{"id":35486,"date":"2016-11-23T17:05:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T10:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/estate-agencies-hit-by-government-policy-to-cut-letting-fees-for-tenants\/"},"modified":"2016-11-23T17:20:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T10:20:42","slug":"estate-agencies-hit-by-government-policy-to-cut-letting-fees-for-tenants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/estate-agencies-hit-by-government-policy-to-cut-letting-fees-for-tenants\/","title":{"rendered":"Estate agencies hit by Government policy to cut letting fees for tenants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : telegraph.co.uk&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2016\/11\/23\/estate-agencies-hit-government-policy-cut-letting-fees-tenants\/\" target=\"_blank\">Estate agencies hit by Government policy to cut letting fees for tenants<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; &#013; &#013; Source : telegraph.co.uk&#013; Read more&#8230;Estate agencies hit by Government policy to cut letting&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-9em","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35510,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/estate-agency-shares-slide-ahead-of-letting-fees-clampdown\/","url_meta":{"origin":35486,"position":0},"title":"Estate agency shares slide ahead of letting fees clampdown","date":"November 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Foxtons and Countrywide among those hit as investors expect chancellor to ban upfront charges in autumn statementShares in some of Britain\u2019s biggest estate agencies fell sharply on Wednesday on the expectation that the chancellor will use his first autumn statement to ban upfront fees charged by letting agents.Roughly \u00a350m\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26264,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/will-internet-firms-open-the-door-to-lower-letting-agent-fees\/","url_meta":{"origin":35486,"position":1},"title":"Will internet firms open the door to lower letting agent fees?","date":"September 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The huge cost of using high street firms hits both landlords and tenants. 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