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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 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...

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 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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...