Landlords are facing hundreds of pounds of extra fees from estate agents who manage their properties – with new tenant rights protections being blamed.
In May this year, millions of renters across England were given a swathe of new protections under the landmark Renters’ Rights Act.
Landlords can now no longer issue so-called no-fault notices to evict tenants and all renters are now on rolling contracts with no end date.
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Some landlords have exited the market since the Act became law but among those that have stayed, there are multiple examples of them being hit with higher charges by estate agencies, and the new law has explicitly been named as the reasoning.
