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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...
29 January 2024
From: Breaking News
A large multi-brand lettings agency group is dropping its listings on Zoopla and instead going to list rental properties on OnTheMarket...
17 January 2024
From: Breaking News
One prominent part of the Lomond agency empire is rebranding to fall in line with a larger higher-profile brand under the...
30 October 2023
From: Breaking News
A new manifesto calling for rent controls and a raft of other measures is accusing the current rent rises of being...
06 October 2023
From: Breaking News
My Property Box Tyne & Wear has extended its all-inclusive rent deal - and it says it’s in response to concerns...
11 July 2023
From: Breaking News
A franchise lettings agency is reported to have agreed to stop potential tenants bidding against each other to secure rental properties. The...
15 June 2023
From: Breaking News
A coalition of tenant activists has called a Day of Action to protest at delays in the government’s rental reform agenda. The...
24 February 2023
From: Breaking News
The anti-agent pro-renter group Acorn has protested outside some agents’ offices in Bristol demanding an end to rival bids for properties...
26 January 2023
From: Breaking News
A campaign group has protested outside letting agencies in Bristol, protesting against what they describe as “bidding wars” between rival tenants. The...
06 January 2023
From: Breaking News
The lettings agency operated by controversial agent Ajay Jagota has been sold for an undisclosed sum. Jagota set up KIS Lettings with...
01 November 2022
From: Breaking News
Campaigners who turned on the Prime Minister on Tuesday were cock-a-hoop just 24 hours later when Liz Truss did another U-turn...
13 October 2022
From: Breaking News
The Acorn Group has opened its 40th branch - and it says it’s on the look-out for new acquisitions, including those...
24 May 2022
From: Breaking News
An activist group that has staged many protests against letting agents must pay just under £100,000 in costs and damages to...
07 April 2022
From: Breaking News
Activists in the Acorn campaign group are lobbying a council in a bid to - in its words - “ban slum...
05 April 2022
From: Breaking News
The activist group Acorn is lobbying a local council to deny people the right to buy a second home or let...
25 March 2022
From: Breaking News
Deposit alternative service Zero Deposit has received another £1.8m investment- just as it launches its own insurance service. The fundraise provides capital...
20 January 2022
From: Breaking News
A lettings agency has apologised after a campaign by activists about the condition of a rental property it manages. Protesters outside the...
13 July 2021
From: Breaking News
Police were called to a protect outside a lettings firm in Oxfordshire after a crowd picketed the office over a dispute...
16 June 2021
From: Breaking News
Activists from the Acorn renters' campaign group have held a protest outside a branch of Chancellors in Oxford. The group says the...
04 May 2021
From: Breaking News
A group of rental campaign bodies have come together to claim that some 694,000 tenants apparently face eviction when the current...
15 April 2021
From: Breaking News
Acorn, a prominent campaign group targeting letting agency offices for protests, says the latest eviction ban extension doesn't go far enough. While...
11 March 2021
From: Breaking News
Local media in the Homes Counties report that two arrests were made after police were called by a lettings agency where...
05 March 2021
From: Breaking News
The 60-branch London focussed agency chain Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward is the latest agency to invest in Zero Deposit. The firm joins Andrews,...
28 January 2021
From: Breaking News
Two Labour MPs have made extensive claims about the number of evictions from the private rental sector likely to happen if...
15 January 2021
From: Breaking News
A lettings agency has called in the police after a protest involving anti-agent activists demanding compensation for past tenants. The Eastern Daily...
24 December 2020
From: Breaking News
Activists from the so-called renters’ union Acorn have held a protest outside the office of a lettings agency in Oxford. A photograph...
19 November 2020
From: Breaking News
An organisation that wants rent controls, the scrapping of Section 21 and what it calls “indefinite tenancies” claims to have 4,000...
16 October 2020
From: Breaking News
Deposit alternative service Zero Deposit has revealed significant new investment as its founder - ex-Zoopla commercial director Jon Notley - takes a...
13 October 2020
From: Breaking News
Activists from the controversial renters’ group Acorn have picketed the headquarters of a national rental firm in a dispute over a...
29 September 2020
From: Breaking News
One of the most outspoken campaign groups against the end of the eviction ban has staged a series of so-called ‘boot...
21 September 2020
From: Breaking News
Campaigners against evictions during the Coronavirus crisis have launched a last-ditch call for the government to grant another extension to the current...
14 September 2020
From: Breaking News
The Momentum movement on the left wing of the Labour Party is joining forces with housing organisations to argue against private...
09 September 2020
From: Breaking News
The renters’ group ACORN, which has held numerous protests at individual letting agents’ offices, has apologised after one of its local...
28 August 2020
From: Breaking News
The anti-letting agent group ACORN is to stage protests in 10 to 15 UK cities this weekend according to an activists’...
20 August 2020
From: Breaking News
Three groups of rental activists have demanded the government scrap all rent payments immediately and cancel all arrears - but mystery...
13 May 2020
From: Breaking News
Activists with a record of opposing agents and landlords want a blanket ban on rent rises and evictions in the current virus...
16 March 2020
From: Breaking News
Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Jon Notley and I am the co-founder...
12 March 2020
From: 60 Second Interview
The controversial Acorn group of anti-letting agent activists has been accused of intimidation of female staff during a protest outside and...
05 March 2020
From: Breaking News
A campaign group that has held protests outside letting agents’ branches and has been fiercely critical of fees, says it’s seen a...
16 January 2020
From: Breaking News
A protest has been held outside a lettings agency in Manchester by tenants demanding that the firm ‘sacks’ one of its...
10 January 2020
From: Breaking News
A Labour council serving one of the largest private rental communities in the country is reported to have failed to have...
09 January 2020
From: Breaking News
A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...
04 November 2019
From: Breaking News
The controversial tenants union Acorn has set up a web page where disgruntled renters can lodge complaints about letting agents. In the...
24 October 2019
From: Breaking News
High end London estate agency Chestertons has signed up with Zero Deposits, one of the deposit replacement services expanding across the...
26 September 2019
From: Breaking News
A senior Labour politician in Sheffield and the campaign group Acorn have both expressed support for a selective licensing scheme to...
25 September 2019
From: Breaking News
One of the suppliers in the fiercely competitive world of deposit alternatives has introduced an ‘unlocking deposits’ option. From today, Zero Deposit...
23 August 2019
From: Breaking News
Two tenants who campaign against lettings fees are claiming victory after refusing to pay charges for renewing their tenancies. The agency was...
06 August 2019
From: Breaking News
An activists’s group which in the past has held protests immediately outside letting agents’ offices is appealing for £10,000 to develop...
21 June 2019
From: Breaking News
A group of activists has expressed outrage over a council’s private rental licensing scheme, claiming it is too small to catch...
20 June 2019
From: Breaking News
The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says it backs a new Trading Standards-led body which will enforce the Fees Ban starting on...
18 April 2019
From: Breaking News
One of the most pro-licensing local authorities in the country has extended its own scheme to include the entire centre of...
05 April 2019
From: Breaking News
A pressure group that in the past has protested outside letting agency branches has staged more direct action - this time against...
26 November 2018
From: Breaking News
Croydon council is reported to have become the first local authority to back the scrapping of Section 21 of the 1988...
10 October 2018
From: Breaking News
The head of a lettings agency has refused to sign a pledge document put to him by a protest group - and...
01 October 2018
From: Breaking News
Campaigning group Generation Rent has secured over 20,000 signatures for a petition it says will “end unfair evictions”. The petition, on the...
23 July 2018
From: Breaking News
A collection of rental sector protest organisations is getting together to campaign against S21 powers under which landlords or agents on...
18 June 2018
From: Breaking News
Multi-brand agency company Acorn Group says it has rolled out a no-deposit scheme to all 31 of its offices “with a...
12 June 2018
From: Breaking News
Yorkshire estate agency Linley & Simpson has completed a hat-trick of acquisitions taking its letting portfolio past the milestone of 5,500...
16 March 2018
From: Breaking News
The ZPG-backed Zero Deposit scheme, one of a number now existing putting forward an alternative to traditional deposits, has announced four...
01 March 2018
From: Breaking News
Bristol council is resuscitating a so-called ‘rental standard’ which it expects local letting agents to meet. Back in January 2016 Letting Agent...
11 July 2017
From: Breaking News
The campaign group Acorn, which has in the past named individual letting agencies that it claims are charging unfairly high fees,...
09 May 2017
From: Breaking News
A Facebook group has been set up to name and shame so-called ‘tenants from hell’. At the moment the page applies to...
24 April 2017
From: Breaking News
Lenwell Property Services, a five-office lettings agency in the Home Counties, is spreading its wings into Hertfordshire with the acquisition of...
10 March 2017
From: Breaking News
A campaign group has been refocussed with the objective of making the government honour its Autumn Statement pledge to ban letting...
08 December 2016
From: Breaking News
The newly-elected mayor of Bristol and the city’s council have endorsed a so-called ethical lettings charter created by a group known...
12 September 2016
From: Breaking News
The campaign group ACORN, which has in the past organised protests outside letting agency offices, is up in arms that a...
30 August 2016
From: Breaking News
An ‘ethical lettings charter’ set up over a year ago by a pressure group for improved private rental sector housing has...
10 May 2016
From: Breaking News
A community group that has in the past staged protests at letting agents’ offices in Bristol has now organised a petition...
21 April 2016
From: Breaking News
The controversial campaign group ACORN, which has made headlines by protesting outside letting agency offices in Bristol, is launching a new...
24 February 2016
From: Breaking News
A campaign group which last year held protests outside letting agents’ offices in Bristol is claiming victory in persuading the city’s...
17 February 2016
From: Breaking News
A so-called 'ethical lettings charter' established by a group that has campaigned against some letting agencies, is set to be adopted...
08 October 2015
From: Breaking News
The office of a letting agency that urged its landlord clients to consider increasing rents has been the subject of an...
04 September 2015
From: Breaking News
A lettings agency has issued a warning to tenants to protect themselves following a claim that the city in which it...
18 August 2015
From: Breaking News
Yet another ‘rental standard’ has been set up a a local council to create what it calls ‘a kitemark’ which can...