New partnership to offer agents digital Right to Rent checks
Goodlord will offer its certified right-to-rent service through the Vouch platform as an add-on to its current referencing checks for users of its platforms.
Letting agents will now be able to conduct digital right-to-rent checks on both British and Irish citizens using identity verification technology (IDVT) after new partnership between the Goodlord group and Credas, reducing the amount of time spent screening tenants.
Right-to-rent legislation changed late last year to allow letting agents and landlords in England to use certified identity service providers (IDSPs) to carry out checks on British and Irish citizens remotely on their behalf, using identity verification technology.
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From June the Goodlord group will offer its certified right-to-rent service through the Vouch platform and the service will also be made available through the Goodlord platform later in the year.
The service will be offered as an add-on to its current referencing checks for users of the platforms.
Powered by Credas, it will include ID fraud checks, documentation verification and “liveness detection” checks, which can detect whether a face is real or fake.
Tom Goodman, Managing Director of Vouch, says: “The last few years has seen an acceleration in the digitisation of right to rent checks. We know that letting agents, landlords, and tenants have welcomed this as it reduces admin and brings lettings into the 21st century.
“Our partnership with Credas means we can take this a step further – integrating IDVT with our current referencing process and cutting out the middleman for letting agents.”
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Tim Barnett, Chief Executive at Credas, adds: “Customer verification is now more important than ever before for a whole host of reasons.
“Our technology allows stakeholders throughout the property and legal industries and beyond to be truly compliant in knowing their customer and mitigating their vulnerability in an easy ‘plug and play’ way.
“The Goodlord group partnership is a great example of how two tech companies can come together to help solve a shared problem for their clients.
“By removing another step, in what is quite a drawn out process, Letting Agents will be able to reclaim their lost time.”
