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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...

Propertymark has made a strident set of demands of the government in a bid to end the so-called Sex For Rent...

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

A lettings agency manager stole nearly £140,000 from her company to help clear her son’s drug debt. Wendy Dare, 57, is now...

The former director of a lettings agency has received a suspended jail sentence for making threats of violence against ex-colleagues in...

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...

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

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

The Money Laundering Regulations require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation to...

Figures released by the government show huge support for the extension of the offences under which agents and landlords may in...

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

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

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