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After numerous stories of councils and letting agencies at each others’ throats over To Let boards, Trading Standards and other controversies,...

A council is set to renew its war on To Let boards. In summer 2018, Leciester council brought into effect a new...

A business news website is reporting that an agency has been ordered to pay £1,550 for displaying a board illegally. Charles Lear...

The letting market experienced a traditional seasonal decline in August, according to the latest analysis from Agency Express. Its Property Activity Index...

A lettings agency has voluntarily decided to scrap To Let boards in densely populated areas, because they are unsightly and in...

Another council has been given the go ahead to ban To Let boards in part of a city - with government...

A city council has introduced highly specific guidelines as to the number, size and positioning of To Let boards following apparent...

Newspapers in Kent are reporting that controversial buy to let multi-millionaire Fergus Wilson has evicted four single mothers from his properties...

Letting agents and landlords will have to win planning consent to erect To Let signs in student areas of Leicester from...

There was a decline in both the number of To Let and Let By properties during April, according to the latest...

The government has given the go ahead to what will be one of the UK’s largest selective licensing scheme outside of...

The city council in Nottingham claims it has taken action against no fewer than 561 unauthorised To Let boards under powers...

Letting agency Saxons has been fined more than £3,000 after pleading guilty to the offence of displaying an unauthorised To Let...

Letting and estate agencies in Brighton and Hove have agreed to voluntary restrictions on the erection of To Let and For...

A local authority has clamped down on what it describes as illegal advertising boards, fining agencies thousands of pounds in the...

The controversial landlord who made provocative remarks about some tenants leaving ‘curry smells’ in his properties is now complaining to the...

Manchester council is considering a city-wide ban on letting agents’ To Let boards.   The local authority says the plethora of boards in some...

Four letting agencies and a number of local councillors in York appear to have reached a voluntary agreement to reduce the...

A consultation on whether to introduce stronger rules to control the number of 'to let' boards in Durham has just started.    The...

Brighton and Hove council has failed in its bid to win government backing to ban To Let boards. The council sought government...

Earlier this month we reported on Belfast council’s decision to open a public consultation on whether To Let boards should be...

Another local authority is considering a ban to reduce the impact - or possibly ban outright - agents' To Let boards.  Residents...

The government is considering a ban on the display of To Let boards in parts of Leicester following a council bid...

Letting agents and landlords are being reminded to comply with an obligation to remove ‘to let’ signs in certain parts of...

A Birmingham MP is to put a Bill to the House of Commons after the summer in his bid to stop...

A Loughborough lettings agency has been accused of “obscene” advertising because of the wording used on To Let boards.  Councillor Ted Parton...

A bid to force letting agents to remove To Let boards from properties in areas of a city with high numbers...

Hundreds of To Let boards have been taken down in a suburb of south Liverpool as a result of a voluntary...

Letting agents in two areas of Cardiff with large proportions of privately rented property will have to apply for consent to...

Reading Council in Berkshire has confirmed that a voluntary ban on letting agents boards in part of the town will be...