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The long-awaited Third Reading of the controversial Renters Reform Bill will not happen this week according to the Leader of the...

A franchise lettings agency is reported to have agreed to stop potential tenants bidding against each other to secure rental properties. The...

A council is pleading with the government to think again about proposals to suspend the need for an HMO licence for...

A coalition of tenant activists has called a Day of Action to protest at delays in the government’s rental reform agenda. The...

The anti-agent pro-renter group Acorn has protested outside some agents’ offices in Bristol demanding an end to rival bids for properties...

A local authority in West Sussex is proposing to build its own Airbnb four bedroom house on the site of old...

A campaign group has protested outside letting agencies in Bristol, protesting against what they describe as “bidding wars” between rival tenants. The...

Activists say they are planning protests outside lettings agency offices this weekend. Activists in the London Renters Union and Greater Manchester Tenants...

A so-called Renters Union is organising a day of action after claiming letting agents are behind recent rent rises. London Renters Union...

The mainstream media today is reporting that a group of anti-landlord/anti-agent activists called an agent a “w*****” at a protest. This apparently prompted...

An activist group that has staged many protests against letting agents must pay just under £100,000 in costs and damages to...

The activist group Acorn is lobbying a local council to deny people the right to buy a second home or let...

A lettings agency has apologised after a campaign by activists about the condition of a rental property it manages. Protesters outside the...

Police were called to a protect outside a lettings firm in Oxfordshire after a crowd picketed the office over a dispute...

Last week’s bid by PropTech referencing firm Goodlord to draw a line under its long-running ‘fire and rehire’ industrial dispute has...

Activists from the Acorn renters' campaign group have held a protest outside a branch of Chancellors in Oxford. The group says the...

Letting agents body ARLA Propertymark has joined the criticism of London Mayor Sadiq Khan who wants to be given the power...

At least one lettings agency is on a list of targets for socially-distanced protests tomorrow by anti-eviction campaigners in the left...

Acorn, a prominent campaign group targeting letting agency offices for protests, says the latest eviction ban extension doesn't go far enough. While...

Local media in the Homes Counties report that two arrests were made after police were called by a lettings agency where...

The industrial dispute involving Goodlord has escalated with protests outside agency offices using the lettings platform, and the creation of a...

A lettings agency has called in the police after a protest involving anti-agent activists demanding compensation for past tenants. The Eastern Daily...

Councillors from a town council in Wales are to be given an audience with the country’s First Minister to discuss the...

Activists from the so-called renters’ union Acorn have held a protest outside the office of a lettings agency in Oxford. A photograph...

The renters’ group ACORN, which has held numerous protests at individual letting agents’ offices, has apologised after one of its local...

The anti-letting agent group ACORN is to stage protests in 10 to 15 UK cities this weekend according to an activists’...

Two lettings agencies have been vandalised by activists who defied the Coronavirus lockdown to damage property. Local media reports in Cheltenham say...

The controversial Acorn group of anti-letting agent activists has been accused of intimidation of female staff during a protest outside and...

A landlord has been ordered to pay nearly £6,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to harassing and financially exploiting...

A campaign group that has held protests outside letting agents’ branches and has been fiercely critical of fees, says it’s seen a...

A protest has been held outside a lettings agency in Manchester by tenants demanding that the firm ‘sacks’ one of its...

A solicitor has urged the government not to reform or scrap Section 21 eviction powers simply on the basis of protests...

A Plymouth sales and letting agency has taken a number of measures to help raise awareness of climate change in its...

A senior Labour politician in Sheffield and the campaign group Acorn have both expressed support for a selective licensing scheme to...

Landlords in a part of Teesside are to be allowed to operate a “collaborative” licensing scheme after a council backed down...

An activists’s group which in the past has held protests immediately outside letting agents’ offices is appealing for £10,000 to develop...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says it backs a new Trading Standards-led body which will enforce the Fees Ban starting  on...

One of the most vocal critics of lettings agents in recent years appears to be moving away from the property industry. Campbell...

Letting Agent Today can reveal that the agency at the centre of the scandal over alleged charges for viewings has been...

A pressure group that in the past has protested outside letting agency branches has staged more direct action - this time against...

The head of the online lettings agency recently scooped up by Emoov says traditional lettings agents have made a rod for...

Croydon council is reported to have become the first local authority to back the scrapping of Section 21 of the 1988...

The head of a lettings agency has refused to sign a pledge document put to him by a protest group - and...

Liquidators Grant Thornton says funds found in the accounts of a Guernsey lettings agent are likely to be sufficient to pay...

The mystery surrounding a lettings and estate agency on the island of Guernsey offers an insight into a system where companies...

A collection of rental sector protest organisations is getting together to campaign against S21 powers under which landlords or agents on...

Senior Labour MPs have spoken out about what they believe are the anti-social and detrimental effects of short lets on surrounding...

An agency operating in London and Essex has launched an online petition to oppose the ban on credit and debit card...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has written an angry letter of protest to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation following the publication of what...

Bristol council is resuscitating a so-called ‘rental standard’ which it expects local letting agents to meet. Back in January 2016 Letting Agent...

The campaign group Acorn, which has in the past named individual letting agencies that it claims are charging unfairly high fees,...

Protests planned by tenants’ groups for many Santander bank branches over the past weekend turned instead into celebrations after the institution...

A campaign group has been refocussed with the objective of making the government honour its Autumn Statement pledge to ban letting...

Agents and landlords in one of the country’s most politically-volatile cities are preparing to meet the local council to protest at...

The campaign group ACORN, which has in the past organised protests outside letting agency offices, is up in arms that a...

A council has scrapped its proposal to introduce a licensing campaign for private sector landlords following large-scale opposition and the formation...

The Scottish Association of Landlords - which represents letting agents as well as landlords north of the border - has spoken...

There appears no change in government policy on changing buy to let tax breaks - at least not yet - despite...

On the day of the campaign rally to galvanise support for a bid to win a judicial review of George Osborne’s...

Two professional property investors are giving away a Manchester flat valued at £110,000 in a protest against Chancellor George Osborne’s attacks...

A community group that has in the past staged protests at letting agents’ offices in Bristol has now organised a petition...

A London lettings has tweeted that it does not share the view of one of its own branch managers who said...

The controversial campaign group ACORN, which has made headlines by protesting outside letting agency offices in Bristol, is launching a new...

Four in 10 landlords are either seriously considering forming a limited company or will be looking into the option in the...

A campaign group which last year held protests outside letting agents’ offices in Bristol is claiming victory in persuading the city’s...

The influencial cross-party Commons Treasury Committee says the whole economy could suffer is George Osborne’s fiscal measures against the private rental...

Thanks to Accountancy Age for drawing to our attention to the fact that not every country is tightening up on the tax...

A tenants’ campaign group is planning a series of protests this coming weekend outside offices of lettings agencies which allegedly do...

The Green Party candidate for London Mayor says protests outside the MIPIM property conference have her backing as they highlight that...

A so-called 'ethical lettings charter' established by a group that has campaigned against some letting agencies, is set to be adopted...

If supporters of Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget restrictions on tax breaks for buy to let landlords thought opposition would die off...

The office of a letting agency that urged its landlord clients to consider increasing rents has been the subject of an...

Tenants on a social housing estate in north east London are to be asked to pay a means-tested rent - thought...

A campaign group protesting against the government’s Budget proposal to limit the tax breaks for buy to let investors has been...

There have been angry scenes at a consultation meeting as a local authority seeks to extend its licensing scheme - thought...

Gentrification is a divisive, provocative issue, but why are estate agents (especially Foxtons) appearing to bear the brunt of the public’s...

A group of renters who have formed the Acorn group in Bristol - which has already held protests against letting agents...

While much of the lettings industry protests against Labour proposals for rent controls and three year tenancies, an influential pressure group...