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The new Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service - introduced this month - will make possession court case delays even worse. That’s the...

Elliot Leigh - an agency that is the largest guaranteed rent provider in London and Essex - has completed phase one...

A London-focused lettings agency says actual rents in the capital are far greater than official average figures produced by the government.  Benham...

Rents across Greater London are up 21 per cent year-on-year according to the Home property website, which prepares a mon they...

Lettings and sales agents, along with other members of the property industry, have been celebrating at the ESTAS Customer Service Awards...

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

Some parts of London have recorded over 50 per cent of sales as second or additional properties. Research by lending firm Octane...

A London council has been found to have operated an unpublicised consultation exercise for a licensing proposal - and is now...

A council in London, where landlords yields and margins are already tight, says it wants to charge £550 for a renewed...

Harrow council in north London has launched a formal consultation on its plan to renew its landlord licensing scheme in the...

A landlord has been ordered to pay back no less than £190,000 - equivalent to nine years’ rent - after he...

A crackdown on letting agency websites by a Trading Standards team has found the significant majority of them to be breaking...

Edinburgh has been identified as having the UK’s fastest growing rents with the average annual sum rising by 4.63 per cent...

A court has ordered a husband and wife pair of buy to let investors to pay back £322,282 in illegal income. A...

A notorious rogue landlord must pay £1.5m or risk spending up to nine years in prison after what is thought to...

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

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

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

Two landlords and two tenants were fined a total of over £11,000 after losing their appeal against housing convictions concerning property...

A man who illegally housed tenants inside his converted garage has been ordered to pay £173,141 by a court.   Amir Golesorkhi turned...

A lettings firm and a property management company that converted a family home into micro flats have been found guilty of...

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

  A letting agent who scammed dozens of tenants and landlords out of more than £220,000 of rents and deposits has been...

Six letting agents have all pleaded not guilty to charges of fraud. The Ham & High says they were all employees of...

A previously-convicted landlord has been ordered to pay over £200,000 by a court for illegally converting two properties into flats without...

The growth of the PRS has provided a long list of benefits for the lettings industry. However, it is not without...

A lettings organisation claims that a council licensing scheme in London will mean compulsory monthly visits to properties being let out. Harrow...

Harrow council is consulting agents, landlords and residents on a proposal to renew its licensing regime applying to selected Houses in...

Two agents charged with fraud are expected to appear in court tomorrow Martin Marcus and Nadim Khan will appear at Harrow Crown...