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Activists with a record of opposing agents and landlords want a blanket ban on rent rises and evictions in the current virus...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Jon Notley and I am the co-founder...

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

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 Labour council serving one of the largest private rental communities in the country is reported to have failed to have...

A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...

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

High end London estate agency Chestertons has signed up with Zero Deposits, one of the deposit replacement services expanding across the...

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

One of the suppliers in the fiercely competitive world of deposit alternatives has introduced an ‘unlocking deposits’ option. From today, Zero Deposit...

Two tenants who campaign against lettings fees are claiming victory after refusing to pay charges for renewing their tenancies.  The agency was...

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

A group of activists has expressed outrage over a council’s private rental licensing scheme, claiming it is too small to catch...

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 pro-licensing local authorities in the country has extended its own scheme to include the entire centre of...

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

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...

Campaigning group Generation Rent has secured over 20,000 signatures for a petition it says will “end unfair evictions”. The petition, on the...

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

Multi-brand agency company Acorn Group says it has rolled out a no-deposit scheme to all 31 of its offices “with a...

Yorkshire estate agency Linley & Simpson has completed a hat-trick of acquisitions taking its letting portfolio past the milestone of 5,500...

The ZPG-backed Zero Deposit scheme, one of a number now existing putting forward an alternative to traditional deposits, has announced four...

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,...

A Facebook group has been set up to name and shame so-called ‘tenants from hell’.   At the moment the page applies to...

Lenwell Property Services, a five-office lettings agency in the Home Counties, is spreading its wings into Hertfordshire with the acquisition of...

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

The newly-elected mayor of Bristol and the city’s council have endorsed a so-called ethical lettings charter created by a group known...

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

An ‘ethical lettings charter’ set up over a year ago by a pressure group for improved private rental sector housing has...

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

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

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

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

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

A lettings agency has issued a warning to tenants to protect themselves following a claim that the city in which it...

Yet another ‘rental standard’ has been set up a a local council to create what it calls ‘a kitemark’ which can...

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