Right to Rent checks

Fast and simple Right to Rent checks

Reduce the risk of compromised tenancy agreements with automated ID Verification checks for a streamlined tenant verification process.

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Verify a tenants Right to Rent status in minutes

Ensure a smooth experience for both landlords and tenants with efficient, real-time identity checks.

Our automated verification significantly minimises manual intervention, covering every aspect from tenant identity verification to comprehensive background and right-to-rent checks. Gain peace of mind and confidence in your rental decisions with our robust verification process.

  1. Take a Selfie

    Our solution leverages biometric facial recognition technology to match the selfie you take with the ID document provided, ensuring an accurate and secure identity verification. 

  2. Liveness Test

    A passive liveness detection confirms that a live person is present during the verification process. If this step fails, individuals are prompted to take a second selfie and perform a unique action to validate their presence. 

  3. Capture ID Document 

    Our solution captures and thoroughly verifies the authenticity of the provided ID document, ensuring it's valid and up to date, offering an additional layer of security to the verification process. 

Why choose Creditsafe for Right to Rent?

  1. Enhanced Checks

    Boost accuracy and reliability with comprehensive AML and background checks, including PEPs & Sanctions, Proof of Address, Safe Harbour, HALO mortality, and Electoral Roll confirmation.

  2. Faster Onboarding

    Accelerate your checks with up to 97.7% accuracy using facial recognition and 100% NFC chip reading, reducing delays and improving efficiency.

  3. Integrated Solutions

    Effortlessly integrate Right to Rent checks into your existing CRM and onboarding workflows, ensuring continuity in your processes.

Speed up the contract signing process

Ensure a seamless experience for landlords and tenants with streamlined digital verification. Say goodbye to paperwork and lengthy manual processes!

Our advanced biometric facial recognition technology verifies tenants in real-time, providing a smooth, efficient, and secure onboarding process. Simplify negotiations while enhancing compliance and accuracy, with efficiency gains and cost savings for your business.

  1. Simple digital verification  

    Capture and verify details online, removing the need for manual paperwork or face-to-face interaction. 

  2. Flexible submissions  

    Simplify the verification process by allowing candidates to easily submit photos using their mobile phones. 

  3. Compliant data security 

    All data is stored securely in the cloud, fully compliant with GDPR regulations. 

What our Right to Rent checks include:

From onboarding to ongoing verification, Creditsafe can help with the following types of checks:

  1. ID Verification

  2. Financial Sanctions

  3. Proof of Address

  4. Politically Exposed Persons

  5. Electoral Roll confirmation

  6. Age Verification

  7. HALO database mortality

  8. Safe Harbour

  9. Enhanced AML

Frequently asked Right to Rent questions

What is Right to Rent?

Right to Rent requires lettings agents in England to check that all tenants who occupy their properties have legal status to live in the UK. This means that before you can rent a home in England, a letting agent must undertake ID checks prior to letting out the property.

What are the benefits of digital Right to Rent checks?

Digital ID verification offers significant advantages, such as enhanced safety and consistent accuracy, resulting in decreased fraud risk. Additionally, it provides a faster and more convenient way to conduct Right to Rent checks. Up until now, the process of checking someone’s Right to Rent status has been mostly manual, involving laborious and time-consuming processes. It also relies on business owners and landlords being able to detect fraudulent documents, which is a heavy burden of responsibility and something even a trained eye finds difficult to get right every time.

Does digital ID verification support Right to Rent law?

Government legislation requires that landlords and letting agents verify potential tenants legal right to rent in England. Right to Rent checks apply to all tenants / lodgers aged 18 and over, even if they’re not named on the tenancy agreement or there’s no tenancy agreement in place / in writing.

As a certified Identity Service Provider, Creditsafe can help letting agents remain compliant by offering remote Identity Verification that meets Right to Rent guidelines. 

Who is responsible for Right to Rent checks?

Landlords are responsible for checking the immigration status of prospective tenants in the private rented sector. Checks should also be undertaken by the following:

  • An occupier allowing a lodger to live in a property
  • A tenant sub-letting part or all of a property (this responsibility can be passed over to a landlord providing both parties have agreed in writing)
  • A letting agent appointed in writing by a landlord to take responsibility for complying with the right to rent scheme
What documents are required for Right to Rent checks?

The types of ID documents required for a right to work  check may vary depending on the nature of the business and the level of risk involved. In general, the following types of documents may be required:

  1. Government-issued identification documents, such as a passport, driver's license, or national ID card.

  2. Proof of address documents, such as a utility bill or bank statement, which must be recent and show the individual's current address.

  3. Other documents, such as a birth certificate, marriage certificate, or adoption certificate, may be required in certain circumstances to confirm the individual's identity.

UK businesses must adhere to specific regulations and requirements when conducting right to work checks, and failure to comply can result in penalties or legal issues.

How do digital Right to Rent checks benefit tenants and estate agents?

Capable of verifying up to 4,000 types of ID, our technology can save companies as much as 180 staff-hours each month.

Any business will be able to verify staff quickly using our app, cutting down the time and expense wasted on waiting for documents to come through the post or locating a verification email. estate agents can also integrate the technology with their in-house verification processes.