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12 April 2024
From: Breaking News
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has launched a new Residential Retrofit Standard in a bid to help the housing industry...
19 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Controversial website content by the high profile website GetAgent must never appear again, according to the ad industry watchdog. The Advertising Standards...
06 December 2023
From: Breaking News
The Competitioin and Markets Authority is to probe five activities involving letting agents and landlords and their responsibilities to private tenants. Sarah...
25 August 2023
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Not for profit accreditation service safeagent has seen two of its lettings qualifications officially recognised by exam watchdog Ofqual. Safeagent as an...
19 May 2023
From: Breaking News
The Competition and Markets Authority is launching a three month probe into how letting agents operate within the private rental sector. It says...
28 February 2023
From: Breaking News
Housing Secretary Michael Gove has sent a letter to the Competitions and Markets Authority saying the watchdog is independent - but...
07 December 2022
From: Breaking News
The Advertising Standards Authority has banned advertorial material issued by the government department responsible for rental reform and housing. Two Labour MPs...
12 October 2022
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The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in to investigate allegations about advertising for shared ownership homes. In 2021 an advertisement appeared on...
21 September 2022
From: Breaking News
The National Audit Office has made scathing criticisms of government efforts to build more affordable housing. The public spending watchdog says the...
13 September 2022
From: Breaking News
A report by the National Audit Office claims that the way private renting is regulated makes the sector unfair to renters. It...
10 December 2021
From: Breaking News
The farcical implementation of the government’s Green Homes Grant scheme has been sharply criticised by Propertymark. Timothy Douglas, the organisation’s policy and...
09 September 2021
From: Breaking News
Westcountry agency Stags has been the subject of a low level complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority. The complaint concerned fees not...
30 June 2021
From: Breaking News
A lettings agent who wants tenants to take out policies to fund complaints against agencies and landlords has branded the social...
28 June 2021
From: Breaking News
A developer offering a rent guarantee on its homes has amended its advertisement wording after an intervention by the Advertising Standards...
09 December 2019
From: Breaking News
The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in following a complaint about the online lettings agency Upad. The agency had a reference ion...
12 June 2019
From: Breaking News
Lettings agency Northwood has been told by the Advertising Standards Authority to ensure that photographs of a specific property are updated...
03 April 2019
From: Breaking News
A lettings agency has withdrawn a leaflet which featured a woman’s cleavage; the leaflet had been the subject of a complaint...
20 March 2019
From: Breaking News
Lancasters Estate Agents on the Isle of Wight has been the subject of a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority over...
30 January 2019
From: Breaking News
Two letting agencies have removed advertisements after complaints were filed to the Advertising Standards Authority. The first case involved LSL Property Services...
17 January 2018
From: Breaking News
An eviction company called Remove A Tenant has been the subject of a complaint after a Facebook post which implied tenants...
06 December 2017
From: Breaking News
Leasehold enfranchisement specialist operator Leasehold Solutions is the latest to welcome the government’s suggestion of a regulatory watchdog to oversee leasehold...
20 October 2017
From: Breaking News
An estate agency in Bournemouth has amended an advertisement after a complaint to a watchdog about the absence of any reference...
27 September 2017
From: Breaking News
Bob Parry Lettings, a north Wales agency, has removed a claim from its website concerning a plot of land, following a...
13 September 2017
From: Breaking News
A rent guarantor operator has changed the wording of a description of its services on its own website following the intervention...
28 June 2017
From: Breaking News
Government watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld four complaints made against a Liverpool letting agency. The complaints were made against...
14 June 2017
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Property sharing platform Ace Relocations has changed the wording of a listing on its website after a complaint was lodged with...
14 December 2016
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The Advertising Standards Authority has received a complaint about a claim which was on an online letting agency’s website suggesting it...
30 November 2016
From: Breaking News
Two complaints about an advertisement for a property have been upheld by a watchdog - which has now banned a letting...
26 October 2016
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The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in to ensure that a letting agency displays the correct logo for the redress organisation...
28 September 2016
From: Breaking News
A letter from the Financial Conduct Authority, leaked to Sky News, suggests that the body is drawing up plans to tighten...
11 August 2016
From: Breaking News
The Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in after receiving a complaint about the display of fees on a letting agency’s website. The...
10 August 2016
From: Breaking News
A letting agency that claimed it had a 24-hour emergency phone line has changed its advertising - because the service did...
06 July 2016
From: Breaking News
A letting agency has pledged to make its fees information clearer on its Rightmove listings. The Advertising Standards Authority had received a...
11 May 2016
From: Breaking News
Three lettings groups have modified their advertisements after complaints were received by the Advertising Standards Authority. The UK Association of Letting Agents...
02 March 2016
From: Breaking News
Letting agents have been ticked off by an official watchdog for the way many of them handle clients' personal data. The Information Commissioner’s Office...
01 February 2016
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A letting agency that has been the subject of a BBC investigation and has gone into liquidation in controversial circumstances has...
27 January 2016
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A letting agent featured on a BBC Watchdog ‘Rogue Traders’ show has told a local newspaper that he is pursuing legal...
23 November 2015
From: Breaking News
A fascinating insight into claims being made against Foxtons by a legal firm acting on behalf of landlords has been posted online. In...
27 October 2015
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Letting Agent Today last week reported on Lancaster Property Network Management when it went into voluntary liquidation - now the agency...
23 October 2015
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Government proposals forcing agents and landlords to check the immigration status of tenants risk a serious breach of human rights according...
13 October 2015
From: Breaking News
The Advertising Standards Authority has praised a letting agency after it agreed to amend an advertisement following a complaint - meaning...
09 September 2015
From: Breaking News
The Advertising Standards Authority has banned a radio advertisement for Direct Line Landlord Insurance because it has been judged to be...
16 July 2015
From: Breaking News
This month has marked a real change in the way the private lettings sector is perceived - and it’s a perception...