Leading lawyer supports Labour's plan to ban rent in advance

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Leading lawyer supports Labour's plan to ban rent in advance

Leading property lawyer David Smith has supported Labour’s proposed ban on agents and landlords who ask for rent in advance, saying that while it is not used much by some, it is “prevalent in parts of the market and drives poorer tenants into the arms of high interest and illegal lending”. Smith, who has not been slow to criticise some aspects of Government housing policy in the past, says the Renters’ Rights Bill as a whole, but in particular b…