Rent and Credit

Check out our latest posts on how rent and your credit file are connected, from rental credit checks to using your rent to enhance your credit profile.

A young couple viewing a rental flat and discussing paying a holding deposit.

What is a holding deposit?

Rent Basics

What does "let agreed" mean?

Rent Basics

Hand of a person on an iPad, signing to be a rent guarantor on a tenancy agreement.

What being a rent guarantor involves

Rent Basics
Credit Building Tips
Settling in the UK

A young woman surrounded by moving boxes using a hand calculator to work out how much rent she can afford.

How to work out how much rent you can afford

Rent Basics

A couple meeting a letting agent after proving their right to rent with a share code.

How to get your share code to prove your right to rent?

Rent Basics
Settling in the UK

Woman sitting on the floor surrounded by unpaid bills about to be evicted and stressed about her eviction history.

Who can see my eviction history?

Rent Basics

A woman calling her insurance company to see if her broken TV is covered by her contents insurance policy.

How does content insurance for renters work in the UK?

Rent Basics

Couple looking at their iPad, happy to see that their rent payments show on their credit reports.

Does paying rent build credit?

Rent Reporting
Credit Building Tools

Young man stressed about having missed a council tax payment and what this means for his credit rating.

Does missing a council tax payment affect credit rating?

Rent Basics
Credit Score Factors

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