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A council is warning letting agents to adhere to health and safety laws or else face the legal consequences. Telford & Wrekin...
10 January 2022
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A report by the National Audit Office claims that the way private renting is regulated makes the sector unfair to renters. It...
10 December 2021
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There has still been no formal response to a government consultation on the database of rogue agents and landlords, 25 months...
11 August 2021
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A London council has secured banning orders against rogue property agents who were previously fined over £70,000 for letting an unlicensed...
28 May 2021
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Some 39 agents and landlords have had banning orders over the past three years according to a report in The Guardian. Under the...
06 April 2021
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A landlord who persistently broke residential lettings rules has been banned from operating in a landmark legal ruling. Julie Stoddern, of Camborne,...
08 March 2021
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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...
03 March 2021
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A westcountry landlord is only the second in England to have received a banning order preventing him from letting or managing...
18 June 2020
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A group of local landlords and others in the private rental sector are challenging a local authority’s licensing proposals with their...
07 May 2020
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The government has been called upon to issue specific Coronavirus guidance for the rental sector. The chief executive of the Association of...
12 March 2020
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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...
07 February 2020
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Councils that have been awarded additional cash injections by government could use their windfalls to enhance their enforcement of the private...
20 January 2020
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A landlord has been banned for two and half years after repeatedly putting tenants’ lives at risk by letting unsafe housing. This...
18 December 2019
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[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...
06 December 2019
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A new piece of legislation has been invoked to ban a landlord from any involvement in the private rental sector for...
30 October 2019
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A Shropshire man has become the first in England to be banned from being a landlord. In a case brought by Telford...
19 September 2019
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents wants agents and tenants to have access to the government’s high profile but so far...
09 September 2019
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There’s been a sceptical response to news leaked from government over the weekend suggesting that a database of rogue landlords would...
22 July 2019
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A Freedom of Information request by The Guardian newspaper has produced the startling admission from government that not even one landlord...
17 April 2019
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A leading PropTech entrepreneur says he welcomes reforms currently moving through Parliament to professionalise the lettings sector - but he wants...
09 May 2018
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A statement from the government has repeated its determination to clean up the private rental sector through a series of measures,...
09 April 2018
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Romans has thrown its weight behind the banning orders being introduced in April which could see rogue letting agents and landlords...
26 January 2018
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Figures released by the government show huge support for the extension of the offences under which agents and landlords may in...
29 December 2017
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A database of rogue letting agents and landlords and new banning orders, first promised in the Housing and Planning Act announced...
04 December 2017
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PropTech firm PayProp has welcomed the latest measures to clamp down on rogue elements within the lettings industry - but warns...
11 October 2017
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Large letting agents found to be flouting the incoming ban on letting agent fees should receive fines up to £30,000 to...
07 June 2017
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A trade body has backed government plans to introduce so-called ‘banning orders’ for rogue letting agents and landlords, but it says...
17 February 2017
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The government has launched an official consultation process on a package of measures to crack down on what it calls ‘rogue...
14 December 2016
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Eviction specialist company Landlord Action wants the government to complement its action against rogue letting agents and tenants with a ‘rogue...
05 January 2016
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An organisation representing councils wants a government database covering all housing-related convictions to deter rogue landlords switching from one area to...
14 December 2015
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Generation Rent, the lobby group which recently narrowly escaped folding because of a lack of financial support, wants the public to...