The draft Tenant Fees Bill and aims to deliver ‘a fairer,
more competitive, and more affordable lettings market where tenants have
greater clarity and control over what they will pay and where the landlord is
the primary customer of the letting agent’.
The bill would prohibit all payments to lettings agents and landlords
(aside from rent, security deposits, holding deposits and tenant default fees),
cap deposits and introduce new civil and criminal offences for breaching the
ban. The CLG Committee plans to hold a series of oral evidence sessions in the
New Year with experts, tenant, letting agent and landlord associations, and
trading standards authorities. Read more
on 24housing.
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