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Trading Standards has defended the introduction of ‘material information’ requirements on details of properties for sale, after a conveyancer warned landlords...

Landlords quitting the sector could have to spend hundreds of pounds more when selling their home owing to new Trading Standards...

Landlords will have to include many more specific points about their properties when they list them in future - whether directly...

There’s been a clampdown on imprecise wording used in lettings listings. The National Trading Standards Estate and Lettings Agency Team  - which...

Over the last few years, the property industry has been focusing on the need to provide more information to buyers ‘up...

Landlords are likely to be obliged to supply agents with additional details in future, before their properties are listed to let...

The BBC Radio 4 consumer affairs programme You and Yours says 4,746 rental scams have been reported to the police and...

Automated rental payment platform PayProp recently held a webinar, attended by well over 100 people, in which a condensed video of...

The live launch of a roundtable event hosted by rental payments platform PayProp takes place tomorrow – and landlords can still...

The Citizens Advice consumer charity is warning that fake investment scams are amongst the fraudulent activity that’s on the rise across...

Several high-flying lettings sector bodies say rental properties advertised on portals should carry much more upfront information. This means landlords who use agents...

Scams involving fake landlords and bogus lettings agents are rife in the private rentals sector, and may have been made worse...

The trading standards team charged with policing lettings and estate agents is to investigate whether a new guideline on referral fees...

The Tenant Fees Act, better known simply as the tenant fees ban, is coming into force from June 1 2019. It...