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A wealthy landlord who set up a fake lettings agency in Hull has been jailed for 11 years for allowing ‘ghost tenants’ to...

An organised crime group involved in producing and distributing an estimated £2.4m of cannabis has been found to have e used...

Police are urging letting agents and landlords to act swiftly if they think one of their properties is being used as...

Police are encouraging letting agents and landlords to regularly check properties following the discovery on a cannabis factory. Police attended the address...

Five regional police and crime commissioners have written to letting agents highlighting the problems of cannabis farms in private rental properties.  The...

Two agents who helped establish a multi-million-pound drugs ring in two cities have been jailed. Ossama Omar and Mohamed Latif ran Platinum...

Six agencies have been excluded from The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensation to wronged complainants. One was the Belvoir...

Police officers are this week raising awareness among agents about the signs of potential cannabis grows. The campaign is being led in...

Agents need to be diligent regarding the the growth of cannabis in rental properties and the devastating lengths tenants will go to...

A rogue tenant has tried to bribe two letting agents with hush money after they discovered his cannabis growing factory. Anisi Hamollari,...

Two letting agents have been ordered to pay £16,000 to a landlord after their activities were found to be unregistered and...

Essex Police Force has tweeted a pair of photographs that go to prove agents should check a property before going on a...

West Midlands Police have revealed that a major drugs racket being run by a rogue landlord from his properties in Coventry...

A Derbyshire estate agent has escaped a driving ban after being found smoking cannabis in a car. Annabelle Lamb was spotted with...

A law firm is warning that agents and landlords should carefully follow correct procedures if they suspect a rented property is...

New analysis by Direct Line for Business reveals a surge in the number of police investigations into the theft of electricity,...

A joint operation between Avon and Somerset Police and North Somerset council has uncovered a string of issues connected with rental...

Letting agents were amongst those duped by a Merseyside builder who rented 33 homes and then sub-let them to allow the...

Police officers have seized well over £6,000 worth of cannabis and drug manufacturing equipment after being tipped off by a letting...

With a host of changing regulations hitting the private rental sector, some landlords may be put off using letting agents, but...

The problem of cannabis ‘farmers’ using privately rented properties to mass-produce the drug is at its worst in the West Midlands,...

A lettings agency in south London has been found to be the front for a cannabis growing operation, with drugs grown...

A trio of criminals have been jailed for 18 years after using the cover of a lettings agency to allow them...

Andrews Property Group says it welcomes the sentence imposed on one of its branch managers after a long-running court case involving...

A landlord has been jailed for four years for cultivating cannabis. Sixty-year-old James Sullivan was thought to have been overseeing the cultivation...

Landlords and agents are being warned to remain vigilant as new figures reveal the extent of cannabis cultivation in the UK.  Direct...

A former Andrews letting agent and his ex-girlfriend are reported to have pleaded guilty to forging tenancy applications for properties which...