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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...

An activist group in London has launched a scathing attack on councils which it claims have been ineffective in regulating rogue...

A council says it’s considering introducing criminal record checks on individuals who apply to run HMOs as part of a wide-ranging...

Propertymark has strongly opposed a proposal by the Scottish Government to radically reform the private rental sector. The proposals put out for...

The lettings agency boss at the centre of a major industry takeover has fired a warning shot about rent controls and...

A lettings agency has been prosecuted by Birmingham council for unlawfully evicting a tenant. Principal Homes is based at Great Barr and was...

A 24 month community order and 200 hours of unpaid work are the price being paid for an unlawful eviction.  Buy to...

Activists from a range of pressure groups have reacted angrily to what they call a half-baked eviction ban announced by the...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan, has told the government of “illegal evictions by letting agents” - without specifying the incidents he refers...

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

A tenant is thought to be the first ever to have been awarded damages under new Scottish lettings legislation. Dambaru Baral was...

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

A landlord who left his tenant homeless after changing the locks while he was on holiday has been hit with a...

A local authority has prosecuted a landlord for illegally evicting a tenant. Tendring district council prosecuted Lisa Bottone of Chelmsford who admitted...

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 landlord who admitted threatening violence against a tenant who left the property he was renting has been given a substantial...

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

A landlord has been given a conditional discharge and a four-figure bill after being found guilty of unlawfully evicting a tenant.   Cornwall...

Citizens Advice claims that 2,087 people asked it for help after being threatened with what it describes as ‘illegal eviction’ in...

A landlord has been prosecuted for both illegal sub-letting and illegal eviction at the same time - an occurrence which is...

A letting agent who unlawfully evicted a tenant from a property has been ordered to pay a total of £4,315. Alan Croft...

The Local Government Association says recent prosecutions show that councils are cracking down on illegal evictions by landlords and their agents...

A landlord has been cautioned and has agreed to pay £1,000 compensation to a tenant, and pay £2,000 towards legal costs,...

The Citizens Advice charity is urging people to lobby for more controls over the private rental sector, letting agents and landlords,...

A landlord has been ordered to pay a fine and costs of £2,925 for unlawfully evicting a tenant from a house...

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