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The excessive enforcement of council rules on private landlords while social housing is so poorly run will be ‘the next Post...

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

A property management company with a portfolio of over 130 properties in the Telford area has been fined £5,100 for failing...

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

A proposal for one of the country’s largest ever private rental sector licensing schemes has gone out to consultation. Manchester’s Labour council...

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

Councils are failing to protect tenants in three out of four cases where they discover rental homes are unsafe, according to...

A Labour councillor in Yorkshire claims letting agents are not showing the actual properties available to rent when they use virtual...

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

A landlord from Plymouth has been sentenced after failing to maintain gas appliances and failing to have landlord’s gas safety checks...

A council’s intervention has stopped a landlord forcing his private tenants to use an external staircase to enter their home -...

A buy to let investor has been hit with a bill of almost £9,500 after being accused of allowing a tenant...

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

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

A landlord has been hit with court fines for a fourth time for failing to properly manage his rental properties.  Landlord Jack...

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

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

The Association of Residential Letting Agents wants agents and tenants to have access to the government’s high profile but so far...

A husband and wife pair of buy to let investors have been prosecuted after letting out a property that contained serious...

A rogue landlord in Chesterfield has received a hefty fine for a second time after the council took her to court...

Junior housing minister Heather Wheeler MP has written to Hull City Council to express her concerns about the authority's controversial accreditation...

A London council wants to extend its private rental sector licensing scheme - and in doing so is boasting of the...

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

The owner of a buy to let HMO has been found guilty of six offences but has received a fine of...

Two buy to let investors have been fined thousands of pounds after failing to carry out improvements to unfit rental properties. Adur...

Figures given through a Parliamentary answer have revealed just how bad councils in England are at policing and enforcement action against...

Today the long-awaited Homes (Fitness For Human Habitation) Act comes into force, pioneered by Labour MP Karen Buck and giving people...

Hull council has won a legal case in the High Court against a local trade body, the Humber Landlords Association. The claim...

A landlord has been convicted of three offences relating to his failure to comply with fire safety requirements in a privately...

A buy to let investor has been landed with a fine and costs of over £20,000 because he failed to apply...

A landlord has been ordered to pay over £5,000 in fines and costs in a licensing dispute with a local council.  Almas...

A landlord who failed to comply with orders to improve the standard of a property has had to pay over £7,500...

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

Two thirds of local authorities in England and Wales brought no prosecutions against private landlords in 2017/18 according to research by the...

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

A landlord has been hit with more than £5,500 of fines and costs after he allowed a family with three young...

The landlord of an HMO who subjected his tenants to insanitary and unsafe living conditions has been told he will no...

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

A landlord has been prosecuted for failing to comply with Improvement Notices on her property and failing to licence her house...

A local authority has described a lettings property as “a real House of Horrors that put the health and safety of...

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

A property company that failed to repair a pigeon-infested loft has been fined a total of £31,026, including an order to...

A property management company which ignored a series of housing safety regulations and flouted laws designed to protect tenants’ rights has...

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

A fine of over £29,000 has been imposed on an absentee landlord whose property was said to have put tenants’ lives...

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

The landlord of an HMO has been fined £3,300 for failures to meet his obligations, particularly regarding fire safety. At Northampton magistrates...

A database of rogue letting agents and landlords and new banning orders, first promised in the Housing and Planning Act announced...

A leading legal expert specialising in the private rental market says the sector should set up basic procedures to protect against...

Four landlords have been fined and ordered to pay costs totalling £232,155.68 in the first prosecutions of its kind brought by...

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

A landlord who was found guilty of illegally converting a hotel into 26 flats has been given three months to pay...

A rogue landlord in Corby has been ordered to pay over £20,000 and sign up to a Criminal Behaviour Order which...

A minister at the Departrment of Communities and Local Government has set out the government’s position in terms of the fire-related...

A property firm has been fined £32,134 and ordered to pay costs of £260 and a victim surcharge of £170 after...

A landlord has been prosecuted and fined for failure to comply with two Improvement Notices “resulting in a catalogue of health...

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

An industry body says agents and landlords who ignore tenants' complaints about damp and mould could be putting their property at...

Failing to provide an energy certificate and not complying with an improvement notice has resulted in a landlord being ordered to...

The landlord of a London flat is almost £18,000 worse off and has a criminal record after failing to make renovations to...

A council has issued a press release to say that a trio of prosecutions on private landlords combine to prove it...

A landlord has been left with a court bill totalling more than £6,000 after allowing a house in to fall into...

Two landlords have received fines totalling £3,000 – and were ordered to pay costs of nearly £2,000 - after failing to...

There has been yet another prosecution over an unsafe house in multiple occupation.   Syed Masum Ali appeared in Stafford Magistrates Court and...

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

Sheffield council has prosecuted a private landlord for failing to provide safe accommodation - with a bill of over £10,000 to...

Two landlords have been fined after being found guilty of fire safety failings in their rental properties. Both prosecutions were brought by...

A landlord has received a suspended six month prison sentence after he ignored repeated warnings about arranging an annual gas safety...

The landlord of a property in Plymouth risked the lives of his tenants through a dangerous gas boiler installed in the...

A London local authority has taken court action against one of its own councillors who has admitted failing to carry out...

A private landlord has been prosecuted after failing to provide gas safety certificates for two rented properties.  Harrogate Magistrates’ Court heard that...

The landlord of a property in Plymouth risked the lives of his tenants through a dangerous gas boiler installed in the...

A landlord who did not remedy a string of safety concerns about a property he was letting has been ordered to...

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

A landlord has admitted letting sub-standard HMOs to 30 people without being registered with his local authority. Plymouth landlord John Mayer pleaded...

A landlord has been ordered to pay a total of £8,680 after failing to comply with formal council notices to improve...

A landlord has been handed a total fine of £75,215 for a number of offences, including failing to licence four houses...

A landlord has been prosecuted and fined for failing to carry out vital works on his rental property.  Victor Robbins of Leigh-on-Sea,...

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 landlord has been left with a £1,600 bill for failing to comply with an improvement notice over a four year...