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The House of Lords will today discuss the apparently-growing Sex for Rent scandal. Campaigners say a search on websites such as Craigslist...
22 November 2021
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It’s been reported that the Lloyds Banking Group is set to buy its first property as it seeks to become a...
21 June 2021
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The Daily Mail says it has informed Trading Standards of a lettings agent which is claims is “illegally working” despite not...
17 February 2021
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A fake lettings agent has been caught trying to cheat prospective tenants out of £1,500 which she claimed was a deposit...
26 October 2020
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The director of renters’ campaign group Generation Rent says the long-running scandal of a planning decision made by the Housing Secretary...
22 June 2020
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The government’s hugely-publicised database for rogue letting agents and landlords has been running for almost two years and has…wait for it…just...
07 February 2020
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As the row over Labour’s proposal rumbles on the think tank Centre for Policy Studies - which has previously argued that...
05 September 2019
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With the country in febrile election mode, it’s perhaps unsurprising that the Association of Residential Letting Agents has got in on...
30 August 2019
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Who are you and what does it say on your business card? That depends on which business card. One says ‘Properganda PR,...
01 July 2019
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A dispute concerning a ‘no deposit option’ put forward by a letting agency has reached the Daily Mail. The newspaper’s online service...
12 April 2019
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The Daily Mail has reported on a massive buy to let fiddle which involved a £10.8m property empire, rents totalling £500,000...
08 January 2019
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The Daily Mail has unveiled an extensive network of homes advertised on Airbnb but actually being sub-let by tenants who are...
03 January 2019
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A landlord has set up a company to handle the ownership and management of buy to let properties - and the...
02 May 2017
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David Miles, a former Bank of England economist, has described the government’s mortgage interest tax relief reform as “terrible” - but...
06 February 2017
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Deutsche Bank has issued a dire warning about the buy to let market in the UK, along with a broadside warning...
20 June 2016
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More criticism of Chancellor George Osborne’s raft of buy to let reforms has appeared in the mainstream media, with much emphasis...
01 April 2016
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A columnist on FT Adviser - an online service for financial advisers and clients - says buy to let investors have...
09 October 2015
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It’s been revealed that Airbnb - the online informal lettings service which can be used to by-pass letting agents - passes details...
12 August 2015
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It appears that the former presenters of BBC consumer programme Watchdog are amongst those participating in a class action against Foxtons...
15 June 2015
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Foxtons could be facing a hefty legal bill after charging a landlord over £600 to change a light fitting. In 2013 London...