Guaranteed Rent and Legal Protection

Protecting your rental investment

We’re here to give you the peace of mind that your rental investment is protected. We have chosen the UK’s largest providers of specialist products and services for the private rented sector, so we can offer you a range of tailored services designed with landlords in mind. Their experience means they understand the issues and concerns that you face as a landlord and their products have been specifically designed to offer you cutting-edge protection, market-leading tenant references and much more.

Why Homelet?

HomeLet are the UK’s largest provider of specialist products and services for the private rented sector. This means you’ll benefit from products and services designed with you in mind, backed-up with more than 25 years’ experience. As the only provider in the market with all their functions under one roof, you can be sure you’re dealing with industry experts every step of the way. Their core values of honesty, expertise, respect and innovation ensure you’ll always receive great service, meaning you can rest knowing you’re in safe hands.

High Quality Referencing

HomeLet understand that good quality referencing is the first line of defence for you as a landlord and their experience ensures that referencing results are reliable and trustworthy. Over the past 25 years they’ve referenced more than 10 million tenants so, when you trust HomeLet, you know you’re dealing with industry experts who know tenant referencing inside out. HomeLet is also a leading provider of Rent Guarantee. As they process and manage claims themselves, they also have a database which they screen references against. They’re also members of the UK’s largest fraud detection service which provides a further layer of screening when they reference your prospective tenants.

Effective rent and legal protection against tenants who fall into arrears

Key Features and benefits

Market-leading tenant references

HomeLet’s specialist referencing department perform a multitude of checks including adverse credit history, undisclosed addresses, bank validation, financial checks, and landlord references to provide an objective assessment. Additionally, there are some extra features with HomeLet’s references, including:

• CIFAS checks - By directly checking the national fraud database, they detect applications where an applicant has either previously committed fraud or has a confirmed case of committed fraud against them.
• A check against HomeLet’s own Default Database. This system highlights whether a tenant may have failed to pay their rent in the past.

You’ll also receive:

• Monthly rent paid for up to a maximum value equivalent to 15 months, or until vacant possession (whichever is sooner).
• 50% of the monthly rent paid for up to 2 months after vacant possession has been obtained.
• No policy excess - your rental payments are covered straightaway.

£12.2 MILLION - HOMELET HAVE PAID OUT ACROSS ALL RENT PROTECTION AND EVICTION CLAIMS SINCE 2015

C . 500,000 - HOMELET HAVE PAID OUT ACROSS ALL RENT PROTECTION AND EVICTION CLAIMS SINCE 2015

124 DAYS - HOMELET AVERAGE TIME FROM ISSUE OF CLAIM TO EVICTION VS. NATIONAL AVERAGE OF 305 DAYS

110,907 - LANDLORD POSSESSION CLAIMS IN 2019.

Powerful eviction service

• If your tenants default on their rent HomeLet’s in-house Legal and Claims team will step in to manage the eviction process. They’ll guide you through the complex eviction process at every step.
• HomeLet’s average eviction time is just 124 days compared to a national average of 305 days - so they’ll help you obtain vacant possession quicker than the industry standard (source: Ministry of Justice).

Up to £100,000 of legal expenses covered

• Get the peace of mind that up to £100,000 of legal expenses are covered including: eviction costs following non-payment of rent, or a lapsed Section 21.