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Shelter bids to get letting agent fees banned by law in England     Tenants' exodus from central London to escape high rents     Agent launches student education seminars     Five await sentencing after massive buy-to-let fraud     Landlords risking huge fines over dodgy electrics    

Shelter has launched its widely-expected campaign to get all letting agent fees charged to tenants banned throughout England. The lobbying organisation wants the practice outlawed by MPs, and in future only landlords charged...

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Tenants' exodus from central London to escape high rents
Tuesday 18 June 2013

Tenants are continuing to vote with their feet in the most expensive parts of London, by moving out to cheaper areas. Agents are reporting the ongoing exodus, amid an over-supply of properties, with landlords having to freeze or cut rents...

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Agent launches student education seminars
Tuesday 18 June 2013

A letting agency has launched a new project to help student tenants who are considering renting property. The project, Next Steps, consists of free seminars and has the backing of the local college...

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Five await sentencing after massive buy-to-let fraud
Tuesday 18 June 2013

A former police officer is one of five people who have been convicted of a £20m buy-to-let mortgage fraud. The scam involved 189 mortgage applications, including some for non-existent properties, between May 2003 and June 2008...

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Landlords risking huge fines over dodgy electrics
Tuesday 18 June 2013

One in five private tenants has reported electrical faults in their properties that are either ignored or not put right immediately. New research from the Electrical Safety Council estimates that 1...

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Boris is told to introduce rent controls in London
Tuesday 18 June 2013

Members of the London Assembly have called for a package of tough reforms in the capital’s private rental market, including rent controls. Although the report, from the London Assembly’s Housing and Regeneration Committee, does not use the expression – favouring instead the phrase “rent stabilisation” – the meaning is very clear...

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New paper on regulation of letting agents published
Tuesday 18 June 2013

A new research report on the regulation of letting agents has been published, and placed in the House of Commons library. The report, by Wendy Wilson and Catherine Fairbairn, points out that there is no statutory regulator of private letting or managing agents in England, and no requirement for them to belong to a trade association...

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Universal Credit to be docked from tenants in arrears
Tuesday 18 June 2013

A mechanism to recover rent arrears is to be incorporated into the new Universal Credit system, by docking the benefit. Landlords who are owed rent by tenants receiving benefit will be able to request direct payment once a certain level of rent arrears – as yet undecided – is reached...

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NLA throws open free membership to all UK landlords
Tuesday 18 June 2013

The National Landlords Association is making some of its key membership benefits freely available online to every single landlord in the UK. The documents include tenancy agreements, referencing letters and various Section notices...

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