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07 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Lettings agency was front for multi million pound drugs gang](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Arrested-UK-400x310.png)
An organised crime group involved in producing and distributing an estimated £2.4m of cannabis has been found to have e used...
10 January 2024
From: Breaking News
![Police urge agents to smoke out illegal cannabis farms](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/Cannabis-Plant-1-400x310.jpg)
Police are urging letting agents and landlords to act swiftly if they think one of their properties is being used as...
26 September 2023
From: Breaking News
![Police warning to check rental units for cannabis factories](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/Cannabis-Farm-1-400x310.jpg)
Police are encouraging letting agents and landlords to regularly check properties following the discovery on a cannabis factory. Police attended the address...
21 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![Cannabis Farms - agents asked to smoke out culprits](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/Cannabis-Farm-1-400x310.jpg)
Five regional police and crime commissioners have written to letting agents highlighting the problems of cannabis farms in private rental properties. The...
21 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agents jailed for role in multi-million-pounds drugs crimes](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Arrested-UK-400x310.png)
Two agents who helped establish a multi-million-pound drugs ring in two cities have been jailed. Ossama Omar and Mohamed Latif ran Platinum...
21 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Belvoir branch amongst raft of agencies kicked out of The Property Ombudsman](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Property-Newspaper-400x310.jpg)
Six agencies have been excluded from The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensation to wronged complainants. One was the Belvoir...
13 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![Police tips for agents on how to smoke out cannabis farms](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/Cannabis-Farm-1-400x310.jpg)
Police officers are this week raising awareness among agents about the signs of potential cannabis grows. The campaign is being led in...
17 November 2021
From: Breaking News
!['Drugs, booby-traps and rentals' – an expanding issue for agents?](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/Cannabis-Farm-1-400x310.jpg)
Agents need to be diligent regarding the the growth of cannabis in rental properties and the devastating lengths tenants will go to...
21 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Tenant offers agents hush money over cannabis factory](/img/default/lat.png)
A rogue tenant has tried to bribe two letting agents with hush money after they discovered his cannabis growing factory. Anisi Hamollari,...
29 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Two agents and their firm must pay thousands compensation to landlord](/img/default/lat.png)
Two letting agents have been ordered to pay £16,000 to a landlord after their activities were found to be unregistered and...
24 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![A Fair Cop: no need to plant evidence in this rental property](/img/default/lat.png)
Essex Police Force has tweeted a pair of photographs that go to prove agents should check a property before going on a...
17 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Police bust major £400,000 drugs racket run by rogue landlord](/img/default/lat.png)
West Midlands Police have revealed that a major drugs racket being run by a rogue landlord from his properties in Coventry...
16 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Pot-smoking agent escapes driving ban after court hears career risk](/img/default/lat.png)
A Derbyshire estate agent has escaped a driving ban after being found smoking cannabis in a car. Annabelle Lamb was spotted with...
13 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents Beware - what to do if you suspect a cannabis farm](/img/default/lat.png)
A law firm is warning that agents and landlords should carefully follow correct procedures if they suspect a rented property is...
03 August 2020
From: Breaking News
![Cannabis alert for private rental sector as electricity thefts surge](/img/default/lat.png)
New analysis by Direct Line for Business reveals a surge in the number of police investigations into the theft of electricity,...
17 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Police raid smokes out cannabis farm and string of lettings problems](/img/default/lat.png)
A joint operation between Avon and Somerset Police and North Somerset council has uncovered a string of issues connected with rental...
02 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Agents duped by man sub-letting homes to create £7m cannabis empire](/img/default/lat.png)
Letting agents were amongst those duped by a Merseyside builder who rented 33 homes and then sub-let them to allow the...
14 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Drug dealer's business seized after letting agent tips off police](/img/default/lat.png)
Police officers have seized well over £6,000 worth of cannabis and drug manufacturing equipment after being tipped off by a letting...
07 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Why Landlords Still Need Letting Agents Despite Changing Regulations](/img/default/lat.png)
With a host of changing regulations hitting the private rental sector, some landlords may be put off using letting agents, but...
20 July 2017
From: Sponsored Content
![Research smokes out worst areas for cannabis farming in rented flats](/img/default/lat.png)
The problem of cannabis ‘farmers’ using privately rented properties to mass-produce the drug is at its worst in the West Midlands,...
11 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Letting agents ran £2m drugs factory in properties they managed](/img/default/lat.png)
A lettings agency in south London has been found to be the front for a cannabis growing operation, with drugs grown...
19 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![Letting agency used as cover for vast cannabis farming network](/img/default/lat.png)
A trio of criminals have been jailed for 18 years after using the cover of a lettings agency to allow them...
13 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![Agency welcomes sentence for manager in forged tenancies case](/img/default/lat.png)
Andrews Property Group says it welcomes the sentence imposed on one of its branch managers after a long-running court case involving...
08 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![Landlord who tried to blame tenant jailed for cannabis production](/img/default/lat.png)
A landlord has been jailed for four years for cultivating cannabis. Sixty-year-old James Sullivan was thought to have been overseeing the cultivation...
10 June 2015
From: Breaking News
![Landlords warned to remain vigilant for cannabis production](/img/default/lat.png)
Landlords and agents are being warned to remain vigilant as new figures reveal the extent of cannabis cultivation in the UK. Direct...