{"id":108120,"date":"2019-06-15T13:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/letting-fees-ban-agents-urge-landlords-to-increase-rents\/"},"modified":"2019-06-15T13:04:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T06:04:22","slug":"letting-fees-ban-agents-urge-landlords-to-increase-rents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/letting-fees-ban-agents-urge-landlords-to-increase-rents\/","title":{"rendered":"Letting fees ban: agents urge landlords to increase rents"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe government has banned agencies from ripping off tenants \u2013 but there is evidence that rents are rising to offset the lossesThere were warnings that this month\u2019s ban on rip-off tenant fees would result in rents being pushed up \u2013 and now Guardian Money can reveal this is already starting to happen.Just two weeks after the ban came into force, a north London lettings agent has started telling its landlords to raise all future rents by \u00a320 a month to offset the new costs they face. And it is unlikely to be alone in proposing such a measure. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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