ACORN London region

ACORN Southwark are on a mission to ban rental 'bidding wars' in Southwark. Lettings agents in the borough are profiteering from the housing crisis by pressuring renters to bid on properties to secure a tenancy. This practice of 'bidding wars' further pushes up rents and pits renters against each other to bid and make offers above the asking price on available properties. The housing crisis in London is bad enough without greedy lettings against profiteering!

The government agrees with us, and are making 'bidding wars' illegal in the Renters Rights Bill, and Southwark council have also backed our campaign to call upon lettings agents to stop this partice immediately.

However, Kinleigh, Folkard & Hayward, who are one the biggest lettings agent in the area have still not agreed to stop using this practice. ACORN have contacted them serveral times to raise our concerns about their sales practices, and most recently their manager Andy Parker threatened to assault our members when we spoke to them.

We don't want Kinleigh, Folkard & Hayward to carry our exploiting people in our borough.

Support our campaign by taking 30 seconds to send an email to Kinleigh, Folkard & Hayward

ACORN Southwark are on a mission to ban rental 'bidding wars' in Southwark. Lettings agents in the borough are profiteering from the housing crisis by pressuring renters to bid on properties to secure a tenancy. This practice of 'bidding wars' further pushes up rents and pits renters against each other to bid and make offers above the asking price on available properties. The housing crisis in London is bad enough without greedy lettings against profiteering!

The government agrees with us, and are making 'bidding wars' illegal in the Renters Rights Bill, and Southwark council have also backed our campaign to call upon lettings agents to stop this partice immediately.

However, Kinleigh, Folkard & Hayward, who are one the biggest lettings agent in the area have still not agreed to stop using this practice. ACORN have contacted them serveral times to raise our concerns about their sales practices, and most recently their manager Andy Parker threatened to assault our members when we spoke to them.

We don't want Kinleigh, Folkard & Hayward to carry our exploiting people in our borough.

Support our campaign by taking 30 seconds to send an email to Kinleigh, Folkard & Hayward

Tell KFH to Ban the Bids!

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To Andy Parker,

I'm a supporter of ACORN, and support their campaign to end bidding wars in Southwark. I'm concerned that after several attempts to contact you branch, you have still refused to sign their pledge to stop using bidding wars sales practices, and have resorted the threatening to assault their members.

Bidding wars sales practices pushes up prices, adding the already extreme housing crisis in London, by making moving stressful and unaffordable to most.

I implore you to stop using bidding wars and sign ACORN's pledge to let them know.

Sincerely,

I'm writing to you as a supporter of ACORN and their campaign to end bidding wars in Southwark. I'm concerned and disappointed to find out your Peckham office engages in rental 'bidding wars', encouraging tenants to make offers above the listed asking price for a property.

This pushy sales technique pushes prices up and pits renters against each other to secure homes. As one of the biggest lettings agents in the area that claims to care about corporate and social responsibility, it's disappointing you are engaging in unethical sales practices.

I am calling on you to back ACORN's campaign to ban the bids, and commit to stopping the practice of encouraging prospective tenants to bid on advertised properties, and let our your properties at the listed price.

You can contact ACORN at southwark@acorntheunion.org.uk.

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