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A warning about illegal fees by letting agents has been produced by a local council Trading Standards team.  It has come from...

The controversial tenants union Acorn has set up a web page where disgruntled renters can lodge complaints about letting agents. In the...

A BBC investigation of 52 lettings agents has found that two thirds were levying charges on tenants, but it is uncertain...

The head of an automated payment system for the rental sector says lettings agents can help offset losses caused by the...

The chief executive of a specialist buy to let lender says increasing the rent to combat additional costs put on landlords...

More than a third of landlords are looking to cut their annual spending - and many of them are considering ending...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says agents who accept that the lettings fee ban is coming and who plan positively for its...

The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...

MPs have proposed a series of amendments to the Tenant Fees Bill as part of its Report Stage and Third Reading...

An agency claims that the acquisition of a competitor’s lettings department has allowed it to save two companies, avoid cutbacks and...

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks says it still believes there is an opportunity for the government to introduce mandatory inventory...

A high-profile landlord says the upcoming ban on letting agent fees 'can't come soon enough'. Writing a column in the Evening Standard's...

The chief executive of the UK's largest franchise agency, Belvoir, says the number of letting and estate agents will 'undoubtedly fall'...

Today Trading Standards teams across the country will highlight the work they do to protect landlords and tenants from rogue letting...

The industry has reacted angrily to the announcement yesterday that the Tenants’ Fees Bill is now formally starting its progress through...

A range of factors - including fierce competition under the supplied housing market, rising property prices and political uncertainty – have...

The chief operating officer of a leading PropTech company says government proposals to increase mandatory licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation...

Today sees the return of MPs to Parliament following the Christmas break, and one early task is to hear oral evidence...

Government proposals to ban letting agent fees levied on tenants next year are unlikely to make renting cheaper as new research...

Barratt Homes’ London division is offering what it describes as ‘free property management’ on new-builds purchased at selected schemes and then...

The draft Bill to ban letting agents’ fees levied on tenants has been published - it’s to be called the Tenants’...

Pressure from the consumer lobby is building for the introduction of a ban on letting agents’ fees levied on tenants -...

The Nationwide Building Society says it is assembling what it calls ‘an industry alliance’ to support the increasingly-beleaguered private rental sector.   The...

According to recent government figures, the average letting agent’s fee is £223 and 4.3 million householders pay this amount or thereabouts...

Letting agents across the UK must prepare now for a ban on fees charged to tenants says a PropTech company -...

The majority of MPs speaking at a House of Commons debate yesterday acknowledged they are wary of the 'unintended consequences' of...

The majority of landlords still believe that a cap on letting agent fees will be more effective than an outright ban,...

A Westminster Hall debate for MPs on letting agent fees will take place this morning in the House of Commons. The debate...

The government is being urged by the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) to do more to enforce compulsory fee disclosure. Since May 2015,...

Belvoir, the UK's largest property franchise group, has reported an increase in profit and revenue in the first six months of...

Letting agents using insured deposit protection schemes have been urged to switch to a custodial model in order to compensate for...

A leading trade body says a cap on damage deposits paid by tenants - as proposed by the government - could...

The consumer group Citizens Advice says it welcomes the Queen’s Speech confirmation of the upcoming ban on letting agents’ fees levied...

ARLA has led a call by many letting agents on hearing the Queen’s Speech - what was the point of a...

At the latest meeting of the Fair Fees Forum, members described the current approach towards landlord licensing as a 'post code...

Large letting agents found to be flouting the incoming ban on letting agent fees should receive fines up to £30,000 to...

Research by the National Approved Letting Scheme (NALS) has identified that some 93% of local authorities have failed to issue a...

Online lettings agency Upad claims 20 per cent of landlords are set to increase their rents to their tenants thanks to...

The Labour Party has published its full manifesto for the upcoming General Election on June 8.  Titled 'For the many not the...

The UK arm of Sotheby's International Realty has announced that it has removed all letting agent fees while the government consults...

Landlords are increasingly looking to reduce the fees they pay to letting agents due to industry tax changes and increasing management...

A local authority consultation exercise on a licensing system for local landlords has been postponed until June 12, four days after...

The Department of Communities and Local Government is scrapping a series of workshops for letting agents to discuss the proposed ban...

A prominent campaigner over the misappropriation of rental deposits has welcomed the news that government proposals to ban letting agent fees...

Who are you? Richard Price What does it say on your business card? We don't have our roles on our business cards. I...

The government has finally unveiled its formal consultation process on the proposal to ban letting agents levying fees on tenants in...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is keeping up its campaign against a ban on agents’ fees in England by showing...

There are 4,000 jobs at risk if an outright ban comes into force on letting agents’ fees according to new research...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell has confirmed that consultation on the government’s proposed ban on letting agency fees levied on tenants in...

Citizens Advice has spoken out about soon-to-be-banned letting agent fees charged to tenants. The organisation's 'A State of Disrepair' report says that...

As the industry awaits the delivery of today's Spring Budget, the National Approved Letting Scheme (NALS) has called on the government...

Letting Agent Today’s Conor Shilling was in the audience of The Great Buy To Let Debate - always one of the...

The government’s Housing White Paper may have made many broad pledges aimed at the private rental sector, but it still remains...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has repeated it call for the government to ban up-front letting agent fees at the...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell says recent changes to buy to let mortgage interest relief and stamp duty will only affect a...

The government says the formal consultation on the proposed introduction of a ban on letting agent fees levied on tenants in...

A Tory MP has taken to the internet to warn against what he calls the “unintended consequences” of a ban on...

Members of the Association of Residential Letting Agents predict a fall in the number of homes being available to let next...

Online estate agent Urban.co.uk says it has created a league table of fees that tenants are charged by agencies in different locations...

Two charities that have been at the forefront of campaigns to have a ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants have...

The government will today announce that it is banning letting agents’ fees levied on tenants - meaning the fees will instead...

The National Landlords Association claims that changes to buy to let mortgage interest tax relief being introduced in six months time...

The National Approved Letting Scheme has stepped into the heated debate about letting agents’ charges by launching what it calls a...

SAFEagent, the kitemark scheme for agents offering Client Money Protection, has backed the National Approved Lettings Scheme's (NALS) call for a...

The National Approved Letting Scheme (NALS) has called for a cap on excessive letting fees charged to tenants, instead of a...

Almost 60% of the 500 tenants surveyed by an online letting agent said they would rather rent rises were capped instead...

The National Approved Letting Scheme says the most recent call to ban letting agent fees - in a demand made by...

A letting agency in London has announced that it has dropped all fees it charges to tenants.  STANLEY Chelsea, a one branch...

Campaign group Generation Rent is running a research project into letting agent fees via a comparison website named Letting Fees UK. The...

The average tenant spends a total of £577.64 on letting agent fees, according to new research. The research, carried out by an...

The most common complaint about high street lettings agents amongst landlords is that they charge extortionate fees - that is the...

The government has confirmed that it has no plan to ban letting agency fees in England. Fees are already banned in Scotland...

Tenant arrears are rising in Scotland, even though letting agents’ fees on tenants are banned. Agents’ fees on renters, which are legal in...

The changes to tax relief for landlords comes on top of a blizzard of new health and safety requirements, regulations and...

An organisation that describes itself as “an independent group of private renters” says it has identified 21 letting agents out of...

A buying agent who find properties for affluent overseas purchasers says they are often surprised by letting agents charging them what...

It is now a statutory duty for letting agents to fully publicise the fees they charge to landlords and tenants.  Under the...

I write this article on the day of the General Election so you’ll forgive the political analogies. In particular, how any...

The National Landlords’ Association has set out a table of where the political parties stand on issues of lettings sector reform...

Landlords and letting agents are at risk of overestimating the profitability of Buy To Let investments by neglecting to take into...

Labour’s onslaught on the private rental sector continues, with the party now setting out how it will implement its rent controls...