One of the UK’s largest tenant referencing and lettings specialists
VISTA is a ground-breaking tenant referencing solution that provides accurate affordability assessment of applicants and mitigates fraud risk.
The result of a £3m investment, 3 years research and development, and a partnership with data specialists Experian, VISTA completes over 70% of tenant reference applications instantly.
The 4 pillars of VISTA underpin this industry-first tenant referencing solution.
The VISTA Scorecard provide the most forensic findings of an applicant’s suitability for a property.
VISTA provides enriched verification of applicants by utilising more data sources to confirm identification and previous addresses. As standard, the new ID check will aim to confirm at least two primary data sources.
VISTA brings tenancy fraud prevention to its forefront by easily and accurately identifying data inconsistencies across tenancy and other credit applications. These alerts, generated by in-depth data analysis, will then be further examined by our expert team to determine the best course of action.
VISTA’s affordability calculation will surpass the previous income-to-rent ratio calculation and instead, assess an applicant’s trends in income and expenditure patterns. These findings will then be compared to their monthly income to determine if the rent is affordable to the applicant.
Cutting-edge tenancy fraud prevention and truest affordability calculation
Combining our 30 years + of expertise with data analytics specialist, Experian, HomeLet has become a member of CAIS – enabling us exclusive and extensive access to source data and full credit files from the Credit Bureau.
On average, HomeLet deals with over 150 cases of fraud a day. With design software that can visually manipulate documents readily available, increasing competition in the rental market and the ongoing cost of living crisis, tenancy fraud is more frequent, complex and targeted than ever before. By utilising HomeLet AI and referencing over 500 million touchpoints, VISTA will serve as the ultimate protection against tenancy fraud by providing a deeper and more forensic data assessment than any other solution.
Despite the intensified depth of VISTA’s ID verification and credit history authentication, the solution by no means is designed to inflict harsher standards on tenancy applicants. Instead, VISTA is designed to provide the fairest and truest affordability calculation in the market. By completing a real-time assessment on an applicant’s income and affordability rather than penalising someone on historic indebtedness which has since been rectified.
Our sophisticated platforms and data wouldn’t live up to their potential without our experts harnessing the power of these assets to maximise referencing efficiency, accuracy and equality.
When data cannot be acquired by one of the 4 pillars of VISTA, then we have dedicated teams of trained referencing specialists fully capable of manually completing this process and conducting thorough fraud prevention measures.
Overseas applications
Applications with no full credit file, but living in the UK
Manual income verification
Fraud alerts