{"id":9188,"date":"2016-03-26T14:01:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T07:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/if-lettings-agents-are-disclosing-fees-i-cant-see-them\/"},"modified":"2016-03-26T14:22:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T07:22:23","slug":"if-lettings-agents-are-disclosing-fees-i-cant-see-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/if-lettings-agents-are-disclosing-fees-i-cant-see-them\/","title":{"rendered":"If lettings agents are disclosing fees, I can\u2019t see them"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nNearly a year after the government pledged to force agents to disclose charges prominently, we check their websites to see if this is happeningNearly a year ago a new \u201ccrackdown\u201d on hidden charges by letting agents in England and Wales came into force. The government stepped back from banning the myriad fees tenants pay on top of sky-high rents \u2013 as they have done in Scotland \u2013 but said it would force letting agents to disclose them prominently in branches and websites instead. Transparency is much better than banning, said then housing minister Kris Hopkins. And there would be tough new fines for those who did not comply.So I decided to go \u201cmystery shopping\u201d on letting agents websites this week to find just how transparent the industry has become. My first stop was Countrywide, because it won \u201clettings agency of the year 2015\u201d. How could it be anything other than a paragon of virtue? Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Nearly a year after the government pledged to force agents to disclose charges prominently, we...<\/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-9188","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\/p75ss1-2oc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36048,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/will-banning-letting-agency-fees-lead-to-higher-rents-we-ask-the-experts\/","url_meta":{"origin":9188,"position":0},"title":"Will banning letting agency fees lead to higher rents? 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