Tenants Let Down By Lack Of Letting Fee Enforcement

The government needs to do more to better enforce existing regulations designed to improve transparency around letting agent fees before looking to ban them outright. That’s the call being made by the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) as MPs debate plans to ban fees. Figures published earlier this year by the National Approved Letting Scheme found that after two years of the law coming into effect, 93% of councils had failed to issue a single financial penalty to a letting agent for breaching the law. Only three penalty notices had been served across England for failure to display all relevant landlord and tenant fees. Read more on the RLA website.