PHOTO: SUPPLIED Consumer NZ’s Jessica Wilson says businesses might seem as if they have an advantage they don’t.
Property managers or landlords who advertise rental properties as having “no letting fees” may be breaching the Fair Trading Act, Consumer NZ says.
Letting fees for tenants were banned by the Government in December, on the grounds it was an unjustifiable tax on tenants.
But some property managers are still using the absence of letting fees as a promotional point.
Auckland agency One Place say it used the phrase “no letting fees” on some of its inner city property advertisements because many people still did not know they were gone.
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