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A long-running case about a house divided up and let out without planning permission has resulted in a fine of nearly...

A London council has launched a strategy it claims will protect private tenants and ensure they live in good quality and...

Two suspended sentences, community service, a fine and disqualification from being a director - those form the penalty for a rogue...

The chief executive of campaigning charity Shelter claims some lettings agencies are ignoring the recent ruling that private landlords cannot discriminate against...

A law firm is warning that agents and landlords should carefully follow correct procedures if they suspect a rented property is...

A service called Landlord Advice UK is offering free no-obligation consultations with landlords dealing with evictions over the coming months. Under the...

The council at the centre of one of the planning controversies involving Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has issued a warning to...

The director of renters’ campaign group Generation Rent says the long-running scandal of a planning decision made by the Housing Secretary...

A leading PropTech expert has urged lettings agents to improve their administration and paperwork if they want to avoid what could...

It’s easy to forget in the Coronavirus frenzy but from tomorrow, Friday March 20, all tenancies are to become subject to...

With confirmation that Section 21 will be scrapped, how can agents get ready for life after no-fault evictions? The short answer is...

An online student publication is urging readers who are tenants to “go lawsuit crazy” when the full provisions of the Homes...

A former letting agent has been censured over the handling of tenancy deposits following an investigation by a local council. Andrew Rhys...

A rogue landlord has been found guilty of unlawful harassment and misleading and aggressive practices, and will be sentenced next month. Ragoopathy...

A solicitor has urged the government not to reform or scrap Section 21 eviction powers simply on the basis of protests...

Controversial London lettings agency Flintons has again been named by a BBC TV programme for allegedly unreasonable behaviour in relation to...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is threatening Oxford Council with a judicial review of its landlord and letting agent accreditation scheme. The...

A local authority has written to purchasers of former council houses and apartments warning them against illegally letting them out -...

A crooked letting agent took £220,000 from tenants and landlords and has been exposed as buying a home in Florida, renting...

A rogue lettings agent has been fined over £72,000 after being found guilty of 15 separate offences relating to three illegally established houses...

The government has issued guidelines for the implementation of the new Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act which comes into effect...

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

A Private Members’ Bill which will allow private rental sector tenants to sue over the conditions of their properties will today...

A Private Members’ Bill which will allow private rental sector tenants to sue over the conditions of their properties is just...

Today sees the Second Reading in the House of the Lords for the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill, promoted by...

Tenants are now a step closer to being able to sue landlords if they do not properly maintain their properties. The Commons...

MPs in the House of Commons will today debate the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill, promoted by a Labour backbencher...

A date has been set for the next stage of the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill, which is being promoted...

More big fines have been handed out in recent legal action regarding buy to let investors who have not stuck by...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is the latest industry body to throw its weight behind the Private Members’ Bill that...

Lettings agency Haart says the government should go much further than the legislation it is supporting giving tenants the right to...

There have been more expressions of support from industry bodies for the Private Members’ Bill from Labour’s Karen Buck MP which...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has thrown its weight behind a Private Members Bill which wants tenants to have the...

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...

The selective licensing scheme operated by Newham council in London is reported to have won government backing to be extended until...

A lettings agency chief who monitors legal action against rogue agencies and landlords says almost £850,000 of deposits have been stolen...

A legal firm has added its weight to the warning that many Airbnb hosts could be, by accident or design, breaching...

Southwark council in south London is sending leaflets to all its leaseholders to warn them that letting out homes on any...

A buy to let landlord who converted an Uxbridge house into two flats without planning permission has been ordered to pay...

An online student lettings agency claims there will be a growing number of students using the holiday season to boost their...

An insurance firm says a poll of 1,000 landlords suggests 50 per cent either did not have public liability insurance or...

Two landlords must pay a combined total of over £300,000 following legal action by a central London council.    Westminster council claimed that...

A landlord guilty of breaching a planning enforcement notice has been ordered to pay £700,000 in fines and costs - the...

An action group campaigning on behalf of landlords has confirmed that it is ready to begin legal action against the Bank...

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

The London legal firm Leigh Day - which last week announced it was leading a legal action on behalf of 55...

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

A letting agent featured on a BBC Watchdog ‘Rogue Traders’ show has told a local newspaper that he is pursuing legal...

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

The Residential Landlords’ Association has taken Shelter to task for what it describes as “emotionally charged” media statements about alleged harassment...

A landlord reported to have received £100,000 in housing benefit from tenants in the past year is to repay court fines...

This month has marked a real change in the way the private lettings sector is perceived - and it’s a perception...