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Trading Standards officers check for agents’ compliance by scrutinising their websites, it’s being claimed. Agents are being warned to ensure their websites...

A new proposal from the government says agents and portals will be banned from advertising rental properties with non-compliant Energy Performance...

A lettings agent in London has been fined for the third time in as many years – this time for failing...

The Tenants’ Fees Bill has now become law, receiving formal Royal Assent yesterday afternoon - and within minutes, the government issued...

A major Scottish property management firm says agents and landlords south of the border should prepare now for the likely agency...

As part of SAFEagent Awareness Week, which finishes today, letting agents have been provided with a free webinar covering compliance. The webinar...

A London council has won its appeal against Foxtons using the term “administration fees” in its lettings charges.    Back in 2015 Camden...

Lettings agents are being invited to take part in a national online survey launching today and seeking to get an industry-wide...

A local agency in Essex is accusing an unspecified number of rival firms in the area of not publicising their fees...

A local council claims around 90 per cent of the 100 or so letting agents operating within its area are breaking...

One of the country’s top lettings experts says last year’s law changes concerning the increased transparency of agents’ fees have “missed...

The internet and rapidly evolving digital landscape has revolutionised the way people buy and sell properties. With some reports suggesting 95 per...

An organisation that describes itself as “an independent group of private renters” says it has identified 21 letting agents out of...

It is now a statutory duty for letting agents to fully publicise the fees they charge to landlords and tenants.  Under the...