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Two suspended sentences, community service, a fine and disqualification from being a director - those form the penalty for a rogue...

Whilst Estate and Letting Agents have adapted their operations during COVID-19, to ensure safer working practices under Government guidance, ‘virtual property...

A council says it’s issued no fewer than 400 compliance notices to landlords since the Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England...

A landlord taken to court by a council has ended up with a bill in excess of £20,000.  Dennis Goodwin of Highbury...

A trade body is reminding new landlords tempted by the stamp duty holiday of the raft of health and safety measures they...

The chief executive of campaigning charity Shelter claims some lettings agencies are ignoring the recent ruling that private landlords cannot discriminate against...

Two London landlords and their lettings agents will have to pay tens of thousands of pounds after a home they were letting...

Four buy to let investors have each been fined £10,000 for letting out unlicensed HMOs. The unlicensed properties , all in the...

In what is claimed to be an industry first, PropTech platform Goodlord has signed the Race Fairness Commitment. This commits Goodlord to...

New research has produced a series of league tables to identify where in Britain the best rental yields can be found. The...

A westcountry landlord is only the second in England to have received a banning order preventing him from letting or managing...

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

Strutt and Parker is an agency that’s got long-standing team spirit and that shows in how different areas have been working...

There’s no escaping team activity at epropservices - and in a good way. The company, which is the parent firm of The...

A commission investigating affordable homes in the UK has called for annual private sector rent increases to be limited to a...

A new automated lettings platform is launching next week and promising to ensure agents and buy to let investors stay compliant. PlanetRent...

The Court of Appeal has ruled in favour of the government’s controversial Right To Rent scheme, overturning a decision reached last...

Working from home is all about juggling domestic life with professional activities, and here’s a terrific video to show what it’s...

Hello and welcome to Wednesday’s update on what offers and advice are available to agents at this most difficult and challenging...

Good morning and welcome to today’s edition, helping agents find a way through the Coronavirus crisis by sharing information with the...

A BBC News investigation has exposed some Airbnb and other short let platform users as flouting lockdown regulations. The probe has found...

Liverpool’s Labour council, which was prevented by the government from extending its city-wide licensing scheme for another five years, is seeking...

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Conquering Corona, our daily update helping the industry cope with the current crisis. If...

Despite the challenges being thrown up to the lettings sector by Coronavirus, this is a reminder that new MEES regulations on...

We'd hoped it was good news but in fact it's just good-news-yet-to-come. The Savills office in Wuhan, the epicentre of the Coronavirus crisis in...

Hello and welcome to today’s Conquering Corona, our guide to the latest information to help agents and the rest of the...

It’s easy to forget in the Coronavirus frenzy but from tomorrow, Friday March 20, all tenancies are to become subject to...

A lettings agency and its director have pleaded guilty to renting out an overcrowded house in the first case brought to...

A shocking case of a buy to let HMO that did not even have a working smoke detector has led to...

A buy to let investor has been found guilty of letting out poor quality living accommodation that was said to pose...

Pressure group Generation Rent claims half of London’s councils did not fine any landlords for letting out unsafe homes in the...

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

A landlord has been ordered to pay nearly £6,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to harassing and financially exploiting...

A buy to let investor has been hit with a bill of almost £9,500 after being accused of allowing a tenant...

There’s a new warning today for buy to let investors who will be hit by tax changes coming into effect on...

A resident who was unable to access an emergency escape route during a fire was found standing on a windowsill hanging...

The government has given the green light to a council’s huge licensing scheme, set to cover 18 of its 20 wards...

The PropTech platform Movebubble has upgraded its features to increase rivalry between lettings agents and thus enhance the renting experience for...

A room-finding portal, along with the owners of a London lettings agency and management firm, must pay over £100,000 for letting...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...

A London Labour council wants to introduce rent controls to its borough. The South London Press reports that Lambeth councillors have voted through...

A council has prosecuted five private landlords who failed to get licences for the properties they let out. Oldham council says its...

A landlord has ended up with fines totalling over £90,000 after repeatedly ignoring a council’s selective licensing regime. Stephen Ige pleaded guilty...

Who are you and what is your role within the company? Steve Rad, Managing Director What is ‘company name’ and what does it...

A judge has ordered two landlords to pay a total of £14,858 for illegally renting out an unlicensed house without working...

A London council tenant who for a period of seven years failed to disclose that he owned three houses, has been...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has backed a five year extension for a massive London council landlord licensing...

A London council has caught out a rogue lettings agency for illegally operating two properties, with issues ranging from gas safety...

New research claims that one in every 50 homes in the capital is let on a short-term platform like Airbnb or...

Another Labour council wants to introduce a city-wide landlord licensing scheme - a proposal that would require government approval to implement. Last...

A company that slots temporary tenants into properties that it manages has been found guilty of 15 charges connected with Homes...

A legal firm is warning agents and landlords that they have less than three months to prepare for the latest MEES...

The owner of a Derbyshire property must pay out more than £3,000 after being found guilty of failing to comply with...

A rogue landlord has been fined £1,384 for failing to get a council licence for two buy to let properties. The case...

A landlord has been banned for two and half years after repeatedly putting tenants’ lives at risk by letting unsafe housing. This...

The National Landlords’ Association says the new Conservative government must do two things in its early phase in office. The NLA, which...

A landlord has been ordered to pay almost £20,000 and has been told by a judge that he was meaner than...

A compliance consultant has explained why a local council’s penalty on a rogue landlord - initially £31,499 - was slashed to...

[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...

A rogue landlord has been fined more than £150,000 after failing to rectify safety hazards in a property he let. Latif Rehman...

The owner of two properties has been fined £35,000 for breaches of the selective licensiing regime in his local area.  At a...

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

Specialist buy to let mortgage lender Paragon has welcomed Labour's General Election pledge to force rental properties to undergo an annual...

Labour’s policies for the private rental sector are “too extreme ... unrealistic and will be hugely damaging to housing supply in...

A landlord has been hit with court fines for a fourth time for failing to properly manage his rental properties.  Landlord Jack...

Labour has given shocking new details of its proposals for the private rental sector including £100.000 fines if properties are deemed...

A rogue landlord and the property company he ran have been fined £22,000 for dishing out ‘sham licences’ to tenants in...

The Chartered Institute of Taxation is urging tenants not to ignore a letter if they receive one from HM Revenue &...

A rented home in Mansfield was found to have serious health and safety hazards, including a leaking roof and a lack of smoke...

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has launched his party’s General Election campaign with an attack on what he describes as “dodgy landlords.” He...

Zoopla is beefing up its customer relationship management programme with the appointment of RAPP UK to evolve the portal’s data infrastructure...

The owner of a house believed to be occupied by multiple tenants has been prosecuted by a Kent council for failing...

A landlord has been found guilty of failing to license an HMO - and has ended up with a bill of...

A seaside council has issued over £15,000 in fines to owners of unlicensed HMOs.  Torbay council in south Devon adds that “a...

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

Former QPR and Nottingham Forest striker Dexter Blackstock has been fined over £25,000 and branded a rogue landlord after admitting 12 licencing offences. He...

An east London lettings agency must pay more than £2,500 after a six-foot-high pile of waste was found fly-tipped on land...

A landlord has been fined almost £2,500 for breaching an improvement notice issued by Cambridge City Council. Noelle Salameh was fined after...

First, he was trying his hand in lettings, then he devised a 2.5% commission to take on Purplebricks. Now, after nine months...

Well-known letting agent Kristjan Byfield has announced the details of his new product which aims to reduce the workload of the...

A call has been made for the best letting agencies and other rental sector professionals to show how they comply with...

One of the UK’s highest profile lettings agencies - Countrywide band Beresford Adams - has been fined £22,500 for health and...

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

A landlord who failed to provide information regarding a buy to let property has been fined £2,080.  Tenants contacted Colchester council in...

London Trading Standards has made the startling claim that 46 per cent of almost 2,000 agents it has surveyed are falling...

A landlord has been ordered to pay £14,500 after he was found to be illegally letting his property out to 11...

A respected transfer agent who has been selling lettings businesses for 25 years has issued a warning that tenant-find let-only portfolios...

Birmingham council has issued its first civil penalty against a House in Multiple Occupation landlord - and it says that move...

Some of the private rental sector’s most experienced and respected experts believe it’s almost inevitable that a housing market crash is...

The Renting Homes (Fees etc.) (Wales) Act - which bans fees levied by agents and landlords on tenants - comes into...

A husband and wife pair of buy to let investors have been prosecuted after letting out a property that contained serious...

A local council says it has now successfully prosecuted a landlord for flouting the law that protects the health and safety...

A lettings agent in London has been fined for the third time in as many years – this time for failing...

Average rents dropped in five of the eight UK regions monitored by property technology company Goodlord. The biggest drop was recorded in...

Zillios looking to become the leading portal for international property listings, appealing to property owners, estate agents, and property hunters alike....

Another local authority has announced that it wants to introduce another selective licensing scheme and designate its entire patch for HMO...

A rogue landlord who housed more than 25 tenants in a rundown property has been found guilty of serious housing and...

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...

A council tenant has been fined £100,000 and evicted because he let out his flat via Airbnb.  The Times reports that Toby...

A buy to let investor has been fined almost £5,000 after admitting overcrowding.  Matteo Mariano, from Gedling in Nottinghamshire, pleaded guilty at...

Warwick district council has issued its first civil penalty to the landlord of an HMO. Glenn Gamblin, the landlord of the property...

Vulnerable tenants suffering a higher risk of rent arrears will be hit hardest by plans to change the way landlords can...

A rogue landlord in Chesterfield has received a hefty fine for a second time after the council took her to court...

In the past 18 months more than 200 landlords from across Scotland have been found to be in breach of a...

A managing agent has been convicted by a local council for failing to properly license his property. Leon Hill, of Leighton Buzzard,...

The number of landlords admitting to not paying tax has soared in the past year, according to new data. During 2018/2019, 16,110...

Weak regulation of private renting is leaving hundreds of thousands of tenants living in hazardous homes in England, claims Citizens Advice. A...

A rogue landlord has been ordered to pay over £60,000 after - in the words of the council - “being found...

A director of a lettings agency has been fined for creating false tenancies in a bid to avoid paying council tax...

A managing agent and several landlords have been fined almost £5,000 after forcing tenants to live in unacceptable conditions in a...

A buy to let investor who let out an unsafe and unlicensed property in London has now been hit with a...

Local authority officers have found three tenants living inside a shed in the garden of a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Brent,...

There’s been a dramatic 37 per cent rise in rental instructions for prime properties in the capital during the first quarter...

A buy to let investor has been fined £4,800 and ordered to pay £2,200 in costs for failing to keep his...

A London council has successfully prosecuted a so-called “dodgy operator” landlord for failing to comply with fire safety regulations and carry...

A record number of tenancies have been agreed above £5,000 per week in London during the first four months of the...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme says that success of its information centre shows that the industry wants more information on the deposit...

The Property Ombudsman has issued a reminder to all agents to ensure they have the correct redress membership to cover the...

A rogue landlady has been hit with a fine of £24,000 after conning her tenants and the local authorities with a...

The Scottish Government is investigating 114 businesses suspected of carrying out letting agency work without registration and has issued 86 compliance...

New data from Proptech firm Goodlord suggests that the average void period for England and Wales is just 21 days. The longest...

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

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

Increased use of PropTech by lettings agencies should allow staff to be freed up to engage in all-important face-to-face contact with...

A rogue letting agent has been ordered to pay £42,596 in fines and costs of £10,626 after pleading guilty to a...

A husband and wife must pay joint fines, penalties and costs totalling over £8,000 after complaints about a bungalow they owned...

A buy to let investor has received a hefty fine “for endangering the lives of his tenants by failing to meet...

The owner of a buy to let HMO has been found guilty of six offences but has received a fine of...

Two buy to let investors have been fined thousands of pounds after failing to carry out improvements to unfit rental properties. Adur...

A buy to let investor has been hit with a £4,000 fine plus costs of over £5,000 after failing to license...

There’s been a big boost to the movement towards deposit alternatives in the private rental sector following a survey released this...

Figures given through a Parliamentary answer have revealed just how bad councils in England are at policing and enforcement action against...

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

The Renting Homes (Fees etc) (Wales) Bill passed its final hurdle in the Welsh Assembly yesterday evening. This has similar policies to...

The implementation and costs of landlord licensing schemes in Britain are a lottery. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of licensing...

A dawn raid on unlicensed HMOs in north London last week were the latest sign of a crackdown on rogue operators...

An 18 month probe by different authorities has led to a £4,000 fine for an HMO owner in the Highlands. The local...

Labour says it will introduce new ‘indefinite’ tenancies for private tenants, based on rules currently in place in Germany. It claims German...

Two landlords have been ordered to pay more than £30,000 for breaching fire safety and over-occupancy licence conditions at their House...

A landlord has been convicted of three offences relating to his failure to comply with fire safety requirements in a privately...

A rogue lettings agent has been fined over £72,000 after being found guilty of 15 separate offences relating to three illegally established houses...

A buy to let investor has been landed with a fine and costs of over £20,000 because he failed to apply...

Connells Group is backing this week’s National Apprenticeship Week and has launched a new head office programme giving around 100 existing...

New figures from a leading trade body suggest that councils across England have cut by a quarter the amount they are...

Propertymark’s Money Shield service and the National Approved Letting Scheme have each received government approval to operate Client Money Protection schemes. From...

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,...

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...

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...