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Lettings agency Haart says it will return up to £20m in deposits to existing tenants if they sign up to a...

Continued political and economic uncertainty is likely to fuel increased tenant demand in the private rented sector, says Haart.  The company’s latest...

The agency industry has reacted in a broadly downbeat way at the relatively few housing-related proposals that were announced in yesterday’s...

The Haart agency is calling on the government to give the private rental sector a break in the autumn Budget, as...

Lettings agents’ representatives have hit back at an accusation of discrimination made against the industry. A report by Shelter and the National...

Spicerhaart says that with the lettings agency industry under attack there is a danger of some within the sector focussing too...

Spicerhaart has signed up with a deposit-free renting platform to offer landlords and tenants the option of working with a no-deposit system...

A head of a major agency says it is misleading to suggest that tenants are evicted ‘for no reason’. Mark Pilling, the...

Lettings agency Haart says the government should go much further than the legislation it is supporting giving tenants the right to...

Kitemark-style scheme SAFEagent is calling on the government to ensure plans to make Client Money Protection schemes mandatory are not ignored...

Letting agency Saxons has been fined more than £3,000 after pleading guilty to the offence of displaying an unauthorised To Let...

Letting agency Spicerhaart has been fined £2,670 after pleading guilty to operating an unlicensed house in multiple occupation.   A prosecution was brought...

The number of tenants entering the market across the UK has risen by 7.3 per cent on the month - but...

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

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

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

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

Agents and many industry bodies have expressed their disappointment and anger at many provisions of the Housing White Paper produced by...

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

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...

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

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

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

Our latest infographic shows figures of how the majority of deposits are repaid at the end of tenancy and goes into...

Two of the industry’s biggest estate agency groups have selected the same firm to provide their legal services.  Hillyer McKeown has been...

The controversial campaign group ACORN, which has made headlines by protesting outside letting agency offices in Bristol, is launching a new...

An interesting point of view from a young sales negotiator working for Spicerhaart, whose chief executive Paul Smith recently wrote an...