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Some 1.5m tenants could be at risk of losing their deposits, claims a campaigner for insurance-based alternatives to deposits. Ajay Jagota, head...

A new study shows that 43 per cent of tenants want the system of private rental deposits to be dropped and...

Crooked letting agents and landlords have so far this year been convicted of illegally pocketing over £900,000 of tenant’s cash – and there’s...

Letting agents and landlords could be missing out on £61m of rent every month because families in temporary and emergency accommodation...

A prominent campaigner for alternatives to traditional rental sector deposits is welcoming the government’s commitment to consider the issue in the...

Academic research suggests tenants in England and Wales are missing out on £80m of interest to tenancy deposit schemes every single...

A warning has come from a campaigning letting agent that London’s landlords agents could be costing themselves tenants by requiring them...

The cash value of tenancy deposits crooked landlords and letting agents have been convicted of pocketing in 2018 has already passed...

Crooked landlords and letting agents were convicted of stealing £1,162,037 of tenant’s cash in 2017 – a rise of 14 per...

Crooked letting agents and landlords have raided close to £1m from tenancy deposit accounts in 2017, new figures show. Campaigning agent Ajay Jagota,...

The government's plan to cap tenancy deposits at six weeks rent threatens to cost Britain’s renters an average of £1391 –...

Campaigning lettings agency chief Ajay Jagota says he is unconvinced by government plans to make it a criminal offence for letting...

A campaigning letting agent says that at the start of this financial year the total cash value of deposits held in...

A lettings agency chief who monitors legal action against rogue agencies and landlords says almost £850,000 of deposits have been stolen...

A campaigning lettings agent says proposals to allow renters to transfer tenancy deposits between properties are to be welcomed – but...

Ajay Jagota, the north east agent known for his campaign against rental deposits, says recent initiatives by two deposit protection services...

Anti-deposits campaigning agent Ajay Jagota says the 2004 Housing Act - which actually came into effect in 2007 - may now...

Crooked letting agents have been convicted of stealing almost £700,000 of tenants’ deposits in the first half of 2017.   Campaigning letting agent...

A property campaigner says the failure of the police to investigate a lettings agent who was eventually convicted of fraud after...

A prominent lettings industry campaigner says the head of a tenancy deposit scheme has “serious questions to answer” after his comments...

A prominent campaigning letting agent has discovered that more than 6,000 tenants in one region alone have complained to local authorities...

A prominent campaigning letting and sales agent predicts that the Conservatives are likely to put their proposed ban on letting agency...

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

A leading letting agent campaigning against rental sector deposits is warning that the industry might be hit with “astronominal” insurance premiums...

  Renters are spending half their wages keeping a roof over their head, are twice as likely as homeowners to have no...

Conservative MP Oliver Colvile is calling for urgent action following a recent spate of fraud involving rogue letting agents.   When approached by...

A campaigning lettings agent is demanding action over what he suggests is a tenancy deposit system that is in need of...

Property campaigner Ajay Jagota has launched what he calls a “stolen deposits totaliser” to keep track of how much cash crooked...

The Residential Landlords’ Association says it stands by a claim that one in four landlords may sell up, and it refutes...

A lettings agent has poured scorn on a survey suggesting a quarter of landlords are about to quit buy to let,...

Crooked letting agencies have been convicted of stealing £1,018,100 of deposits this year alone – and one agent claims this figure...

Economic uncertainty in China could spill over to cause problems for the student letting sector in the UK, an agent is...

A prominent letting agent says he wants an immediate interest rate rise - and has even made his case to a...

A row has broken out between one of the north east’s most prominent letting agents and Zoopla over the worst place...

A north east agent claims that news coverage of tenants on housing benefits is too quick to point the finger at...