Protect your deposit. Get it back, plus interest.
Renting a home, a bike, a scooter, or a household appliance: your deposit deserves better than sitting idle in the landlord’s account. With SafeYield, it’s held by a trusted third party, it earns a return for you, and no one can release it without your consent.
What changes for you
Get your deposit back, even if the landlord goes bankrupt
Your funds are segregated: they never appear on the landlord’s balance sheet. If they go bankrupt, your money isn’t part of the estate, it comes back to you.
A return instead of €0
A traditional deposit earns you nothing. With SafeYield, it’s invested for the length of the rental and generates a variable, not-guaranteed return that comes back to you when it’s refunded.
No one helps themselves alone
The landlord can’t unfairly withhold your deposit. Releasing it requires your consent; if there’s a disagreement, we open a space for mediation to help you reach an agreement. We never decide in your place: if agreement stays impossible, a judge rules.
For all your everyday deposits
Housing · Bikes and scooters · Appliances · Tools · Event equipment · Rentals between individuals. Wherever you’re asked for a deposit, SafeYield can step in.
It’s free for you
SafeYield takes a commission on the return generated, not on your deposit itself. You pay nothing to protect your money, you always get back at least the amount you deposited.
of UK tenants say they did not get their full deposit back (Generation Rent, April 2025).
consider a deduction unfair, but only 5% ever raise it formally (Generation Rent, April 2025).
the average protected UK deposit in 2025 (NRLA).
None of this is about the three UK schemes doing a bad job within their own remit, they settle 46,950 formal disputes a year and most tenants do get something back. It is about everything that sits outside their remit: a deposit for equipment, a vehicle, a seasonal let, or an arrangement between two individuals who trust each other but would still rather not rely on trust alone. That is the everyday gap SafeYield fills, one deposit at a time, always released only once both sides agree.
What this changes in practice
Right now, most deposits you pay, a flat share, a security deposit for hired equipment, a returnable amount to a private seller, sit with whoever is holding them, earning nothing for you and invisible until you ask for it back. Generation Rent’s own 2025 survey of UK tenants found that 37% do not get their full deposit back and 13% think a deduction was unfair, yet only 5% ever escalate it through a scheme’s own resolution service (Generation Rent, April 2025). Most people simply accept whatever number comes back.
SafeYield is not insurance and it does not guarantee a return: the yield is variable, tied to short-term money-market rates at the time your funds are placed, and it is never presented as locked in.
An example. Say you pay a £500 deposit to hire equipment for a two week job, or a £1,175 deposit, the UK average, for a tenancy running a full year (NRLA). While SafeYield holds either amount, it is placed in short-term instruments rather than sitting idle, and the return, whatever it comes to, is shared between you and the other party exactly as your own agreement sets out before the deposit starts earning.
Common questions
Do I need to do anything differently when I pay my deposit?
You pay it to SafeYield instead of directly to the other party. Everything else about the underlying agreement between you stays exactly as you already arranged it.
What if the other party refuses to use SafeYield?
SafeYield only holds a deposit when both sides have agreed to it. It cannot be imposed on an existing arrangement without the other party’s agreement.
Is my money safe if SafeYield has a problem?
Funds are held in a segregated account, never on SafeYield’s own balance sheet, so they sit outside SafeYield’s own business risk.
Can I track my deposit myself?
Yes. Once you’re signed up, your own dashboard shows the deposit’s current value at any time, not a statement you have to request.
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