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Insurance giant Aviva is urging consumers to be on their guard after seeing a seven per cent increase in customer claims...

Propertymark has responded to two consultations on the proposals to introduce electrical safety standards and smoke and carbon monoxide alarms in...

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents is issuing a stark warning to be aware of the dangers of carbon...

Propertymark is urging agents to give it their views on two consultations on health and safety issues coming out of Northern...

The Labour-run London Assembly says it is concerned about government plans to allow landlords to house asylum seekers for two years without...

A management company and a lettings agency involved in running a London HMO have been prosecuted for fire safety failures. Monsoon Properties...

Propertymark is backing the installation of carbon monoxide alarms in all residential buildings in Wales. The Welsh Government is proposing to amend...

Letting agents have a key role in ensuring updated fire safety regulations really do improve standards for tenants in taller buildings. That’s...

A trade body says inventories are set to play an increasingly important role in the private rental sector as fire regulations...

A new 'How to Rent' guide has been released by the government today, with letting agents and private landlords reminded they...

The agency and landlord responsible for letting a two-bedroom flat in Dagenham have been found guilty in court for providing extremely...

The head of a property management company has been fined £25,800 after serious safety issues were discovered at a shared house...

A new How To Rent guide is to be issued on Friday, according to a government communication with the National Residential...

A poll of 2,000 non-freehold tenants suggests that almost two-thirds claim not to feel 100 per cent safe in their homes. Some...

A new lettings regime that is described as the biggest change in many decades comes into effect tomorrow in Wales, with...

The law around the requirement for smoke and carbon monoxide alarms in rental properties will change in England on October 1. Propertymark...

Yet another revision to the Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations takes effect from October 1 - that’s just under...

The government has issued detailed guidance ahead of a change in the law around smoke and carbon monoxide alarms coming into...

Propertymark has set up a working group of experts, agents, landlords and stakeholders in response to radical reforms to the private...

Comprehensive rental reform requires the buy in and understanding of letting agents and landlords from the outset - and not as...

A prominent agency lettings chief is alerting the industry that new smoke and carbon monoxide alarm rules are changing from October 1. Since...

The sole director of a lettings agency, who was recently made the subject of an anti-social behaviour injunction and banning order,...

Agents have reacted with amazement to the latest delay that the Labour-run Welsh Government has announced for its much-hyped rental reform. The...

Propertymark members are to get a briefing on Northern Ireland’s new Private Tenancies Act at a webinar hosted by the trade...

Agents are being urged to prepare for  changes to the Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm Regulations which may come in this...

Activists in the Acorn campaign group are lobbying a council in a bid to - in its words - “ban slum...

Trade body UKALA has cautioned letting agents to act now following the government announcement that it intends to extend the need...

The UK Association of Letting Agents says it welcomes new rules for alarms which put the social and private rental sectors...

Agents have raised a specific concern about one aspect of a law change regarding carbon monoxide alarms.  Earlier this week the government...

The government has announced that carbon monoxide alarms must be fitted in all private rental properties with fixed appliances such as...

Almost half of renters in England have been victims of illegal behaviour from landlords or lettings agents, Shelter claims. The stark allegations...

There has still been no formal response to a government consultation on the database of rogue agents and landlords, 25 months...

Rental and other households should replace optical smoke alarms every 12 years unless manufacturers recommend otherwise, according to a study by...

The local media in Manchester have published photographs of a property operated by a lettings agency was found to have multiple...

A London council has secured banning orders against rogue property agents who were previously fined over £70,000 for letting an unlicensed...

A property company and a landlord have each been found guilty of 27 charges relating to the management of two properties...

A head tenant who posed as a landlord has been taken to court by a London council. Sonia Nascimento rented a converted...

Two landlords - one of them an agent - have been given fines totalling £135,000 and must pay costs for failing to...

The government has been urged to backtrack on proposals for letting agents to check smoke and carbon monoxide alarms on day one...

The Scottish Parliament has postponed new fire and smoke alarm legislation for 12 months. This move, by its local government committee, follows...

A Labour councillor in Yorkshire claims letting agents are not showing the actual properties available to rent when they use virtual...

Lettings agents have until January 11 to respond to the latest consultation proposal stiffening health and safety in the private rental...

A lettings agency and its director have pleaded guilty to renting out an overcrowded house in the first case brought to...

A buy to let investor has been hit with a bill of almost £9,500 after being accused of allowing a tenant...

A room-finding portal, along with the owners of a London lettings agency and management firm, must pay over £100,000 for letting...

A judge has ordered two landlords to pay a total of £14,858 for illegally renting out an unlicensed house without working...

The Welsh Government says new regulations are to be introduced to combat carbon monoxide poisoning. The regulations will require landlords and their...

Almost 40 per cent of battery-powered smoke alarms failed to activate in residential fires in England in the past year –...

A dawn raid by enforcement officers from a London council has discovered 17 men sleeping on mattresses in a three bedroom...

A rented home in Mansfield was found to have serious health and safety hazards, including a leaking roof and a lack of smoke...

Former QPR and Nottingham Forest striker Dexter Blackstock has been fined over £25,000 and branded a rogue landlord after admitting 12 licencing offences. He...

A landlord has been ordered to pay £14,500 after he was found to be illegally letting his property out to 11...

A husband and wife pair of buy to let investors have been prosecuted after letting out a property that contained serious...

A tenant pretending to be landlord has been ordered to pay more than £21,000 after he carved up five family homes...

The Welsh Government has started a formal consultation on proposals that include extending the minimum notice period applicable to a section...

Weak regulation of private renting is leaving hundreds of thousands of tenants living in hazardous homes in England, claims Citizens Advice. A...

Six months on from the introduction of stricter licencing for Homes in Multiple Occupation, awareness “remains limited” according to one of...

A rogue letting agent has been ordered to pay £42,596 in fines and costs of £10,626 after pleading guilty to a...

The owner of a buy to let HMO has been found guilty of six offences but has received a fine of...

A landlord has been convicted of three offences relating to his failure to comply with fire safety requirements in a privately...

A regional fire service says a tragic anniversary is a good opportunity for agents and landlords to remember their legal obligations...

The Tenants’ Fees Bill has now become law, receiving formal Royal Assent yesterday afternoon - and within minutes, the government issued...

Council enforcement officers have raided a house in Wembley, north London, and found 19 tenants paying a landlord £1,000 a week. Brent council’s...

A buy to let investor has lost possession of his flat after converting it into an Illegal House in Multiple Occupation...

A council in the north of England has issued its first-ever Civil Penalty Notice on a landlord - and it involved...

A warning has gone out to the lettings sector to check that rental properties are ‘Gas Safe’ as the colder weather...

A buy to let investor that let at least eight people from six different families rent space in his three-storey property...

There have been “significant leaps forward” in the standards of the private rental sector in the past four years, but safety...

MPs have proposed a series of amendments to the Tenant Fees Bill as part of its Report Stage and Third Reading...

A London council has fined a letting agency over £10,000 for failing to install smoke alarms in a rental property. Waltham Forest...

A landlord has been hit with a total fine of almost £40,000 for breaching House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) management regulations. David...

Student landlords and letting agents are being warned by the Master Locksmiths Association (MLA) to tighten up security in their properties...

It’s been a difficult summer for Airbnb and other short-let platforms operating in the UK. Recently the European Commission gave Airbnb until the...

A tenant who was ripping off other tenants in an overcrowded bungalow "death trap" has been fined tens of thousands of...

A letting agent responsible for a property in Huddersfield which caught fire and killed two young boys has been jailed for...

A consumer group which conducted 30 undercover viewings in five different UK cities claims letting agents are showing potential tenants around...

Tenants, landlords and buy to let investors are the targets for new online rental guides introduced by the Ministry of Housing,...

A rental sector supplier claims huge numbers of tenants are extremely ignorant of the health and safety issues surrounding their rental...

The government has announced that it’s launching a review into the requirement for carbon monoxide alarms in homes across England. The review...

A buy to let property owner has received a four month prison sentence for letting out a property he had already...

Yet another formal government consultation is under way, this time into smoke and carbon monoxide alarms in the private rental sector...

Four people are treated for carbon monoxide poisoning in the UK every day - but 58 per cent of the population...

Almost a third of renters in the UK do not have a life-saving carbon monoxide alarm in their property, with four...

A landlord has been fined a total of £7,298 for operating an unlicensed house in multiple occupation in Oxford that was...

More than half of buy to let landlords have taken measures to check the fire safety of their properties in the...

A lettings sector trade body is warning that contradictory and outdated fire safety guidance needs updating.    At present, landlords or their agent...

The findings of the most recent English Housing Survey, an annual report published by the Department for Communities and Local Government,...

The London council of Newham is thought to be the first local authority in the UK to use new powers to...

A landlord of a shared house in Hove, near Brighton, has been found to be ‘putting people’s lives at risk’ and ordered to pay...

The owner of a house in multiple occupation in the leafy Hampstead area of north London has been hit with a...

The need for letting agencies to assist landlords with the increasingly-complicated private rental sector has been hammered home by the results...

A senior Labour politician in a London borough has branded so-called ‘rip off landlords’ as “the scourge of London.”   Councillor Laila Butt,...

A landlord has been prosecuted and fined for failure to comply with two Improvement Notices “resulting in a catalogue of health...

Letting Agent Today has been contacted by the Council of Gas Detection and Environmental Monitoring - the trade association for gas...

A health and safety product manufacturer is issuing a warning about the dangers of carbon monoxide alarms, citing figures that up...

A private landlord has been fined by a London magistrates court for poor and potentially dangerous housing conditions.    Monojor Ali was fined...

A trade body has accused some letting agents and landlords of “failing to get to grips” with several recent legal changes...

The Associaton of Independent Inventory Clerks is warning agents and others in the lettings sector to be careful when preparing advertising...

A letting agency has been fined after one of its landlords was found to be cramming six families into an unlicensed...

Failing to pay rent on time or at all is the most common rule broken by tenants that is set out...