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Agents, landlords and others’ views are being sought in a consultation on proposals to introduce a borough-wide additional licensing scheme for...

New directives issued by the government put the emphasis firmly on private landlords and their letting agents to take responsibility for...

The company which owned and was responsible for a five-storey block of rented flats in Bridlington has been ordered to pay...

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

Three property management companies and a landlord have been fined approaching £80,000 for health and safety failings. Mohammed Ali Abbas Rasool, Cadogan...

An estate agency has been prosecuted and ordered to pay £35,000 for falling foul of property licensing rules. Green House Estate Agents...

Purplebricks has detailed the price it is paying for a lettings compliance blunder first spotted last year. It predicts that, at worst,...

A landlord has been fined a four figure sum for failing to produce documentation for a council. Fathima Syeda Kauser of Luton pleaded...

A property ownership and management company has been fined £20,000 for failing to carry out safety and fire safety improvement works...

A company which operated an unlicensed HMO and its then-director have lost their appeal against the imposition of financial penalties.  Gatwick and...

One of the local authorities with the tightest clampdowns on letting agents has issued a statement celebrating its successes. Tower Hamlets council in...

A London council has taken a landlord company to court after complaints of poor housing conditions in five of its rented...

An agency has been hit with a £330,000 bill after being found guilty of poor management of an HMO. Magistrates have found...

A landlord who persistently broke residential lettings rules has been banned from operating in a landmark legal ruling. Julie Stoddern, of Camborne,...

A landlord taken to court by a council has ended up with a bill in excess of £20,000.  Dennis Goodwin of Highbury...

Two Bristol landlords have been ordered to repay nearly £5,000 following investigations by the council’s so called rogue landlord unit. One, Lucy...

The government has been called upon to issue specific Coronavirus guidance for the rental sector. The chief executive of the Association of...

A buy to let investor has been found guilty of letting out poor quality living accommodation that was said to pose...

A council in a leafy area of south east England has issued an emergency prohibition order to a buy to let...

A judge has ordered two landlords to pay a total of £14,858 for illegally renting out an unlicensed house without working...

A landlord in one of the most scenic parts of Devon had been served with a £18,000 civil penalty because he...

The owner of a Derbyshire property must pay out more than £3,000 after being found guilty of failing to comply with...

A rogue landlord has been fined £1,384 for failing to get a council licence for two buy to let properties. The case...

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

A compliance consultant has explained why a local council’s penalty on a rogue landlord - initially £31,499 - was slashed to...

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

A long-term legal critic of selective licensing is warning that letting agents could be held jointly accountable with the landlords, -...

Former QPR and Nottingham Forest striker Dexter Blackstock has been fined over £25,000 and branded a rogue landlord after admitting 12 licencing offences. He...

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

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

A buy to let investor has received a hefty fine “for endangering the lives of his tenants by failing to meet...

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

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

Councils have been accused of routinely pursuing the most serious enforcement option open to them if they find a local licensing...

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

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

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

A council in the north of England has issued its first-ever Civil Penalty Notice on a landlord - and it involved...

The heavy-handed administration of selective licensing schemes is driving out buy to let investors. That’s the claim from David Kirwan of Kirwans...

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

An overcrowded property let by an unlicensed company with inadequate fire precautions and unheated rooms has led to a £46,620 fine...

An Essex council claims it is one of the first to be granted a rent repayment order - part of legislation...

The Residential Landlords Association has told another council that its plans to introduce selective licensing in areas of its town are...

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

The Residential Landlords’ Association says proposals from Great Yarmouth council to introduce selective licensing in one part of the town contains...

A gas safety engineer has pleaded guilty with a landlord of falsifying gas safety certificates for a string of private rental...

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

A buy to let investor faces a fine of £7,000 plus costs and a victim surcharge for failing to upgrade his...

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

The government has taken the unusual step of working with a Labour MP to ensure her Private Members Bill can become...

In an unusual move the government has today, Sunday, announced that it wants tenants to have the right to take legal...

There has been another prosecution under the controversial Rent Smart Wales regulations - although this time the landlord in question was...

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 property company and a landlord have been fined over £200,000 after being accused of putting tenants’ lives in danger by...

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

A Scarborough buy to let investor has been found guilty of two offences under the Housing Act 2004 for non-compliance with...

Anti-deposits campaigning agent Ajay Jagota says the 2004 Housing Act - which actually came into effect in 2007 - may now...

Labour MP Karen Buck is to reintroduce her Private Members Bill into Parliament today - and if it is passed, she...

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

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...

Yet another London borough is introducing a selective licensing scheme, under which parts of a local authority patch are subject to...

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

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

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 company operating a number of buy to let properties has been ordered to pay more than £15,000 by magistrates for...

Another survey, this time from an online letting agency, reveals that as many as 70 per cent of tenants are concerned...

Two private landlords have been found guilty of failing to obtain the appropriate licenses for their properties.   Jagtar and Jagdish Kandola, who...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

Labour MP Karen Buck want private tenants to be able to sue their landlords if they rent in what are considered...

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

The Insolvency Service, which probes all compulsory liquidations and individual bankruptcies, has wound up two letting agencies.  Morgan Fox (Lettings) Limited, formerly...

The publication Environmental Health News has secured the release of files showing the details of hundreds of convicted private landlords in...

A landlord who did not have the required licence for the number of tenants living in his property, and who also...

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

A landlord who failed to properly manage a home he rented out has become the first landlord prosecuted under a council’s...

A landlord has been fined and left with a bill of nearly £6,000 for overcrowding at his property with an illegal...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says the government’s controversial Deregulation Act, which is now in force, is creating critical new...

In 2007, the government introduced a compulsory deposit protection scheme as part of the Housing Act 2004 to help protect tenants...

A landlord has been ordered to pay a fine £1,344.57 after failing to install fixed heating to a property she was...

A property consultancy specialising in licensing regimes for privately-let properties says there have been 580 housing prosecutions in London under the...

A private landlord who provided false documents and endangered the lives of his tenants has been ordered to undertake 200 hours’...

A landlord who failed to apply for an HMO licence despite being interviewed on the subject under caution has now been...