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Two lettings agencies have been vandalised by activists who defied the Coronavirus lockdown to damage property. Local media reports in Cheltenham say...

The controversial Acorn group of anti-letting agent activists has been accused of intimidation of female staff during a protest outside and...

A campaign group that has held protests outside letting agents’ branches and has been fiercely critical of fees, says it’s seen a...

A solicitor has urged the government not to reform or scrap Section 21 eviction powers simply on the basis of protests...

A senior Labour politician in Sheffield and the campaign group Acorn have both expressed support for a selective licensing scheme to...

Landlords in a part of Teesside are to be allowed to operate a “collaborative” licensing scheme after a council backed down...

An activists’s group which in the past has held protests immediately outside letting agents’ offices is appealing for £10,000 to develop...

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

Letting Agent Today can reveal that the agency at the centre of the scandal over alleged charges for viewings has been...

A pressure group that in the past has protested outside letting agency branches has staged more direct action - this time against...

The head of a lettings agency has refused to sign a pledge document put to him by a protest group - and...

Liquidators Grant Thornton says funds found in the accounts of a Guernsey lettings agent are likely to be sufficient to pay...

Bristol council is resuscitating a so-called ‘rental standard’ which it expects local letting agents to meet. Back in January 2016 Letting Agent...

Protests planned by tenants’ groups for many Santander bank branches over the past weekend turned instead into celebrations after the institution...

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

The campaign group ACORN, which has in the past organised protests outside letting agency offices, is up in arms that a...

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

A campaign group which last year held protests outside letting agents’ offices in Bristol is claiming victory in persuading the city’s...

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

The Green Party candidate for London Mayor says protests outside the MIPIM property conference have her backing as they highlight that...

A so-called 'ethical lettings charter' established by a group that has campaigned against some letting agencies, is set to be adopted...

Tenants on a social housing estate in north east London are to be asked to pay a means-tested rent - thought...

A campaign group protesting against the government’s Budget proposal to limit the tax breaks for buy to let investors has been...

A group of renters who have formed the Acorn group in Bristol - which has already held protests against letting agents...

While much of the lettings industry protests against Labour proposals for rent controls and three year tenancies, an influential pressure group...