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From August 1 Nottingham council is introducing a new selective licensing regime covering an estimated 32,000 privately rented homes. This is an...

Letting agents and landlords have been warned to expect a possible rise in arrears in the coming months if conditions in...

Let’s make no bones about it. When the Tenant Fee Ban comes into force you WILL: See a DROP in your income...

A new analysis reveals that it takes an average of 118 days for court-appointed bailiffs to remove tenants from private homes...

A consumer group which conducted 30 undercover viewings in five different UK cities claims letting agents are showing potential tenants around...

The government has written to two senior MPs in a bid to clarify two detailed provisions in the Tenants Fees Bill,...

The lettings industry has hit out at the Welsh Government’s proposals to ban agents’ fees levied on tenants. A Bill was put...

A new lettings agency set up at Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset says it’s setting out to atone for the misdemeanours of nearby...

A Bill which is likely to end up banning letting agents’ fees levied on tenants in Wales has been introduced into...

A Member of Parliament who says “the majority of agents” engage in “dirty tactics” when it comes to fees imposed on...

The chief of what is described as Britain’s largest lettings agency has told an influential group of MPs that the proposed...

A prominent PropTech startup is questioning whether long-term tenants need to go through the traditional referencing process when moving between rental...

Two million tenants will this year be hit with rent rises totalling a combined £46m a month according to an online...

A Build To Rent company that scrapped deposits for tenants a year ago says it has saved renters almost £3m in...

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

A high-profile landlord says the upcoming ban on letting agent fees 'can't come soon enough'. Writing a column in the Evening Standard's...

The chief executive of the UK's largest franchise agency, Belvoir, says the number of letting and estate agents will 'undoubtedly fall'...

Letting agents - and anyone with ‘relevant expertise and experience or a special interest’ - have been invited to provide their...

An experienced agent claims that forgoing the services of a letting agent to save money is a false economy for landlords. In...

A London council has launched its own online letting agency with the aim of creating a buzz in the 'London property...

A national charity is calling on the government to tighten the 'default fees' clause which is part of the Tenant Fees...

Today Trading Standards teams across the country will highlight the work they do to protect landlords and tenants from rogue letting...

MPs will today undertake the second reading of the Tenant Fees Bill which proposes to ban upfront tenant fees and introduce...

LonRes, the data and agent network business specialising in central London, is entering into a strategic partnership with rental services provider...

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

One of the PropTech companies at the centre of the Rent Recognition Challenge contest is calling on letting agents to use...

The Lomond Capital acquisition bandwagon continues apace with the latest independent to be snapped up being the well known Bonett’s Estate...

Grainger, the UK's largest listed residential landlord, has snapped up a 132-flat Build To Rent scheme in Southampton for £27m.  The project...

Countrywide - which is making the lettings sector a key part of its ‘back to basics’ programme - is proposing to...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says he welcomes reforms currently moving through Parliament to professionalise the lettings sector - but he wants...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Ben Robinson, Director of Agency Services at Landmark What is Landmark...

The industry has reacted angrily to the announcement yesterday that the Tenants’ Fees Bill is now formally starting its progress through...

The scramble for members amongst rival redress systems continues apace. Earlier this week The Property Ombudsman announced it was to waive joining...

Build To Rent operator and long-term volume landlord organisation Grainger says it is pioneering five-year leases “in a bid to overhaul...

Franchises giant Belvoir says there are over 10,000 potential acquisition targets which could be wanting a way out of the lettings...

The Property Franchise Group has given an insight into the effect of the ban on lettings fees likely to be introduced...

Belvoir has reported a year of strong growth in 2017, with group revenue up 14 per cent and pre-tax profit soaring...

A new analysis by campaigning housing organisation Shelter claims the changes within the private rental sector could indirectly lose the next...

Foxtons is warning that the private rental sector - traditionally a strong earner for the company even in times of challenging...

A consumer group says that the Tenants Fees Bill - which will eventually ban letting agents’ fees levied on renters -...

The government has this morning - Easter Sunday - announced a crackdown on rogue letting agents in the shape of a...

A Select Committee of MPs investigating the proposed ban on agents’ fees levied on tenants says the measure could save renters...

Proposals to cap security deposits for private rented housing to six weeks rent risk creating a charter for rent cheats warns...

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

A Kent county councillor says letting agents “would have to be pretty dumb” to allow a situation arise whereby they would...

Yorkshire estate agency Linley & Simpson has completed a hat-trick of acquisitions taking its letting portfolio past the milestone of 5,500...

A leading figure in the PropTech sector is urging letting agents to use the 2019 lettings fee ban as an opportunity...

Three one-day courses are being held this year - the first next week - aimed at updating letting agents on changes...

The government has pledged to begin a review of the selective licensing across the private rental sector once MPs return from...

Belvoir has announced what it calls “a significant acquisition” by one of its franchisees, which is set to add almost £1m...

The Welsh Government’s housing minister has tweeted that the results of a formal consultation process on a ban on agents’ fees...

The sittings of the select committee looking into government proposals to ban letting agents’ fees levied on tenants resume this week...

A new survey claims that 42 per cent of private sector tenants are unhappy with paying letting agents’ fees, despite the...

Trade bodies including ARLA, RICS, NALS and landlord organisations have met with the government to send a clear message - think...

A range of factors - including fierce competition under the supplied housing market, rising property prices and political uncertainty – have...

Belvoir has told its shareholders that it aims to acquire agencies that exit the lettings sector when the ban on fees...

The man behind a leading lettings industry PropTech company says the new Code of Conduct to clean up the rental sector...

A lettings agency operating in Cardiff has expanded its business and now donates 15 per cent of profits to a local...

The trend towards reducing or eliminating deposits at the same time as edging towards a ban on letting agents’ fees on...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has released details of the evidence it put to the Communities and Local Government Select Committee which...

Research by NALS has revealed extensive increases in the cost of licensing of lettings properties and landlords by local authorities in...

The select committee monitoring the Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government will continue its deliberations today on the government’s ban...

The chief operating officer of a leading PropTech company says government proposals to increase mandatory licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation...

The head of franchise giant Belvoir says government interference in the rental sector is likely to result in a rise in...

An agency operating in London and Essex has launched an online petition to oppose the ban on credit and debit card...

An Essex lettings agent has explained why he has set up an online petition calling for a reversal of the government’s...

The National Landlords Association says 20 per cent of its members plan to reduce the size of their portfolios in the...

This week’s news that the government will not be implementing the ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants in England until...

The government has explained why the ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants will not be implemented until spring 2019 -...

The government has told NALS that implementation of the ban on letting agents’ fees levied on tenants will not take place...

A lettings agency has written to MPs setting out an eloquent case for a cap on agents’ fees levied on tenants...

The UK’s army of buy to let landlords will still benefit from £16.7 billion worth of tax relief even after the...

ARLA and NAEA Propertymark have introduced a raft of deals in a bid to save agents money.  Membership subscription fees will remain...

Today sees the return of MPs to Parliament following the Christmas break, and one early task is to hear oral evidence...

The Communities and Local Government committee of MPs will on Monday hear their first oral evidence of the year for the...

A local authority is setting up a not-for-profit ‘ethical’ lettings agency and is aiming to woo landlords with a promise of...

The government has started tweeting that it is to ban letting agents’ fees in England - but still isn’t revealing when...

Franchise giant Belvoir has given a glowing report to shareholders, saying it exceeded its 2017 target for portfolio acquisitions by franchisees. During...

The lettings director of high-end London lettings agency Russell Simpson says he expects the capital’s rentals market to blossom next year...

Government proposals to ban letting agent fees levied on tenants next year are unlikely to make renting cheaper as new research...

So here it is … a very Merry Christmas from Letting Agent Today and Angels Media, with our very best wishes...

Independent agents’ group CIELA is to launch after all, but now says it won’t be campaigning against the imminent ban on...

The Welsh Government has confirmed that the country will ban letting agents’ fees levied on tenants - the same ban still...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it is seeing a consolidation of agencies ahead of the ban on agents’ fees...

The Conveyancing Association has made a wide-ranging response to the government’s call for evidence on the regulation of letting and managing...

Some 30 per cent of landlords may be discouraged from using a letting agent if landlord fees increase as a result...

In a time of unprecedented change for the lettings sector, you need a supplier who will safeguard your business and give...

After the series of anti-buy to let measures contained in recent Budgets, it is perhaps unsurprising that a survey of landlords...

The Communities and Local Government Select Committee says it is to begin “pre-legislative scrutiny” of proposals to ban tenant fees imposed...

A Birmingham agent has branded the government’s draft Tenant Fees Bill - which proposes a ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants...

Barratt Homes’ London division is offering what it describes as ‘free property management’ on new-builds purchased at selected schemes and then...

The Property Ombudsman scheme has launched the third and latest phase of its national campaign with the Chartered Trading Standards Institute...

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

Northwood, a wholly owned subsidiary of Belvoir, has made five portfolio acquisitions in the past two months. At the end of August, Belvoir...

A prominent PropTech company chief has repeated his claim that old-fashioned methods of business administration could be prohibiting letting agents from...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has taken the unusual step of making a fact sheet available to all agents, not...

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has repeated his criticism of the government’s decision to cap security deposits at the level of...

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

The controversial consultation period undertaken by the government in support of its proposed ban on letting agents’ fees levied on tenants...

Trade organisatons have reacted predictably to the government’s latest announcements and publications concerning the private rental sector. Yesterday the Department of Communities...

The private rental sector is likely to benefit as a result of first time buyers’ lack of understanding of the timings,...

The draft Bill to ban letting agents’ fees levied on tenants has been published - it’s to be called the Tenants’...

A family-run lettings agency says its viability is seriously threatened by the likely fees ban to be introduced in 2018 -...

In the past 20 years the UK private rental sector has exploded! The sector has grown from under 10% of housing...

A rental investment platform is claiming to have succeeded with the world’s largest property crowdfunding exercise, raising £2,992,800. Property Partner says it...

MPs from the cross-party Parliamentary Group for Ending Homelessness have spoken out on the need to help homeless people into the...

Build To Rent developer Be says it is moving to a no-fees model for its development at Hayes in west London....

  At Rent4sure we understand the challenges and increasing responsibilities that face every letting agent right now. With government plans for an outright...

Industry figures have broadly welcomed the latest consultations and proposed additional regulation for the lettings sector, announced by the government yesterday.   The...

The Secretary of State for Wales has called on the Welsh Government to take measures against what he calls “unjust fees...

Newham council in London has published the UK’s first ever ratings scheme for letting agents, in which firms receive anything from...

A London letting agency with connections to Westminster council is now being investigated by the same council’s trading standards department. CityWest Homes...

The private rental sector in Wales is at risk of contracting next year, warns the Residential Landlords’ Association.   RLA Wales policy officer...

A leading buy to let expert is calling on agents to work more closely with landlords and tenants to improve communications...

Online lettings agency Upad says that with the volume of purpose-built student accommodation set to increase 17 per cent this year,...

Pressure from the consumer lobby is building for the introduction of a ban on letting agents’ fees levied on tenants -...

Letting Agent Today understands that senior industry figures are working on the framework of a new attempt at regulation, including measures...

An estate agency in Bournemouth has amended an advertisement after a complaint to a watchdog about the absence of any reference...

Letting agents are being warned that they can minimise the impact of the fees ban levied on tenants by being proactive...

Trading Standards says representatives from 15 departments will today visit lettings and property management firms across London in a bid to...

Repairs software provider Fixflo has issued its annual state-of-the-lettings-industry report - with fees the biggest concern to letting agents.   Some 42 per...

Housing minister Alok Sharma has been told face to face that he should rethink the government's plans to cap security deposits...

The Nationwide Building Society says it is assembling what it calls ‘an industry alliance’ to support the increasingly-beleaguered private rental sector.   The...

New figures assembled by the Nationwide reveal precisely how much, on average, it costs to operate a privately rented property.    The numbers...

Housing minister Alok Sharma has once again confirmed that the ban on lettings’ agents fees levied on tenants in England will...

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

According to recent government figures, the average letting agent’s fee is £223 and 4.3 million householders pay this amount or thereabouts...

Letting agents across the UK must prepare now for a ban on fees charged to tenants says a PropTech company -...

The majority of MPs speaking at a House of Commons debate yesterday acknowledged they are wary of the 'unintended consequences' of...

The majority of landlords still believe that a cap on letting agent fees will be more effective than an outright ban,...

A Westminster Hall debate for MPs on letting agent fees will take place this morning in the House of Commons. The debate...

The government is being urged by the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) to do more to enforce compulsory fee disclosure. Since May 2015,...

Belvoir, the UK's largest property franchise group, has reported an increase in profit and revenue in the first six months of...

Letting agents using insured deposit protection schemes have been urged to switch to a custodial model in order to compensate for...

Belvoir has told shareholders and the City that it now has 57,637 lettings units under management following the addition of 1,310...

An attempt by a Labour council to encourage letting agencies to get ahead of the curve and scrap fees for tenants...

A new Build To Rent scheme from specialist developer Get Living is to charge from £410 a week for units at...

A leading trade body says a cap on damage deposits paid by tenants - as proposed by the government - could...

The Welsh Government’s communities and children secretary, Carl Sargeant, is calling on tenants to have their say on proposals to ban...

The Property Redress Scheme, one of three approved redress operations, says it saw a 33 per cent increase in membership in...

The results of a survey of 2,000 people conducted by an online letting agency appear to make sombre reading for letting...

A former tenant is the subject of a major investigation by a London newspaper after she claimed to have spent eight...

Former Countrywide chief executive and chairman Grenville Turner is one of a number of high profile new investors unveiled for Zero...

A no-holds-barred blog on a controversial website claims that it lifts the lid on being a letting agent in central London...

Newham council is to set up the UK’s first letting agents rating scheme to protect residents and landlords from rogue agents.   The...

The government has been urged by a London council to act now to end letting fees for private renters.   Hackney council says...

The number of letting agents reporting rent rises over the past month is the highest for over a year according to...

The Welsh Government is now kicking off a similar consultation process to that conducted by the Department for Communities and Local...

With a host of changing regulations hitting the private rental sector, some landlords may be put off using letting agents, but...

The flat fees for buy to let mortgages are now lower than they have been at any point in the past...

A specialist student lettings agency says the drop in the number of applicants for UK higher education courses this year threatens...

Belvoir, which has over 300 high street offices, has acquired Brook Financial Services Ltd, which trades as Mortgage Advice Bureau, in...

The government has revealed that it has received over 4,700 responses to its official consultation over the proposed ban on letting...

A survey of letting and estate agencies suggest around half broadly back the changes to the private rental sector outlined in...

Bristol council is resuscitating a so-called ‘rental standard’ which it expects local letting agents to meet. Back in January 2016 Letting Agent...

The government’s proposal to limit tenancy deposits to one month of rent and reservation fees to one week of rent will...

The Prime Minister has confirmed that her minority Conservative government will press ahead with the ban on letting agents’ fees levied...

A company claims to have a package of services which would help letting agents overcome the widely-anticipated ban on fees being...

A head of a company providing hi-tech products to letting agents says technology is the answer to current rental industry challenges,...

Over a quarter of letting agents saw rents rise in May - the highest level since June last year when 28...

An alternative to traditional deposits, already tested in the German rental market, is now being introduced into the UK - and...

The National Landlords Association has come up with an unexpected possible side effect of the new Tenants’ Fees Bill - it...

The consumer group Citizens Advice says it welcomes the Queen’s Speech confirmation of the upcoming ban on letting agents’ fees levied...

ARLA has led a call by many letting agents on hearing the Queen’s Speech - what was the point of a...

The Queen’s Speech, outlining the government’s proposals for the next two years, has confirmed a pledge to introduce a ban on...

New research shows that thousands of landlords are using what are described as “risky online sites” in their bid to avoid...

At the latest meeting of the Fair Fees Forum, members described the current approach towards landlord licensing as a 'post code...

A proposed amendment to the government's Housing and Planning Bill which suggests landlords are required to make homes 'fit for human...

Large letting agents found to be flouting the incoming ban on letting agent fees should receive fines up to £30,000 to...

Research by the National Approved Letting Scheme (NALS) has identified that some 93% of local authorities have failed to issue a...

A group of letting agencies in Yorkshire have proposed to the government a radical alternative to the proposed fees ban -...

A string of corporate letting agencies plus ARLA Propertymark have again called on the government to reconsider its proposed ban on agents’...

Campaign group Generation Rent has provided material to The Guardian newspaper suggesting that a typical two-adult household is being charged letting agents’...

The proportion of landlords who use a letting agent to help manage their property has spiked since the end of last...

Online lettings agency Upad claims 20 per cent of landlords are set to increase their rents to their tenants thanks to...

A Build To Rent operator with properties in London and Glasgow is scrapping tenants’ deposits from the middle of next month,...

Only just over a week remains before the end of the formal consultation on the government’s proposal to ban letting fees...

Hunters says its franchise agents and offices may suffer less than other firms thanks to their sales operations.   Addressing the Hunters Group...

Tenant referencing company Rent4sure has set up a new team to support agents in the light of the expected ban on...

Chelsea estate agency Russell Simpson has appointed a new senior lettings director in a bid to boost the firm’s rental offering.  Having...

The Liberal Democrats want a raft of additional controls on the private rented sector aimed at addressing what it describes as...

The Labour Party has published its full manifesto for the upcoming General Election on June 8.  Titled 'For the many not the...

The UK arm of Sotheby's International Realty has announced that it has removed all letting agent fees while the government consults...

Landlords are increasingly looking to reduce the fees they pay to letting agents due to industry tax changes and increasing management...

A study of over 3,000 tenants has found that an increasing number of renters are 'very happy' with their living situation. LSL...

A two-branch letting agent is offering landlords 0% management fees for six months in preparation for the proposed ban on agent...

Agencies are responding to the latest criticism of their fees on tenants, levied by the pressure group Generation Rent.    The group -...

Airbnb has changed details on its website following a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority.   The short-let platform’s website, seen on December...

The campaign group Acorn, which has in the past named individual letting agencies that it claims are charging unfairly high fees,...

The founder of a PropTech start up called No Agent says despite his firm’s name he does not want to see...

A survey conducted for a property sales platform shows a very substantial majority of the public against any agents' fees being...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it has so far received over 700 detailed responses to its consultation on the...

The Fair Fees Forum, originally established before the proposal to ban letting agents’ fees imposed on tenants in England, now says...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says the costs of tenant referencing must be exempt from the government’s proposed ban on...

Labour says there would be a ‘consumer rights revolution’ for the private rental sector if the party won the June 8...

A local authority consultation exercise on a licensing system for local landlords has been postponed until June 12, four days after...

The National Approved Lettings Scheme has called for the London Mayor’s new rogue agents’ database to be extended to include those...

Hybrid agency Purplebricks has given details of a mystery shopping exercise it has undertaken across over 280 letting agencies throughout the...

The anti-letting agency fee pressure group Generation Rent is urging its supporters to participate in the government formal consultation over agents’...

Twenty agency groups have backed a call by the Association of Residential Letting Agents urging the government to extend or scrap its...

Letting agents have reporting an average of four landlords per branch selling up and quitting the buy to let sector in...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is calling on the government to either extend the consultation period for the proposed ban...

A trade body has suggested that the General Election on June 8 may lead to a government with new priorities, meaning...

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

The Department of Communities and Local Government is scrapping a series of workshops for letting agents to discuss the proposed ban...

Hybrid agency Purplebricks has entered the debate over the £835.38p reportedly charged by a branch of Winkworth when it changed the...

The ban on letting agents in England imposing fees on tenants is unlikely to be implemented before late next year according...

The Guardian has accused a branch of Winkworth letting agency in south London of “grubby overcharging” for allegedly asking a new...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has told its agent members that they should urgently lobby their Members of Parliament to...

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

Who are you? Richard Price What does it say on your business card? We don't have our roles on our business cards. I...

The Liberal Democrats appear to be taking what they see as the credit for the government’s commitment to ban letting agents’...

ARLA Propertymark says it will launch a campaign against the government’s proposed ban on letting agents’ fees levied on tenants “in...

The government’s formal consultation on its proposed ban for fees levied on tenants by agents has been greeted with derision and...

The government has finally unveiled its formal consultation process on the proposal to ban letting agents levying fees on tenants in...

The government has issued a new statement saying unequivocally that letting agents’ fees on tenants will be banned in England -...

Controversial Labour MP Stella Creasy has presented her annual awards to estate and letting agents in her London constituency of Walthamstow...

As the new restrictions on landlords’ mortgage interest tax relief come into effect this week, ARLA Propertymark has restated its objections...

Agency software company Eurolink says there are ’10 easy ways for letting agents to grow their businesses’ - with most of...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is keeping up its campaign against a ban on agents’ fees in England by showing...

The Residential Landlords’ Association is calling on letting agents in the organisation to contribute to their latest research.    “As part of our...

There are 4,000 jobs at risk if an outright ban comes into force on letting agents’ fees according to new research...

The Property Ombudsman and the Chartered Trading Standards Institute have announced a second phase of their campaign to tackle letting agents...

A leading insurance company says letting agents and tenants alike will suffer if the government’s proposed ban on fees levied on...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell has confirmed that consultation on the government’s proposed ban on letting agency fees levied on tenants in...

The Competition and Markets Authority says there is no time to undertake a review into the lettings market and the role of...

The substantial majority of landlords who now use letting agents will continue to do so even if they see their premiums...

A survey of students in Birmingham has discovered that over 44 per cent of respondents claim to have paid what the...

ARLA Propertymark and the Residential Landlords Association have written to the Welsh Government seeking a meeting to discuss a possible ban...

The Lettings Hub is broadening its offer to agents by launching a utility management service on top of its traditional referencing...

There was a sigh of relief amongst the lettings industry that yesterday's Budget introduced no new property taxes - but concern...

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...

As the industry awaits the delivery of today's Spring Budget, the National Approved Letting Scheme (NALS) has called on the government...

Letting Agent Today’s Conor Shilling was in the audience of The Great Buy To Let Debate - always one of the...

L&G, one of the biggest firms involved in Britain’s Built To Rent sector, has named the agency it is appointing to...

Professional independent inventories can save money for landlords at a time when tax changes threaten to make private letting for expensive...

1) Who are you? Kevin Ward – Director and founder of Agentlocator.co.uk 2) For those not familiar with Agent Locator, can you explain...

A fraudster has been jailed after being convicted on nine counts of fraud, theft and forgery relating to property firms which...

Shelter - the campaigning charity many feel has had influence on government policies for the lettings sector - has now turned around and...

The government’s Housing White Paper may have made many broad pledges aimed at the private rental sector, but it still remains...

Wembley Park in north London is to host Britain’s largest Build To Rent scheme yet after Quintain revealed a programme for...

The government has set out 29 key points in its Housing White Paper.   Introducing in the Commons this afternoon, Communities Secretery Sajid...

Government leaks to the Observer newspaper suggest that the Housing White Paper will show a huge policy shift towards renting - and may...

Annoying isn’t it. You take on a stunning property, agree a compelling asking price and your Vendor is desperate to get the...

Why not drive one of the most powerful, beautiful, and sensational supercars available on the planet today, and at a price...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has repeated it call for the government to ban up-front letting agent fees at the...

Tenant referencing and insurance firm FCC Paragon says its own referencing sector, as well as independent letting agents and smaller corporate...

Now Northern Ireland appears to be in the frame for substantial changes to the private rental sector according to the Association...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell says recent changes to buy to let mortgage interest relief and stamp duty will only affect a...

The government says the formal consultation on the proposed introduction of a ban on letting agent fees levied on tenants in...

The Fair Fees Forum, a platform for letting agencies and trade bodies set up by the National Approved Lettings Scheme, has...

A branch of Foxtons has been fined £2,500 for failing to properly describe a fee charged to tenants.    The agency was caught...

Lettings agents have been issued fines totalling £14,100 by a local authority for failing to comply with consumer rights laws.   Officers from...

A Tory MP has taken to the internet to warn against what he calls the “unintended consequences” of a ban on...

Letting agents’ fees levied on tenants - already banned in Scotland and now likely to be banned in England according to...

This is the final Letting Agent Today until Tuesday January 3 2017, so everyone at Angels Media sends all good wishes for...

Vicky Spratt - whose blogging to highlight the various fees charged to tenants by letting agents triggered a campaign to get...

The National Approved Lettings Scheme says it wants the Competition and Markets Authority to step into the debate over lettings fees A...

Some 80 per cent of letting agents say they expect rents to rise next year.   In the latest market survey by the...

A new survey suggests that a letting agent saves a landlord an estimated £1,910 a year.   The result of an investigation into 500...

Online agency Upad claims it has seen a 44 per cent annual growth in repeat business for its digital lettings service,...

The head of a major lettings agency in Brighton says fees can work out to be “disproportionately high for tenants” but...

Letting agencies and landlords must club together to campaign for a cap on agents' fees charged to tenants, rather than an...

The number of buy to let transactions across England and Wales has fallen 8.2 per cent in one month and is down an...

A campaign group has been refocussed with the objective of making the government honour its Autumn Statement pledge to ban letting...

Members of the Association of Residential Letting Agents predict a fall in the number of homes being available to let next...

Agency chain Spicerhaart is warning that tenants could pay up to three times as much as they currently do, if tenant...

The Northern Powerhouse agenda, increased infrastructure investment announced in the Autumn Statement and low entry prices make the north of England...

A digital property management platform that automates the rental process including marketing, bookings, reference checks, maintenance and compliance, claims it is now...

Landlord confidence has returned despite government tax changes to the private rental sector - although research for the survey that produced...

An online petition is being staged to voice opposition against the government's proposed ban on letting agents' fees levied on tenants...

Rents will "unpreventably rise" thanks to the government's proposed ban on letting agency fees levied on tenants and because of its...

City investment consultancy Jefferies has calculated the impact on landlords if the country’s second largest agency group - LSL Property Services...

The managing director of one of the most prominent letting agencies in Edinburgh and Glasgow - where agents’ fees on tenants...

The NALS ‘Fair Fees Forum’ - set up before last week’s announcement on the banning of letting agency fees levied on tenants...

A letting agency says the scale of confusion over letting agents’ fees is such that some tenants actually believe the deposit...

The government’s proposed ban on letting agency fees levied on tenants - and the possibility that they may instead fall on...

Online estate agent Urban.co.uk says it has created a league table of fees that tenants are charged by agencies in different locations...

In the week that the government announced a ban on letting agents levying fees on tenants, one multi-office estate agency has...

Many agencies have spoken out in dismay at the announcement by government that letting agency fees on tenants would be banned...

Lettings guru David Lawrenson has given an unusual perspective on the government’s commitment to ban letting agents’ fees on tenants in...

No decision yet appears to have been taken on the fate of the Renters’ Rights Bill - which had as a...

  Industry groups have warned that the government’s ban on letting agency fees levied on tenants in England will backfire, with most...

Two charities that have been at the forefront of campaigns to have a ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants have...

Phillip Hammond has delivered his first Autumn Statement, tackling amongst other things, what he called “the housing challenge.” The speech made no...

The government will today announce that it is banning letting agents’ fees levied on tenants - meaning the fees will instead...

The controversial Renters’ Rights Bill, which wants to sharply reduce the ability of letting agents to levy charges on tenants and...

Fees charged by letting agents will be discussed in the House of Lords tomorrow as the Renters’ Rights Bill reaches its...

The boss of easyProperty says he wants the Associational of Residential Letting Agents to back an initiative for so-called ‘referencing passports’...

The NALS Fair Fee forum - an initiative launched last month - has now set up a working group to consider,...

The Renters’ Rights Bill - which includes provisions scrapping agents’ fees for tenants, mandatory registration of landlords and limiting the size of...