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A clampdown on letting agents who fail to safeguard landlords’ and tenants’ money is now underway.  A statement from the National Trading Standards...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agents Team is appealing to the industry to be eagle-eyed for scams. This follows the...

The UK Association of Lettings Agents is recommending transparency in relation to the disclosure of referral fees to landlord clients. Last month...

One of the government’s approved client money protection schemes claims over 10 lettings agencies a week are closing. Client Money Protect makes the...

Agents have another 12 months to make referral fees more transparent according to an update from the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting...

Propertymark is staging a webinar later this month on the topical subject of referral fees. Last month the National Trading Standards for...

Agents are being warned to prepare now for likely controls on referral fees, following recommendations made to the government by the...

It appears lettings agents may have escaped the recommended demands for referral fees to be made more transparent to customers. A statement...

A newspaper claims multiple councils are opening investigations into agents allegedly defying the tenant fees ban - and at least one...

The clampdown on referral fees, until now concentrated on the sales sector, will extend to letting agents too. James Munro, head of...

An estimated 20 per cent of letting agents have still not signed up for a Client Money Protection scheme, six months...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says it backs a new Trading Standards-led body which will enforce the Fees Ban starting  on...