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A lettings agency boss who says she is actually in favour of the agents’ fees ban nonetheless admits there will be...

English letting agencies could lose over £60,000 each in the next two years alone as a result of the Tenant Fees...

ARLA says it can help agents understand the intricacies of the Tenants Fees Ban, which completed its third reading in the...

Early bird tickets for this year’s ARLA Propertymark Conference, happening just days before the likely introduction of the ban on tenant...

Online letting agency MakeUrMove has launched a new subscription model which it claims will ”ready landlords for the incoming tenant fee...

The government has made the controversial claim that the ban on the levying of fees on tenants will not produce “significant...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has revealed that it will shortly choose which local authority will be the...

Two PropTech suppliers are claiming their new products will help lettings agents in the future, especially in the light of the...

The number of tenants saying they are using letting agents to find a place to live has increased 12 per cent...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says agents who accept that the lettings fee ban is coming and who plan positively for its...

The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...

An analysis of 30,000 tenancies by PropTech firm Goodlord suggests that the upcoming ban on tenants’ fees could impact most on...

Good tenant referencing should include awareness of would-be renters’ social media history according to RentalStep - but it says more thorough...

A PropTech provider of inventory services says its new tool will significantly cut pre-tenancy admin for letting agents and landlords. No Letting...

November 5 is the next key date for the passage of the Tenants’ Fees Bill, the measure which is likely to...

A lettings agent says the fees ban expected to be introduced next year may end up indirectly helping to save the...

The head of an online lettings agency says tenants are now left confused by what she calls “ill thought-out policy changes”...

The Tenant Fees Bill is back in Parliament this week when it goes for its Second Reading in the House of...

Belvoir says a surge in business for its Assisted Acquisition Programme is because of the challenging market and upcoming fees ban...

MPs have proposed a series of amendments to the Tenant Fees Bill as part of its Report Stage and Third Reading...

The House of Commons has published a briefing paper on tenancy deposit schemes ahead of the Report Stage of the Tenant...

An agency claims that the acquisition of a competitor’s lettings department has allowed it to save two companies, avoid cutbacks and...

Propertymark has launched a new Client Money Protection system, Money Shield, with a support statement from much of the lettings sector...

Two independent agencies have joined forces in a bid to minimise damage caused by next year’s ban on fees levied on...

LetsBid, a digital online auction service for lettings and sales, has extended its pre-screening service for agents with a new agreement...

Connells Group says a growing number of small-scale landlords are likely to quit because of the tax and regulation red tape...

An insurer is launching a new referral scheme for letting agents to market to landlords and tenants as a way of...

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

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

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...

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 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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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 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...

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

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

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

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 once again confirmed that the ban on lettings’ agents fees levied on tenants in England will...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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’...

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

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...

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...

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 -...

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

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 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...

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...

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 -...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

  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...

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks says the government should not back a provision in the Renters' Rights Bill which would...