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New Tenants' Fees Bill announced in Queen's Speech
21/06/2017
1:41 pm
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Announced in last years Autumn Statement, a new Tenant's Fees Bill has been confirmed in todays Queen Speech.

According to government figures, the average amount paid in fees is currently £223 with around 4.3m households paying such fees every year. However housing charity Shelter found that one in seven renters pay more than £500, with tenants in London complaining about fees of up to £2,000. Research by Citizens' Advice also found that 42% of people paying letting agent's fees had to borrow money to pay them.

This announcement comes after a recent TR UK twitter poll, where 62% of those polled thought that referencing should be exempt from the proposed Agent fee ban in England;

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When the bill becomes law in England, landlords will have to find the money to pay for the likes of referencing, credit checks or investigating immigration status themselves.
It will also allow tenants to recover any fees that have been charged unlawfully.

Furthermore, the government have said that it will make the process more transparent, as renters are currently charged varying amounts.

A draft bill is set to be published "later this year".

In England and Wales lettings and managing agents have been legally obliged to clearly publicise their fees since 2015. So as a landlord in England, Wales or Northern Ireland you will know all about the fees your tenants have to pay when they sign a rental contract with a letting agent.

The question now is whether letting agents will seek to pass costs onto landlords? ? ?

Many news sources are reporting this as ‘bad new for landlords’, however we believe there is a positive spin
on this. Primarily, this is the perfect opportunity for landlords to become accredited and learn how to
efficiently self-manage their properties to keep their costs (and rents) down.

So, we're sure you'll agree, £124 to advertise and let residential property, reference and even insure rent and legal costs is an amazing deal for all UK landlords.

Advertise, reference and protect yourself for just £110 by clicking here now.

This is also the perfect time for Landlords and Tenants to discover the power of the TR Referencing Passport. Renters can pre-reference themselves for the purposes of creating a 'Tenant Passport', to show any potential landlord or agent that they are financially secure, competent and have good references in order to gain access to better rented accommodation in the future.

For a flat fee of just £60 (per tenant) the TR Group Tenant Passport is valid for 90 days from issue (subject to no change in circumstance), and can be checked as authentic and validated by any UK landlord or agent directly with TenantReferencingUK.com

For full details on this please visit: http://www.landlord-referencin.....reference/

21/06/2017
2:03 pm
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Replace fees with a multi page questionnaire and a requirement for supporting documents, bank statement right to rent information etc.  Its amazing how many tenants walk away when they have to make any effort.

21/06/2017
5:12 pm
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Tenant passports - good idea.  What will we do about rent  guarantees?  I usually just charge the referencing and RGI - no extras - but I wouldn't feel comfortable without an RGI

22/06/2017
9:34 am
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Yesterday HuffPost UK Politics tweeted : 'Scrapping lettings fees shows private renters have become a force to be reckoned with...'

Haven't read too much into it but doubt it very much. Fees may be collected by lawyers who prepare the Tenancy Agreement, paying Letting Agent

23/06/2017
10:40 am
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Excellent ploy LAWmrs.  Skinning the cat in an alternative manner.

 
24/06/2017
3:35 am
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Quite simple

Adverts for rental property will state no tenant applicant will be considered until the the tenants/s have purchased their own TRP which they then shoe to LL.

So no LA or LL referencing required at all 

The tenant may tout their TRP round to any LA or LL with no other costs!

Means LA and LL no longer need to carry out any referencing.

After all the level of referencing with LRS will be exactly the same irrespective of who pays for it.

Well tenants will be motivated to obtain a TRP if the only way they may be considered by a LL is to have a TRP.

Simples.

No TRP , no tenancy!

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