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The controversial tenants union Acorn has set up a web page where disgruntled renters can lodge complaints about letting agents. In the...

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

Here’s a date which the private rental sector may want to make a note of…even if it is with some nervousness. The...

A new online rental platform claims that landlords could save enough to afford an additional holiday this year if they signed...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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 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...

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,...

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...

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

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 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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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’...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 Property Ombudsman scheme and the Chartered Trading Standards Institute have joined forces to tackle lettings agents that are breaking the...

The National Approved Letting Scheme has stepped into the heated debate about letting agents’ charges by launching what it calls a...

Campaign group Generation Rent has returned to attacking mode with an article criticising letting agents’ fees to tenants and effectively urging...

The National Approved Letting Scheme says the most recent call to ban letting agent fees - in a demand made by...

Individuals must find an average of £1,175 to move into a privately rented apartment or house across the UK - or £2,043...

EasyRoommate, a room-sharing website, says it is backing the Renters’ Rights Bill currently going through parliament and aiming to restrict letting...

A report from Citizens Advice claims to show that a city’s letting agents charge a complex array of fees - with...

easyProperty says it’s backing a Labour MP’s bid to cap letting agents‘ fees on tenants “in order to provide a more...

A Labour MP has presented Parliament with a petition urging that letting agents’ fees should be capped. There were a modest 1,500...

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

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...

A survey has revealed that 59 per cent of London landlords support forcing letting agents to publish a breakdown of what...

A letting agency has pledged to make its fees information clearer on its Rightmove listings. The Advertising Standards Authority had received a...

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an ad from high-end letting agency Hamptons International because of an apparent lack of clarity...

The Liberal Democrats are following in the footsteps of some Green and Labour politicians in calling for a ban on letting...

The charity Shelter has renewed its campaign to expose letting agencies which allegedly do not reveal their fees in line with...

A community group that has in the past staged protests at letting agents’ offices in Bristol has now organised a petition...

A local agency in Essex is accusing an unspecified number of rival firms in the area of not publicising their fees...

A petition opposing lettings agents’ fees in England and Wales has now gathered over 245,000 signatures. Vicky Spratt, features editor on the...

A survey from tenant servicing company Tenants Plus claims that letting agents’ fees are a major problem for approaching a third...

One of the country’s top lettings experts says last year’s law changes concerning the increased transparency of agents’ fees have “missed...

The Guardian newspaper has taken a perhaps-predictable swipe at letting agents and property portals for the way in which they display...

Labour’s candidate for the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has published his manifesto which returns to the party’s recent themes of...

The London legal firm Leigh Day - which last week announced it was leading a legal action on behalf of 55...

Campaigning charity Shelter has returned to the warpath against letting agents’ fees. This time the focus is on Wales, where the charity...

A compliance expert has taken the Advertising Standards Authority to task over its guidance to letting agents on the advertising of...

Rent Smart Wales, the new registration and licensing system in Wales, launches on Monday - and it represents a major change...

The body which issues codes of advertising has issued new guidance for letting agents on how to publicise rental fees in...

A tenants’ campaign group is planning a series of protests this coming weekend outside offices of lettings agencies which allegedly do...

A survey of one Home Counties area shows that out of about 40 letting agents some 24 appear not to be...

A fascinating insight into claims being made against Foxtons by a legal firm acting on behalf of landlords has been posted online. In...

A Bill now making its way through the Welsh Assembly may “radically alter the way tenancy contracts are written” - but...

A “lettings agency with a conscience” that wants to put £30,000 into the local community over the next two years has...

A buying agent who find properties for affluent overseas purchasers says they are often surprised by letting agents charging them what...

Prominent residential property and tenant law expert Tessa Shepperson says a class action against Foxtons alleging unfair charges to landlords will...

Nominations for Labour’s deputy leadership race close at midday today with Stella Creasy, an MP who has campaigned fiecely against letting...

Prominent landlord Liz Hodgkinson has hit out at the allegedly-high fees of letting agents who offer full management services, claiming their...

A spokesman for the mortgage firm Ocean Finance has made a startlingly outspoken attack on the private rental sector, accusing letting...