease term and every document, in real time, on iOS and Android.
Is it worth using a property manager at all?
For most Perth landlords, yes, though not for everyone. A licensed manager can access tenancy databases a private landlord cannot, handles compliance obligations and coordinates repairs within legal timeframes, and the fee is deductible. If you live nearby, have the time, and enjoy the administration, self-managing is a real option. There is an honest self-managing check that will tell you which you are.
Everything on this page is general information, not financial, legal or taxation advice. Services, fees and inclusions are confirmed in the REIWA form management agreement, which is the binding document. The scenarios described are composites drawn from patterns landlords report when switching, not specific case studies, and any figures in them are illustrative. Awards named are held by Daria Tedling individually. Tapi and MyPlace are third party platforms we use rather than own.
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