{"id":36040,"date":"2016-11-26T14:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/unfair-letting-fees-ban-truth-is-the-agents-just-got-too-greedy\/"},"modified":"2016-11-26T14:20:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T07:20:15","slug":"unfair-letting-fees-ban-truth-is-the-agents-just-got-too-greedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/unfair-letting-fees-ban-truth-is-the-agents-just-got-too-greedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfair letting fees ban? Truth is the agents just got too greedy"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe Guardian has been calling for an end to the exploitation for more than a decadeThe real shock about this week\u2019s decision to ban letting fees to tenants is that it did not happen earlier. For more than a decade in Money we have highlighted the exploitative activity of some (but by no means all) letting agents. It evidently reached such absurd levels that in the end even a Tory government had to end the farce.We have seen letting agents demand \u00a3800 in fees on a \u00a3650-a-month one-bed flat. Bills for \u00a3360 for running a standardised contract through the photocopier, and \u00a390 for a credit check that costs the agent little more than a fiver. Tenants have had to go through the rigmarole of these sorts of bills every time they are forced to move, which in our case study on page X was every year between 2007 and 2015. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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