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The lettings agency Winkworth has taken the unusual step of criticising policies of a series of councils. The councils are all Labour...

Propertymark has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove outlining its concerns about the latest licensing scheme proposal from a local council. The...

A ruling of the First Tier Property Tribunal has put a London property management firm in the clear following a dispute...

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

A London council has dropped plans to restrict the creation of HMOs, a full 12 months after a consultation on the...

The government has rejected a council’s bid to extend its licensing scheme for privately rented housing. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local...

A landlord has been ordered to pay back no less than £190,000 - equivalent to nine years’ rent - after he...

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

A rogue landlord who housed more than 25 tenants in a rundown property has been found guilty of serious housing and...

A rogue landlord has been ordered to pay over £60,000 after - in the words of the council - “being found...

Local authority officers have found three tenants living inside a shed in the garden of a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Brent,...

A rogue landlady has been hit with a fine of £24,000 after conning her tenants and the local authorities with a...

A dawn raid on unlicensed HMOs in north London last week were the latest sign of a crackdown on rogue operators...

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 council accused of paying over £500,000 to a landlord it had already ruled as unfit to rent out property is...

A court has ordered a husband and wife pair of buy to let investors to pay back £322,282 in illegal income. A...

A local authority claims that a court decision may set a legal precedent for other councils across the UK using the...

A notorious rogue landlord must pay £1.5m or risk spending up to nine years in prison after what is thought to...

A lettings agent who let a tiny room behind a kitchen in a property in London has been ordered to pay...

A London local authority is looking for the landlord of a bungalow which had two bedrooms but was home to 15...

A London council has agreed to a TV crew taking part in a raid on an overcrowded and unlicensed HMO. The surprise...

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

A head tenant who changed the locks on a property that was illegally sublet to no fewer than 35 men has...

A lettings agency has been fined over £20,000 for failing to licence an overcrowded semi detached house in London. The fine was...

Council officers staged a dawn raid to uncover an unlicensed HMO in north London. The team discovered 10 men and women sleeping...

A property company that failed to repair a pigeon-infested loft has been fined a total of £31,026, including an order to...

Three head tenants who sub-let a three bedroom house to 35 men have been hit with over £23,000 in fines. Gheorghe-Valentin Lingurar...

Brent Council has confirmed that the government has approved its request to extend the local selective licensing scheme. The local authority, which...

A London council has been the first in the country to use the Proceeds of Crime Act for a breach in...

Two landlords and two tenants were fined a total of over £11,000 after losing their appeal against housing convictions concerning property...

Almost 60 per cent of councils across Britain have not prosecuted any landlord for any offence in the past year according...

A dawn raid on a home in north London has discovered 35 men bedding down on mattresses in every room except...

A buy to let investor who kept 24 adults and children in what a local council calls “appalling conditions” has a...

A landlord who was found guilty of illegally converting a hotel into 26 flats has been given three months to pay...

A London council is using dawn raids in its clampdown on illegal subletting and on so-called ‘beds in sheds’ where tenants...

A man who illegally housed tenants inside his converted garage has been ordered to pay £173,141 by a court.   Amir Golesorkhi turned...

More than 100 criminal prosecutions have been secured against landlords since the start of an enforcement crackdown by Brent council in...

A lettings firm and a property management company that converted a family home into micro flats have been found guilty of...

A family of rogue landlords who crammed 31 tenants into a 'Slumdog Millionaire'-style shanty home have this month been found guilty...

A series of prosecutions of rogue landlords by a London council has also seen a so-called ‘property manager’ fined a four-figure...

A building firm that carried out illegal building work to create homes to let has been hit with a £250,000 confiscation...

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

Brent council in London is seeking the views of agents- as well as landlords, tenants and others - on the extension...

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

A letting agency and one of its landlords have been fined over £20,000 and given criminal records for failing to licence...

A rogue landlord faces a court bill of almost £40,000 after being caught cramming 24 people into a house in north...

The landlord of a London flat is almost £18,000 worse off and has a criminal record after failing to make renovations to...

A raid on a house has uncovered appalling conditions including a Slumdog Millionaire-style shanty town shack made from wood offcuts, pallets...

A landlord who waged what a local authority describes as “a war of intimidation” against tenants living in his property has...

A previously-convicted landlord has been ordered to pay over £200,000 by a court for illegally converting two properties into flats without...

A landlord who rented out a property with no hot water and poor heating, leading to a council having to rehouse...

A rogue landlord who rented out a shoddy property in north west London has become the first to be fined under...