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Two thirds of local authorities in England and Wales brought no prosecutions against private landlords in 2017/18 according to research by the...

A lettings trade body has welcomed extra government funding for English councils to clamp down on criminal landlords. But the Residential Landlords...

The National Landlords Association is the latest trade body to back what is being described as a landmark review of the...

The Residential Landlords Association has told another council that its plans to introduce selective licensing in areas of its town are...

Letting agents and others in the private rental sector have responded to the latest government intervention - a review into how...

Trade bodies have been responding to today’s report of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee deliberations on the private...

The head of a major PropTech company serving the lettings sector says he want to see the introduction of a database...

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

The chief operating officer of a leading PropTech company says government proposals to increase mandatory licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation...

The chairman of the Residential Landlords Association has written in the Labour-supporting New Statesman magazine about the need for the lettings...

Two landlords have been fined almost £14,000 for breaching a multitude of property management regulations. Abdul Qadir, 56, and Dr Mohammed Anwar,...

The National Approved Lettings Scheme has called for the London Mayor’s new rogue agents’ database to be extended to include those...

Letting agents who have broken the law are set to be ‘named and shamed’ by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan,...

A senior Labour politician in a London borough has branded so-called ‘rip off landlords’ as “the scourge of London.”   Councillor Laila Butt,...

Councils have been told to up their game to protect tenants from a minority of landlords providing sub-standard accommodation.   The call, being...

London mayor says the private rental sector will play an increasing part in solving the capital’s housing shortage - but insists...

Two landlord associations have criticised local councils for a lack of enforcement and failing to prosecute criminal landlords.  The Residential Landlords Association...

Some 36% of UK landlords have had a property abandoned by tenants, according to research. Abandonment - which occurs when a tenant...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has revealed what it calls “worryingly low levels of enforcement of rented housing regulations” by local authorities. Using...

Action is needed to tackle the scandal of ‘buy to leave’ investors who are denying Londoners the homes they need, according...

A proposal to make it easier for some local councils to introduce licensing schemes governing the private rental sector will do...

Police in Scotland are clamping down on what they call “gangster landlords” who are using the lettings sector for money laundering.  A...

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

Local councils are being urged to drop landlord licensing schemes following the publication of new laws showing that they are not...

London Mayor and Tory leadership wannabee Boris Johnson wants rogue operators in the private rental sectors to be banned with repeat...

A Tory MP is today introducing a Bill that will make it much easier for authorities to identify criminal landlords. The measure...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is calling for more effective action to find the minority of landlords who are criminals. The Association...