An industry-wide identity scheme has received glowing reviews from agents following the roll-out of a beta test project.

Stuart Young, who has built the platform that enables the scheme, is urging estate agents and all the players within the property industry to get on board.

Organiser of MyIdentity service organising the initiative says it will enable lighter admin and reduce risk of property and mortgage fraud.

Estate agents, licensed conveyancers, solicitors and mortgage brokers in London, Gloucestershire and Yorkshire will be the first to trial the government’s new digital identity trust scheme, MyIdentity.

Estate agencies taking part in year-long pilot are in Battersea, Chiswick, Clapham, Putney, Wimbledon, Richmond, Kew, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Harrogate and York.