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Two lettings agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman redress scheme.   As we reported when the story broke yesterday afternoon, one...

Two lettings agencies have this afternoon been expelled from The Property Ombudsman redress scheme. In one case, TPO expelled Lettings Solutions Ltd...

Agents and landlords are being warned by a property management agency to prepare for the next round of energy-efficiency regulation changes...

A buy to let expert says there should be stronger enforcement and streamlining of legislation in the private rental sector.   In a...

The Property Ombudsman and the Chartered Trading Standards Institute have announced a second phase of their campaign to tackle letting agents...

As the industry awaits the delivery of today's Spring Budget, the National Approved Letting Scheme (NALS) has called on the government...

A convicted Surrey letting agent who used his clients’ money to cover his business debts has been ordered to pay £25,000...

Conservative MP Oliver Colvile is calling for urgent action following a recent spate of fraud involving rogue letting agents.   When approached by...

A fraudster has been jailed after being convicted on nine counts of fraud, theft and forgery relating to property firms which...

A campaigning lettings agent is demanding action over what he suggests is a tenancy deposit system that is in need of...

A branch of Foxtons has been fined £2,500 for failing to properly describe a fee charged to tenants.    The agency was caught...

Lettings agents have been issued fines totalling £14,100 by a local authority for failing to comply with consumer rights laws.   Officers from...

Citizens Advice says some 39 per cent of people living with their children in rented homes have a tenancy of six months...

Councils have been told to up their game to protect tenants from a minority of landlords providing sub-standard accommodation.   The call, being...

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

Three men have received prison sentences of up to 28 months after a nationwide lettings scam was unearthed by trading standards...

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

A letting agent who stole more than £400,000 from clients has had her sentence appeal dismissed by judges. Amy Williams, who part-owned Williams...

A letting agency has been removed from a Scottish council’s approved list after failing to conform with rules protecting the deposits...

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

The Local Government Association, representing 370 councils across England and Wales, is calling on the public to speak out against rogue...

The team leader of the National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team is amongst a bevy of experts on a panel at...

A London council has prosecuted a letting agency that was ’ghost listing’ on Zoopla flats that were not in fact available...

A lettings agency has been fined over £11,000 for alleged breaches of regulations in advertising an unlicenced HMO that was later...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has revealed what it calls “worryingly low levels of enforcement of rented housing regulations” by local authorities. Using...

Let Belle Vue, a lettings and property management agency in Darlington, has been fined £3,000 for not being in an official...

A former letting agent has pleaded guilty of nine offences of fraud involving the retention of deposits and rents belonging to...

A former Belvoir letting agent has been sentenced to two years and nine months in prison after admitting fraud against both...

Who are you? I’m the Head of Redress at the Property Redress Scheme. I previously worked for Legal & General PLC dealing...

The trading standards division of a London council claims it has checked on all 202 letting agencies in its borough to...

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

The Trading Standards Service has issued a warning to agents, landlords and consumers after independent tests on CO carbon monoxide alarms...

Unitary local authorities where trading standards and environmental health teams work to the same objectives are more successful at clamping down...

Peter Savage is to become the new president of the Association of Residential Lettings Agents, with an emphasis on trying to...

An organisation that describes itself as “an independent group of private renters” says it has identified 21 letting agents out of...

Yesterday we heard about the letter from the CMA warning agents about anti-competitive behaviour. Today, in a scoop for Estate Agent...

Earlier this week we passed the official deadline for letting agents to fully publicise their fees as well as providing evidence of which...