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Commercial property tenant checks: company, director and guarantor before the contract is signed

Checking a tenant before a lease is concluded, by a single tax number: company status, signs of a shell company, court cases and debts, director and founders. The passport of the guarantor and the signatory — with no manual entry, checked against the databases. Before you hand over the keys and take the deposit.

Result of a tenant check before the contract: company by tax number, director, guarantor, signatory, debts and sanctions
1 INN is enough to start a tenant check
24 checks of people against the databases in the catalogue
5 ₽ a check against a single register
from 1 year the term from which a building lease is registered
Company by tax number A shell company Director and founders Guarantor Signatory Sanctions

Russian software register No. 19972 · 152‑FZ

Contract, deposit, guarantor: what the law requires of a commercial premises lease

The law sets no separate duty to check a tenant. But the Civil Code sets the form and registration of the contract and the rules on the security deposit and the guarantee. Both work only if the tenant is a real company and there is a solvent person behind it.
NeuroVision collects data on the tenant and the people behind it before the contract is signed. The lease terms, the size of the deposit and the decision to let the premises remain with you.

  • The lease and its registration

    Civil Code of the Russian Federation, Arts 609, 651, 433 (para. 3), 619.

    Check checklist

    Form

    • A lease of a building or premises is concluded in writing as a single document signed by the parties
    • Failure to observe the form makes the contract invalid

    Registration

    • A lease of a building or structure for a term of at least a year is registered with Rosreestr
    • For third parties such a contract is considered concluded from the moment of registration
    • A contract for a term of less than a year does not need registration

    Termination at the landlord's request

    • Through the court if the tenant fails to pay more than twice in a row after the due date or significantly damages the premises
    • Other grounds — only if they are set out in the contract
  • Deposit and guarantee

    Civil Code of the Russian Federation, Arts 381.1, 361–363, 367.

    Guarantor check

    Security deposit

    • A sum the tenant pays as security for rent, penalties and losses
    • It is set off against the debt, and if there is no debt it is returned, unless the contract says otherwise
    • No interest accrues on it, unless the contract says otherwise

    Guarantor

    • A guarantee contract must be in writing, otherwise it is void
    • The guarantor is jointly liable with the tenant, unless the contract says otherwise

    Guarantee term

    • Stated in the contract
    • If no term is stated, the guarantee ends when the creditor has not brought a claim within a year from the date the payment fell due
  • 115‑FZ and the landlord

    115‑FZ, Art. 5, Art. 6.

    For brokers

    Landlord

    • Article 5 does not name the landlord or the management company as parties covered by the law
    • A lease is not a property transaction subject to mandatory control

    Broker

    • An intermediary in the sale and purchase of property is a party covered by 115‑FZ
    • If a broker also handles sales, for those it applies identification, internal control rules and reporting to Rosfinmonitoring

    What this means

    • A tenant check is your protection against debts and someone else's business in the premises, not a requirement of 115‑FZ
    • NeuroVision does not carry out 115‑FZ identification for you

Business centres, shopping centres, warehouses, brokers: who checks the tenant

Each property has its own point of checking: the tenant's application, signing the contract, taking the deposit, renewal, consent to sublease. Your risk sets the checks — NeuroVision runs only the ones you need.

  • Owners and management companies of business centres

    • An office tenant — by tax number before the contract
    • The director as guarantor — passport and debts
    • A letter of guarantee for a registered address — only for a real company; Checklist
  • Shopping centres and landlords of retail premises

    • The operator of a retail outlet — by tax number and director
    • Risk under Art. 18.16 of the Administrative Offences Code for illegal labour at the tenant
    • A kiosk subtenant — also by tax number; Liability
  • Warehouses and logistics complexes

    • A long contract and a large deposit — check before registration
    • A foreign founder — sanctions and PEP
    • A repeat check on renewal; Foreign nationals
  • Bonded storage warehouses

    • A company depositor — by tax number before accepting the goods
    • An authorised person at dispatch — passport with no manual entry
    • A debtor with frozen accounts — before the first storage invoice; Signatory
  • Commercial property brokers

    • A checked tenant — an argument for the owner
    • A report by tax number — into the deal card
    • If you handle sales — you are a party covered by 115‑FZ; For brokers
  • An empty shopping centre gallery with a vacant unit to let

Checking a corporate tenant: six questions before signing the contract

The tenant sends its details and a draft contract — you get an answer from every register. Is the company alive, who stands behind it, are there debts and account freezes, what the guarantor is liable with and who will come to sign.

  • The company is active

    Status in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities or Individual Entrepreneurs: is it in liquidation, when it was registered, who the director and founders are. Commercial court cases, including bankruptcy, and debts to the budget.

    Most often enabled:

    • Tax number
    • State register
    • Unified State Register of Individual Entrepreneurs
    Learn more
  • Not a shell company

    A nominee or serial director and tax authority decisions to freeze accounts. A shell company is more often given away by its director than by an extract.

    Most often enabled:

    • Tax number
    • 5 ₽
    Learn more
  • Director and founders with no debts

    Bankruptcy, commercial court cases and tax arrears — by tax number, with no namesakes. The Rosfinmonitoring list, sanctions and the register of foreign agents — by full name.

    Most often enabled:

    • Federal bankruptcy register
    • Court file
    • Federal Tax Service
    • Rosfinmonitoring
    Learn more
  • The guarantor is liable with their own property

    The guarantor's passport is recognised from a photo. Enforcement proceedings, bankruptcy and tax debts show whether there is real money behind the guarantee. With the guarantor's consent.

    Most often enabled:

    • Passport
    • Federal Bailiffs Service
    • Federal bankruptcy register
    Learn more
  • The signatory — who they say they are

    The representative's passport is recognised with no manual entry, and anti-fraud looks for traces of editing. Passport validity and wanted status — against the databases. You check the power of attorney yourself.

    Most often enabled:

    • Recognition
    • Police
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  • Foreign participation free of sanctions

    Foreign founders and the director — against the OFAC, EU, UK and UN lists and in compliance PEP screening. Foreign nationals' documents are recognised.

    Most often enabled:

    • OFAC
    • EU
    • UK
    • UN
    • 36 ₽
    Learn more

How a management company checks a tenant with NeuroVision

The check fits between the tenant's application and signing the contract: the tax number from the application, the passports of the people behind the contract, a decision under your rules. Clean tenants go on to the contract, disputed ones — to a lawyer or the security service.

Step 1

The tenant's tax number and the signatories' passports

The tax number from the application is sent from your CRM or entered in the web account. The guarantor and the representative photograph their passport via a link — the fields are recognised and go into the contract card with no retyping.

A tenant's application in the CRM: tax number and the guarantor's and signatory's passports recognised via a link
Step 2

The company and the people — in one run of checks

From the register, the director and founders are pulled in by tax number. Each is checked for nominee status, bankruptcy, debts, watchlists and sanctions; the guarantor — for enforcement proceedings and bankruptcy.

Checking a tenant, director, founder and guarantor against the registers
Step 3

A report before the keys and the deposit

For each check — “passed”, “failed” or “not enough data”, the source and the records found. A dated report goes into the tenant's card; whether to let the premises, ask for a guarantee or refuse is your decision.

A tenant report before the premises are handed over: the outcome for each party and the landlord's decision

Migrants, trade, fire safety, address: what an owner answers for because of a tenant

The tenant works in your premises, and the law ties some of its violations to whoever provided those premises. A check before the contract does not remove liability, but it shows a company you should not give retail space or an address to. For trade violations — alcohol without a licence, counterfeits, sales without registration — the seller is liable; NeuroVision does not check the tenant's licences and permits.

  • Illegal labour at the tenant

    A market manager is liable under Art. 18.16 of the Administrative Offences Code if it provided a place or premises to a company that uses foreign nationals' labour illegally: a fine for a legal entity of 450 000 to 800 000 ₽ per worker or suspension of activity for up to 90 days. From 3 November 2026 the article is amended by Law No. 294‑FZ — check whether it applies to your retail property.

  • People living in non-residential premises

    If foreign nationals actually live in the premises with no legal grounds, questions will arise under Art. 18.9 of the Administrative Offences Code: providing housing and other services to such people — a fine of up to 500 000 ₽ for an organisation. A lease of non-residential premises does not allow residence — it is worth writing this condition in and monitoring it.

  • Fire safety and order in the premises

    The fire safety law holds both the owner and the user of the property responsible. How liability is split between you and the tenant is set by the contract — and it will be performed by a company you have checked or not.

  • A registered address with no tenant

    The company takes a letter of guarantee, registers at your address and never appears in the premises. The tax authority may check the address, and the tenant will get an entry on unreliable data — the questions will remain for your property. A nominee director gives away such a company before the letter.

Tenant check checklist: eight steps from application to handing over the keys

  • Whom we check: every tenant, area above a threshold, retail, subtenants Landlord
  • Who decides on disputed findings — the management company, a lawyer or the owner Landlord

  • Nominee or serial director, account freezes by tax authority decision NeuroVision
  • Unreliable data, disqualification, financial statements Government services

  • Passport with photo, no manual entry, traces of editing, validity NeuroVision
  • Enforcement proceedings, bankruptcy, tax arrears — with consent NeuroVision

  • The representative's passport: recognition, validity, wanted status NeuroVision
  • Power of attorney: who issued it, for how long, with what authority — via the power of attorney register or the machine-readable power of attorney checking service Government servicesLandlord

  • Terms on intended use, a ban on residence, subletting with consent and the allocation of fire safety Landlord
  • Registration with Rosreestr if the term is a year or more Government services

  • A report on every check with a date — into the tenant's card NeuroVisionLandlord
  • Deposit and guarantee — based on the results of the check Landlord
  • Repeating the check on renewal and consent to sublease NeuroVisionLandlord
  • NeuroVision — done by the product
  • Landlord — a rule or an action by the owner, management company, broker or lawyer
  • Government services — the Federal Tax Service, Rosreestr, the notaries' power of attorney register, the commercial court case file

Guarantor, signatory, foreign founder: who else to check for a lease

  • A guarantor who is an individual

    Most often this is the tenant's director or participant. Their passport is recognised from a photo, validity is confirmed against the Ministry of Internal Affairs database, and enforcement proceedings, bankruptcy and tax debts show whether there is money behind the signature. The check is carried out with the guarantor's consent: it is worth obtaining together with the guarantee contract.

  • A signatory under a power of attorney

    The director signs the contract without a power of attorney, everyone else — under a power of attorney from the company. The representative's passport is recognised with no manual entry, and validity and wanted status are checked. Who issued the power of attorney, for what term and with what authority — verify with the director and in the power of attorney register.

  • A foreign founder or director

    A Russian company may have a foreign participant or manager. They are checked against the OFAC, EU, UK and UN sanctions lists and in compliance PEP screening. Foreign nationals' documents are recognised automatically — with no retyping of Latin script.

  • A foreign national as tenant or guarantor

    A person with a foreign passport needs a set of their own: the Rosfinmonitoring list and sanctions by full name, and the register of controlled persons of the Ministry of Internal Affairs shows whether they have lost the legal grounds to stay in Russia. This check needs a full name, date of birth and document details.

A foreign company operates in Russia through a branch or representative office — their accreditation is checked in the Federal Tax Service register. NeuroVision checks the people who sign the contract and stand behind the Russian tenant.

All the property's tenants: a check on renewal, sublease and change of director

The property — under control, not on trust

The company, director, guarantor and date of the check for each tenant — in your CRM

  • 01

    All tenants — in one format

    A business centre or shopping centre has dozens of tenants, checked in different years. Via the API your system sends each tax number separately with the required set of checks, and the result returns to the tenant's card.

  • 02

    A repeat check on renewal

    During the lease the company may have changed director, had its accounts frozen or gone bankrupt. A repeat request by tax number before renewal, or once a year, returns current data.

  • 03

    A subtenant — also by tax number

    A sublease needs your consent. Before giving it, check the subtenant with the same set as the tenant: they will be the one working in the premises.

  • 04

    Changes — by comparing responses

    There are no automatic alerts about changes at a tenant yet: monitoring is part of the KYB platform and is available in early access. For now, changes are visible when you compare a new response with the previous one.

  • 1 INN one request per company
  • 5 ₽ per register check
  • JSON the result by launch identifier

Checks of the tenant, its director, the guarantor and the representative

Each check is enabled separately, and you pay for completed ones. A check skipped for lack of data is not charged — and does not mean “clean”. Inputs and response fields — in the API check catalogue.

Tenant

Company by INN and shell-company signs of its director.

  • State registers

    Checking a company by tax number

    Status in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs, shell-company signs, courts and debts, director and founders.

  • The register of nominee and serial directors

    Nominee directors

    A flag that the person is listed as a nominee or serial company director.

    5 ₽ / check

    Learn more
  • Federal Tax Service

    Account operation freezes

    Tax authority decisions suspending account operations: the date, the decision number and the reason for the freeze.

    5 ₽ / check

    Learn more
  • Commercial court case file

    Commercial court cases

    A history of disputes from the commercial court case file, bankruptcy cases included. Matching is done by tax number, so namesakes never reach the results.

    5 ₽ / check

    Learn more

Rosreestr, the Federal Tax Service, notaries and NeuroVision: who checks what at a tenant

  • A corporate tenant

    Status and shell company. Without NeuroVision — a company register extract and “Transparent Business” by hand for each tax number; NeuroVision — status, nominee director flag and account freezes via API.

    Courts and debts. Without NeuroVision — the commercial court case file and the Federal Tax Service suspension service separately; NeuroVision — in the same set of checks.

    The whole property. Without NeuroVision — a management company employee goes through the services for each tenant; NeuroVision — each tax number as a separate request from the CRM.

  • The people behind the contract

    Director and founders. Without NeuroVision — the Federal Register of Bankruptcy Information, the bailiffs' database and the Rosfinmonitoring website for each; NeuroVision — a set of checks by tax number with no namesakes, from 5 ₽.

    Guarantor. Without NeuroVision — a passport copy and a manual search for debts; NeuroVision — a passport with no retyping, bailiffs, bankruptcy, taxes.

    Signatory. Without NeuroVision — retyping the passport; NeuroVision — recognition, anti-fraud, validity and wanted status.

  • What is left to the authorities and to you

    Contract registration. Rosreestr; in NeuroVision — no.

    Power of attorney. the notaries' power of attorney register, the machine-readable power of attorney checking service and verification with the director; in NeuroVision — no.

    The premises and their use. a property register extract, the designated use of the premises, the tenant's licences, migration registration of its workers; in NeuroVision — no.

    Financial statements and unreliable data. The state financial statements resource and “Transparent Business”; in NeuroVision — no.

The authorities' free services are good for a single check. When there are dozens of tenants and contracts renew every year, NeuroVision returns the answer on the company and the people behind it in one format. What the product does not cover honestly stays with the authorities.

How much a tenant check costs

A fixed price per check, with no subscription fee. The set depends on the type of tenant: for a small office — the company and the director; for retail space or a warehouse with a deposit — all the people behind the contract, the guarantor and sanctions.

  • Most popular choice

    Database checks

    5 ₽ per check

    Configure a set

    Nominee director, account freezes, tax arrears, bankruptcy, enforcement proceedings, watchlist and sanctions — for the director, founders and guarantor.

  • Company by tax number

    on request

    Calculate

    Status, signs of a shell company, court cases and debts, director and founders — the price depends on the number of tenants and properties.

  • Guarantor and signatory passport

    from 16 ₽ per session

    Enable

    Passport recognition and document anti-fraud: the fields go into the contract card with no retyping.

International compliance screening for PEP and sanctions of foreign participants — 36 ₽ per check. A check skipped for lack of data is not charged.

Connecting to the landlord's CRM: web account, API or your own environment

The check fits into the tenant's card: the tax number is sent from your CRM or the property's accounting system, and the result returns via API. With no developers — start with the web account and a link for the guarantor and the signatory.

REST API

Checks are launched by a request from your CRM, ERP or the property's accounting system; the result is requested by the run identifier (polling every 5–10 seconds), and for checks inside a KYC session — a webhook. For each check: the outcome, the records found and the source. API documentation

  • Tenant card
  • JSON response
  • Web SDK
  • In your perimeter

A test scenario on your account.

Payment for completed checks and the support mode — under the contract.

Why owners and management companies choose NeuroVision

A landlord needs one source on the company, the people behind it and the signatory — with no exports from every register.

The tenant and the people behind it — in one report

The company by tax number, the director and founders, the guarantor and the signatory's passport — one set of checks and one result with the source of each record.

There is no need to assemble a solution from several vendors and reconcile their responses.

Tax number Federal bankruptcy register Court file Federal Tax Service

Namesakes do not interfere

Checks by tax number are unambiguous: a director's namesake will not derail the contract.

«Not checked» is not the same as «clean»

If there was not enough data, the check is marked as skipped and is not charged; if a register is unavailable — this is visible in the response.

A passport with no retyping

The guarantor's and signatory's passport fields go into the contract without manual entry errors, and anti-fraud looks for traces of editing.

Skolkovo — participant

A Russian developer

The platform is in the register of Russian software No. 19972.

Sublease, deposit, nominee director: a landlord's glossary

Terms that appear in a lease, a tenant's application and a check report.

Security deposit
A sum the tenant pays as security for rent, penalties and losses. It is set off against a debt or returned — under the contract terms. In everyday speech — a deposit.
Security deposit
Guarantee
An obligation of a third party, most often the tenant's director or participant, to answer for the tenant's debts. Made only in writing.
Personal guarantee
State registration of a lease
Entering a lease of a building or premises for a term of a year or more in the property register. For third parties the contract takes effect from the moment of registration.
Lease registration
Sublease
A tenant letting the premises or part of them to another person. Allowed with the landlord's consent.
Sublease
Letter of guarantee
An owner's letter of willingness to provide premises to a company that states its address in the company register. It is not on the law's list of registration documents, but it is usually attached.
Shell company
A company created with no aim of doing real business: a nominee director, no resources, a short life. A business term; it is not in the law.
Shell company
Nominee director
A director who is listed in the company register but does not run the company; a serial one — listed as the head of many companies at once. A risk sign, not a violation.
Nominee director
Tenant screening
Checking a tenant before the contract: the company, the people behind it, the signatory and sanctions. In Russia it is more often called a “tenant check”.
Tenant screening

Frequently asked questions about checking commercial property tenants

By tax number: company status in the company register, signs of a shell company, court cases and debts, director and founders. Then the people behind the company: nominee director, bankruptcy, tax arrears, account freezes, the Rosfinmonitoring list and sanctions. If there is a guarantor and a signatory under a power of attorney — their passports and database checks. Unreliable data, financial statements and the power of attorney are checked in the authorities' services.

No. Article 5 of 115‑FZ does not name landlords or management companies, and a lease is not among the property transactions subject to mandatory control. A tenant check is the owner's protection against debts and someone else's business in the premises. A broker who also handles sales is a party covered by the law for those.

A lease of a building or premises for a term of at least a year is registered with Rosreestr: for third parties it takes effect from the moment of registration. A contract for a term of less than a year does not need registration. Between the parties, an agreed but unregistered contract is also binding.

A security deposit covers the tenant's future debts — rent, penalties, losses. If there is no debt, it is returned unless the contract says otherwise, and no interest accrues on it. An advance is prepayment for the lease. A deposit protects only while the debt is smaller than the deposit.

With the guarantor's consent: the passport is recognised from a photo and checked for authenticity and validity, then enforcement proceedings, bankruptcy and tax arrears. This shows whether there is real money behind the guarantee. A guarantee contract is concluded only in writing.

The employer is liable itself. But a market manager is liable under Art. 18.16 of the Administrative Offences Code if it provided a place or premises to a company that uses foreign nationals' labour illegally. From 3 November 2026 the article is amended by Law No. 294‑FZ — ask a lawyer whether it applies to your retail property. NeuroVision checks the tenant and the people behind it, not its workers' work permits.

If the company is not at the address, the tax authority may check the address and enter a note on unreliable data in the company register — this is the tenant's problem, but questions will arise for the property too. A nominee director and founders with debts give away such a company before the letter of guarantee.

The representative's passport is recognised with no manual entry and checked for traces of editing, validity and wanted status. NeuroVision does not check the power of attorney: a notarised one is verified in the power of attorney register, a machine-readable one — in the checking service, and authority — with the director against the register extract.

A tenant check is a quick set of register checks before the contract: company, director, guarantor, signatory. Due diligence goes deeper: documents, financial statements, beneficiaries and expert conclusions. For a large anchor tenant both make sense.

Yes. Via the API your system sends each tax number as a separate request with the required set of checks, and the results return to the tenants' cards. A repeat check — by the same request before renewing a contract or consenting to a sublease.

Foreign founders and the director of a Russian company — against the OFAC, EU, UK and UN sanctions lists and in compliance PEP screening. Foreign nationals' documents are recognised automatically, and a foreign individual is checked against the Ministry of Internal Affairs register of controlled persons. Branches and representative offices of foreign companies are checked in the Federal Tax Service register.

Checks of the director, founders and guarantor against the registers — 5 ₽ per check, compliance screening — 36 ₽, passport recognition — from 16 ₽. A company check by tax number — on request. You can test it with a test scenario in your account.

We will select checks for your property

Tell us about your property — a business centre, shopping centre or warehouse — and how many tenants and new contracts you have a year. We will put together a set of checks for the type of tenant and give you test access.

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