A lettings agent who also acts on behalf of tenants against landlords and agents claims to have received 1,000 enquiries from...
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25 January 2022
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A lettings agent who also runs a tenant complaint insurance service has renewed his attack on landlords and local authorities. Ajay Jagota...
03 December 2021
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A lettings agent has taken the unorthodox approach of advising tenants to take their landlords to court in a bid to...
31 August 2021
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A lettings agent who has made a series of outbursts against landlords and councils, has now turned his anger on proposed...
10 August 2021
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A controversial lettings agent who has set up a business to sell rental insurance has accused landlords of not taking their...
19 July 2021
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A lettings agent who wants tenants to take out policies to fund complaints against agencies and landlords has branded the social...
28 June 2021
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The man behind an early version of deposit replacement for the private rental sector has now set up a service encouraging...
21 June 2021
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English letting agencies could lose over £60,000 each in the next two years alone as a result of the Tenant Fees...
17 January 2019
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A rental campaigner claims the amount of money stolen this year by crooked lettings agents and landlords has topped the £1.3m...
20 December 2018
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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...
18 October 2018
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A new study shows that 43 per cent of tenants want the system of private rental deposits to be dropped and...
18 September 2018
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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...
17 July 2018
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Letting agents and landlords could be missing out on £61m of rent every month because families in temporary and emergency accommodation...
13 June 2018
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A prominent campaigner for alternatives to traditional rental sector deposits is welcoming the government’s commitment to consider the issue in the...
15 May 2018
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Academic research suggests tenants in England and Wales are missing out on £80m of interest to tenancy deposit schemes every single...
03 April 2018
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A warning has come from a campaigning letting agent that London’s landlords agents could be costing themselves tenants by requiring them...
20 March 2018
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The cash value of tenancy deposits crooked landlords and letting agents have been convicted of pocketing in 2018 has already passed...
27 February 2018
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Crooked landlords and letting agents were convicted of stealing £1,162,037 of tenant’s cash in 2017 – a rise of 14 per...
16 February 2018
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Crooked letting agents and landlords have raided close to £1m from tenancy deposit accounts in 2017, new figures show. Campaigning agent Ajay Jagota,...
29 December 2017
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The government's plan to cap tenancy deposits at six weeks rent threatens to cost Britain’s renters an average of £1391 –...
13 November 2017
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Campaigning lettings agency chief Ajay Jagota says he is unconvinced by government plans to make it a criminal offence for letting...
03 November 2017
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A campaigning letting agent says that at the start of this financial year the total cash value of deposits held in...
30 October 2017
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A lettings agency chief who monitors legal action against rogue agencies and landlords says almost £850,000 of deposits have been stolen...
20 October 2017
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A campaigning lettings agent says proposals to allow renters to transfer tenancy deposits between properties are to be welcomed – but...
17 October 2017
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Ajay Jagota, the north east agent known for his campaign against rental deposits, says recent initiatives by two deposit protection services...
11 September 2017
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Anti-deposits campaigning agent Ajay Jagota says the 2004 Housing Act - which actually came into effect in 2007 - may now...
30 August 2017
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Crooked letting agents have been convicted of stealing almost £700,000 of tenants’ deposits in the first half of 2017. Campaigning letting agent...
27 July 2017
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A property campaigner says the failure of the police to investigate a lettings agent who was eventually convicted of fraud after...
20 July 2017
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A prominent lettings industry campaigner says the head of a tenancy deposit scheme has “serious questions to answer” after his comments...
10 July 2017
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A prominent campaigning letting agent has discovered that more than 6,000 tenants in one region alone have complained to local authorities...
08 May 2017
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A prominent campaigning letting and sales agent predicts that the Conservatives are likely to put their proposed ban on letting agency...
21 April 2017
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A prominent campaigner over the misappropriation of rental deposits has welcomed the news that government proposals to ban letting agent fees...
18 April 2017
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A leading letting agent campaigning against rental sector deposits is warning that the industry might be hit with “astronominal” insurance premiums...
10 April 2017
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Renters are spending half their wages keeping a roof over their head, are twice as likely as homeowners to have no...
27 March 2017
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Conservative MP Oliver Colvile is calling for urgent action following a recent spate of fraud involving rogue letting agents. When approached by...
15 February 2017
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A campaigning lettings agent is demanding action over what he suggests is a tenancy deposit system that is in need of...
31 January 2017
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Property campaigner Ajay Jagota has launched what he calls a “stolen deposits totaliser” to keep track of how much cash crooked...
16 January 2017
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The Residential Landlords’ Association says it stands by a claim that one in four landlords may sell up, and it refutes...
21 November 2016
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A lettings agent has poured scorn on a survey suggesting a quarter of landlords are about to quit buy to let,...
18 November 2016
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Crooked letting agencies have been convicted of stealing £1,018,100 of deposits this year alone – and one agent claims this figure...
17 October 2016
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Economic uncertainty in China could spill over to cause problems for the student letting sector in the UK, an agent is...
16 February 2016
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A prominent letting agent says he wants an immediate interest rate rise - and has even made his case to a...
29 September 2015
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A row has broken out between one of the north east’s most prominent letting agents and Zoopla over the worst place...