Archive

A leading law firm has highlighted four key dates for letting agents and landlords to watch for in 2020. Paul Barnes, head...

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...

New research from the National Landlords Association reveals that migrant workers, and not professional executives, provide the best rental yield. The NLA...

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

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

Just over a fifth of lettings agents questioned in a major industry survey are concerned that may not be complying with...

A Labour council is leading a trial by local authorities of a new digital platform that checks whether agents, landlords and...

A new piece of legislation has been invoked to ban a landlord from any involvement in the private rental sector for...

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

A landlord who made a perverted request to take photographs of a teenager in her underwear has had his request for...

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

The government is being urged to speed up the release details of the future it sees for selective licensing following revelations...

The Property Ombudsman has expelled three lettings agencies from its scheme because of unpaid awards to landlord clients. The first is Kingsman...

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...

A statement from Hackney council in north east London says those who break its licensing provisions for the private rental sector...

Research by safeagent - the new name for the National Approved Letting Scheme - has found over 130,000 unlicensed properties in...

A huge US property investment firm valued at over $10 billion is entering the UK’s purpose build student accommodation sector. Chicago-based CA...

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

A Shropshire man has become the first in England to be banned from being a landlord.  In a case brought by Telford...

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

It’s that time of year again when pencil cases are fully stocked and the smell of dusty books opening fills the...

Greater London rents have risen an average of four per cent in the past year - but some boroughs performing above-average...

Data published by specialist lender Precise Mortgages suggests that over a fifth of landlords are planning to expand their portfolio with...

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

A lettings platform has analysed the current average annual rental cost of different parts of the UK and how that relates...

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

Police in South Shields have called for the sharing of information about tenants in HMOs - and a council is considering...

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 Labour council which has become famous for its critical approach to the private rental sector has now been given almost £200,000...

A local authority is being warned that its landlord licensing and accreditation scheme is potentially unlawful. The Residential Landlords Association, which represents...

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...

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

The number of film-related enquiries for short lets received by Knight Frank in the year to May has shown a rise...

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

A London council wants to extend its private rental sector licensing scheme - and in doing so is boasting of the...

A new survey by one of the sector’s most respected lenders, Paragon, suggests large scale landlords are now a bigger force...

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

A group of activists has expressed outrage over a council’s private rental licensing scheme, claiming it is too small to catch...

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

A leading buy to let specialist lender says the vast number of BTL mortgage products now on the market has made...

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

Consultation is underway to extend a landlord licensing scheme in a London borough where a third of households rents privately.  Three types...

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

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

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

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is threatening Oxford Council with a judicial review of its landlord and letting agent accreditation scheme. The...

Revenue raised by landlord licensing schemes should be used to enforce rental sector regulation, according to PayProp. It says that the money...

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...

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

One of the most pro-licensing local authorities in the country has extended its own scheme to include the entire centre of...

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

There is a warning that the HMRC’s Let Property campaign, which received huge publicity and attention for some years, has so...

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

Haringey council is the latest local authority in the capital to create a borough-wide additional licensing scheme for HMOs. It claims the...

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...

Another London local authority is proposing to insist HMOs require planning permission in future.  Currently in Croydon multi-bedroom properties can be converted...

A buy to let investor who converted three family homes to HMOs without securing planning permission has been jailed for falsifying...

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

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

Hounslow council wants its additional licensing scheme for HMOs - due to expire in May 2019 - to be extended for...

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

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

A local authority has taken the unusual step of issuing a celebratory press release stating that it issued penalty notices adding...

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

Shock figures released by an insurance company suggest that councils are woefully unable to police new regulations regarding mandatory HMO licensing. Figures...

One of London’s most enthusiastic councils for additional and selective licensing has pushed back the date for enforcement action against landlords...

A London property firm must repay no less than £60,000 in rent after a council obtained a Rent Repayment Order against...

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

Since one London local authority introduced private rental sector licensing in 2013 an extra £5,002,203 in council tax has been collected...

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 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...

A London local authority which is part way through its five year additional HMO licensing scheme wants lettings agents to give their...

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

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

There’s less than a week to go to the introduction of new rules broadening the range of houses including in mandatory HMO...

More than 77,000 UK landlords will be shelling out a combined £95 million this month, as new occupancy laws come into...

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...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has issued a reminder to the industry of the need to understand and abide by...

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...

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

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...

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

If you’re a landlord who owns a buy to let property or perhaps a portfolio and need to raise money against...

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

Agents and landlords are being advised to check the status of their HMO licenses in the London Borough of Harrow following...

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

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

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says lettings agents should be more vocal in providing the government with feedback on council rental licensing...

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...

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

A petition has appeared on the government’s e-petition website calling for a review of a city council’s newly-introduced selective licensing system. Nottingham...

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

A buy to let mortgage firm says it’s likely that there will be a spike in refinancing enquiries as landlords meet...

Buy to let landlords are on the way out and Build To Rent will dominate the sector in the foreseeable future.  That’s...

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

A head tenant who changed the locks on a property that was illegally sublet to no fewer than 35 men has...

Letting agents and others in the private rental sector have responded to the latest government intervention - a review into how...

A council leader in London, so outraged after a bust of a rogue lettings property, has asked: “What kind of monster...

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

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

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

Over half of mortgage brokers say they have been approached by buy to let investors seeking to diversify their portfolios within...

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

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

A survey by consumer group Which?, working with landlords’ associations, reveals that 70 local authorities now have selective or additional licensing...

Three one-day courses are being held this year - the first next week - aimed at updating letting agents on changes...

The Residential Landlords’ Association is upset at the government’s confirmation that the extension of mandatory HMO licensing will come into force...

The local media in Bristol are reporting that landlords in the city are complaining that they face backruptcy if a hugely...

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...

Bristol council is consulting on a licensing scheme which could see buy to let investors paying £1,660 for a five year...

This is a rare story: a council has dropped a plan for a lettings licensing scheme as a result of 900...

No fewer than 44 per cent of landlords plan to expand their portfolios before July 2018 despite tax obstacles, according to...

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...

A London council has been the first in the country to use the Proceeds of Crime Act for a breach in...

Student accommodation specialist Unite is launching a new service, called Conker, which aims to replace deposits with insurance schemes for students...

The chief operating officer of a leading PropTech company says government proposals to increase mandatory licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation...

Homes in Multiple Occupation produced average yields of 8.9 per cent in 2017, the highest of all buy to let property...

The government has announced new minimum space requirements for private lettings in a bid to reduce problems of overcrowding. In addition to...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and other trade bodies have not yet responded to the government’s announcement over the holiday...

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

The government has released more details on long-discussed proposals to tighten up licensing in the private rental sector. It wants landlords in...

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

HM Revenue & Customs has launched a consultation on adding tax checks to private rental sector licensing schemes - in other...

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...

A database of rogue letting agents and landlords and new banning orders, first promised in the Housing and Planning Act announced...

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

One of the industry’s best known buy to let lenders, Paragon, is combining its Mortgage Trust and Paragon Mortgages product ranges...

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

Greenwich is the latest council to make it compulsory for planning consent to be given before converting homes into Houses in...

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...

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

A landlord has been prosecuted and ordered to repay over £5,000 to his tenants for letting an unlicensed House of Multiple...

Greenwich is licensing all Houses in Multiple Occupation from October 1 - just the latest London council to tighten its private...

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

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

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

Council officers discovered men living mattress to mattress inside a run-down flat above a commercial premises during a dawn raid.   Police and...

The Private Members’ Bill put forward by Labour MP Karen Buck, which could give tenants the right to sue landlords if...

Another new cloud software platform - HeyLandlord - has been launched to make it easier for agents and landlords to communicate...

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

Landlords continue to look for cheaper, higher-performing properties according to the results of an index produced by Mortgages for Business. An analysis...

Agents and landlords are unwittingly issuing incorrect Section 21 notices, resulting in thousands of pounds being wasted on aborted possession claims...

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

Greenwich council in London is the latest to announce an extension to its HMO licensing policy. The council is already legally obliged...

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...

A property firm at the centre of the campaign against phasing out landlords’ mortgage interest relief says is urging tenants to...

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...

New legislation coming into force today gives local authorities in England tough new powers to crack down on rogue agents and...

It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A new task group is being set up to explore how a council can tackle what it calls “problems with private...

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

A property investment financing specialist says an increasing number of buy to let investors are converting properties into Houses in Multiple...

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

Specialist mortgage lender OneSavings Bank is the latest to announce that it is introducing stricter affordability assessments for all new buy...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is warning the government that some of its proposed changes to regulations governing HMOs may...

A building firm that carried out illegal building work to create homes to let has been hit with a £250,000 confiscation...

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

What appears at first sight to be a low-level dispute between a landlord and a council has raised what may be...

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...

At the end of an already-challenging week for the industry, a landlord group has distanced itself from comments made in its...

Lettings guru David Lawrenson has given an unusual perspective on the government’s commitment to ban letting agents’ fees on tenants in...

No decision yet appears to have been taken on the fate of the Renters’ Rights Bill - which had as a...

A major buy to let mortgage provider has eased the criteria to be met by landlord investors who want to borrow...

Fees charged by letting agents will be discussed in the House of Lords tomorrow as the Renters’ Rights Bill reaches its...

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

The Renters’ Rights Bill - which includes provisions scrapping agents’ fees for tenants, mandatory registration of landlords and limiting the size of...

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

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

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

Brent council in London is seeking the views of agents- as well as landlords, tenants and others - on the extension...

Waltham Forest council has enforced an Interim Management Order on a house in its area meaning it will take over day-to-day...

It is feared that Cardiff council will later this week severely restrict the number of new shared houses in two popular...

The government’s wave of measures to clamp down on the private rental sector and introduce harsher regulations for investors and landlords...

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...

Letting agents and landlords are being reminded to comply with an obligation to remove ‘to let’ signs in certain parts of...

Labour councillors controlling Brighton and Hove council are reported to be writing to the government for premission to charge HMO owners...

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

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

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

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

The key lies in improving your customer experience through technology For Agents, the tremendous growth in online estate agents highlights a strong...

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

Student accommodation provider Student Cribs has secured £200m in funding from institutions to expand its portfolio - and it’s looking for...

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

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

Two training seminars geared towards letting agents operating in London are being organised for the autumn.    Organised by the National Approved Letting...

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...

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

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

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

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

Two more student houses in Brighton have been ordered to close by a government planning inspector. There have now been four such...

An east London council is changing its planning rules, bringing in Article 4 consent before homes in key areas are converted...

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

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

The growth in buy to let mortgage products - rising rapidly until recently - has now begun to drop off.   Products increased...

A new scheme governing the letting out of residential property above retail premises is to be launched in September in the London borough of...

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...

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

Bexley council in south east London says it is going to announce what it describes as a “crackdown” on HMOs next...

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

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

An investment company claims government and councils should do more to stamp out so-called rogue landlords who, it says, are giving...

A row has broken out between landlords and the council in Oxford, where the local authority is considering a private rental...

There was a series of raids on HMOs led by a local authority early one morning at the end of last...

A new report claims that over a third of student property investors plan to expand their portfolios in 2016, despite the...

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

Landlords are increasingly favouring Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) and more 'complex property types' due to the often higher yields available.  Mortgages...

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...

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

An Oxfordshire letting agent has been ordered to pay £3,500 and costs of £2,700 for letting a house in multiple occupation...

The owner of a rented property in west London has received a penalty of more than £20,000 having pleaded guilty to...

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

A student accommodation specialist is warning about the potential pitfalls of investing in individual student rooms or small pods as opposed...

A 24-year-old from Luton has been jailed after being found guilty of six counts of fraud in relation to obtaining properties...

A private landlord aged 72 must pay £4,800 after pleading guilty to 11 offences of breaching the Licensing and Management of...

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

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

Enforcement officers from Barking and Dagenham council, one of the most active in chasing up private rental sector issues, has discovered...

Paragon Mortgages, one of the most influential buy to let lenders, has upgraded its website to allow intermediaries to submit applications...

A property company managing an HMO in prime central London has been £47,900. The fine is in relation to 24 charges under...

A landlord who has had previous conflicts with his local council has effectively lost control of his 16 private rental properties. William...

Ealing Council in London is undergoing a formal consultation about a proposal that all houses in multiple occupation within its boundaries...

The government should rein in its plans to transform the way Houses in Multiple Occupation are licensed. That is the view of...

Two landlords of HMOs have been prosecuted for failing to license their properties - and now have to pay fines of...

An energy supply company that specialises in the lettings market has announced deals with three major businesses that allows it to...

A landlord who did not remedy a string of safety concerns about a property he was letting has been ordered to...

A local council has successfully applied for a landlord without an appropriate HMO licence to repay housing benefit - no less...

A local authority has issued a press release branding a landlord as “unscrupulous” after he was ordered to pay £7,300 in...

A local authority is considering introducing measures to prevent landlords turning family homes in one of its conservation areas into HMOs.  Reading...

One council’s attempt to crack down on rogue landlords has been branded a "complete failure" because half of its HMOs are...

The Department of Communities and Local Government has published a summary of the 600 responses it has received to its recent...

A landlord and his letting agent who failed to declare they were operating a series of bedsits at an address in...

One of Britain’s largest local authorities has beefed up its powers so it can issue fines of up to £5,000 on...

The specialist eviction company Landlord Action says it is in full support of the government’s latest proposal to crack down on...

The government is proposing a national minimum bedroom size and a re-defining of what constitutes a House in Multiple Occupation in...

A landlord man has been fined more than £20,000 after admitting renting out substandard houses to 30 people without obtaining a...

A new survey claims there is a serious shortfall of appropriate quality accommodation for students.  The research, conducted amongst 500 students and...

There is uproar in Brighton as a result of students being let rooms in an HMO - despite the property’s owners...

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

A landlord has admitted letting sub-standard HMOs to 30 people without being registered with his local authority. Plymouth landlord John Mayer pleaded...

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

Three landlords have become the first to be prosecuted by a council - almost three years after the authority introduced a...

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

The number of buy to let mortgage products has leapt to 953 - an 11 per cent increase in the past...

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

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £7,000 after failing to licence a house in multiple occupation in the...

The private rented sector is becoming an increasingly diverse place. Its growth into the UK's second largest form of housing has...

Who are you? I’m the managing director of Fixflo and before starting Fixflo I worked as a property lawyer in London and...

A landlord has been ordered to pay a total of £8,680 after failing to comply with formal council notices to improve...

A landlord whose Home in Multiple Occupation was closed down by the local council has been left with a court bill...

New student tenants have been urged to be vigilent and not fall victim to fake online letting agents and landlords. The National...

The landlord of a house in multiple occupation is the latest to be prosecuted by a council for failing to licence...