The politician widely regarded as being the architect of rent controls in Scotland says he will shortly present a wider package...
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Media reports in Brighton say that a lettings agency which serve tenants with illegal eviction notices and unjustified legal threats has...
10 October 2023
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The Metropolitan Police has been advised by tenant activists and the London Mayor on developing rule changes for evictions. The changes include a presumption against...
29 August 2023
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A property firm which admitted misleading tenants on their rights and threatening them to leave has been ordered to pay £8,000. Four...
12 July 2023
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A property company director who admitted misleading tenants on their rights and threatening them to leave has been ordered to pay...
10 July 2023
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A former lettings agent who now helps tenants take legal action against landlords says 25 per cent of the complaints he...
29 December 2022
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Labour’s new housing spokesperson, Matthew Pennycook, says his party would go further than the government on the subject of private rental...
07 November 2022
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Airbnb, so often criticised for operating in the largely-unregulated short lets market, has called on the UK government to scrap Section...
22 April 2022
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An activist group in London has launched a scathing attack on councils which it claims have been ineffective in regulating rogue...
04 April 2022
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A council says it’s considering introducing criminal record checks on individuals who apply to run HMOs as part of a wide-ranging...
24 March 2022
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Propertymark has strongly opposed a proposal by the Scottish Government to radically reform the private rental sector. The proposals put out for...
23 December 2021
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The lettings agency boss at the centre of a major industry takeover has fired a warning shot about rent controls and...
22 December 2021
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A lettings agency has been prosecuted by Birmingham council for unlawfully evicting a tenant. Principal Homes is based at Great Barr and was...
29 October 2021
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A 24 month community order and 200 hours of unpaid work are the price being paid for an unlawful eviction. Buy to...
15 February 2021
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Activists from a range of pressure groups have reacted angrily to what they call a half-baked eviction ban announced by the...
11 January 2021
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan, has told the government of “illegal evictions by letting agents” - without specifying the incidents he refers...
14 July 2020
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A landlord has been ordered to pay nearly £6,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to harassing and financially exploiting...
27 February 2020
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A tenant is thought to be the first ever to have been awarded damages under new Scottish lettings legislation. Dambaru Baral was...
20 January 2020
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A Labour council which has become famous for its critical approach to the private rental sector has now been given almost £200,000...
14 August 2019
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A landlord who left his tenant homeless after changing the locks while he was on holiday has been hit with a...
19 February 2019
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A local authority has prosecuted a landlord for illegally evicting a tenant. Tendring district council prosecuted Lisa Bottone of Chelmsford who admitted...
25 October 2017
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A property company owner who waged a campaign of harassment and intimidation against a young mother he wanted to illegally evict...
17 March 2017
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A private landlord in Sheffield has been prosecuted for harassing a tenant and failing to manage his property adequately. Nilendu Das was...
17 March 2017
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A landlord who admitted threatening violence against a tenant who left the property he was renting has been given a substantial...
16 March 2017
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Sheffield council claims it receives 2,000 complaints relating to private rental sector conditions each year - and in one month it...
29 December 2016
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A landlord has been given a conditional discharge and a four-figure bill after being found guilty of unlawfully evicting a tenant. Cornwall...
20 December 2016
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Citizens Advice claims that 2,087 people asked it for help after being threatened with what it describes as ‘illegal eviction’ in...
11 July 2016
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A landlord has been prosecuted for both illegal sub-letting and illegal eviction at the same time - an occurrence which is...
26 May 2016
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A letting agent who unlawfully evicted a tenant from a property has been ordered to pay a total of £4,315. Alan Croft...
16 February 2016
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The Local Government Association says recent prosecutions show that councils are cracking down on illegal evictions by landlords and their agents...
01 February 2016
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A landlord has been cautioned and has agreed to pay £1,000 compensation to a tenant, and pay £2,000 towards legal costs,...
15 December 2015
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The Citizens Advice charity is urging people to lobby for more controls over the private rental sector, letting agents and landlords,...
17 August 2015
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A landlord has been ordered to pay a fine and costs of £2,925 for unlawfully evicting a tenant from a house...