Archive

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...