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Agents representing landlords of HMOs In Portsmouth are being warned by the council that their need to be licensed or face...

The sole director of a lettings agency, who was recently made the subject of an anti-social behaviour injunction and banning order,...

A new trade body is being set up which describes itself as a national network of property managers, specialising in the...

Over £80,000 pounds of fines have been imposed on a letting agency and its director. Zenith Accommodation Ltd’s boss, Mohammad Mallick of...

Two landlords in the same town - one the director of a lettings firm - have been prosecuted as their properties...

A lettings firm has been ordered to pay over £18,000 after failing to provide adequate living conditions for his tenants. Chelmsford magistrates...

Two landlords have been served with civil penalty notices for operating unlicensed HMOs.  The notices were from Wellingborough council; one was for...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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