Category: Right to Rent
Introducing Landlord Sanctions Checks: What You Need to Know
Sarah Croft
March 11, 2025
From May 2025, letting agents need to make sanction checks on landlords and tenants. Automated checks can speed up this process and offer a reliable way to ensure compliance, combined with a Right to Rent identity and face match check. Read on to find out more.
Right to Rent code of practice updated
Sarah Croft
January 24, 2024
All landlords and agents in England have a legal responsibility to prevent anyone without lawful immigration status from accessing the private rented sector. The Home Office have released an updated version of the Right to Rent guide for landlords and letting agents.
Right to Rent checks – how can identity validation technology help?
Sarah Croft
June 13, 2023
Right to Rent guidance has seen many changes and asking for the right documents then confidently confirming that they are genuine can be tricky. In this blog, we explore fake document trends in Right to Rent and look at how technology can help.
TrustID Become a Certified IDSP Approved Against UK Government Digital Schemes
Tony Machin
June 15, 2022
TrustID is a certified digital identity service provider (IDSP) for Right to Work (RtW), Right to Rent (RtR) and Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks under the UK Digital Identity & Attributes Trust Framework.
Five ways Identity Service Providers (IDSPs) can help Right to Rent checks
Sarah Croft
March 10, 2022
If you work in the lettings industry or are a private landlord, you will be aware that you are required to check all your adult tenants have the legal Right to Rent in the UK. Even if you already have processes in place, making high volumes of visual checks or managing remote checks may be a challenge.
