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Another client money protection scheme has been given approval to launch itself before regulations go live on April 1.  From that date...

Client Money Protect has gained formal government approval to operate a client money protection scheme when the regulations go live on...

A landlord has been ordered to pay over £5,000 in fines and costs in a licensing dispute with a local council.  Almas...

The Tenants’ Fees Bill has now become law, receiving formal Royal Assent yesterday afternoon - and within minutes, the government issued...

A lettings agency and its director have been fined a total of £30,000 for failing to licence HMOs and giving sham...

A letting agent in east London has been fined £4,000 after apparently publishing the incorrect fees that it levies on tenants...

One of the existing two government-authorised redress schemes governing estate and letting agents has called on landlords to voluntarily join, ahead...

A landlord who failed to comply with orders to improve the standard of a property has had to pay over £7,500...

A rental platform says it welcomes government plans to overhaul redress for tenants and others in the housing system but it...

There’s been broad support from the lettings sector for the wide-ranging reform of the redress system announced yesterday by housing secretary...

A buy to let investor who let out a converted attic room despite it being the subject of a council prohibition...

The man who is arguably Britain’s most controversial landlord - Fergus Wilson - is likely to be issuing up to 90...

Councils have been accused of routinely pursuing the most serious enforcement option open to them if they find a local licensing...

A council has prosecuted a buy to let investor for not making necessary improvements to his property. The landlord, Balwinder Singh Chandi,...

London lettings agency Sterling De Vere must pay a £167,000 fine and compensation of £740 to a renter for a misleading...

A holiday lettings company and a longer term private rental listings services have come together to try to optimise income for...

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

A landlord and building contractor have been fined after quantities of asbestos fibres were released from the demolition of a conservatory...

A buy to let investor has been fined more than £5,000 and ordered to pay a further £4,000 after HMO offences.  John...

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

The owner of a buy to let property already shut by police has been fined by a court in Devon.  In June...

Buy to let investor Changhaiz Ishaq has been ordered to pay a £8,510 fine for defying a prohibition order on his...

A local authority claims that a court decision may set a legal precedent for other councils across the UK using the...

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...

A notorious rogue landlord must pay £1.5m or risk spending up to nine years in prison after what is thought to...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says agents who accept that the lettings fee ban is coming and who plan positively for its...

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

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

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

Shelter is campaigning for the outlawing if default fees levied on tenants by agents in Wales. While the campaigning group welcomes the Renting...

A council in the north of England has issued its first-ever Civil Penalty Notice on a landlord - and it involved...

The heavy-handed administration of selective licensing schemes is driving out buy to let investors. That’s the claim from David Kirwan of Kirwans...

Two property companies which failed to follow a local council’s lettings sector licensing scheme have been fined a combined £32,000. Owners of...

A landlord had been ordered to give back almost £4,000 that was paid to him while operating without a licence. The case...

Havering council in London has issued £261,750 in penalty notices to what it calls ‘criminals’ operating in the private rental sector.  Between...

A landlord has been ordered to pay £452 after he breached the terms of his licence in an area of County...

A landlord has been hit with more than £5,500 of fines and costs after he allowed a family with three young...

A property management company which kept up to 23 adults in overcrowded conditions has been fined £7,500 by a council in...

A managing agent who used ‘ghost tenants’ as a front so that she could cram 16 people into one overcrowded house...

A London agency has been fined for the second time in 11 months. Local media in Barking, east London, report that Primelodge...

A call has been made for the Tenants’ Fees Bill to be made even stricter following a claim that over a...

New research may explain why the government and Labour appear to be competing with each other to attack landlords and letting...

The Tenant Fees Bill is back in Parliament this week when it goes for its Second Reading in the House of...

A landlord who rented out an unlicenced HMO has been fined more than £22,000 after the local council found five people...

A buy to let investor that let at least eight people from six different families rent space in his three-storey property...

The Labour-led local authority in Hackney has issued a statement pledging fines or even bans if landlords fail to get appropriate...

An overcrowded property let by an unlicensed company with inadequate fire precautions and unheated rooms has led to a £46,620 fine...

A lettings agent described as ‘rogue’ by a London council, along with two lettings companies, have been heavily fined for operating...

A property management firm chief who had to pay over £20,000 after being found guilty of nine offences relating to an...

A lettings agent who let a tiny room behind a kitchen in a property in London has been ordered to pay...

An investment trust has been launched and looks likely to be competing for individual investors who may see it as an...

The landlord of an HMO who subjected his tenants to insanitary and unsafe living conditions has been told he will no...

It’s been announced that the next stage of the Tenants’ Fees Bill through Parliament will be its Second Reading in the...

It is now just three weeks until licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) is extended. The new rules, which will require...

A landlord in Reading has been handed a huge fine for serious breaches of fire safety regulations.  Philip Brotherton's company Cresctcourt Properties...

MPs have proposed a series of amendments to the Tenant Fees Bill as part of its Report Stage and Third Reading...

A London council has fined a letting agency over £10,000 for failing to install smoke alarms in a rental property. Waltham Forest...

A landlord has been hit with a total fine of almost £40,000 for breaching House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) management regulations. David...

An Essex council claims it is one of the first to be granted a rent repayment order - part of legislation...

In 2014 The Properties Misdescriptions Act was repealed and replaced with the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations, otherwise known as...

A Luton lettings agency and its director, plus a landlord, have all been found guilty of offences related to a breach...

A buy to let investor has been fined £20,000 after a kitchen fire that occurred in May last year at a...

A local authority has taken the unusual step of naming seven buy to let landlords prosecuted in the past month in...

A buy to let investor has been fined £1,750 because of his alleged “aggressive practices”.  Shafaqat Ali Sadiq, of Derby, has been...

More big fines have been handed out in recent legal action regarding buy to let investors who have not stuck by...

A London landlord has been ordered to pay over £13,000 for breaching the conditions of his licence as a result of...

It’s been a difficult summer for Airbnb and other short-let platforms operating in the UK. Recently the European Commission gave Airbnb until the...

An investor has been fined £2,525 after failing to licence her property and allegedly providing inadequate living conditions for her tenants. Adeola...

A tenant who was ripping off other tenants in an overcrowded bungalow "death trap" has been fined tens of thousands of...

Newspapers in Kent are reporting that controversial buy to let multi-millionaire Fergus Wilson has evicted four single mothers from his properties...

Councillors in Stockton-on-Tees are under pressure to rethink plans to introduce Selective Licensing of private rented housing in two areas of...

The latest LendInvest buy to let report, which ranks 105 postcode areas around England and Wales based on a combination of...

Airbnb is facing more attempts to regulate its short lets, this time with the European Commission calling on the platform to...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has heaped praise on a local authority which has fined 27 lettings and managing agents...

A gas safety engineer has pleaded guilty with a landlord of falsifying gas safety certificates for a string of private rental...

A specialist buy to let mortgage lender says buy to let investors should act now - even if it means borrowing...

Three agencies have been heavily fined after a property in London was being used for multiple occupation with 11 people living...

Landlords are most likely to have invested in a boiler upgrade in the last 12 months to boost the energy efficiency...

A landlord has been prosecuted for failing to comply with Improvement Notices on her property and failing to licence her house...

A buy to let investor has ended up with a bill for thousands of pounds after being found guilty of breaching...

A new lettings agency set up at Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset says it’s setting out to atone for the misdemeanours of nearby...

Letting agents and landlords will have to win planning consent to erect To Let signs in student areas of Leicester from...

A Build To Rent business says investors in the private rental sector should be more flexible in their approach to private...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur has renewed his call for letting agents to use more technology to clean up their act when...

A council tax fraud totaling over £2,800 across three properties and over six years has resulted in the buy to let...

Figures from the Home Office show that as of the end of March, a total of 405 fines for non-compliance with...

An experienced agent claims that forgoing the services of a letting agent to save money is a false economy for landlords. In...

This week marks a major milestone in Mayor of London Sadiq Khan's efforts to crack down on the capital's rogue letting...

Foxtons has lost an appeal against the £35,000 fine it was hit with at the end of last year.  The agency was...

Today Trading Standards teams across the country will highlight the work they do to protect landlords and tenants from rogue letting...

Two rogue letting agents in London have been fined thousands of pounds as part of a council campaign to clean up...

A Birmingham letting agent has a new way of resolving arrears run up by some of his tenants - he goes...

A lettings agency has been fined over £20,000 for failing to licence an overcrowded semi detached house in London. The fine was...

An agent has been banned from letting properties under ‘fit and proper person’ legislation in Scotland, following an incident in which...

The industry has reacted angrily to the announcement yesterday that the Tenants’ Fees Bill is now formally starting its progress through...

A buy to let investor faces a fine of £7,000 plus costs and a victim surcharge for failing to upgrade his...

A buy to let investor has been found guilty of 35 HMO-related offences - and has to pay a total fine...

A leading property law specialist has warned that many buy to let investors remain unaware of the new Minimum Energy Efficiency...

A property managing agent has been ordered to pay £40,000 following the death of a woman at a fire at a...

West Midlands Police and Birmingham council teamed up to investigate a property in the city which was riddled with health and...

It’s less than two weeks before The ESTAS 2018 held in London on Friday April 20. It’s the biggest and best bash...

A property company that failed to repair a pigeon-infested loft has been fined a total of £31,026, including an order to...

A property management company which ignored a series of housing safety regulations and flouted laws designed to protect tenants’ rights has...

A Select Committee of MPs investigating the proposed ban on agents’ fees levied on tenants says the measure could save renters...

A Brighton and Hove lettings agent has been fined more than £3,000 for allowing two properties that he owned himself to...

The consumer group Which? says the new Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards starting next weekend could affect 300,000 buy to let properties.  From...

A property management company has been landed with a legal bill of almost £2,000 after admitting that it failed to keep...

Two landlords have been hit with hefty court fines for failing to comply with a local licensing scheme. The pair are the...

A Kent county councillor says letting agents “would have to be pretty dumb” to allow a situation arise whereby they would...

The government has set out new measures to mitigate against overcrowded and dangerous living conditions of private tenants in shared homes. From...

A new survey suggests that only four per cent of tenants and landlords are aware of the new Minimum Energy Efficiency...

With only three weeks to go to the introduction of the first phase of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards, a specialist mortgage...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is reminding its members to tell landlord clients that they have only a month to...

Three head tenants who sub-let a three bedroom house to 35 men have been hit with over £23,000 in fines. Gheorghe-Valentin Lingurar...

A local authority has fined four landlords who failed to licence a total of seven properties under its selective licensing scheme. Hastings...

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

A rogue landlord has been fined twice in the space of two months for failing to provide a suitable standard of...

Two buy to let investors have been fined a total of more than £27,000 under enforcement powers introduced in Burnley to...

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

A council says it hopes a massive set of fines and costs imposed on one buy to let investor and his...

A lettings agency apparently trying to get around HMO regulations has been prosecuted for licensing and housing offences.  Easy Let Agency let...

Two landlords and two tenants were fined a total of over £11,000 after losing their appeal against housing convictions concerning property...

New figures appear to show that younger people may prefer investing in property over pensions - giving new hope to the...

A fine of over £29,000 has been imposed on an absentee landlord whose property was said to have put tenants’ lives...

Letting Agent Today understands that Foxtons has been asked to appear at a hearing staged by a London council to prove...

Today sees the return of MPs to Parliament following the Christmas break, and one early task is to hear oral evidence...

A landlord has been ordered to pay £20,000 after being found guilty of nine offences in relation to a house in...

The local authority at Brent in north London has secured what it calls “an important court victory” after “appalling conditions” were...

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

The landlord of an HMO has been fined £3,300 for failures to meet his obligations, particularly regarding fire safety. At Northampton magistrates...

A buy to let investor who a judge said “cut corners” and exposed his tenants to “significant risk” has been ordered...

Foxtons has been fined £35,000 for failing to prove to a local council that a house it was letting was safe...

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 who failed to purchase a £542 licence for his HMO has been ordered to pay almost...

Rent Smart Wales, the licensing and training regime which is now a year old, has taken an agent and a landlord...

The Property Ombudsman scheme has launched the third and latest phase of its national campaign with the Chartered Trading Standards Institute...

A buy to let investor has been fined over £12,000 for illegally renting out a basement underneath an outbuilding at his...

The draft Bill to ban letting agents’ fees levied on tenants has been published - it’s to be called the Tenants’...

It is 50 years since the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 became law and now a firm speciaising in enfranchisement extension wants the government...

Four landlords have been fined and ordered to pay costs totalling £232,155.68 in the first prosecutions of its kind brought by...

The Welsh Government has launched a consultation on draft regulations and guidance to implement the Fitness for Human Habitation requirements for...

Wear and tear can be a highly contentious issue for many tenants and landlords; many arguments have arisen because of unclear definitions...

Letting agency Saxons has been fined more than £3,000 after pleading guilty to the offence of displaying an unauthorised To Let...

A property company and a landlord have been fined over £200,000 after being accused of putting tenants’ lives in danger by...

A letting agent named in a case concerning a rat-infested House in Multiple Occupation in Leytonstone, East London, has been fined...

A landlord has been fined a total of £7,298 for operating an unlicensed house in multiple occupation in Oxford that was...

Trading Standards says representatives from 15 departments will today visit lettings and property management firms across London in a bid to...

Letting agency Spicerhaart has been fined £2,670 after pleading guilty to operating an unlicensed house in multiple occupation.   A prosecution was brought...

A lettings agency and its director have been ordered to pay more than £2,500 in fines and costs for illegally advertising...

A Scarborough buy to let investor has been found guilty of two offences under the Housing Act 2004 for non-compliance with...

A landlord from Cornwall has been fined after failing to maintain gas appliances at his rental properties in Launceston.   Truro Crown Court...

Almost a fifth of landlords say they are now less likely to let to EU nationals or people from the European...

The government is being urged by the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) to do more to enforce compulsory fee disclosure. Since May 2015,...

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

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

This month’s prosecution of a letting agency for issuing ‘sham licences’ that suggested occupiers had no right to challenge eviction and...

A rogue landlord in Corby has been ordered to pay over £20,000 and sign up to a Criminal Behaviour Order which...

A tenant appears to be entitled to pay sub-market rent for the rest of his life after a legal case involving...

A legal firm has added its weight to the warning that many Airbnb hosts could be, by accident or design, breaching...

The international backlash against Airbnb and similar short-let online platforms continues.    Earlier this week a video being shown on cable TV in the...

Leeds Building Society is the latest major lender to reveal changes to buy to let lending ahead of new rules coming...

Training organisation Solvo Vir is inviting letting agents and landlords to attend courses to bring them up to date with new...

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

Campaigning charity Shelter - which last week suggested landlords were more likely to quit buy to let because they grew old...

Q: What does it say on your business card? Tim Wright, Product Director, KeyAGENT Q: What does KeyAGENT do? We’re a team of multi-award...

More than 100 criminal prosecutions have been secured against landlords since the start of an enforcement crackdown by Brent council in...

A landlord has been fined over £15,000 after failing to maintain gas appliances at the domestic property in Haverfordwest.   Llanelli Magistrates’ Court...

With a host of changing regulations hitting the private rental sector, some landlords may be put off using letting agents, but...

A south London property firm has been prosecuted by a local authority over its HMO management and may now have to...

Almost one in seven private renters are spending more than half of their total income on rent, in stark contrast to...

A local authority has clamped down on what it describes as illegal advertising boards, fining agencies thousands of pounds in the...

The crowdfunding campaign for a legal challenge against the rollout of the Right to Rent scheme across the UK has exceeded...

A landlord has been ordered to pay over £10,000 after pleading guilty to breaching three separate fire regulations. Charles Thornton was fined...

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

A student landlord has been fined for failing to obtain the appropriate licences for two rental properties. Lisa Chatfield was ordered to...

Large letting agents found to be flouting the incoming ban on letting agent fees should receive fines up to £30,000 to...

A Newport landlord has been fined £4,400 for operating a dangerous, unlicensed house in multiple occupation and failing to comply with...

A management firm and corporate landlord have been hit with a £250,000 fine after a “potentially lethal” flat blaze in London -...

The London council of Newham is thought to be the first local authority in the UK to use new powers to...

An investment company says agents and landlords should start taking measures to ensure their properties comply with the new Minimum Energy...

Two lettings agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman redress scheme.   As we reported when the story broke yesterday afternoon, one...

Two lettings agencies have this afternoon been expelled from The Property Ombudsman redress scheme. In one case, TPO expelled Lettings Solutions Ltd...

Agents and landlords are being warned by a property management agency to prepare for the next round of energy-efficiency regulation changes...

A private landlord in Saffron Walden has been fined for letting what the local council describes as “poor and potentially dangerous...

A man who rented out rooms above a town centre bar has been banned from being a buy to let landlord...

The landlord of a west London property, described by a judge as a "deathtrap" and an "accident waiting to happen", has...

Labour says there would be a ‘consumer rights revolution’ for the private rental sector if the party won the June 8...

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £17,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty at St Albans Magistrates'...

A landlord of a shared house in Hove, near Brighton, has been found to be ‘putting people’s lives at risk’ and ordered to pay...

Who are you? Richard Price What does it say on your business card? We don't have our roles on our business cards. I...

The Scottish Government has opened formal consultation on its attempts to introduce minimum standards of energy efficiency for the private rented...

A body representing 370 councils in England and Wales wants the government to close a legal loophole which allows the conversion...

Data from the first three months of this year suggests that investors are increasingly purchasing smaller, cheaper properties. Specialist lender Mortgages for...

The government has issued a new statement saying unequivocally that letting agents’ fees on tenants will be banned in England -...

A letting agent has been jailed for keeping more than £15,000 in client deposits. Thirugnanaselvam Damayantharan ran See Own Properties in Purley and...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has written to an immigration minister to express its concern over possible ‘further sanctions’ for landlords who...

A council is warning agents and landlords not to sit on long term vacant properties.   The warning, from Liverpool council, comes as...

A private landlord in Sheffield has been prosecuted for harassing a tenant and failing to manage his property adequately.   Nilendu Das was...

A property firm has been fined £32,134 and ordered to pay costs of £260 and a victim surcharge of £170 after...

A landlord who admitted threatening violence against a tenant who left the property he was renting has been given a substantial...

The landlord of an HMO above a Chinese takeway in Cornwall has been fined for failing to comply with the requirements...

A landlord who ran multiple property companies but failed to declare his income or that he was a company director to...

A landlady has been fined £15,000 for failing to license and manage a house in multiple occupation.    Sharon Jacobs was also ordered...

Chancellor Phillip Hammond has introduced no new property taxes in his Spring Budget - but a clampdown on those setting up...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has written to six short-term lets websites calling on them to introduce a 90-day limit on rentals...

MNY Property Management Ltd has been fined £3,390 for offences under the Housing Act - specifically, failing to buy a licence...

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...

The operator of a troubled letting agency in Huddersfield has had until this week to pay a £5,000 fixed penalty notice...

A new form of agency which wants to blend traditional letting with Airbnb-style short lets has launched in London.    Lavanda claims it...

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

A series of prosecutions of rogue landlords by a London council has also seen a so-called ‘property manager’ fined a four-figure...

Right To Rent is encouraging discrimination against international students according to a student lts online service.    Government figures marking the first anniversary...

A report out today claims foreigners and Britons without passports, particularly from ethnic minorities, are being discriminated against in the lettings...

An immigration minister has revealed that 91 landlords have been issued with civil penalties since the Right to Rent scheme was...

Annoying isn’t it. You take on a stunning property, agree a compelling asking price and your Vendor is desperate to get the...

A landlord and letting agency have been fined more than £26,000 after being found guilty of housing offences at two properties...

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

A landlord has been prosecuted and fined for failure to comply with two Improvement Notices “resulting in a catalogue of health...

A branch of Foxtons has been fined £2,500 for failing to properly describe a fee charged to tenants.    The agency was caught...

Lettings agents have been issued fines totalling £14,100 by a local authority for failing to comply with consumer rights laws.   Officers from...

The couple believed to be the owners of Britain’s largest buy to let portfolio have defended sending letting agents an 11-point...

A leading personal finance journalist - and a former editor of Landlord Today - has used the columns of right wing...

It hasn’t been a happy Christmas for one London landlord, who has been told to repay £40,000 in rent received in...

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

A council believes that a landlord was “putting tenants’ lives in danger” because he did not have local authority licenses for...

A Birmingham letting agency and a landlord have been fined £5,590 for failing to obtain an HMO licence and for breaching...

A private landlord has been fined by a London magistrates court for poor and potentially dangerous housing conditions.    Monojor Ali was fined...

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

Rent Smart Wales, a controversial scheme that require letting agents to be trained, comes into effect today after a troubled lead...

A landlord has been prosecuted and ordered to pay a £12,000 fine as well as over £12,000 in court costs, after...

Right To Rent legislation means British nationals without a passport face difficulties according to the Residential Landlords’ Association.    According to its latest...

A buy to let investor has been fined £29,200 after being prosecuted for 56 offences in what a local authority describes...

The Residential Landlords Association has roasted the enforcement policies and provisions for the controversial Rent Smart Wales initiative which begins in...

Only just over two weeks remain for letting agents and landlords operating in Wales to register with the Rent Smart Wales...

A landlord has been found guilty of letting a property with "extremely dangerous electrics" as well as no heating and a...

A 71 year old landlord has been fined £5,037.97 at Birmingham Magistrates Court for failing to obtain an HMO licence and...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is warning that proposals to enforce minimum room sizes in HMOs in the privste rental...

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £4,200 in fines and costs for not having a licence for his...

The Property Ombudsman scheme and the Chartered Trading Standards Institute have joined forces to tackle lettings agents that are breaking the...

A dramatic legal spat between New York’s civic leaders and online short-lets platform Airbnb escalated over the weekend in a dispute...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has responded to the latest government recommendations for tighter controls on the private rental sector...

The landlord of an overcrowded flat which lacked proper fire precautions and had a dangerous boiler has been fined £162,000. Abbas Rasul...

A Norwich landlord has been prosecuted “for putting lives at risk” according to the local council.  Piang Fui Pun has pleaded guilty...

  A council has taken a landlord to court for failing to licence his two buy to let properties under its selective...

A landlord has received a £5,620 court bill after he pleaded guilty to three fly tipping offences. John Hills - who ironically...

Two landlords must pay a combined total of over £300,000 following legal action by a central London council.    Westminster council claimed that...

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

A London landlord who failed to comply with an Improvement Notice to maintain his property for his tenants has a £4,000-plus...

This week those working in the Private Rented Sector are being reminded of the importance of fire doors in rental properties. Fire...

A landlord has been fined £7,000 for letting two properties which were unfit for habitation. Shahzad Mehmood was prosecuted at Swindon Magistrates'...

A letting agency has been fined after one of its landlords was found to be cramming six families into an unlicensed...

SafeDeposits Scotland has announced that Ian Potter will succeed Sir Andrew Cubie as the organisation's chairman. Potter, who has been on the...

A landlord operating in Wales has been fined almost £3,000 for failing to renew the House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) licences...

A letting agency and one of its landlords have been fined over £20,000 and given criminal records for failing to licence...

A minority of agents remain unaware of their duties when it comes to tenant repairs requests, something which could invalidate landlords'...

Rent4sure is pleased to announce we are now working with Home Telecom to give your tenants fast, flexible and unlimited broadband plus...

A pair of landlords have been slapped with a hefty fine for allowing people to live in damp-riddled rooms without fire...

A landlord who endangered the lives of his tenants has been prosecuted and fined for failing to comply with 16 issues...

A firm has been fined £29,000 after a rental property was found to be - in the words of Nottingham city...

The owner of a series of flats to let in Cardiff has been fined £3,500 and ordered to pay £200 costs...

A landlord that continually refused to sign up to a council’s selective licensing regime has been found guilty by the courts...

A landlord has been fined just £440 after he effectively left a tenant homeless.    Warrington Magistrates Court heard that Peter Lamont, the...

An industry body says agents and landlords who ignore tenants' complaints about damp and mould could be putting their property at...

Failing to provide an energy certificate and not complying with an improvement notice has resulted in a landlord being ordered to...

A landlord’s company has been left with a bill of over £14,000 for letting unlicensed flats in north London.   Appearing at Highbury...

Property managers operating through a company have been ordered to pay more than £30,000 following a dawn raid that uncovered more...

A millionaire landlord who built an illegal outbuilding at his home has been forced to demolish it after pressure from his...

Two private landlords have been found guilty of failing to obtain the appropriate licenses for their properties.   Jagtar and Jagdish Kandola, who...

Our latest infographic shows figures of how the majority of deposits are repaid at the end of tenancy and goes into...

A London council will introduce two new licensing schemes in the New Year. These make it a legal requirement for landlords to obtain...

A council has prosecuted a landlord, who was fined £600 plus £500 in council costs after pleading guilty to breaching building...

A House in Multiple Occupation located on the third floor of a property with a restaurant at ground level was one...

Yet another council private rental sector licensing scheme is being drawn up with the claim that it will improve standards of...

Two landlords have received fines totalling £3,000 – and were ordered to pay costs of nearly £2,000 - after failing to...

A landlord has been fined £550 after failing to take action from a prohibition order issued by a council.   West Lindsey authority...

A landlord who waged what a local authority describes as “a war of intimidation” against tenants living in his property has...

For a long time, fair wear and tear has been a grey area for landlords and letting agents alike; this is...

A local council has halted proposals to introduce a licensing regime for a town’s privately let properties after what a newspaper called...

A landlord faces a bill of over £9,000 for putting his tenants at risk of harm.   Jack Kensell of Folkestone was prosecuted...

A lettings agency has become the first in Scotland to be sanctioned for breaching rules that secure the deposits of its...

A landlord who illegally converted a house to squeeze 28 tenants into just seven rooms has been handed a £20,000 fine...

A landlord who rented out a house in multiple occupation has ended up with a £10,000 fine after pleading guilty to failing...

Burnley Council has brought a series of prosecutions against people responsible for unlicensed rented houses in the borough. The council has introduced...

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

A letting agent and his landlord client have been fined thousands of pounds for a number of offences relating to what...

There were 3,100 fewer private rental households in serious rent arrears in the first quarter of this year compared to the...

Sheffield council has prosecuted a private landlord for failing to provide safe accommodation - with a bill of over £10,000 to...

A London council has prosecuted a letting agency that was ’ghost listing’ on Zoopla flats that were not in fact available...

A lettings agency has been fined over £11,000 for alleged breaches of regulations in advertising an unlicenced HMO that was later...