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A ban on so-called bidding wars, which Labour now proposes, would have to include letting agents as well as landlords a...

Expanding agency group My Property Box has completed its 10th acquisition in six years, buying Teesside lettings and property investment specialist...

The long-awaited Third Reading of the controversial Renters Reform Bill will not happen this week according to the Leader of the...

A large multi-brand lettings agency group is dropping its listings on Zoopla and instead going to list rental properties on OnTheMarket...

One prominent part of the Lomond agency empire is rebranding to fall in line with a larger higher-profile brand under the...

A new manifesto calling for rent controls and a raft of other measures is accusing the current rent rises of being...

My Property Box Tyne & Wear has extended its all-inclusive rent deal - and it says it’s in response to concerns...

A franchise lettings agency is reported to have agreed to stop potential tenants bidding against each other to secure rental properties. The...

A coalition of tenant activists has called a Day of Action to protest at delays in the government’s rental reform agenda. The...

The anti-agent pro-renter group Acorn has protested outside some agents’ offices in Bristol demanding an end to rival bids for properties...

A campaign group has protested outside letting agencies in Bristol, protesting against what they describe as “bidding wars” between rival tenants. The...

The lettings agency operated by controversial agent Ajay Jagota has been sold for an undisclosed sum. Jagota set up KIS Lettings with...

Campaigners who turned on the Prime Minister on Tuesday were cock-a-hoop just 24 hours later when Liz Truss did another U-turn...

The Acorn Group has opened its 40th branch - and it says it’s on the look-out for new acquisitions, including those...

An activist group that has staged many protests against letting agents must pay just under £100,000 in costs and damages to...

Activists in the Acorn campaign group are lobbying a council in a bid to - in its words - “ban slum...

The activist group Acorn is lobbying a local council to deny people the right to buy a second home or let...

Deposit alternative service Zero Deposit has received another £1.8m investment- just as it launches its own insurance service. The fundraise provides capital...

A lettings agency has apologised after a campaign by activists about the condition of a rental property it manages. Protesters outside the...

Police were called to a protect outside a lettings firm in Oxfordshire after a crowd picketed the office over a dispute...

Activists from the Acorn renters' campaign group have held a protest outside a branch of Chancellors in Oxford. The group says the...

A group of rental campaign bodies have come together to claim that some 694,000 tenants apparently face eviction when the current...

Acorn, a prominent campaign group targeting letting agency offices for protests, says the latest eviction ban extension doesn't go far enough. While...

Local media in the Homes Counties report that two arrests were made after police were called by a lettings agency where...

The 60-branch London focussed agency chain Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward is the latest agency to invest in Zero Deposit. The firm joins Andrews,...

Two Labour MPs have made extensive claims about the number of evictions from the private rental sector likely to happen if...

A lettings agency has called in the police after a protest involving anti-agent activists demanding compensation for past tenants. The Eastern Daily...

Activists from the so-called renters’ union Acorn have held a protest outside the office of a lettings agency in Oxford. A photograph...

An organisation that wants rent controls, the scrapping of Section 21 and what it calls “indefinite tenancies” claims to have 4,000...

Deposit alternative service Zero Deposit has revealed significant new investment as its founder - ex-Zoopla commercial director Jon Notley - takes a...

Activists from the controversial renters’ group Acorn have picketed the headquarters of a national rental firm in a dispute over a...

One of the most outspoken campaign groups against the end of the eviction ban has staged a series of so-called ‘boot...

Campaigners against evictions during the Coronavirus crisis have launched a last-ditch call for the government to grant another extension to the current...

The Momentum movement on the left wing of the Labour Party is joining forces with housing organisations to argue against private...

The renters’ group ACORN, which has held numerous protests at individual letting agents’ offices, has apologised after one of its local...

The anti-letting agent group ACORN is to stage protests in 10 to 15 UK cities this weekend according to an activists’...

Three groups of rental activists have demanded the government scrap all rent payments immediately and cancel all arrears - but mystery...

Activists with a record of opposing agents and landlords want a blanket ban on rent rises and evictions in the current virus...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? My name is Jon Notley and I am the co-founder...

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 protest has been held outside a lettings agency in Manchester by tenants demanding that the firm ‘sacks’ one of its...

A Labour council serving one of the largest private rental communities in the country is reported to have failed to have...

A collective of activist renter groups has set out a manifesto of what it wants from the winner of next month’s...

The controversial tenants union Acorn has set up a web page where disgruntled renters can lodge complaints about letting agents. In the...

High end London estate agency Chestertons has signed up with Zero Deposits, one of the deposit replacement services expanding across the...

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

One of the suppliers in the fiercely competitive world of deposit alternatives has introduced an ‘unlocking deposits’ option. From today, Zero Deposit...

Two tenants who campaign against lettings fees are claiming victory after refusing to pay charges for renewing their tenancies.  The agency was...

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

A group of activists has expressed outrage over a council’s private rental licensing scheme, claiming it is too small to catch...

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

One of the most pro-licensing local authorities in the country has extended its own scheme to include the entire centre of...

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

Croydon council is reported to have become the first local authority to back the scrapping of Section 21 of the 1988...

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

Campaigning group Generation Rent has secured over 20,000 signatures for a petition it says will “end unfair evictions”. The petition, on the...

A collection of rental sector protest organisations is getting together to campaign against S21 powers under which landlords or agents on...

Multi-brand agency company Acorn Group says it has rolled out a no-deposit scheme to all 31 of its offices “with a...

Yorkshire estate agency Linley & Simpson has completed a hat-trick of acquisitions taking its letting portfolio past the milestone of 5,500...

The ZPG-backed Zero Deposit scheme, one of a number now existing putting forward an alternative to traditional deposits, has announced four...

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

The campaign group Acorn, which has in the past named individual letting agencies that it claims are charging unfairly high fees,...

A Facebook group has been set up to name and shame so-called ‘tenants from hell’.   At the moment the page applies to...

Lenwell Property Services, a five-office lettings agency in the Home Counties, is spreading its wings into Hertfordshire with the acquisition of...

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

The newly-elected mayor of Bristol and the city’s council have endorsed a so-called ethical lettings charter created by a group known...

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

An ‘ethical lettings charter’ set up over a year ago by a pressure group for improved private rental sector housing has...

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

The controversial campaign group ACORN, which has made headlines by protesting outside letting agency offices in Bristol, is launching a new...

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

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

The office of a letting agency that urged its landlord clients to consider increasing rents has been the subject of an...

A lettings agency has issued a warning to tenants to protect themselves following a claim that the city in which it...

Yet another ‘rental standard’ has been set up a a local council to create what it calls ‘a kitemark’ which can...

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