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Are you a journalist or someone looking for further information on CreditLadder? Please read on if you are!
What does CreditLadder do?
CreditLadder is the UK's first and largest rent reporting platform - it's also the first way tenants can improve their credit position and credit score by having their rent reported to all four of the major Credit Reference Agencies in the UK.
Tenants connect their bank account to CreditLadder using the latest in Open Banking technology. CreditLadder technology and expertise then enables tenant’s to have their rental payments added to their Experian, Equifax, TransUnion and Crediva credit files ultimately helping them to improve their credit position and score.
CreditLadder is unique as it is the first way in which UK tenants can have their rent payments added to their credit files across Experian, Equifax, TransUnion and Crediva.
Do we matter?
Since launching CreditLadder has reported over £1bn in rent payments for tenants, helping thousands of people improve their credit score and credit position.
CreditLadder has also been backed by HM Treasury and is FCA regulated.
Are credit scores important?
There are over 10 million households renting in the UK. CreditLadder believes a tenant’s rent payment should count when it comes to decisions on mortgages, and that these same rent payments should be factored into other lending decisions. A credit score forms the basis on which companies make lending decisions. A strong credit rating can help people access finance, and access finance at better rates.
Contact us
Journalists who want to talk to us about our service, the wider private rental market, credit scoring, credit referencing, rent affordability, mortgage lending and getting on the property ladder should email us: press@creditladder.co.uk.
Our spokesperson is our CEO, Sheraz Dar. He has worked at, and invested in, many of the UK’s leading digital businesses including FindaProperty and PrimeLocation (which both merged with Zoopla) as well as Quidco and OpenRent; the latter being the UK’s biggest letting agent by volume.
Below are just some of our many mentions
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2024
18th Oct: The Mirror - 'We used our rent payments to help us get a mortgage and buy first home'
22nd Sept: The Mirror - Paying your rent on time could help you get a mortgage - plus other first-time buyer tips
7th Aug: Letting Agent Today - PropTech integration aims to improve agents’ offer to tenants
12th April: The Sun - GOT THE CREDIT Simple tips to improve your credit score and get accepted by lenders
15th January: Fintech Finance News - CreditLadder teams up with Digital ID Connect to offer Rent Reporting to their users
2023
13th January: The Times - The new apps boosting renters’ credit ratings
2022
24th February: The Negotiator - Tenant rent reporting pioneer inks deal with credit referencing giant TransUnion
21st January: The Sun - CREDIT CHECK I’m a credit expert and there are six easy ways to improve your score in 30 mins
2021
28th July: iNews - My credit history is in a state – can I still get a credit card?
17th June: Financial IT - Zopa and CreditLadder team up to help renters improve their credit score
10th June: The Negotiator - Third of first time buyers struggling to save up for deposit
19th May: iNews - Pay the rent, boost your credit score? How proptech firms are shaking things up for tenants
15th April: iNews - Meet the invisibles: People whose credit files are too ‘thin’ to access basic loans
8th March: Evening Standard - Money saving apps: the five best apps to help you save for a house deposit
2020
16th Sept: Money Saving Expert - CreditLadder introduces £8/mth fees for renters reporting payments to two credit reference agencies
6th March: The Negotiator - Rent reporting tech firm signs up credit checking giant Equifax.
2019
29th October: Techcrunch - TrueLayer, the open banking API provider, discloses investment and partnership with Visa
1st October: Property Industry Eye - Rent recording platform hits £100m milestone as it aims to help tenants improve credit scores
15th July: Property Industry Eye - Starling Bank Partners with CreditLadder to Help Renters Get on the Property Ladder.
7th May: The Times - Fintech is the future and a force for good — and it is time to embrace it
25th March: Letting Agent Today - Prop tech firm and Nationwide pioneer 'rent-mortgage' link for tenants
21st March: This is Money - 'When I arrived in Britain I didn't realise importance of credit scores'
20th March: The Sun - CreditLadder and Nationwide new service will help first time buyers get a mortgage using rent payments
2018
25th November: Property Industry Eye - Proptech firm gains regulatory powers to access tenant accounts for rent collection
24th October: BBC News - Renters who pay on time get better credit score
24th October: The Sun - Rent payments to be included in Experian credit reports
24th October: Financial Times - Rent records can help with mortgage applications under new scheme
15th August: FT Adviser website - Govt-backed startups to help renters on property ladder
15th August: The Sun website - How to use rent payments to boost your credit score
15th August: Gov.uk website - Tech firms win prize to help UK's renters onto the housing ladder
15th August: iNews website - What renters can do to boost their chance of getting a mortgage
28th March: Finextra.com - CreditLadder recruits Monzo and Starling
29th February: The Sun - Credit horror: show forgetting to pay your bills could wipe 130 points off your credit rating.
27th January: The Times - Renters deserve some credit.
2017
9th December: The Times - Here’s how you avoid the mortgage credit check trap.
28th November: Letting Agent Today - Mandatory adding of rent payments to credit scores is now a step closer.
23rd October: Property Industry Eye - Government encourages lenders to make rental payments part of mortgage affordability tests
5th August: The Times - How to climb the credit score ladder