Call for law to ban rental ‘booking fee’

Laws should be considered to ban rental-sector booking fees in the same way schools are now banned from charging non-refundable application fees, housing charity Threshold has said.

By Niall Murray

Laws should be considered to ban rental-sector upfront non-refundable fees and high deposits in the same way schools are now banned from charging non-refundable application fees, housing charity Threshold has said.