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A London lettings agency has been ordered to pay over £12,000 in a fine and costs for its part in running...

A London property managing agent has been ordered to pay more than £80,000 for safety failings which “exposed a potentially large...

A lettings agency in central London has been issued with a fine for not belonging to a Client Money Protection scheme. The...

A landlord who built unlawful extensions to a family home and squeezed up to 14 people into the rooms has forfeited...

A long-running case about a house divided up and let out without planning permission has resulted in a fine of nearly...

A council has won a planning appeal banning the use of a property for short lets - considered a landmark case...

A property built without planning consent and then illegally let to a family has been knocked down by Ealing council in...

The so-called King and Queen of Buy To Let, the controversial husband and wife team of Fergus and Judith Wilson, are...

A landlord has been ordered to pay back no less than £190,000 - equivalent to nine years’ rent - after he...

A rogue landlord who divided his three-bedroom home in central London into eight flats has ended up with a bill of...

A council has used a drone with a thermal imaging camera to identify illegal ‘sheds’ where tenants are being rented beds...

The government has agreed that a council in London where all 51 councillors are Labour should go ahead with a five...

A London council has won one of the largest-ever Proceeds of Crime claims from an unscrupulous buy to let investor. Andre Charles Trepel,...

A buy to let investor who hid families in windowless rooms after failing to get planning permission for a block of...

A buy to let investor has lost possession of his flat after converting it into an Illegal House in Multiple Occupation...

A lettings agency has been banned from running an Airbnb let in a residential block. It relates to a block in Glasgow...

A court has ordered a husband and wife pair of buy to let investors to pay back £322,282 in illegal income. A...

Famous buy to let landlord Judith Wilson has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay almost £15,000 costs for failing to...

A couple from east London who illegally converted a town centre office block into 14 flats have been ordered to pay...

We regularly carry stories about fines for landlords and letting agents who have apparently broken council or national laws - but...

A landlord is almost £42,000 worse off after repeatedly ignoring council orders to stop illegally letting so called “beds in sheds”...

One of Britain's highest profile landlords is to be sentenced on December 11 - and she must show the court details of...

A couple who illegally converted an office block into 14 flats have been found guilty for disregarding planning laws - and...

The new online database identifying rogue letting agents and landlords will save lives according to the London Fire Brigade. We wrote about...

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

The owner of a property firm who reportedly misled tenants and let an illegally converted property has been jailed for 155...

A buy to let investor reported to be receiving rental income of £150,000 a year must pay over £340,000 after illegally...

A landlord who was found guilty of illegally converting a hotel into 26 flats has been given three months to pay...

A man who illegally housed tenants inside his converted garage has been ordered to pay £173,141 by a court.   Amir Golesorkhi turned...

A lettings firm and a property management company that converted a family home into micro flats have been found guilty of...

An east London landlord, who was also director of a letting agency, has been forced to pay out over £235,000 for...

A buy to let landlord who converted an Uxbridge house into two flats without planning permission has been ordered to pay...

A letting agency specialising in student accommodation in Nottingham city centre and its director have admitted a series of breaches of...

A landlord guilty of breaching a planning enforcement notice has been ordered to pay £700,000 in fines and costs - the...

Havering council has successfully prosecuted a landlord who must now pay £101,300 for building illegal flats at her property. Jaghtar Khaira was...

Two buy to let investors who breached planning regulations by converting a house into seven studio flats have been ordered to...

An unauthorised outhouse with a concealed entrance constructed at the back of a residential property in west London - one of...

A council has asked agents in its area to tell landlords of additional planning powers taken by the authority which may...

A previously-convicted landlord has been ordered to pay over £200,000 by a court for illegally converting two properties into flats without...

A rogue landlord who illegally converted one house into a nine flats has been handed a maximum £20,000 fine after being...

Two unauthorised outbuildings occupied by five adults and a child have been demolished by a London council after a landlord failed...

A landlord has a bill of more than £85,000 for unlawfully letting a basement flat. As part of a council planning enforcement...

A couple from Cambridgeshire have been fined £10,000 and ordered to hand over in excess of £75,000 after repeatedly renting out...