Letting Agents: Fees and Charges
(asked on 27th March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 25 January 2017 to Question 60219, whether he has set a date to introduce legislative proposals to ban letting agent fees; and on what date he will begin consultation on details of that ban.
This question was answered on 3rd April 2017
The Government intends to implement the ban on letting agent fees paid by tenants as soon as Parliamentary time allows further to consultation with the sector on the detail of the ban. The consultation will be launched imminently.