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A respected property lawyer is accusing the government of helping nuisance tenants at the expense of the weak and vulnerable. Ian Narberth,...

A jury has ruled that a lettings agency has been guilty of illegally evicting tenants in Margate - with locks changed,...

Private rental property conditions and the enforcement of regulations by councils and government have all been in the firing line from...

An activist group that has staged many protests against letting agents must pay just under £100,000 in costs and damages to...

A report by the National Audit Office claims that the way private renting is regulated makes the sector unfair to renters. It...

A council claims that as many as a fifth of all the private rental sector homes in its area have a...

Labour housing spokesperson Thangam Debbonaire has released details of a letter seeking further clarity and commitments on the rental sector eviction...

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

A rogue landlord has been found guilty of unlawful harassment and misleading and aggressive practices, and will be sentenced next month. Ragoopathy...

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

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

One of the most vocal critics of lettings agents in recent years appears to be moving away from the property industry. Campbell...

Nottingham council - which recently introduced one of the largest and most controversial selective licensing schemes in the country - now...

A former City marketing executive is suing a lettings agency for £1.4m in a row over alleged harassment in 2010. Agent Caroline...

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

A man is reported to have launched “a campaign of harassment” against a lettings agent just an hour after signing a...

A property company owner who waged a campaign of harassment and intimidation against a young mother he wanted to illegally evict...

A private landlord in Sheffield has been prosecuted for harassing a tenant and failing to manage his property adequately.   Nilendu Das was...

A rogue landlord found guilty of waging a campaign of harassment and intimidation against a young mother he wanted to illegally...

Sheffield council claims it receives 2,000 complaints relating to private rental sector conditions each year - and in one month it...

The outgoing chief executive of campaigning charity Shelter has used the pages of a left-of-centre website to claim that “an estimated...

A landmark court case heard in the Midlands is believed to be the first to issue a Criminal Behaviour Order on...

An Oxford landlord has been convicted of unlawfully evicting a tenant after “a campaign of sustained harassment”. Riasat Ali was ordered to...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has taken Shelter to task for what it describes as “emotionally charged” media statements about alleged harassment...

A council in an area with one of the country’s largest private lettings sectors says it has launched investigations into more...