A radical group in south London has become the latest to claim responsibility for attacks on agents' boards outside vendors' homes.

The recent attacks have seen We Love Social Housing' messages pasted over the agents' details on boards outside homes in Clapham and Brixton.

The group which has claimed responsibility is called Lambeth Housing Activists and on its website (which has a startling lack of apostrophes) it says it consists of people involved in tenants and residents associations, housing co-ops, private renters groups, homeless organisations, trade unions and other housing campaign groups [sic].

The organisation says as a result of the damage the boards have been improved.

Earlier this year Foxtons and Hunters Estate Agents boards in Islington were covered with stickers proclaiming: 'Estate Agents: Everyone Hates You'. Hunters called in the police but Foxtons remained tight-lipped about the issue when contacted by EAT.

In Brixton - near where the latest attacks have taken place - the Foxtons office was the subject of graffiti and paint-throwing while some of its signs were turned into plant pots.

The problem is not confined to edgy parts of London.

In more tranquil Cornwall several boards advertising homes being marketed by Heather & Lay have been stolen or vandalised in Falmouth and nearby villages, while Milnes Estate Agents in Truro has also suffered board-thefts, recently obliging the firm to spend £700 on replacements.

