{"id":71324,"date":"2017-11-09T01:34:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T18:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-tenants-fees-bill-doesnt-go-far-enough-letters\/"},"modified":"2017-11-09T02:05:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T19:05:04","slug":"the-tenants-fees-bill-doesnt-go-far-enough-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-tenants-fees-bill-doesnt-go-far-enough-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"The tenants fees bill doesn\u2019t go far enough | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBritain needs longer tenancies and caps on rent increases, writes Tom Copley, Labour\u2019s London assembly housing spokespersonAs recently as 2015 the government strongly opposed banning lettings agency fees for tenants, so its decision to publish the draft tenants fees bill is a welcome U-turn.By the end of the decade, roughly a third of Londoners will rent from a private landlord, so tough action to end this injustice couldn\u2019t come sooner. Lettings agents provide a service to landlords, not tenants, and landlords already pay them a fee for their services. Charging tenants an average fee of \u00a3337 just to print out a standard contract and run some reference checks is gouging, plain and simple. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Britain needs longer tenancies and caps on rent increases, writes Tom Copley, Labour\u2019s London assembly...<\/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-71324","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-iyo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":108120,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/letting-fees-ban-agents-urge-landlords-to-increase-rents\/","url_meta":{"origin":71324,"position":0},"title":"Letting fees ban: agents urge landlords to increase rents","date":"June 15, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The 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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6750,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/meet-the-new-class-of-landlords-profiting-from-generation-rent\/","url_meta":{"origin":71324,"position":1},"title":"Meet the new class of landlords profiting from Generation Rent","date":"June 29, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\r With interest rates at historic lows and rents at historic highs, property moguls such as these buy-to-let millionaires and rent-to-rent pioneers have never had it so goodThey are the people making a killing from Generation Rent. 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