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    <lastBuildDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</lastBuildDate>

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      <title>Marketing site rebuild: footer, hero, event tracking, live sitemap</title>
      <link>https://www.operty.com/changelog#2026-08-21</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <li>Shared marketing footer with a four-column internal link grid now renders on every public page.</li>
          <li>Home page now has a semantic value-prop H1 above the AI demo and no longer force-redirects logged-in users away from the marketing home.</li>
          <li>Compare and Alternatives pages now have a two-button CTA row above the fold.</li>
          <li>Plausible custom events wired to every primary CTA plus signup start/complete.</li>
          <li>SoftwareApplication JSON-LD added to the home page.</li>
          <li>Sitemap now auto-generates on every build with today's lastmod and includes /alternatives/:slug entries that were previously missing.</li>
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      <title>Gas Safety renewal + engineer dispatch progress timeline</title>
      <link>https://www.operty.com/changelog#2026-08-14</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <li>Daily 09:00 cron dispatches Gas Safety renewal jobs to the assigned engineer 5 days before expiry.</li>
          <li>Engineers open a magic-link portal on their phone (no app install), upload the new certificate and the landlord + every affected tenant are notified automatically.</li>
          <li>HMO boiler certificates fan out from the parent room to every tenancy served by the shared boiler.</li>
          <li>Dispatch progress timeline shows nudge sent, opened, uploaded, notified.</li>
          <li>Gas engineer email deep-link fixes so mobile taps open the app when installed and the web portal otherwise.</li>
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      <title>Meter auto-import from provider</title>
      <link>https://www.operty.com/changelog#2026-08-07</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <li>Connect meter provider credentials once; nightly job pulls meters, dedupes by address and matches readings to tenancies.</li>
          <li>Uses Ideal Postcodes to resolve every meter address to its BS7666 form.</li>
          <li>Monthly utility bills generate automatically from the reading delta.</li>
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      <title>App Store 1.0 rejection fixes: account deletion + iOS IAP hide</title>
      <link>https://www.operty.com/changelog#2026-07-24</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <li>Full account deletion available from the profile with a 30-day pending-deletion grace, nightly purge cascades across Postgres and SQLite.</li>
          <li>Counterparty history preserved anonymised so tradespeople and letting-agent records stay balanced.</li>
          <li>iOS IAP-visible CTAs hidden behind the App Store guidelines gate on the mobile client.</li>
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      <title>SEO and AI search optimisation</title>
      <link>https://www.operty.com/changelog#2026-05-29</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <li>Added per-page titles, descriptions and JSON-LD on Pricing, Terms, Privacy, DPA, Login.</li>
          <li>Published FAQ page with FAQPage schema.</li>
          <li>Published comparison pages: Operty vs Arthur, Landlord Vision, Hammock, Lendlord.</li>
          <li>Published buy-to-let yield calculator at /tools/yield.</li>
          <li>Sitemap expanded to cover all marketing routes.</li>
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      <title>Lazy contact-details gate for social-login users</title>
      <link>https://www.operty.com/changelog#2026-05-14</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <li>New social-login users are no longer blocked at the door for missing phone or name.</li>
          <li>A lightweight contact-gate now appears the first time the user opens Messages, Add Property, or any flow that needs full identity.</li>
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      <title>Smart App Banner and Apple Sign-In</title>
      <link>https://www.operty.com/changelog#2026-05-10</link>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <li>iOS Smart App Banner shipped across operty.com, www.operty.com and app.operty.com.</li>
          <li>Sign in with Apple available on web and mobile.</li>
          <li>Apple domain association route serving /.well-known/apple-app-site-association.</li>
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      <title>Better Stack monitoring and Railway Postgres upgrade</title>
      <link>https://www.operty.com/changelog#2026-05-06</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <li>Better Stack now streams Railway logs and emails on error patterns.</li>
          <li>Postgres service upgraded on Railway Hobby plan with attached volume.</li>
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      <title>Pricing live</title>
      <link>https://www.operty.com/changelog#2026-05-02</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <li>Three plans: Free, Online and Portfolio.</li>
          <li>Stripe checkout flow live behind the Pricing CTA.</li>
          <li>Pay-as-you-go add-ons for extra AI voice minutes, WhatsApp/SMS and storage.</li>
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