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The Citizens Advice consumer charity is warning that fake investment scams are amongst the fraudulent activity that’s on the rise across...
23 June 2021
From: Breaking News

A charity is calling for a new national body to oversee the private rental sector. Citizens Advice makes this one of three...
29 March 2021
From: Breaking News

Another council wants an extension to the existing ban on bailiff-enforced evictions, which is scheduled to end on February 22. Yesterday our...
10 February 2021
From: Breaking News

The charity Citizens Advice - which claims a “unique, real-time insight into the challenges people are facing as a result of Coronavirus"...
16 November 2020
From: Breaking News

A charity claims that private tenants in the areas with the higher tiers of Coronavirus measures face “harsh enforcement” if they...
22 October 2020
From: Breaking News

Consumer charity Citizens Advice has given guidance to student tenants who may have to return home early this term because of...
30 September 2020
From: Breaking News

The Citizens Advice charity claims that new figures suggest concern is building amongst renters about the possibility of losing their home. It...
21 September 2020
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is urging its members to write to their MPs over the provision of cash help...
07 September 2020
From: Breaking News

Letting agents and landlords in Wales can now direct struggling tenants to a new independent advice service. The Private Rented Sector Helpline...
03 September 2020
From: Breaking News

ARLA and the NRLA have teamed up with charities - some usually critical of letting agents and landlords - to lobby...
01 September 2020
From: Breaking News

The Citizens Advice charity is calling for tenants with arrears directly created by the Coronavirus to be offered government grants to...
25 August 2020
From: Breaking News

The Citizens Advice charity is warning it has seen a huge surge in private renters worried about arrears. And it says many...
30 July 2020
From: Breaking News

Labour has thrown its weight behind campaigning pressure groups in a general call to avoid what the party’s housing spokeswoman calls...
17 June 2020
From: Breaking News

Campaigning organisations that demanded an extension to the evictions ban imposed because of the Coronavirus crisis have been quick to return...
09 June 2020
From: Breaking News

Citizens Advice claims that in the two months since the lockdown began it has helped over 10,000 people with issues related...
26 May 2020
From: Breaking News

A consumer group wants buy to let properties to be re-let only if the tenants in them want to move. The call...
19 May 2020
From: Breaking News

A group of private rental activists says Labour proposals to give tenants two years to repay arrears accrued during the virus...
12 May 2020
From: Breaking News

A consumer charity has been blasted by a landlords' trade body for making “irresponsible” claims about tenants and the Coronavirus crisis. Research...
01 May 2020
From: Breaking News

The Citizens Advice charity is the latest organisation to call for more help for private tenants following what appears to be...
26 March 2020
From: Breaking News

The government’s announcement that no new eviction proceedings from either social or private rented accommodation can start for at least three...
24 March 2020
From: Breaking News

Good morning and welcome to the industry’s daily update on how we cope with the challenge of social distancing and self-isolation...
18 March 2020
From: Breaking News

Citizens Advice wants the next government to radically alter the private rental sector in favour of tenants. The charity’s 2019 election manifesto,...
08 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Three criminals have been sentenced after pleading guilty to money laundering involving an online lettings agency. The sentences follow an investigation spearheaded...
18 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Consumer charity Citizens’ Advice says government proposals to reform or possibly scrap S21 eviction rights do not go far enough. The group...
15 October 2019
From: Breaking News

London Trading Standards has made the startling claim that 46 per cent of almost 2,000 agents it has surveyed are falling...
13 September 2019
From: Breaking News

The Labour Party appears to be entering the arena of organising private rental sector tenants who have grievances. Party leader Jeremy Corbyn...
19 August 2019
From: Breaking News

The vast majority of letting agents and private landlords with experience of using the courts to repossess properties say the system...
01 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Weak regulation of private renting is leaving hundreds of thousands of tenants living in hazardous homes in England, claims Citizens Advice. A...
27 June 2019
From: Breaking News

The consumer charity Citizens Advice has hailed the Tenant Fees Act and the ban on letting agents’ charges to renters as...
04 June 2019
From: Breaking News

The government has issued new guidance notes on the Tenant Fees Act, aimed at agents, landlords and tenants. The publications come ahead...
02 April 2019
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords Association says the government’s changes to Universal Credit don’t go far enough to prevent rent arrears. The RLA says...
07 February 2019
From: Breaking News

The government’s new redress system, announced last week and to be implemented later this year, must be free for renters to...
30 January 2019
From: Breaking News

The chief executive of the Citizens Advice consumer charity says she wants government “to do even more to strengthen the hand...
28 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A call has been made for the Tenants’ Fees Bill to be made even stricter following a claim that over a...
12 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Trading Standards departments in London are asking renters to name and shame letting agents who are not complying with the law...
13 September 2018
From: Breaking News

Last week Shelter and the National Housing Federation took a swipe at lettings agents, and now Citizens Advice has joined the...
28 August 2018
From: Breaking News
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Tenants, landlords and buy to let investors are the targets for new online rental guides introduced by the Ministry of Housing,...
27 June 2018
From: Breaking News

A national charity is calling on the government to tighten the 'default fees' clause which is part of the Tenant Fees...
23 May 2018
From: Breaking News

The Citizens Advice consumer charity claims that 28 per cent of private tenants who have experienced problems while renting have not...
20 April 2018
From: Breaking News

A consumer group says that the Tenants Fees Bill - which will eventually ban letting agents’ fees levied on renters -...
04 April 2018
From: Breaking News

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has repeated his criticism of the government’s decision to cap security deposits at the level of...
06 November 2017
From: Breaking News

Pressure from the consumer lobby is building for the introduction of a ban on letting agents’ fees levied on tenants -...
29 September 2017
From: Breaking News

Private renters aren’t pressing agents and landlords to carry out repairs to their home over fears they’ll be evicted, claims Citizens...
14 July 2017
From: Breaking News

The consumer group Citizens Advice says it welcomes the Queen’s Speech confirmation of the upcoming ban on letting agents’ fees levied...
23 June 2017
From: Breaking News

A survey conducted for a property sales platform shows a very substantial majority of the public against any agents' fees being...
05 May 2017
From: Breaking News

Citizens Advice has spoken out about soon-to-be-banned letting agent fees charged to tenants. The organisation's 'A State of Disrepair' report says that...
08 March 2017
From: Breaking News

Agents, tenants and landlords on Jersey in the Channel Islands are to receive updated advice on the returning of deposits. ITV News...
13 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Citizens Advice says some 39 per cent of people living with their children in rented homes have a tenancy of six months...
04 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Councils have been told to up their game to protect tenants from a minority of landlords providing sub-standard accommodation. The call, being...
04 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Two charities that have been at the forefront of campaigns to have a ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants have...
24 November 2016
From: Breaking News

Three quarters of a million private renters are stuck in the coldest and draughtiest homes, claims the Citizens Advice organisation -...
28 October 2016
From: Breaking News

SAFEagent, the kitemark scheme for agents offering Client Money Protection, has backed the National Approved Lettings Scheme's (NALS) call for a...
23 September 2016
From: Breaking News

Citizens Advice has recorded an increase in the number of problems with letting agents reported by tenants, with a sharp rise...
20 September 2016
From: Breaking News

A report from Citizens Advice claims to show that a city’s letting agents charge a complex array of fees - with...
12 July 2016
From: Breaking News

Citizens Advice claims that 2,087 people asked it for help after being threatened with what it describes as ‘illegal eviction’ in...
11 July 2016
From: Breaking News

The Citizens Advice Bureau consumer charity has stepped up its campaign about poor standards in the private rental sector. It claims private...
14 December 2015
From: Breaking News

It’s been a bad weekend for the image of the private rental sector with a series of reports and press stories...
19 October 2015
From: Breaking News

The Citizens Advice charity is urging people to lobby for more controls over the private rental sector, letting agents and landlords,...
17 August 2015
From: Breaking News

This month has marked a real change in the way the private lettings sector is perceived - and it’s a perception...
19 June 2015
From: Features

The Citizens Advice organisation has returned to the attack on the private rental sector, accusing rogue landlords of raking in £5.6...
22 May 2015
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords Association is calling for better enforcement of existing laws and regulations to protect tenants in private rented housing. In...