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![Huge fines for agency and management company over safety failures](/upload/images/Fine(1).jpg)
A management company and a lettings agency involved in running a London HMO have been prosecuted for fire safety failures. Monsoon Properties...
12 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![This is how agents will have to use the new Landlords Database](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/PropTech/AgentOnline-400x310.png)
Propertymark has given an insight into how letting agents are likely to be expected to use a new Landlords Database. The database...
23 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agent writes book telling landlords - “What’s holding you back?”](/upload/images/Logos/BelvoirNEWESTLogo400x310.jpg)
The owner of a Belvoir lettings franchise has fulfilled a lockdown ambition to write and publish her book ‘Landlords, what’s holding...
16 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Letting agents warned - implement health and safety laws, or else](/upload/images/library/Health%26Safety400x310.png)
A council is warning letting agents to adhere to health and safety laws or else face the legal consequences. Telford & Wrekin...
10 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Government failing to protect private renters, says watchdog](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/MichaelGove-400x310.jpg)
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
From: Breaking News
![Rogue Agents' Database: still no response to formal consultation](/upload/images/new-story-stock-images/CourtImage-400x310.jpg)
There has still been no formal response to a government consultation on the database of rogue agents and landlords, 25 months...
11 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Banned: Rogue agency and director cannot let any property in England](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Banning Orders: just 39 issued, three years after implementation](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Council licensing scheme challenged by alternative proposals](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Humiliation for government as rogues’ database is largely ignored](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Banning Orders could rise this year after councils win extra cash](/img/default/lat.png)
Councils that have been awarded additional cash injections by government could use their windfalls to enhance their enforcement of the private...
20 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Repayment and banning orders may be applied to rogue landlord](/img/default/lat.png)
[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...
06 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![New law to ban landlord from letting for five years is backed by solicitor firm](/img/default/lat.png)
A new piece of legislation has been invoked to ban a landlord from any involvement in the private rental sector for...
30 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Banning Orders Flop: not even one issued after 12 months](/img/default/lat.png)
A Freedom of Information request by The Guardian newspaper has produced the startling admission from government that not even one landlord...
17 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Government urged to co-ordinate lettings reforms, not be scattergun](/img/default/lat.png)
A leading PropTech entrepreneur says he welcomes reforms currently moving through Parliament to professionalise the lettings sector - but he wants...
09 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Agents with banning orders: government to release numbers for each area](/img/default/lat.png)
A statement from the government has repeated its determination to clean up the private rental sector through a series of measures,...
09 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Romans is latest agency to back banning orders on rogue agents](/img/default/lat.png)
Romans has thrown its weight behind the banning orders being introduced in April which could see rogue letting agents and landlords...
26 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Consultation shows strong support for lettings sector 'banning orders'](/img/default/lat.png)
Figures released by the government show huge support for the extension of the offences under which agents and landlords may in...
29 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![Rogues' database and banning orders to come into effect in April](/img/default/lat.png)
A database of rogue letting agents and landlords and new banning orders, first promised in the Housing and Planning Act announced...
04 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![Clampdown on rogue agents and landlords welcomed by PropTech firm](/img/default/lat.png)
PropTech firm PayProp has welcomed the latest measures to clamp down on rogue elements within the lettings industry - but warns...
11 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Trade group backs banning orders on rogue agents, landlords](/img/default/lat.png)
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
From: Breaking News
![Government consults over 'banning orders' for rogue agents](/img/default/lat.png)
The government has launched an official consultation process on a package of measures to crack down on what it calls ‘rogue...
14 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![Eviction specialists want 'rogue tenants' blacklist to be drawn up](/img/default/lat.png)
Eviction specialist company Landlord Action wants the government to complement its action against rogue letting agents and tenants with a ‘rogue...
05 January 2016
From: Breaking News
![Councils want 'rogues database' to deter dodgy landlords](/img/default/lat.png)
An organisation representing councils wants a government database covering all housing-related convictions to deter rogue landlords switching from one area to...