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

A leading agent is the latest industry figure to speak out against rent controls, which continue to be advocated by Labour...

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

An insurance firm has broken down the causes of major problems for buy to let landlords and tenants - and, perhaps...

Rent controls similar to those demanded by Labour in London and other major cities in the UK do not work, and...

Government data suggests that almost 54 per cent of the UK’s remaining smokers are tenants - and against that backdrop, an...

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

Government plans to end so-called ‘no fault’ evictions may backfire and not improve tenants’ security at all. That’s the warning from Osbornes...

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

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

A Labour councillor on Islington council - which is controlled by the party and has Jeremy Corbyn as a local member...

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

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

A joint operation between Avon and Somerset Police and North Somerset council has uncovered a string of issues connected with rental...

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

It may seem as if governments and councils are falling over themselves to change the private rental sector to win the...

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...

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

If you are a letting agent who has begun to question your worth, stop. The value of property management is rising...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme, which suggested a devastating fire in early January, has been recognised for the professional, efficient and calm...

Whirlpool has been ordered to recall 500,000 tumble dryers in what has been described as an “unprecedented” government move. Around half a million...

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

A property management chief is arguing that rent controls would restrict mortgage loans to buy to let investors and drive existing...

Six months on from the introduction of stricter licencing for Homes in Multiple Occupation, awareness “remains limited” according to one of...

With the Tenant Fee Ban obliterating a key income stream, letting agents should be looking at ways they can increase the...

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

A compliance company has accused “thousands” of buy to let investors of failing to address major household hazards which render properties...

Two rogue landlords have been convicted of failing to comply with a Prohibition Order on the rental property they owned. Sandeep Jarjapu...

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...

The rapid growth of Airbnb-style short lets could lead to the loss of private rented homes and displacement of long-term residents...

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

The council for one of the wealthiest areas in the country says it will be “educating and advising letting agents” on...

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

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 regional fire service says a tragic anniversary is a good opportunity for agents and landlords to remember their legal obligations...

The Dispute Service, which operates the Tenancy Deposit Scheme, has been ranked among the Sunday Times’ 100 best not-for-profit companies to...

Sub-standard homes remain a key weakness in the private rental sector, which needs to get its house in order in the...

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

A senior Labour politician claims that “unscrupulous” letting agents are hammering tenants with higher-than-usual charges between now and June 1 when...

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

The BBC’s Reality Check service, respected for giving a more realistic assessment of many politicians’ promises, has looked at London mayor...

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

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

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

A controversial Labour-controlled local authority which already has 91 per cent of its private rental properties inside licensing schemes is now...

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme - which was hit by a serious fire at its Hemel Hempstead headquarters last evening - has appointed...

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

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

The charity Shelter, which regularly campaigns against lettings agencies and landlords, is bracing itself for a strike next week - and...

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

Luton landlord Mervyn Kupshik has been ordered to pay nearly £30,000 to the Local council - and if he doesn’t do...

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

The Guardian says the government is committed to making a datebase of rogue letting agents and landlords available to tenants. The newspaper quotes...

November 5 is the next key date for the passage of the Tenants’ Fees Bill, the measure which is likely to...

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

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

Plans have been unveiled for a 23-storey development comprising 307 Build To Rent units, located overlooking Cardiff Bay. IM Properties and its...

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...

Two private landlords have been found guilty of managing Houses in Multiple Occupation with dangerous and sub-standard conditions, following a successful...

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

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

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

A London local authority is looking for the landlord of a bungalow which had two bedrooms but was home to 15...

The council behind a controversial private rental sector licensing scheme is trying to justify its introduction on health and safety grounds. On...

Airbnb, the short lets platform that has received substantial criticism from the buy to let sector over its largely unregulated status,...

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...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it’s asking its member to get behind Gas Safety Week which takes place from...

A London council has agreed to a TV crew taking part in a raid on an overcrowded and unlicensed HMO. The surprise...

The government’s announcement that it will bring in mandatory electrical checks in the private rented sector has been welcomed - perhaps...

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...

All privately-let homes must have electrical installations checked every five years under new rules announced by the Ministry of Housing, Communities...

A letting agent responsible for a property in Huddersfield which caught fire and killed two young boys has been jailed for...

A trade body is backing a call by a parliamentary committee for the government to fund certain fire safety improvements in...

A newspaper in Northumbria says local police are treating a fire at a lettings agency as a deliberate arson attack. Police are...

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

An electrical testing equipment firm and an MP are setting up a national campaign to demand new laws on appliance testing...

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

A local authority has described a lettings property as “a real House of Horrors that put the health and safety of...

Council officers staged a dawn raid to uncover an unlicensed HMO in north London. The team discovered 10 men and women sleeping...

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...

A statement from the government has repeated its determination to clean up the private rental sector through a series of measures,...

The government’s review into building and fire safety regulations is missing the opportunity to assess fire safety regulations on a wider...

A council says it is adopting a new approach to proactively tackling poor housing conditions in privately rented homes in one...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

A buy to let property owner has received a four month prison sentence for letting out a property he had already...

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

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

The first London boroughs are now rolling out the Greater London Authority’s ‘Rogue Landlord and Agent Checker’ - allowing tenants to...

The director of a property management firm has been found guilty of nine offences of breaching regulations relating to a house...

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...

An industry trade group says residents in high rise blocks of flats are being let down by a system in which...

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

A lettings insurance specialist company is warning that students moving into private rental accommodation may pose a greater-than-average risk of fire. Total...

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

A survey of 1,000 tenants in blocks of flats conducted on behalf of London Fire Brigade reveals that almost 40 per...

A buy to let investor who kept 24 adults and children in what a local council calls “appalling conditions” has a...

An attempt by a Labour council to encourage letting agencies to get ahead of the curve and scrap fees for tenants...

ARLA Propertymark says letting and managing agents should be aware that they can raise ‘safeguarding alerts’ if they are concerned about...

A London council is using dawn raids in its clampdown on illegal subletting and on so-called ‘beds in sheds’ where tenants...

Let’s start with a quick fire quiz. How many more leads do you think you’d get with photos that have been...

More than half of buy to let landlords have taken measures to check the fire safety of their properties in the...

A lettings sector trade body is warning that contradictory and outdated fire safety guidance needs updating.    At present, landlords or their agent...

It is being reported that one of the major providers of purpose-built student accommodation to let - Unite - could temporarily...

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

The findings of the most recent English Housing Survey, an annual report published by the Department for Communities and Local Government,...

A minister at the Departrment of Communities and Local Government has set out the government’s position in terms of the fire-related...

Two board members of Shelter who have links with the Grenfell Towers fire tragedy have resigned, according to a report in...

A proposed amendment to the government's Housing and Planning Bill which suggests landlords are required to make homes 'fit for human...

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 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...

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

A north London landlord who housed a family of five, including three children, in a cramped attic has been prosecuted by...

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...

A landlord who exposed tenants to “miserable” living conditions because of fire safety hazards has been prosecuted by a local authority.    The...

Another London borough is consulting on a further extension of its existing selective licensing - this time it’s Harrow council. It wants...

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...

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

The owner of a house in multiple occupation in the leafy Hampstead area of north London has been hit with a...

A letting agency which has pleaded guilty of poorly managing a house in multiple occupation has ended up with a bill...

A senior Labour politician in a London borough has branded so-called ‘rip off landlords’ as “the scourge of London.”   Councillor Laila Butt,...

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A landlord is facing prosecution for failing to comply with various HMO regulations.  For the last two days, Paul Turner has appeared...

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

A Prohibition Order has been served on the owner of a flat being let to an elderly couple - one of...

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

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

A health and safety product manufacturer is issuing a warning about the dangers of carbon monoxide alarms, citing figures that up...

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...

  Industry groups have warned that the government’s ban on letting agency fees levied on tenants in England will backfire, with most...

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

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

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 given a suspended prison sentence following his failure to maintain or check the gas fittings in one of his properties. A...

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 trade body has accused some letting agents and landlords of “failing to get to grips” with several recent legal changes...

Local media in west London report that nine people have been rescued by firefighters after a fire above a letting and...

The chief executive of financial consultancy Clayton Euro Risk says changes soon coming in to tighten the criteria applied to buy...

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

New data produced for Fire Door Safety Week shows that lower income tenants are more concerned about fire safety where they...

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'...

An MP has written to the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, raising concerns over the effect short-term lets regulations are having...

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

The property industry is set to pledge its support to Gas Safety Week 2016, which starts today. The sixth annual event aims...

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

A gunman who described himself as a would-be tenant has been jailed after two “terrifying” robberies on letting agencies.  The Enfield Independent...

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...

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

A private landlord has been jailed after being accused by a judge of "cutting corners" and deliberately putting his "wealth" before...

A rogue landlord faces a court bill of almost £40,000 after being caught cramming 24 people into a house in north...

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

The problem of cannabis ‘farmers’ using privately rented properties to mass-produce the drug is at its worst in the West Midlands,...

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

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

A landlord is to be sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court next week after pleading guilty to seven charges relating to fire...

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

There has been yet another prosecution over an unsafe house in multiple occupation.   Syed Masum Ali appeared in Stafford Magistrates Court and...

Highly publicised stories of property damage allegedly caused by short-let tenants using Airbnb and similar online platforms highlights the advantages of...

A landlord in Milton Keynes has been ordered to pay a total of £24,168.29 for serious breaches of fire safety regulations...

A controversial Bill now being considered by the House of Lords has the controversial measure of banning lettings fees - but...

An industry body is warning new London Labour mayor Sadiq Khan not to think he is helping renters by tying up...

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

A landlord has been fined almost £25,000 for a series of failings relating to a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO). Birmingham-based Salih...

Two landlords have been fined after being found guilty of fire safety failings in their rental properties. Both prosecutions were brought by...

The National Landlords Association (NLA) has launched a new version of its Fire Safety Logbook which has been endorsed by the...

Magistrates have fined the leaseholders and landlords of a 10-flat property in north London £120,000 after finding they had put the...

Before new London mayor Sadiq Khan has had his first working day in office, his proposals for a private rental sector...

A letting agent and four landlords face bills totalling more than £20,000 after being prosecuted by Islington Council for operating unlicensed...

An analysis of 100,000 buy to let insurance policies reveals that storm damage, burst pipes and damage from break-ins are the...

Lettings companies and an organised group of criminals described as a “gang of chancers” have been hit with fines and costs...

One of the country‘s leading rental sector analysts is warning that tax changes for landlords’ mortgage interest relief, and the imminent...

The legal challenge to Chancellor George Osborne’s controversial buy to let tax change is underway with a letter sent to HMRC...

A landlord and restaurateur has to pay almost £5,000 after an apartment he was letting out was found to be overcrowded...

A series of raids on privately let properties in the westcountry appear to have taken place as a way of holding...

Select, the trade body for Scotland's electrical sector, is reminding agents and landlords that from December 1 there must be five-yearly electrical...

Two rogue landlords who collected rent from more than 30 tenants in five sub-standard houses all on the same street have...

A survey of house- and flat-share private tenants shows 15 per cent claiming not to have a working smoke alarm in...

A rogue landlord has been fined £20,000 and ordered to pay £3,343 costs as well as a victim surcharge of £120...

A landlord who let a property with serious health and safety hazards to vulnerable adults has pleaded guilty of failing to implement...

The landlord of a rental property in Harrogate has been fined over £8,200 after pleading guilty to two offences under the Regulatory...

A landlord has been handed fines totalling £3,250 and costs of £1,426 for running an unlicensed and unsafe House in Multiple...

Letting agents and landlords can use AIIC independent inventory clerks to conduct the checks on smoke detectors and carbon monoxide alarms...

Letting agents and landlords can use AIIC independent inventory clerks to conduct the checks on smoke detectors and carbon monoxide alarms...

A landlord has received a six month suspended jail sentence, has been ordered to carry out 200 hours of community service...

Parliament has approved the Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations 2015 - the regulations which looked in jeopardy after a...

As if to prove the lettings industry’s concern over a lack of publicity for upcoming health and safety regulation changes, a...

A letting agency has been ordered to pay more than £12,000 in fines and court costs after being convicted of seven...

The office of a letting agency that urged its landlord clients to consider increasing rents has been the subject of an...

Letting agents and property managers of blocks with fire doors are being urged to take their responsibilities more seriously. The warning comes...

A group of estate agents have teamed up with a local fire and rescue service to launch an initiative aimed at...

Some 71% of landlords have not yet organised a carbon monoxide alarm in their rental property, according to a survey of...

Around 445,000 smoke alarms and 40,000 carbon monoxide alarms have now been issued to the 46 fire and rescue authorities in...

When Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, recently announced that interest rates would have to start to rise sooner...

Earlier this week the housing charity Shelter confounded many in the private rented sector by concluding on its website that tough rent...

A student landlord has been sentenced to six months in prison and ordered to pay over £12,400 after pleading guilty to...

Campaigning charity Shelter appears for the first time to have acnowledged that rent caps may backfire and end up harming tenants...

A letting agency that failed to apply for House of Multiple Occupation licences at three properties in Birmingham has been fined...

A letting agency has been handed fines totalling £7,000 and costs of £1,140 after a council took it to court over...

A kit explaining how homes to let can be made more secure and legally-compliant has been launched by the Residential Landlords...

Father and son rogue landlords have been fined for failing to register their property as a house in multiple occupancy. Sabbir and...

The journalism website HoldTheFrontPage says a landlord who tried to sue a weekly newspaper for defamation over its coverage of a...

A landlord has been hit with an £11,000 fine after putting his tenants' lives at risk. Javeed Hossain was prosecuted by the...

An electrical safety charity has written to the new intake of MPs to explain why electrical safety in Britain’s homes needs...

A landlord in Coventry has been handed a £3,350 fine after a house in multiple occupation under his ownership was found...

A landlord has been left with a £1,600 bill for failing to comply with an improvement notice over a four year...

A landlady has been fined £160,000 and ordered to pay £40,000 prosecution costs for breaking fire safety laws following a fatal fire...

There has been widespread criticism of Labour's proposals for the private rental sector. The policies will “backfire” according to the National Landlords’ Association.  "We understand...