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24 October 2019
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The head of an online lettings agency says tenants are now left confused by what she calls “ill thought-out policy changes”...
10 October 2018
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Here’s a date which the private rental sector may want to make a note of…even if it is with some nervousness. The...
28 September 2018
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A new online rental platform claims that landlords could save enough to afford an additional holiday this year if they signed...
02 August 2018
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Foxtons is warning that the private rental sector - traditionally a strong earner for the company even in times of challenging...
05 April 2018
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A leading figure in the PropTech sector is urging letting agents to use the 2019 lettings fee ban as an opportunity...
09 March 2018
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The government has pledged to begin a review of the selective licensing across the private rental sector once MPs return from...
05 March 2018
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The Welsh Government’s housing minister has tweeted that the results of a formal consultation process on a ban on agents’ fees...
01 March 2018
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A new survey claims that 42 per cent of private sector tenants are unhappy with paying letting agents’ fees, despite the...
16 February 2018
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The man behind a leading lettings industry PropTech company says the new Code of Conduct to clean up the rental sector...
05 February 2018
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The trend towards reducing or eliminating deposits at the same time as edging towards a ban on letting agents’ fees on...
01 February 2018
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The Residential Landlords’ Association has released details of the evidence it put to the Communities and Local Government Select Committee which...
01 February 2018
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The select committee monitoring the Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government will continue its deliberations today on the government’s ban...
29 January 2018
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An Essex lettings agent has explained why he has set up an online petition calling for a reversal of the government’s...
12 January 2018
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This week’s news that the government will not be implementing the ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants in England until...
12 January 2018
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The government has explained why the ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants will not be implemented until spring 2019 -...
11 January 2018
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The government has told NALS that implementation of the ban on letting agents’ fees levied on tenants will not take place...
10 January 2018
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The government has started tweeting that it is to ban letting agents’ fees in England - but still isn’t revealing when...
04 January 2018
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Government proposals to ban letting agent fees levied on tenants next year are unlikely to make renting cheaper as new research...
28 December 2017
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The Welsh Government has confirmed that the country will ban letting agents’ fees levied on tenants - the same ban still...
06 December 2017
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Some 30 per cent of landlords may be discouraged from using a letting agent if landlord fees increase as a result...
30 November 2017
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After the series of anti-buy to let measures contained in recent Budgets, it is perhaps unsurprising that a survey of landlords...
21 November 2017
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents has taken the unusual step of making a fact sheet available to all agents, not...
06 November 2017
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Campaigning lettings agency chief Ajay Jagota says he is unconvinced by government plans to make it a criminal offence for letting...
03 November 2017
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The controversial consultation period undertaken by the government in support of its proposed ban on letting agents’ fees levied on tenants...
02 November 2017
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The draft Bill to ban letting agents’ fees levied on tenants has been published - it’s to be called the Tenants’...
01 November 2017
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Build To Rent developer Be says it is moving to a no-fees model for its development at Hayes in west London....
24 October 2017
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Pressure from the consumer lobby is building for the introduction of a ban on letting agents’ fees levied on tenants -...
29 September 2017
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Letting agents are being warned that they can minimise the impact of the fees ban levied on tenants by being proactive...
27 September 2017
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Trading Standards says representatives from 15 departments will today visit lettings and property management firms across London in a bid to...
26 September 2017
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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...
20 September 2017
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Housing minister Alok Sharma has once again confirmed that the ban on lettings’ agents fees levied on tenants in England will...
15 September 2017
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A London council has won its appeal against Foxtons using the term “administration fees” in its lettings charges. Back in 2015 Camden...
15 September 2017
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Letting agents across the UK must prepare now for a ban on fees charged to tenants says a PropTech company -...
13 September 2017
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The majority of MPs speaking at a House of Commons debate yesterday acknowledged they are wary of the 'unintended consequences' of...
07 September 2017
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The majority of landlords still believe that a cap on letting agent fees will be more effective than an outright ban,...
07 September 2017
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An attempt by a Labour council to encourage letting agencies to get ahead of the curve and scrap fees for tenants...
31 August 2017
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The Welsh Government’s communities and children secretary, Carl Sargeant, is calling on tenants to have their say on proposals to ban...
22 August 2017
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The results of a survey of 2,000 people conducted by an online letting agency appear to make sombre reading for letting...
10 August 2017
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A former tenant is the subject of a major investigation by a London newspaper after she claimed to have spent eight...
09 August 2017
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The government has been urged by a London council to act now to end letting fees for private renters. Hackney council says...
31 July 2017
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The number of letting agents reporting rent rises over the past month is the highest for over a year according to...
28 July 2017
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The Welsh Government is now kicking off a similar consultation process to that conducted by the Department for Communities and Local...
21 July 2017
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Belvoir, which has over 300 high street offices, has acquired Brook Financial Services Ltd, which trades as Mortgage Advice Bureau, in...
13 July 2017
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The government has revealed that it has received over 4,700 responses to its official consultation over the proposed ban on letting...
12 July 2017
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A survey of letting and estate agencies suggest around half broadly back the changes to the private rental sector outlined in...
11 July 2017
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The government’s proposal to limit tenancy deposits to one month of rent and reservation fees to one week of rent will...
10 July 2017
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The Prime Minister has confirmed that her minority Conservative government will press ahead with the ban on letting agents’ fees levied...
06 July 2017
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A company claims to have a package of services which would help letting agents overcome the widely-anticipated ban on fees being...
06 July 2017
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An alternative to traditional deposits, already tested in the German rental market, is now being introduced into the UK - and...
28 June 2017
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The consumer group Citizens Advice says it welcomes the Queen’s Speech confirmation of the upcoming ban on letting agents’ fees levied...
23 June 2017
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ARLA has led a call by many letting agents on hearing the Queen’s Speech - what was the point of a...
22 June 2017
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A group of letting agencies in Yorkshire have proposed to the government a radical alternative to the proposed fees ban -...
05 June 2017
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A string of corporate letting agencies plus ARLA Propertymark have again called on the government to reconsider its proposed ban on agents’...
02 June 2017
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Campaign group Generation Rent has provided material to The Guardian newspaper suggesting that a typical two-adult household is being charged letting agents’...
02 June 2017
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Online lettings agency Upad claims 20 per cent of landlords are set to increase their rents to their tenants thanks to...
30 May 2017
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A Build To Rent operator with properties in London and Glasgow is scrapping tenants’ deposits from the middle of next month,...
26 May 2017
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Hunters says its franchise agents and offices may suffer less than other firms thanks to their sales operations. Addressing the Hunters Group...
22 May 2017
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Tenant referencing company Rent4sure has set up a new team to support agents in the light of the expected ban on...
22 May 2017
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Chelsea estate agency Russell Simpson has appointed a new senior lettings director in a bid to boost the firm’s rental offering. Having...
19 May 2017
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Agencies are responding to the latest criticism of their fees on tenants, levied by the pressure group Generation Rent. The group -...
11 May 2017
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The campaign group Acorn, which has in the past named individual letting agencies that it claims are charging unfairly high fees,...
09 May 2017
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A survey conducted for a property sales platform shows a very substantial majority of the public against any agents' fees being...
05 May 2017
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it has so far received over 700 detailed responses to its consultation on the...
04 May 2017
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The Fair Fees Forum, originally established before the proposal to ban letting agents’ fees imposed on tenants in England, now says...
04 May 2017
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents says the costs of tenant referencing must be exempt from the government’s proposed ban on...
03 May 2017
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Labour says there would be a ‘consumer rights revolution’ for the private rental sector if the party won the June 8...
02 May 2017
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Hybrid agency Purplebricks has given details of a mystery shopping exercise it has undertaken across over 280 letting agencies throughout the...
27 April 2017
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The anti-letting agency fee pressure group Generation Rent is urging its supporters to participate in the government formal consultation over agents’...
27 April 2017
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Twenty agency groups have backed a call by the Association of Residential Letting Agents urging the government to extend or scrap its...
26 April 2017
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents is calling on the government to either extend the consultation period for the proposed ban...
25 April 2017
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The Department of Communities and Local Government is scrapping a series of workshops for letting agents to discuss the proposed ban...
20 April 2017
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Hybrid agency Purplebricks has entered the debate over the £835.38p reportedly charged by a branch of Winkworth when it changed the...
20 April 2017
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The ban on letting agents in England imposing fees on tenants is unlikely to be implemented before late next year according...
19 April 2017
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The Guardian has accused a branch of Winkworth letting agency in south London of “grubby overcharging” for allegedly asking a new...
18 April 2017
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents has told its agent members that they should urgently lobby their Members of Parliament to...
18 April 2017
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The Liberal Democrats appear to be taking what they see as the credit for the government’s commitment to ban letting agents’...
13 April 2017
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The government has issued a new statement saying unequivocally that letting agents’ fees on tenants will be banned in England -...
07 April 2017
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents is keeping up its campaign against a ban on agents’ fees in England by showing...
29 March 2017
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The Residential Landlords’ Association is calling on letting agents in the organisation to contribute to their latest research. “As part of our...
29 March 2017
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The Property Ombudsman and the Chartered Trading Standards Institute have announced a second phase of their campaign to tackle letting agents...
28 March 2017
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A leading insurance company says letting agents and tenants alike will suffer if the government’s proposed ban on fees levied on...
28 March 2017
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Housing minister Gavin Barwell has confirmed that consultation on the government’s proposed ban on letting agency fees levied on tenants in...
23 March 2017
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The Competition and Markets Authority says there is no time to undertake a review into the lettings market and the role of...
21 March 2017
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The substantial majority of landlords who now use letting agents will continue to do so even if they see their premiums...
21 March 2017
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A survey of students in Birmingham has discovered that over 44 per cent of respondents claim to have paid what the...
21 March 2017
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ARLA Propertymark and the Residential Landlords Association have written to the Welsh Government seeking a meeting to discuss a possible ban...
20 March 2017
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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...
08 March 2017
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Professional independent inventories can save money for landlords at a time when tax changes threaten to make private letting for expensive...
22 February 2017
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The government has set out 29 key points in its Housing White Paper. Introducing in the Commons this afternoon, Communities Secretery Sajid...
07 February 2017
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Government leaks to the Observer newspaper suggest that the Housing White Paper will show a huge policy shift towards renting - and may...
06 February 2017
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents has repeated it call for the government to ban up-front letting agent fees at the...
01 February 2017
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Now Northern Ireland appears to be in the frame for substantial changes to the private rental sector according to the Association...
26 January 2017
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Housing minister Gavin Barwell says recent changes to buy to let mortgage interest relief and stamp duty will only affect a...
23 January 2017
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The government says the formal consultation on the proposed introduction of a ban on letting agent fees levied on tenants in...
20 January 2017
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The Fair Fees Forum, a platform for letting agencies and trade bodies set up by the National Approved Lettings Scheme, has...
18 January 2017
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A Tory MP has taken to the internet to warn against what he calls the “unintended consequences” of a ban on...
10 January 2017
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Letting agents’ fees levied on tenants - already banned in Scotland and now likely to be banned in England according to...
09 January 2017
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Vicky Spratt - whose blogging to highlight the various fees charged to tenants by letting agents triggered a campaign to get...
22 December 2016
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The National Approved Lettings Scheme says it wants the Competition and Markets Authority to step into the debate over lettings fees A...
21 December 2016
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Some 80 per cent of letting agents say they expect rents to rise next year. In the latest market survey by the...
20 December 2016
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Online agency Upad claims it has seen a 44 per cent annual growth in repeat business for its digital lettings service,...
16 December 2016
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The head of a major lettings agency in Brighton says fees can work out to be “disproportionately high for tenants” but...
15 December 2016
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Letting agencies and landlords must club together to campaign for a cap on agents' fees charged to tenants, rather than an...
15 December 2016
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A campaign group has been refocussed with the objective of making the government honour its Autumn Statement pledge to ban letting...
08 December 2016
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Members of the Association of Residential Letting Agents predict a fall in the number of homes being available to let next...
07 December 2016
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Agency chain Spicerhaart is warning that tenants could pay up to three times as much as they currently do, if tenant...
07 December 2016
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The Northern Powerhouse agenda, increased infrastructure investment announced in the Autumn Statement and low entry prices make the north of England...
06 December 2016
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A digital property management platform that automates the rental process including marketing, bookings, reference checks, maintenance and compliance, claims it is now...
05 December 2016
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An online petition is being staged to voice opposition against the government's proposed ban on letting agents' fees levied on tenants...
01 December 2016
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Rents will "unpreventably rise" thanks to the government's proposed ban on letting agency fees levied on tenants and because of its...
01 December 2016
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City investment consultancy Jefferies has calculated the impact on landlords if the country’s second largest agency group - LSL Property Services...
30 November 2016
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The managing director of one of the most prominent letting agencies in Edinburgh and Glasgow - where agents’ fees on tenants...
29 November 2016
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The NALS ‘Fair Fees Forum’ - set up before last week’s announcement on the banning of letting agency fees levied on tenants...
29 November 2016
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A letting agency says the scale of confusion over letting agents’ fees is such that some tenants actually believe the deposit...
29 November 2016
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The government’s proposed ban on letting agency fees levied on tenants - and the possibility that they may instead fall on...
28 November 2016
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In the week that the government announced a ban on letting agents levying fees on tenants, one multi-office estate agency has...
25 November 2016
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Many agencies have spoken out in dismay at the announcement by government that letting agency fees on tenants would be banned...
24 November 2016
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Lettings guru David Lawrenson has given an unusual perspective on the government’s commitment to ban letting agents’ fees on tenants in...
24 November 2016
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No decision yet appears to have been taken on the fate of the Renters’ Rights Bill - which had as a...
24 November 2016
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Two charities that have been at the forefront of campaigns to have a ban on letting agents’ fees on tenants have...
24 November 2016
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Phillip Hammond has delivered his first Autumn Statement, tackling amongst other things, what he called “the housing challenge.” The speech made no...
23 November 2016
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The government will today announce that it is banning letting agents’ fees levied on tenants - meaning the fees will instead...
23 November 2016
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The controversial Renters’ Rights Bill, which wants to sharply reduce the ability of letting agents to levy charges on tenants and...
21 November 2016
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Fees charged by letting agents will be discussed in the House of Lords tomorrow as the Renters’ Rights Bill reaches its...
17 November 2016
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The boss of easyProperty says he wants the Associational of Residential Letting Agents to back an initiative for so-called ‘referencing passports’...
16 November 2016
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The NALS Fair Fee forum - an initiative launched last month - has now set up a working group to consider,...
16 November 2016
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The Property Ombudsman scheme and the Chartered Trading Standards Institute have joined forces to tackle lettings agents that are breaking the...
25 October 2016
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The National Approved Letting Scheme has stepped into the heated debate about letting agents’ charges by launching what it calls a...
18 October 2016
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Campaign group Generation Rent has returned to attacking mode with an article criticising letting agents’ fees to tenants and effectively urging...
24 August 2016
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The National Approved Letting Scheme says the most recent call to ban letting agent fees - in a demand made by...
08 August 2016
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Individuals must find an average of £1,175 to move into a privately rented apartment or house across the UK - or £2,043...
22 July 2016
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EasyRoommate, a room-sharing website, says it is backing the Renters’ Rights Bill currently going through parliament and aiming to restrict letting...
20 July 2016
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A report from Citizens Advice claims to show that a city’s letting agents charge a complex array of fees - with...
12 July 2016
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easyProperty says it’s backing a Labour MP’s bid to cap letting agents‘ fees on tenants “in order to provide a more...
01 July 2016
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A Labour MP has presented Parliament with a petition urging that letting agents’ fees should be capped. There were a modest 1,500...
30 June 2016
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The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks says the government should not back a provision in the Renters' Rights Bill which would...
30 June 2016
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A law firm called CaseHub says it is launching a “once-in-a-generation fight back against extortionate letting agent practices” in the shape of...
27 June 2016
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A survey has revealed that 59 per cent of London landlords support forcing letting agents to publish a breakdown of what...
14 June 2016
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A letting agency has pledged to make its fees information clearer on its Rightmove listings. The Advertising Standards Authority had received a...
11 May 2016
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The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an ad from high-end letting agency Hamptons International because of an apparent lack of clarity...
04 May 2016
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The Liberal Democrats are following in the footsteps of some Green and Labour politicians in calling for a ban on letting...
03 May 2016
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The charity Shelter has renewed its campaign to expose letting agencies which allegedly do not reveal their fees in line with...
22 April 2016
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A community group that has in the past staged protests at letting agents’ offices in Bristol has now organised a petition...
21 April 2016
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A local agency in Essex is accusing an unspecified number of rival firms in the area of not publicising their fees...
19 April 2016
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A petition opposing lettings agents’ fees in England and Wales has now gathered over 245,000 signatures. Vicky Spratt, features editor on the...
18 April 2016
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A survey from tenant servicing company Tenants Plus claims that letting agents’ fees are a major problem for approaching a third...
13 April 2016
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One of the country’s top lettings experts says last year’s law changes concerning the increased transparency of agents’ fees have “missed...
31 March 2016
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The Guardian newspaper has taken a perhaps-predictable swipe at letting agents and property portals for the way in which they display...
29 March 2016
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Labour’s candidate for the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has published his manifesto which returns to the party’s recent themes of...
10 March 2016
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The London legal firm Leigh Day - which last week announced it was leading a legal action on behalf of 55...
29 February 2016
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Campaigning charity Shelter has returned to the warpath against letting agents’ fees. This time the focus is on Wales, where the charity...
12 January 2016
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A compliance expert has taken the Advertising Standards Authority to task over its guidance to letting agents on the advertising of...
01 December 2015
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Rent Smart Wales, the new registration and licensing system in Wales, launches on Monday - and it represents a major change...
20 November 2015
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The body which issues codes of advertising has issued new guidance for letting agents on how to publicise rental fees in...
13 November 2015
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A tenants’ campaign group is planning a series of protests this coming weekend outside offices of lettings agencies which allegedly do...
28 October 2015
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A survey of one Home Counties area shows that out of about 40 letting agents some 24 appear not to be...
27 October 2015
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A fascinating insight into claims being made against Foxtons by a legal firm acting on behalf of landlords has been posted online. In...
27 October 2015
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A Bill now making its way through the Welsh Assembly may “radically alter the way tenancy contracts are written” - but...
22 October 2015
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A “lettings agency with a conscience” that wants to put £30,000 into the local community over the next two years has...
17 September 2015
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A buying agent who find properties for affluent overseas purchasers says they are often surprised by letting agents charging them what...
22 June 2015
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Prominent residential property and tenant law expert Tessa Shepperson says a class action against Foxtons alleging unfair charges to landlords will...
19 June 2015
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Nominations for Labour’s deputy leadership race close at midday today with Stella Creasy, an MP who has campaigned fiecely against letting...
17 June 2015
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Prominent landlord Liz Hodgkinson has hit out at the allegedly-high fees of letting agents who offer full management services, claiming their...