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What It Is

Édifice is a tenant verification and rental workflow automation SaaS for real estate agencies and individual landlords in France. It brings applicant data collection, AI scoring, anti-fraud verification, lease generation, receipt management, and viewing scheduling into a single platform. Its positioning is to help agencies screen qualified applicants faster in a highly competitive rental market.

Core Features and Security

The core of the product is a “secure applicant portal”: applicants submit identity documents, payslips, tax notices, and other materials through an agency-branded link, and PDFs are watermarked to reduce the risk of leakage. The platform provides AI scoring based on payslips, tax notices, and rent-to-income ratio, and supports real-time verification of French tax notices via 2D-Doc and ANTS signatures. Once verified, it can automatically generate leases that include Hoguet clauses and move-in inspection-related content, and generate monthly receipts during the management period.

Collaboration, Integrations, and Deployment

Édifice supports white-label capabilities, including logo, colors, custom domains, and branded emails; the Agence and Business plans are better suited to agency teams. The viewing module lets applicants choose time slots and syncs bidirectionally with Google Calendar. On the CRM side, the documentation explicitly supports Apimo, while other CRMs are still listed as coming soon. Deployment is cloud-based SaaS, with an emphasis on French sovereign hosting, encryption in transit and at rest, multi-tenant isolation, per-file access logs, deletion of originals after verification, and 90-day retention after RGPD closure.

Pricing and Trial

Pricing is transparent and does not include any rental commission. The individual landlord plan is 10€ TTC/month and includes 1–3 listings; Starter is 10€ HT/agent/month; Agence is 49€ HT/month with 5 users included; Business also starts from 49€ HT/month, with additional users billed separately. Annual billing offers around a 15% discount. The platform provides a one-month free trial with no credit card required, and tenant applicants are always free.

Pros, Cons, and Best Fit

Its strengths are a clear vertical use case, strong French rental compliance capabilities, fairly complete white-label and security design, and relatively low pricing. The drawbacks are that it is clearly focused on the French market; features such as 2D-Doc, ANTS, Hoguet, and RGPD have limited reuse value in Chinese rental scenarios. There is also limited information on APIs and developer support, and CRM integrations are not yet particularly extensive. It is best suited to small and midsize real estate agencies in France, independent agents, multi-branch agencies, and individual landlords who rent out homes occasionally.

Access from China and Alternatives

Access from mainland China cannot be determined from the available text, and payment methods are not disclosed. If your business operates locally in China, it is better to first evaluate 蘑菇租房, 房在线, 寓小二, or tools within the 贝壳/链家 ecosystem. If you manage properties in France, Édifice’s localized compliance and document verification capabilities are more valuable.