The Tenant fees bill, banning agents from charging fees to tenants has now been given Royal Assent and will apply to all tenancies signed after June 1.
The bill – prevent landlords and agents from charging: ‘Anything not exempted, that the tenant is required to pay as a condition of the ‘of the grant, renewal, continuance, variation, assignment, novation or termination of’ an assured shorthold tenancy, or licence agreement.