The elevator pitch: flag-ent abuse before it turns flagrant — with proof, not gossip.
FlagRent is a record of how you've rented and how you've let — built to show good history, not just catch bad. Get a verified certificate you're proud to share, request one from the other side, or check someone else's if you need to.
Launch price for early sign-ups — reverts to £10.00 once the first cohort closes.
Build your record retrospectively — add past tenancies you've already completed — or start fresh with your current one. Most people's certificate comes back clean, and that's the point: it's proof, not a background check.
Certificates are valid for 6 months, then need re-verifying. That keeps every certificate current — a landlord looking at one today knows it reflects the last six months, not a snapshot from three years ago before someone quietly moved twice and left both places owing money.
Add tenancies you've had (as tenant, landlord or agent), verify each with a document, and get a shareable certificate.
Start buildingSend a prospective tenant or landlord a one-click request for their FlagRent certificate, instead of searching for dirt yourself.
Send a requestFor when an applicant's exact old address doesn't quite match what they've told you. Requires their initials, not just an area — this isn't a browse-by-postcode tool.
Run a checkThis checks for a specific person you're currently vetting — not a general history of an area. You'll need their initials and the period they've told you they lived there. Every check here is logged; repeated checks with no consistent applicant details attached get reviewed.
This can be a tenancy that ended years ago — the certificate is about your whole history, not just your current address.
A single flag is shown as one person's account, in context. It only escalates if a pattern builds, or if something serious is verified. Flags also fade: anything over 3 years old still shows in full history but stops counting toward your current tier.
A reputation system that only the well-off or well-established can use isn't fair, and it isn't safe. These are non-negotiable, not add-ons.
FlagRent never asks for or stores visa or immigration status. That's a separate legal check landlords already have to do directly — folding it in here would turn a reputation tool into an immigration filter, which we won't build.
A £1 discount on the verification fee applies for anyone on Universal Credit or Housing Benefit, full-time students, refugees and asylum seekers, or anyone referred by a housing or homelessness charity — kept as a genuine discount rather than free, so the certificate still carries the same weight for everyone.
Any flag mentioning race, religion, disability, family status, benefits status or similar is auto-blocked from publishing and sent for manual review. Posting one is a strike against the poster's own account, not the subject's.
First-time renters and young tenants get a neutral "building their record" badge instead of an empty, suspicious-looking profile — with the option to add a guarantor reference or written character reference to establish trust early.
The postcode & period check can't be run on a postcode alone — it requires a specific applicant's initials and claimed dates, and every check is logged. This stops the tool being used to screen out an entire area, which has a real history of indirectly discriminating against people by ethnicity and income.
Any flag that reaches Tier 2 or above opens a private thread between both parties before it becomes visible to anyone else. Most disputes — including the genuinely confusing ones created by recent changes to tenancy law — get sorted here without either side needing to escalate further.
Where a dispute involves ambiguity in current tenancy regulation, FlagRent doesn't take a side on the rules — it just gives both parties a documented space to work it out directly, with the option to bring in independent mediation if they can't.
Both sides get a standing profile, not just a one-off certificate — and having one makes it much harder to fake a reference using a mate posing as a "previous landlord."
Lists every property a landlord manages, each showing its own verified flag-free (or flagged) history. This is the same record the postcode & period check searches — a landlord's portfolio and a searcher's "did this postcode have problem tenants" check are two views of one system, not two separate features.
A single timeline of every verified tenancy a person has had, in order, each one confirmed by the landlord or agent on the other end — not self-reported. That's what closes the "fake reference from a friend" loophole: a claimed tenancy only appears as verified once the counterparty's own account confirms the same address and dates. An unconfirmed entry shows clearly as "awaiting verification," not blended in as if it were solid.
If a landlord added a tenancy before you got round to it, you don't need to start from scratch. Run a postcode & period check against your own initials and past addresses — a match lets you claim and verify it as yours, and reply to anything on it, the same as if you'd created it first.
The certificate itself is free to build. You pay a small fee to have entries verified so they mean something — with £1 off for anyone who needs it.