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18 December 2020
From: Breaking News

Restaurant staff were kept in “dangerous and overcrowded” conditions by a property company and its landlord-director, a court has heard. The company...
18 December 2020
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank says it’s seeing tenants in the prime London niche reflecting the same trends as those in the wider property...
03 December 2020
From: Breaking News

A new assessment of legislation and council rules surrounding the private rental sector suggests a severe crackdown may be coming in...
02 December 2020
From: Breaking News

The recent survey in Letting Agent Today on why many landlords didn’t use agents was interesting and informative. That only 42.5%...
02 November 2020
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The property market, and therefore, estate agents have been accused of being the 'weak link' in the UK’s money laundering defences. This...
29 October 2020
From: Legislation & Compliance

It appears lettings agents may have escaped the recommended demands for referral fees to be made more transparent to customers. A statement...
02 October 2020
From: Breaking News

A £5,000 fine has been handed to five landlords in London for failing to license HMOs. One of the properties, a four-bedroom HMO in...
28 September 2020
From: Breaking News

Whilst Estate and Letting Agents have adapted their operations during COVID-19, to ensure safer working practices under Government guidance, ‘virtual property...
03 September 2020
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The chief executive of campaigning charity Shelter claims some lettings agencies are ignoring the recent ruling that private landlords cannot discriminate against...
04 August 2020
From: Breaking News

Four buy to let investors have each been fined £10,000 for letting out unlicensed HMOs. The unlicensed properties , all in the...
09 July 2020
From: Breaking News

A new automated lettings platform is launching next week and promising to ensure agents and buy to let investors stay compliant. PlanetRent...
27 April 2020
From: Breaking News

A BBC News investigation has exposed some Airbnb and other short let platform users as flouting lockdown regulations. The probe has found...
07 April 2020
From: Breaking News

Liverpool’s Labour council, which was prevented by the government from extending its city-wide licensing scheme for another five years, is seeking...
06 April 2020
From: Breaking News

Despite the challenges being thrown up to the lettings sector by Coronavirus, this is a reminder that new MEES regulations on...
27 March 2020
From: Breaking News

It’s easy to forget in the Coronavirus frenzy but from tomorrow, Friday March 20, all tenancies are to become subject to...
19 March 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency and its director have pleaded guilty to renting out an overcrowded house in the first case brought to...
17 March 2020
From: Breaking News

Pressure group Generation Rent claims half of London’s councils did not fine any landlords for letting out unsafe homes in the...
06 March 2020
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been ordered to pay nearly £6,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to harassing and financially exploiting...
27 February 2020
From: Breaking News

The government has given the green light to a council’s huge licensing scheme, set to cover 18 of its 20 wards...
17 February 2020
From: Breaking News

A room-finding portal, along with the owners of a London lettings agency and management firm, must pay over £100,000 for letting...
12 February 2020
From: Breaking News

A London Labour council wants to introduce rent controls to its borough. The South London Press reports that Lambeth councillors have voted through...
06 February 2020
From: Breaking News

A landlord has ended up with fines totalling over £90,000 after repeatedly ignoring a council’s selective licensing regime. Stephen Ige pleaded guilty...
04 February 2020
From: Breaking News

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has backed a five year extension for a massive London council landlord licensing...
28 January 2020
From: Breaking News

New research claims that one in every 50 homes in the capital is let on a short-term platform like Airbnb or...
24 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Another Labour council wants to introduce a city-wide landlord licensing scheme - a proposal that would require government approval to implement. Last...
24 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A legal firm is warning agents and landlords that they have less than three months to prepare for the latest MEES...
06 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A compliance consultant has explained why a local council’s penalty on a rogue landlord - initially £31,499 - was slashed to...
10 December 2019
From: Breaking News

A dawn raid by enforcement officers from a London council has discovered 17 men sleeping on mattresses in a three bedroom...
29 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Specialist buy to let mortgage lender Paragon has welcomed Labour's General Election pledge to force rental properties to undergo an annual...
28 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Labour’s policies for the private rental sector are “too extreme ... unrealistic and will be hugely damaging to housing supply in...
27 November 2019
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been hit with court fines for a fourth time for failing to properly manage his rental properties. Landlord Jack...
27 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Labour has given shocking new details of its proposals for the private rental sector including £100.000 fines if properties are deemed...
25 November 2019
From: Breaking News

A rogue landlord and the property company he ran have been fined £22,000 for dishing out ‘sham licences’ to tenants in...
20 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Zoopla is beefing up its customer relationship management programme with the appointment of RAPP UK to evolve the portal’s data infrastructure...
30 October 2019
From: Breaking News

A seaside council has issued over £15,000 in fines to owners of unlicensed HMOs. Torbay council in south Devon adds that “a...
23 October 2019
From: Breaking News

A long-term legal critic of selective licensing is warning that letting agents could be held jointly accountable with the landlords, -...
22 October 2019
From: Breaking News

First, he was trying his hand in lettings, then he devised a 2.5% commission to take on Purplebricks. Now, after nine months...
09 October 2019
From: Breaking News

A call has been made for the best letting agencies and other rental sector professionals to show how they comply with...
01 October 2019
From: Breaking News

London Trading Standards has made the startling claim that 46 per cent of almost 2,000 agents it has surveyed are falling...
13 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Birmingham council has issued its first civil penalty against a House in Multiple Occupation landlord - and it says that move...
03 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Some of the private rental sector’s most experienced and respected experts believe it’s almost inevitable that a housing market crash is...
02 September 2019
From: Breaking News

A husband and wife pair of buy to let investors have been prosecuted after letting out a property that contained serious...
29 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Average rents dropped in five of the eight UK regions monitored by property technology company Goodlord. The biggest drop was recorded in...
09 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Another local authority has announced that it wants to introduce another selective licensing scheme and designate its entire patch for HMO...
02 August 2019
From: Breaking News

A London council’s action against a property agent it has accused of “repeated negligence” has resulted in £37,000 of fines and...
31 July 2019
From: Breaking News

A tenant pretending to be landlord has been ordered to pay more than £21,000 after he carved up five family homes...
31 July 2019
From: Breaking News

In the past 18 months more than 200 landlords from across Scotland have been found to be in breach of a...
12 July 2019
From: Breaking News

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

There’s been a dramatic 37 per cent rise in rental instructions for prime properties in the capital during the first quarter...
20 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor has been fined £4,800 and ordered to pay £2,200 in costs for failing to keep his...
19 June 2019
From: Breaking News

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme says that success of its information centre shows that the industry wants more information on the deposit...
30 May 2019
From: Breaking News

Increased use of PropTech by lettings agencies should allow staff to be freed up to engage in all-important face-to-face contact with...
25 April 2019
From: Breaking News

A rogue letting agent has been ordered to pay £42,596 in fines and costs of £10,626 after pleading guilty to a...
23 April 2019
From: Breaking News

A husband and wife must pay joint fines, penalties and costs totalling over £8,000 after complaints about a bungalow they owned...
23 April 2019
From: Breaking News

The Renting Homes (Fees etc) (Wales) Bill passed its final hurdle in the Welsh Assembly yesterday evening. This has similar policies to...
28 March 2019
From: Breaking News

A dawn raid on unlicensed HMOs in north London last week were the latest sign of a crackdown on rogue operators...
19 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Two landlords have been ordered to pay more than £30,000 for breaching fire safety and over-occupancy licence conditions at their House...
11 March 2019
From: Breaking News

New figures from a leading trade body suggest that councils across England have cut by a quarter the amount they are...
28 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Propertymark’s Money Shield service and the National Approved Letting Scheme have each received government approval to operate Client Money Protection schemes. From...
27 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Another client money protection scheme has been given approval to launch itself before regulations go live on April 1. From that date...
21 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Client Money Protect has gained formal government approval to operate a client money protection scheme when the regulations go live on...
20 February 2019
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been ordered to pay over £5,000 in fines and costs in a licensing dispute with a local council. Almas...
15 February 2019
From: Breaking News

A landlord who failed to comply with orders to improve the standard of a property has had to pay over £7,500...
05 February 2019
From: Breaking News
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There’s been broad support from the lettings sector for the wide-ranging reform of the redress system announced yesterday by housing secretary...
25 January 2019
From: Breaking News

The man who is arguably Britain’s most controversial landlord - Fergus Wilson - is likely to be issuing up to 90...
15 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Councils have been accused of routinely pursuing the most serious enforcement option open to them if they find a local licensing...
14 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A holiday lettings company and a longer term private rental listings services have come together to try to optimise income for...
09 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Three brothers and a property management company have received fines and a confiscation order, and must pay costs, following what a...
04 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A landlord and building contractor have been fined after quantities of asbestos fibres were released from the demolition of a conservatory...
02 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A local authority claims that a court decision may set a legal precedent for other councils across the UK using the...
17 December 2018
From: Breaking News

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says agents who accept that the lettings fee ban is coming and who plan positively for its...
27 November 2018
From: Breaking News

We regularly carry stories about fines for landlords and letting agents who have apparently broken council or national laws - but...
26 November 2018
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor has been forced to close down two rat infested homes he owns in Rotherham after they...
22 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The heavy-handed administration of selective licensing schemes is driving out buy to let investors. That’s the claim from David Kirwan of Kirwans...
30 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Havering council in London has issued £261,750 in penalty notices to what it calls ‘criminals’ operating in the private rental sector. Between...
26 October 2018
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been hit with more than £5,500 of fines and costs after he allowed a family with three young...
19 October 2018
From: Breaking News

The Tenant Fees Bill is back in Parliament this week when it goes for its Second Reading in the House of...
08 October 2018
From: Breaking News

The Labour-led local authority in Hackney has issued a statement pledging fines or even bans if landlords fail to get appropriate...
27 September 2018
From: Breaking News

A property management firm chief who had to pay over £20,000 after being found guilty of nine offences relating to an...
18 September 2018
From: Breaking News
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It’s been announced that the next stage of the Tenants’ Fees Bill through Parliament will be its Second Reading in the...
12 September 2018
From: Breaking News

It is now just three weeks until licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) is extended. The new rules, which will require...
10 September 2018
From: Breaking News

MPs have proposed a series of amendments to the Tenant Fees Bill as part of its Report Stage and Third Reading...
06 September 2018
From: Breaking News

More big fines have been handed out in recent legal action regarding buy to let investors who have not stuck by...
02 August 2018
From: Breaking News

A specialist buy to let mortgage lender says buy to let investors should act now - even if it means borrowing...
11 July 2018
From: Breaking News

A new lettings agency set up at Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset says it’s setting out to atone for the misdemeanours of nearby...
13 June 2018
From: Breaking News

Letting agents and landlords will have to win planning consent to erect To Let signs in student areas of Leicester from...
12 June 2018
From: Breaking News

A leading PropTech entrepreneur has renewed his call for letting agents to use more technology to clean up their act when...
05 June 2018
From: Breaking News

Figures from the Home Office show that as of the end of March, a total of 405 fines for non-compliance with...
29 May 2018
From: Breaking News

An experienced agent claims that forgoing the services of a letting agent to save money is a false economy for landlords. In...
24 May 2018
From: Breaking News

Today Trading Standards teams across the country will highlight the work they do to protect landlords and tenants from rogue letting...
22 May 2018
From: Breaking News

Two rogue letting agents in London have been fined thousands of pounds as part of a council campaign to clean up...
17 May 2018
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency has been fined over £20,000 for failing to licence an overcrowded semi detached house in London. The fine was...
08 May 2018
From: Breaking News

A leading property law specialist has warned that many buy to let investors remain unaware of the new Minimum Energy Efficiency...
23 April 2018
From: Breaking News

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

A property management company which ignored a series of housing safety regulations and flouted laws designed to protect tenants’ rights has...
03 April 2018
From: Breaking News

A Select Committee of MPs investigating the proposed ban on agents’ fees levied on tenants says the measure could save renters...
29 March 2018
From: Breaking News

The consumer group Which? says the new Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards starting next weekend could affect 300,000 buy to let properties. From...
26 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Two landlords have been hit with hefty court fines for failing to comply with a local licensing scheme. The pair are the...
21 March 2018
From: Breaking News

A Kent county councillor says letting agents “would have to be pretty dumb” to allow a situation arise whereby they would...
19 March 2018
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is reminding its members to tell landlord clients that they have only a month to...
02 March 2018
From: Breaking News

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...
26 February 2018
From: Breaking News

Brent Council has confirmed that the government has approved its request to extend the local selective licensing scheme. The local authority, which...
20 February 2018
From: Breaking News

A rogue landlord has been fined twice in the space of two months for failing to provide a suitable standard of...
19 February 2018
From: Breaking News

Two buy to let investors have been fined a total of more than £27,000 under enforcement powers introduced in Burnley to...
16 February 2018
From: Breaking News

A London council is marking 125 successful prosecutions against agents, landlords and sub-letting tenants since 2016. The authority, Brent, says the convictions...
13 February 2018
From: Breaking News

A council says it hopes a massive set of fines and costs imposed on one buy to let investor and his...
07 February 2018
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency apparently trying to get around HMO regulations has been prosecuted for licensing and housing offences. Easy Let Agency let...
06 February 2018
From: Breaking News

The local authority at Brent in north London has secured what it calls “an important court victory” after “appalling conditions” were...
21 December 2017
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor who a judge said “cut corners” and exposed his tenants to “significant risk” has been ordered...
08 December 2017
From: Breaking News

A buy to let investor who failed to purchase a £542 licence for his HMO has been ordered to pay almost...
28 November 2017
From: Breaking News

The Property Ombudsman scheme has launched the third and latest phase of its national campaign with the Chartered Trading Standards Institute...
14 November 2017
From: Breaking News

The draft Bill to ban letting agents’ fees levied on tenants has been published - it’s to be called the Tenants’...
01 November 2017
From: Breaking News

Four landlords have been fined and ordered to pay costs totalling £232,155.68 in the first prosecutions of its kind brought by...
19 October 2017
From: Breaking News

Wear and tear can be a highly contentious issue for many tenants and landlords; many arguments have arisen because of unclear definitions...
12 October 2017
From: Sponsored Content

A letting agent named in a case concerning a rat-infested House in Multiple Occupation in Leytonstone, East London, has been fined...
28 September 2017
From: Breaking News

Trading Standards says representatives from 15 departments will today visit lettings and property management firms across London in a bid to...
26 September 2017
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency and its director have been ordered to pay more than £2,500 in fines and costs for illegally advertising...
22 September 2017
From: Breaking News

Almost a fifth of landlords say they are now less likely to let to EU nationals or people from the European...
07 September 2017
From: Breaking News

A landlord who was found guilty of illegally converting a hotel into 26 flats has been given three months to pay...
06 September 2017
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been prosecuted and fined for evicting a tenant illegally. Last week, Suhail Mahmood, 30, was convicted at Sheffield Magistrates'...
04 September 2017
From: Breaking News

More than 100 criminal prosecutions have been secured against landlords since the start of an enforcement crackdown by Brent council in...
25 July 2017
From: Breaking News

With a host of changing regulations hitting the private rental sector, some landlords may be put off using letting agents, but...
20 July 2017
From: Sponsored Content

A local authority has clamped down on what it describes as illegal advertising boards, fining agencies thousands of pounds in the...
20 June 2017
From: Breaking News

The crowdfunding campaign for a legal challenge against the rollout of the Right to Rent scheme across the UK has exceeded...
15 June 2017
From: Breaking News

Large letting agents found to be flouting the incoming ban on letting agent fees should receive fines up to £30,000 to...
07 June 2017
From: Breaking News

Two lettings agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman redress scheme. As we reported when the story broke yesterday afternoon, one...
18 May 2017
From: Breaking News

Two lettings agencies have this afternoon been expelled from The Property Ombudsman redress scheme. In one case, TPO expelled Lettings Solutions Ltd...
17 May 2017
From: Breaking News

Labour says there would be a ‘consumer rights revolution’ for the private rental sector if the party won the June 8...
02 May 2017
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £17,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty at St Albans Magistrates'...
19 April 2017
From: Breaking News

A body representing 370 councils in England and Wales wants the government to close a legal loophole which allows the conversion...
12 April 2017
From: Breaking News

Data from the first three months of this year suggests that investors are increasingly purchasing smaller, cheaper properties. Specialist lender Mortgages for...
12 April 2017
From: Breaking News

The government has issued a new statement saying unequivocally that letting agents’ fees on tenants will be banned in England -...
07 April 2017
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords’ Association has written to an immigration minister to express its concern over possible ‘further sanctions’ for landlords who...
30 March 2017
From: Breaking News

A private landlord in Sheffield has been prosecuted for harassing a tenant and failing to manage his property adequately. Nilendu Das was...
17 March 2017
From: Breaking News

A rogue landlord found guilty of waging a campaign of harassment and intimidation against a young mother he wanted to illegally...
27 February 2017
From: Breaking News

A new form of agency which wants to blend traditional letting with Airbnb-style short lets has launched in London. Lavanda claims it...
21 February 2017
From: Breaking News

Right To Rent is encouraging discrimination against international students according to a student lts online service. Government figures marking the first anniversary...
16 February 2017
From: Breaking News

A landlord and letting agency have been fined more than £26,000 after being found guilty of housing offences at two properties...
30 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Lettings agents have been issued fines totalling £14,100 by a local authority for failing to comply with consumer rights laws. Officers from...
11 January 2017
From: Breaking News

A leading personal finance journalist - and a former editor of Landlord Today - has used the columns of right wing...
03 January 2017
From: Breaking News

It hasn’t been a happy Christmas for one London landlord, who has been told to repay £40,000 in rent received in...
29 December 2016
From: Breaking News

Rent Smart Wales, a controversial scheme that require letting agents to be trained, comes into effect today after a troubled lead...
23 November 2016
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords Association has roasted the enforcement policies and provisions for the controversial Rent Smart Wales initiative which begins in...
10 November 2016
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is warning that proposals to enforce minimum room sizes in HMOs in the privste rental...
31 October 2016
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £4,200 in fines and costs for not having a licence for his...
31 October 2016
From: Breaking News

The Property Ombudsman scheme and the Chartered Trading Standards Institute have joined forces to tackle lettings agents that are breaking the...
25 October 2016
From: Breaking News

A dramatic legal spat between New York’s civic leaders and online short-lets platform Airbnb escalated over the weekend in a dispute...
24 October 2016
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has responded to the latest government recommendations for tighter controls on the private rental sector...
19 October 2016
From: Breaking News

A Norwich landlord has been prosecuted “for putting lives at risk” according to the local council. Piang Fui Pun has pleaded guilty...
17 October 2016
From: Breaking News

A landlord guilty of breaching a planning enforcement notice has been ordered to pay £700,000 in fines and costs - the...
04 October 2016
From: Breaking News

A landlord operating in Wales has been fined almost £3,000 for failing to renew the House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) licences...
16 September 2016
From: Breaking News

An industry body says agents and landlords who ignore tenants' complaints about damp and mould could be putting their property at...
17 August 2016
From: Breaking News

Property managers operating through a company have been ordered to pay more than £30,000 following a dawn raid that uncovered more...
12 August 2016
From: Breaking News

Two private landlords have been found guilty of failing to obtain the appropriate licenses for their properties. Jagtar and Jagdish Kandola, who...
08 August 2016
From: Breaking News

Two landlords have received fines totalling £3,000 – and were ordered to pay costs of nearly £2,000 - after failing to...
28 July 2016
From: Breaking News

For a long time, fair wear and tear has been a grey area for landlords and letting agents alike; this is...
15 July 2016
From: Sponsored Content

Sheffield council has prosecuted a private landlord for failing to provide safe accommodation - with a bill of over £10,000 to...
14 June 2016
From: Breaking News

A London council has prosecuted a letting agency that was ’ghost listing’ on Zoopla flats that were not in fact available...
10 June 2016
From: Breaking News

Burnley Council has named and shamed eleven landlords that have been prosecuted for ignoring its selective licensing scheme. One landlord, Pierce Mullally,...
27 May 2016
From: Breaking News

Two landlords have been fined after being found guilty of fire safety failings in their rental properties. Both prosecutions were brought by...
25 May 2016
From: Breaking News

The National Landlords Association (NLA) has launched a new version of its Fire Safety Logbook which has been endorsed by the...
25 May 2016
From: Breaking News

Magistrates have fined the leaseholders and landlords of a 10-flat property in north London £120,000 after finding they had put the...
20 May 2016
From: Breaking News

A leading trade body says it’s time for the private rental sector to take gas safety more seriously following a spate...
11 May 2016
From: Breaking News

Twelve landlords in Waltham Forest have been prosecuted for not signing up to a council Private Rented Property Licencing scheme, and...
11 May 2016
From: Breaking News

A letting agent and four landlords face bills totalling more than £20,000 after being prosecuted by Islington Council for operating unlicensed...
06 May 2016
From: Breaking News

Lettings companies and an organised group of criminals described as a “gang of chancers” have been hit with fines and costs...
25 March 2016
From: Breaking News

Onefinestay, a firm offering high-end Airbnb-style short-let accommodation in London, is today making a pitch to letting agents to refer clients...
23 March 2016
From: Breaking News

February has seen a further burst of buy to let activity, fuelled not only by the stamp duty surcharge deadline but...
11 March 2016
From: Breaking News

One of the UK’s largest suppliers of carbon monoxide and smoke alarm testing products has launched a record-pad to help agents...
23 February 2016
From: Breaking News

The ability of the government to enforce controversial elements of the Right To Rent policy has been thrown into doubt by...
18 February 2016
From: Breaking News

A property company managing an HMO in prime central London has been £47,900. The fine is in relation to 24 charges under...
18 February 2016
From: Breaking News

An industry body is suggesting that the outcome of a court case may significantly reduce the government’s ability to enforce its Right...
17 February 2016
From: Breaking News

A landlord who has had previous conflicts with his local council has effectively lost control of his 16 private rental properties. William...
17 February 2016
From: Breaking News

An immigration lawyer has criticised the government’s Right to Rent scheme - officially starting today - for having little impact but...
01 February 2016
From: Breaking News

A survey of 5,000 landlords suggests that 50 per cent of them are not prepared for the introduction of Right To...
20 January 2016
From: Breaking News

A landlord who let out dark, damp and overcrowded rooms has been hit with a huge £67,000 fine. Rogue landlord Liakath Ali,...
15 January 2016
From: Breaking News

MPs have given their backing to a government proposal to ban rogue letting agents and landlords who repeatedly break private rental...
13 January 2016
From: Breaking News

The Housing and Planning Bill returns to the House of Commons tomorrow when the remaining stages of the legislation resume after...
04 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Who are you? I’m the Head of Redress at the Property Redress Scheme. I previously worked for Legal & General PLC dealing...
23 December 2015
From: 60 Second Interview

It may be almost Christmas but the government is this week unveiling new laws to combat what it sees as the...
21 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Two landlords of HMOs have been prosecuted for failing to license their properties - and now have to pay fines of...
16 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Two letting agencies in the London borough of Camden have lost their appeal against fines for failing to join a redress...
01 December 2015
From: Breaking News

A local authority has issued a press release branding a landlord as “unscrupulous” after he was ordered to pay £7,300 in...
24 November 2015
From: Breaking News

A landlord and his letting agent who failed to declare they were operating a series of bedsits at an address in...
16 November 2015
From: Breaking News

One of Britain’s largest local authorities has beefed up its powers so it can issue fines of up to £5,000 on...
12 November 2015
From: Breaking News

A senior Conservative MP is urging the government to give councils the power to issue rogue landlords with on-the-spot fines. Oliver Colville,...
20 October 2015
From: Breaking News

The PRS, one of three authorised redress schemes, is backing a ‘Fair Lettings’ campaign being introduced by Camden council in London. It...
19 October 2015
From: Breaking News

Three landlords have become the first to be prosecuted by a council - almost three years after the authority introduced a...
08 October 2015
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been handed fines totalling £3,250 and costs of £1,426 for running an unlicensed and unsafe House in Multiple...
07 October 2015
From: Breaking News

A body representing over 370 local councils in England and Wales wants more powers to control the private rental sector, letting...
21 September 2015
From: Breaking News

One of the UK letting industry’s leading agents says politicians should defer the new Right To Rent immigration checks until the start...
18 September 2015
From: Breaking News

Parliament has approved the Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations 2015 - the regulations which looked in jeopardy after a...
17 September 2015
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been ordered to pay a total of £8,680 after failing to comply with formal council notices to improve...
11 September 2015
From: Breaking News

London Mayor and Tory leadership wannabee Boris Johnson wants rogue operators in the private rental sectors to be banned with repeat...
08 September 2015
From: Breaking News

A letting agency has been ordered to pay more than £12,000 in fines and court costs after being convicted of seven...
07 September 2015
From: Breaking News

A landlord whose Home in Multiple Occupation was closed down by the local council has been left with a court bill...
07 September 2015
From: Breaking News

The landlord of a house in multiple occupation is the latest to be prosecuted by a council for failing to licence...
03 September 2015
From: Breaking News

Letting agents and property managers of blocks with fire doors are being urged to take their responsibilities more seriously. The warning comes...
02 September 2015
From: Breaking News

A landlord reported to have received £100,000 in housing benefit from tenants in the past year is to repay court fines...
01 September 2015
From: Breaking News

York Council is seeking the introduction of fixed penalty notices for letting agents and landlords in the city who are found...
24 August 2015
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been handed a total fine of £75,215 for a number of offences, including failing to licence four houses...
21 August 2015
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency has issued a warning to tenants to protect themselves following a claim that the city in which it...
18 August 2015
From: Breaking News

In the nine months since new Right To Rent immigration checks have been implemented across the West Midlands only seven landlords...
10 August 2015
From: Breaking News

Letting agents and other industry professionals are being consulted ver changes to the sector’s regulation - including possible blacklisting of rogue...
05 August 2015
From: Breaking News

A council in an area with one of the country’s largest private lettings sectors says it has launched investigations into more...
23 July 2015
From: Breaking News

Onefinestay, a firm offering very high-end Airbnb-style short-let accommodation in London and three other cities, has secured a new investment of...
06 July 2015
From: Breaking News

The internet and rapidly evolving digital landscape has revolutionised the way people buy and sell properties. With some reports suggesting 95 per...
03 July 2015
From: Features

A letting agency has been handed fines totalling £7,000 and costs of £1,140 after a council took it to court over...
30 June 2015
From: Breaking News

Father and son rogue landlords have been fined for failing to register their property as a house in multiple occupancy. Sabbir and...
29 June 2015
From: Breaking News

Property consultancy Daniel Watney LLP is the latest industry operator to label the government’s Right To Rent immigration checks as unworkable,...
26 June 2015
From: Breaking News

The National Landlords Association says next month is the next key date for the roll-out of the government’s controversial immigration checks...
19 June 2015
From: Breaking News

An amnesty on the licensing of houses in multiple occupation is being held in Barnet in north London following the successful...
17 June 2015
From: Breaking News

Landlords could risk facing heavy fines if they fail to protect their tenants’ deposits before an important new deadline on June...
17 June 2015
From: Breaking News

Yesterday we heard about the letter from the CMA warning agents about anti-competitive behaviour. Today, in a scoop for Estate Agent...
04 June 2015
From: Features

A landlord has been ordered to pay fines adding up to over £6,600. Balwinder Singh Dhadwal was prosecuted at Dudley Magistrates’ Court...
02 June 2015
From: Breaking News

In 2007, the government introduced a compulsory deposit protection scheme as part of the Housing Act 2004 to help protect tenants...
22 May 2015
From: Features

With the Conservatives now having an overall majority, there is speculation that the pilot immigration checks which letting agents and landlords...
11 May 2015
From: Breaking News

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says landlords who are not using their agents for deposit registration should be reminded to...