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A new guide from Propertymark explains the rights which private rental tenants have - and sets out how they can challenge...

Trading Standards has stopped a lettings agency owner from being a company director after he defrauded customers by over £80,000. Francis Smart,...

Propertymark has given an insight into how letting agents are likely to be expected to use a new Landlords Database. The database...

A lettings agency maintenance manager stole almost £100,000 from her company - but has escaped prison. Farida Mughal was working at the...

A lettings company called Trophy Homes Limited, based in Liverpool, has pleaded guilty to failing to apply for an HMO licence...

A landlord has been fined a four figure sum for failing to produce documentation for a council. Fathima Syeda Kauser of Luton pleaded...

A new government survey of private renters is checking whether they received the correct documentation from their agent when they begin...

There has still been no formal response to a government consultation on the database of rogue agents and landlords, 25 months...

Long-standing industry figure Robin Paterson has described how a company has re-shaped its service post-pandemic to offer high quality short lets...

Media reports from Gateshead claim two brothers opened fire on a lettings agency with an air pistol when they were told they...

The National Residential Landlords Association has dismissed the latest claims by campaigning charity Shelter that landlords have not done enough to...

The safeagent accreditation business says it has helped secure the conviction of a rogue lettings agent who falsely claimed membership of...

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...

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

Martin & Co says it has compensated clients fully after a rogue lettings agent in Cornwall added sums to invoices sent...

A long-term legal critic of selective licensing is warning that letting agents could be held jointly accountable with the landlords, -...

A Shropshire man has become the first in England to be banned from being a landlord.  In a case brought by Telford...

Police in South Shields have called for the sharing of information about tenants in HMOs - and a council is considering...

A London council’s action against a property agent it has accused of “repeated negligence” has resulted in £37,000 of fines and...

A tenant pretending to be landlord has been ordered to pay more than £21,000 after he carved up five family homes...

Local authorities are failing in their duty to prosecute criminal letting agents, the National Landlords Association (NLA) has warned. The NLA says...

A buy to let investor has been left with a £2,000 bill and a criminal conviction after letting out his property...

Three brothers and a property management company have received fines and a confiscation order, and must pay costs, following what a...

A crooked lettings agent who illegally pocketed tenants’ deposits to pay for his gambling addiction and lavish lifestyle has been convicted...

A rental campaigner claims the amount of money stolen this year by crooked lettings agents and landlords has topped the £1.3m...

Three letting agents who failed to return tenants’ deposits or pass on rent payments to landlords have been convicted of fraud...

A buy to let investor has been forced to close down two rat infested homes he owns in Rotherham after they...

The former office manager of an estate agency in Scunthorpe conned her employer out of over £34,000, a court has heard. Local...

Crooked letting agents and landlords have so far this year been convicted of illegally pocketing over £900,000 of tenant’s cash – and there’s...

The cash value of tenancy deposits crooked landlords and letting agents have been convicted of pocketing in 2018 has already passed...

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

Crooked landlords and letting agents were convicted of stealing £1,162,037 of tenant’s cash in 2017 – a rise of 14 per...

A London council is marking 125 successful prosecutions against agents, landlords and sub-letting tenants since 2016. The authority, Brent, says the convictions...

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...

Crooked letting agents and landlords have raided close to £1m from tenancy deposit accounts in 2017, new figures show. Campaigning agent Ajay Jagota,...

The first London boroughs are now rolling out the Greater London Authority’s ‘Rogue Landlord and Agent Checker’ - allowing tenants to...

There has been another prosecution under the controversial Rent Smart Wales regulations - although this time the landlord in question was...

A new team of investigative council officers are hitting the streets of the capital to tackle unlawful nightly letting using websites like...

A lettings agency chief who monitors legal action against rogue agencies and landlords says almost £850,000 of deposits have been stolen...

A landlord has been prosecuted and fined for evicting a tenant illegally.  Last week, Suhail Mahmood, 30, was convicted at Sheffield Magistrates'...

Crooked letting agents have been convicted of stealing almost £700,000 of tenants’ deposits in the first half of 2017.   Campaigning letting agent...

A prominent campaigner over the misappropriation of rental deposits has welcomed the news that government proposals to ban letting agent fees...

A property company owner who waged a campaign of harassment and intimidation against a young mother he wanted to illegally evict...

The owner of a house in multiple occupation in the leafy Hampstead area of north London has been hit with a...

A rogue landlord found guilty of waging a campaign of harassment and intimidation against a young mother he wanted to illegally...

Sheffield council claims it receives 2,000 complaints relating to private rental sector conditions each year - and in one month it...

The chief executive of an agency in Stoke is offering £500 for information leading to the conviction of individuals who ransacked...

New parts of the Immigration Act 2016 come into effect today, consolidating the Right To Rent regulations that came into effect...

A legal tribunal has ruled that a landlord must refund his tenants rent totalling £2,934 because he housed them in unlicensed...

An organisation representing councils wants a government database covering all housing-related convictions to deter rogue landlords switching from one area to...

A local authority has refused to issue a private landlord licence after it was revealed the applicant had a conviction for...

The publication Environmental Health News has secured the release of files showing the details of hundreds of convicted private landlords in...