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A survey of local council private rental licensing schemes says 19 selective and additional licensing schemes and consultations will be taking...

Changes put forward to the Renters Reform Bill to crack down on rogue landlords, protect vulnerable residents and improve the safety of...

Three property management companies and a landlord have been fined approaching £80,000 for health and safety failings. Mohammed Ali Abbas Rasool, Cadogan...

What objections are you hearing when you try and convert let-only landlords to fully-managed? Because the latest figures show just 18 per...

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

Propertymark has given an insight into how letting agents are likely to be expected to use a new Landlords Database. The database...

A controversial database which will allow widespread access to the identities of rogue letting agents and landlords has been backed by...

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

The owner of a Belvoir lettings franchise has fulfilled a lockdown ambition to write and publish her book ‘Landlords, what’s holding...

A council is warning letting agents to adhere to health and safety laws or else face the legal consequences. Telford & Wrekin...

A report by the National Audit Office claims that the way private renting is regulated makes the sector unfair to renters. It...

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

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

Some 39 agents and landlords have had banning orders over the past three years according to a report in The Guardian. Under the...

A landlord who persistently broke residential lettings rules has been banned from operating in a landmark legal ruling. Julie Stoddern, of Camborne,...

A council says it’s looking for lettings agencies that worked with a rogue landlord who's been issued with a four year banning order. Bristol...

A westcountry landlord is only the second in England to have received a banning order preventing him from letting or managing...

A group of local landlords and others in the private rental sector are challenging a local authority’s licensing proposals with their...

The government has been called upon to issue specific Coronavirus guidance for the rental sector. The chief executive of the Association of...

The government’s hugely-publicised database for rogue letting agents and landlords has been running for almost two years and has…wait for it…just...

Councils that have been awarded additional cash injections by government could use their windfalls to enhance their enforcement of the private...

A landlord has been banned for two and half years after repeatedly putting tenants’ lives at risk by letting unsafe housing. This...

[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...

A new piece of legislation has been invoked to ban a landlord from any involvement in the private rental sector for...

A Shropshire man has become the first in England to be banned from being a landlord.  In a case brought by Telford...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents wants agents and tenants to have access to the government’s high profile but so far...

There’s been a sceptical response to news leaked from government over the weekend suggesting that a database of rogue landlords would...

A Freedom of Information request by The Guardian newspaper has produced the startling admission from government that not even one landlord...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says he welcomes reforms currently moving through Parliament to professionalise the lettings sector - but he wants...

A statement from the government has repeated its determination to clean up the private rental sector through a series of measures,...

Romans has thrown its weight behind the banning orders being introduced in April which could see rogue letting agents and landlords...

Figures released by the government show huge support for the extension of the offences under which agents and landlords may in...

A database of rogue letting agents and landlords and new banning orders, first promised in the Housing and Planning Act announced...

PropTech firm PayProp has welcomed the latest measures to clamp down on rogue elements within the lettings industry - but warns...

Large letting agents found to be flouting the incoming ban on letting agent fees should receive fines up to £30,000 to...

A trade body has backed government plans to introduce so-called ‘banning orders’ for rogue letting agents and landlords, but it says...

The government has launched an official consultation process on a package of measures to crack down on what it calls ‘rogue...

Eviction specialist company Landlord Action wants the government to complement its action against rogue letting agents and tenants with a ‘rogue...

An organisation representing councils wants a government database covering all housing-related convictions to deter rogue landlords switching from one area to...

Generation Rent, the lobby group which recently narrowly escaped folding because of a lack of financial support, wants the public to...

The Associational of Residential Letting Agents has spoken up in favour of most of the provisions in the new Housing and...