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Effective enforcement is crucial to stamp out rogue lettings agents and protect consumers says safeagent. In the latest edition of its Effective...

Three lettings agents who kept tenants’ rent instead of passing it to the landlords have been ordered to pay almost £100,000...

One of the highest profile figures in the rental sector says rogue letting agents should be named and shamed as a...

Three lettings agencies have been expelled from TPO - in each case the agency failed to honour a payment as instructed...

The Property Ombudsman has expelled three lettings agencies from its scheme because of unpaid awards to landlord clients. The first is Kingsman...

London Trading Standards has made the startling claim that 46 per cent of almost 2,000 agents it has surveyed are falling...

Seven agencies have been expelled from membership of The Property Ombudsman after failing to pay compensation awards made by TPO. All are...

A rental campaigner claims the amount of money stolen this year by crooked lettings agents and landlords has topped the £1.3m...

Three letting agents who failed to return tenants’ deposits or pass on rent payments to landlords have been convicted of fraud...

The Property Ombudsman scheme has launched the third and latest phase of its national campaign with the Chartered Trading Standards Institute...