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The government has published proposals for far-reaching changes to the way estate and letting agents are regulated, trained and licensed. The proposals...

The concept of a so-called rental property passport would rapidly improve the quality of accommodation and landlords, and would be far...

A managing agent has been convicted by a local council for failing to properly license his property. Leon Hill, of Leighton Buzzard,...

Local authorities are failing in their duty to prosecute criminal letting agents, the National Landlords Association (NLA) has warned. The NLA says...

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 rogue landlord has been ordered to pay over £60,000 after - in the words of the council - “being found...

An independent review into selective licensing in the private rental sector makes a series of recommendations to tighten processes, with the...

A trade body has accused the government of going back on its promise not to introduce a national register of landlords. The...

A buy to let investor who let out an unsafe and unlicensed property in London has now been hit with a...

A group of activists has expressed outrage over a council’s private rental licensing scheme, claiming it is too small to catch...

A lettings sector trade body has written to a council accusing it of initiating an “unlawful” fee structure for a licensing...

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

Consultation is underway to extend a landlord licensing scheme in a London borough where a third of households rents privately.  Three types...

The government has agreed that a council in London where all 51 councillors are Labour should go ahead with a five...

The National Landlords Association says it’s concerned the Fees Ban coming into effect in just two days’ time may limit access...

Six months on from the introduction of stricter licencing for Homes in Multiple Occupation, awareness “remains limited” according to one of...

With the Tenant Fee Ban obliterating a key income stream, letting agents should be looking at ways they can increase the...

A rogue landlady has been hit with a fine of £24,000 after conning her tenants and the local authorities with a...

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

Revenue raised by landlord licensing schemes should be used to enforce rental sector regulation, according to PayProp. It says that the money...

A buy to let investor has been left with a £2,000 bill and a criminal conviction after letting out his property...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  My name is Daniel and I’m a director at...

A senior figure at a deposit replacement service says the current flurry of changes in the private rental sector are positive. Daniel...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says it backs a new Trading Standards-led body which will enforce the Fees Ban starting  on...

One of the most pro-licensing local authorities in the country has extended its own scheme to include the entire centre of...

A housing minister has pledged that more key reforms for the private rental sector will be revealed soon, despite Brexit political...

A buy to let investor has been hit with a £4,000 fine plus costs of over £5,000 after failing to license...

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

The Renting Homes (Fees etc) (Wales) Bill passed its final hurdle in the Welsh Assembly yesterday evening. This has similar policies to...

Leicester is the latest council to begin consultations on selective licensing in six parts of the city - with the threat...

The implementation and costs of landlord licensing schemes in Britain are a lottery. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of licensing...

A dawn raid on unlicensed HMOs in north London last week were the latest sign of a crackdown on rogue operators...

Haringey council is the latest local authority in the capital to create a borough-wide additional licensing scheme for HMOs. It claims the...

A leading trade body says the argument that councils have insufficient powers to tackle rogue operators isn’t supported by the facts...

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

Just when you thought there could not be any more rival licensing or accreditation systems in the private rental sector, a...

Another controversial scheme licensing landlords who let their homes out may face legal challenge. Middlesbrough council’s formal consultation on the introduction of...

A local authority in the Midlands has admitted what many people have believed for some time - despite a slew of...

More local authorities have announced that they want to increase the size of the areas covered by their existing selective licensing...

A legal firm has renewed its criticism of local authority licensing schemes, accusing them of “persecuting” landlords. David Kirwan, managing partner at...

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

A lettings agency and its director have been fined a total of £30,000 for failing to licence HMOs and giving sham...

Hounslow council wants its additional licensing scheme for HMOs - due to expire in May 2019 - to be extended for...

Council enforcement officers have raided a house in Wembley, north London, and found 19 tenants paying a landlord £1,000 a week. Brent council’s...

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

A buy to let investor has lost possession of his flat after converting it into an Illegal House in Multiple Occupation...

A controversial Labour-controlled local authority which already has 91 per cent of its private rental properties inside licensing schemes is now...

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

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

A local authority has taken the unusual step of issuing a celebratory press release stating that it issued penalty notices adding...

Some 79 per cent of landlords are only servicing the interest on their mortgages, not paying down their loans, according to...

Shock figures released by an insurance company suggest that councils are woefully unable to police new regulations regarding mandatory HMO licensing. Figures...

One of London’s most enthusiastic councils for additional and selective licensing has pushed back the date for enforcement action against landlords...

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

The head of a lettings agency has launched a petition in opposition to a bid by a local council to extend...

Nottingham council - which recently introduced one of the largest and most controversial selective licensing schemes in the country - now...

A buy to let investor has been forced to close down two rat infested homes he owns in Rotherham after they...

Local press reports say that one of the country’s most controversial buy to let licensing schemes has seen thousands of applications...

The Residential Landlords Association is threatening a council with a judicial review because of unresolved concerns over the authority’s selective licensing...

A council says it has been preparing prosecution and penalty notices “for hundreds of private landlords that have failed to apply...

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has made a clear pledge to tighten regulations surrounding the private rental sector. In an interview with The...

The heavy-handed administration of selective licensing schemes is driving out buy to let investors. That’s the claim from David Kirwan of Kirwans...

Two property companies which failed to follow a local council’s lettings sector licensing scheme have been fined a combined £32,000. Owners of...

Havering council in London has issued £261,750 in penalty notices to what it calls ‘criminals’ operating in the private rental sector.  Between...

A landlord has been ordered to pay £452 after he breached the terms of his licence in an area of County...

A poll of 1,250 landlords suggests that far from being concerned about the profitability of buy to let, almost 80 per...

Since one London local authority introduced private rental sector licensing in 2013 an extra £5,002,203 in council tax has been collected...

A managing agent who used ‘ghost tenants’ as a front so that she could cram 16 people into one overcrowded house...

A London agency has been fined for the second time in 11 months. Local media in Barking, east London, report that Primelodge...

A post on a landlord website suggests that a new trade body is being set up to challenge the dominance of...

A landlord who rented out an unlicenced HMO has been fined more than £22,000 after the local council found five people...

A London local authority which is part way through its five year additional HMO licensing scheme wants lettings agents to give their...

The Labour-led local authority in Hackney has issued a statement pledging fines or even bans if landlords fail to get appropriate...

There’s less than a week to go to the introduction of new rules broadening the range of houses including in mandatory HMO...

More than 77,000 UK landlords will be shelling out a combined £95 million this month, as new occupancy laws come into...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has issued a reminder to the industry of the need to understand and abide by...

A lettings agent who let a tiny room behind a kitchen in a property in London has been ordered to pay...

It is now just three weeks until licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) is extended. The new rules, which will require...

The council behind a controversial private rental sector licensing scheme is trying to justify its introduction on health and safety grounds. On...

Agents and landlords are being advised to check the status of their HMO licenses in the London Borough of Harrow following...

The Residential Landlords Association has told another council that its plans to introduce selective licensing in areas of its town are...

A local authority has taken the unusual step of naming seven buy to let landlords prosecuted in the past month in...

The proportion of visitors to Edinburgh using Airbnb surged 70 per cent in 2017 compared to the previous year. Commercial agency Colliers,...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur says lettings agents should be more vocal in providing the government with feedback on council rental licensing...

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

A London landlord has been ordered to pay over £13,000 for breaching the conditions of his licence as a result of...

It appears that take-up of an apparently compulsory licensing scheme in one city has been shockingly low - and the scheme...

The Residential Landlords’ Association says proposals from Great Yarmouth council to introduce selective licensing in one part of the town contains...

An investor has been fined £2,525 after failing to licence her property and allegedly providing inadequate living conditions for her tenants. Adeola...

From August 1 Nottingham council is introducing a new selective licensing regime covering an estimated 32,000 privately rented homes. This is an...

A tenant who was ripping off other tenants in an overcrowded bungalow "death trap" has been fined tens of thousands of...

Councillors in Stockton-on-Tees are under pressure to rethink plans to introduce Selective Licensing of private rented housing in two areas of...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has heaped praise on a local authority which has fined 27 lettings and managing agents...

ARLA Propertymark has launched a new database to help its agent members keep abreast of compliance issues in the lettings sector.  The...

A petition has appeared on the government’s e-petition website calling for a review of a city council’s newly-introduced selective licensing system. Nottingham...

A buy to let mortgage firm says it’s likely that there will be a spike in refinancing enquiries as landlords meet...

Letting agents and others in the private rental sector have responded to the latest government intervention - a review into how...

The government has announced a review to assess how selective licensing is used and find out how well it is working...

Countrywide - which is making the lettings sector a key part of its ‘back to basics’ programme - is proposing to...

An agent has been banned from letting properties under ‘fit and proper person’ legislation in Scotland, following an incident in which...

The government has been told is should simply adopt some Labour rental policies or risk losing the next General Election -...

Rental compliance platform GetRentr has raised over £500,000 from investors including a private equity firm and private individuals. GetRentr uses artificial intelligence...

ARLA has branded the government’s long-awaited database of rogue landlords as “pointless” because it will not be made public. The Ministry of...

Foxtons is warning that the private rental sector - traditionally a strong earner for the company even in times of challenging...

A 10 week consultation period begins today on selective licensing in the central area of Blackpool - with the council threatening...

Two landlords have been hit with hefty court fines for failing to comply with a local licensing scheme. The pair are the...

The government has set out new measures to mitigate against overcrowded and dangerous living conditions of private tenants in shared homes. From...

The National Landlords Association has revealed a seven-point plan which would allow the Welsh Government greater powers over the private rental...

A survey by consumer group Which?, working with landlords’ associations, reveals that 70 local authorities now have selective or additional licensing...

The government has pledged to begin a review of the selective licensing across the private rental sector once MPs return from...

The Residential Landlords’ Association is upset at the government’s confirmation that the extension of mandatory HMO licensing will come into force...

The local media in Bristol are reporting that landlords in the city are complaining that they face backruptcy if a hugely...

Bristol council is consulting on a licensing scheme which could see buy to let investors paying £1,660 for a five year...

The Court of Appeal has ruled that councils cannot use selective licensing conditions to impose new standards on private rented homes. In...

A local authority has fined four landlords who failed to licence a total of seven properties under its selective licensing scheme. Hastings...

Brent Council has confirmed that the government has approved its request to extend the local selective licensing scheme. The local authority, which...

Two buy to let investors have been fined a total of more than £27,000 under enforcement powers introduced in Burnley to...

The government has given the go ahead to what will be one of the UK’s largest selective licensing scheme outside of...

It is being reported that the Labour mayor of Newham council - that’s the authority which has introduced stricter controls on...

This is a rare story: a council has dropped a plan for a lettings licensing scheme as a result of 900...

A London council is marking 125 successful prosecutions against agents, landlords and sub-letting tenants since 2016. The authority, Brent, says the convictions...

A lettings agency apparently trying to get around HMO regulations has been prosecuted for licensing and housing offences.  Easy Let Agency let...

Landlords in Wales who manage their own properties are being reminded that they must submit their licence application to Rent Smart...

A London council has been the first in the country to use the Proceeds of Crime Act for a breach in...

Two landlords and two tenants were fined a total of over £11,000 after losing their appeal against housing convictions concerning property...

Research by NALS has revealed extensive increases in the cost of licensing of lettings properties and landlords by local authorities in...

The select committee monitoring the Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government will continue its deliberations today on the government’s ban...

The chief operating officer of a leading PropTech company says government proposals to increase mandatory licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation...

Rent Smart Wales says it is “heartening” that there has been a substantial recent rise in the number of agents, properties...

Letting Agent Today understands that Foxtons has been asked to appear at a hearing staged by a London council to prove...

The government has announced new minimum space requirements for private lettings in a bid to reduce problems of overcrowding. In addition to...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and other trade bodies have not yet responded to the government’s announcement over the holiday...

The government has released more details on long-discussed proposals to tighten up licensing in the private rental sector. It wants landlords in...

HM Revenue & Customs has launched a consultation on adding tax checks to private rental sector licensing schemes - in other...

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

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

The Conveyancing Association has made a wide-ranging response to the government’s call for evidence on the regulation of letting and managing...

The National Landlords Association has unveiled a new tool which could help agents and landlords keep across the ever-rising number of...

A buy to let investor who failed to purchase a £542 licence for his HMO has been ordered to pay almost...

Research by The Guardian newspaper reveals that massive numbers of local authority councillors are also buy to let investors - and...

Rent Smart Wales, the licensing and training regime which is now a year old, has taken an agent and a landlord...

A local authority currently consulting on private rental licensing is using improved energy efficiency as one of the criteria for landlords...

A London council is inviting letting agents in its boundaries to a briefing session tomorrow morning ahead of the introducing of an...

The National Landlords Association reports that Bournemouth council has taken the unusual step of rejecting a proposal to introduce a landlord licensing...

Almost 60 per cent of councils across Britain have not prosecuted any landlord for any offence in the past year according...

A leading legal firm is staging a free and interactive seminar on sub-letting, aimed at letting agents. The event takes place on...

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

The powerful and all-party Communities & Local Government Select Committee of MPs has launched a new enquiry into improving the quality...

Greenwich is the latest council to make it compulsory for planning consent to be given before converting homes into Houses in...

A letting agent named in a case concerning a rat-infested House in Multiple Occupation in Leytonstone, East London, has been fined...

A landlord has been fined a total of £7,298 for operating an unlicensed house in multiple occupation in Oxford that was...

Letting Agent Today understands that senior industry figures are working on the framework of a new attempt at regulation, including measures...

Letting agency Spicerhaart has been fined £2,670 after pleading guilty to operating an unlicensed house in multiple occupation.   A prosecution was brought...

A landlord has been prosecuted and ordered to repay over £5,000 to his tenants for letting an unlicensed House of Multiple...

Greenwich is licensing all Houses in Multiple Occupation from October 1 - just the latest London council to tighten its private...

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

Labour's housing spokesman has called on the government to give councils greater powers over the regulation of the private rental sector.   In...

A council claims that up to 13,000 private landlords are “of interest” to HM Revenue and Customs, where there are alleged...

Redbridge council in London is offering 50 per cent off the cost of its private rental sector licensing scheme until September...

More than 100 criminal prosecutions have been secured against landlords since the start of an enforcement crackdown by Brent council in...

A new licensing scheme in Nottingham has moved a step closer with the proposal being sent to the government for approval.    The council’s...

Council officers discovered men living mattress to mattress inside a run-down flat above a commercial premises during a dawn raid.   Police and...

Beleagured housing minister Alok Sharma has been told by a London council that his decision over an application for a borough-wide...

A new charter has been launched to promote the rights of tenants in a London borough where, for the first time...

Yet another local authority is considering introducing selective licensing of private rental property. Luton council has issued a statement saying that within...

Bristol council is resuscitating a so-called ‘rental standard’ which it expects local letting agents to meet. Back in January 2016 Letting Agent...

The BBC is reporting that the Welsh government is offering private buy to let investors who have properties in high-rise buildings...

Agents and landlords are unwittingly issuing incorrect Section 21 notices, resulting in thousands of pounds being wasted on aborted possession claims...

The substantial majority of landlords could soon be required to licence their properties in one London borough if the government agrees...

At the latest meeting of the Fair Fees Forum, members described the current approach towards landlord licensing as a 'post code...

Former Conservative Party leader and Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith is set to speak at a lettings sector event...

A student landlord has been fined for failing to obtain the appropriate licences for two rental properties. Lisa Chatfield was ordered to...

Research by the National Approved Letting Scheme (NALS) has identified that some 93% of local authorities have failed to issue a...

The National Approved Letting Scheme has launched a new course which it describes as “ground-breaking” and which allows candidates to become...

A family of rogue landlords who crammed 31 tenants into a 'Slumdog Millionaire'-style shanty home have this month been found guilty...

The Liberal Democrats want a raft of additional controls on the private rented sector aimed at addressing what it describes as...

Agents and landlords with properties in Wales have been reminded they could be breaking the law if they're not signed up to...

A letting agency is urging landlords to respond to the consultations for three selective licensing schemes in its local area. homes4u, which...

The founder of a PropTech start up called No Agent says despite his firm’s name he does not want to see...

A prominent campaigning letting agent has discovered that more than 6,000 tenants in one region alone have complained to local authorities...

The National Landlords Association and Residential Landlords Association have joined forces with Leeds city council to create a new accreditation system...

Greenwich council in London is the latest to announce an extension to its HMO licensing policy. The council is already legally obliged...

A local authority consultation exercise on a licensing system for local landlords has been postponed until June 12, four days after...

Letting agents who have broken the law are set to be ‘named and shamed’ by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan,...

Another London borough is consulting on a further extension of its existing selective licensing - this time it’s Harrow council. It wants...

Angry landlords in Shropshire have set up an online petition against local council proposals to introduce selective licensing.    The Wrekin Landlords Association...

A landlady has been fined £15,000 for failing to license and manage a house in multiple occupation.    Sharon Jacobs was also ordered...

MNY Property Management Ltd has been fined £3,390 for offences under the Housing Act - specifically, failing to buy a licence...

The owner of a house in multiple occupation in the leafy Hampstead area of north London has been hit with a...

An advice website claims that more than half of the privately rented properties in the selective licensing area imposed by a...

A survey of 1,000 tenants and landlords has provided evidence of what many agents already know - that the growing complexity...

A Conservative MP has launched a scathing attack on some landlords in his own constituency following a local council initiative to...

A council’s first case for non-compliance with its landlord licensing regime has seen one individual plead guilty to 12 offences -...

The Chartered Institute of Housing wants the government to introduce a raft of new measures including significantly greater regulation of letting...

A series of prosecutions of rogue landlords by a London council has also seen a so-called ‘property manager’ fined a four-figure...

Manchester, which already has a major private rental sector licensing scheme, is now consulting on extending it with a third phase...

The need for letting agencies to assist landlords with the increasingly-complicated private rental sector has been hammered home by the results...

A group of landlords that mounted a successful legal challenge to a council’s proposed licensing scheme is continuing to recruit letting...

A new task group is being set up to explore how a council can tackle what it calls “problems with private...

A landlord is facing prosecution for failing to comply with various HMO regulations.  For the last two days, Paul Turner has appeared...

Consultation has begun on a new licensing scheme for landlords being proposed by Nottingham council.    It runs until March 31 and gives...

Manchester council - which previously described selective licensing schemes in the private rental sector as ineffective - has done a U-turn...

The National Landlords Association has rejected a central plank of London mayor Sadiq Khan’s plan for housing - the introduction of yet more...

Yet another London borough is introducing a selective licensing scheme, under which parts of a local authority patch are subject to...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is warning the government that some of its proposed changes to regulations governing HMOs may...

A London council has agreed to implement a new ‘standards charter’ for the private rental sector from next month - in...

A council believes that a landlord was “putting tenants’ lives in danger” because he did not have local authority licenses for...

A group of landlords and buy to let investors that has already successfully persuaded a council to scrap plans for a...

The local council in Nottingham wants to introduce a city-wide licensing scheme of all landlords across its estimated 43,000 private rental...

A landlord has been prosecuted and ordered to pay a £12,000 fine as well as over £12,000 in court costs, after...

Brighton and Hove council has failed in its bid to win government backing to ban To Let boards. The council sought government...

One the leading letting agencies in Brighton has sharply criticised a proposal by the local council to introduce a selective licensing...

A buy to let investor has been fined £29,200 after being prosecuted for 56 offences in what a local authority describes...

A 71 year old landlord has been fined £5,037.97 at Birmingham Magistrates Court for failing to obtain an HMO licence and...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is warning that proposals to enforce minimum room sizes in HMOs in the privste rental...

Another 400 purpose-built Build To Rent apartments have been given the green light by planners in London.    Legal & General’s plans for...

London mayor says the private rental sector will play an increasing part in solving the capital’s housing shortage - but insists...

Brent council in London is seeking the views of agents- as well as landlords, tenants and others - on the extension...

The government’s wave of measures to clamp down on the private rental sector and introduce harsher regulations for investors and landlords...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has responded to the latest government recommendations for tighter controls on the private rental sector...

  A council has taken a landlord to court for failing to licence his two buy to let properties under its selective...

Agents and landlords in one of the country’s most politically-volatile cities are preparing to meet the local council to protest at...

With just nine weeks to go before the deadline, only a small proportion of Welsh agents and landlords have registered for...

A letting agency has been fined after one of its landlords was found to be cramming six families into an unlicensed...

A landlord operating in Wales has been fined almost £3,000 for failing to renew the House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) licences...

A letting agency and one of its landlords have been fined over £20,000 and given criminal records for failing to licence...

The newly-elected mayor of Bristol and the city’s council have endorsed a so-called ethical lettings charter created by a group known...

A pair of landlords have been slapped with a hefty fine for allowing people to live in damp-riddled rooms without fire...

It appears that Wandsworth Council has backed away from a decision to implement a new landlord licensing scheme.   Research by London Property...

A firm has been fined £29,000 after a rental property was found to be - in the words of Nottingham city...

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

A letting agency has been removed from a Scottish council’s approved list after failing to conform with rules protecting the deposits...

A landlord that continually refused to sign up to a council’s selective licensing regime has been found guilty by the courts...

The campaign group ACORN, which has in the past organised protests outside letting agency offices, is up in arms that a...

Several influential industry bodies have thrown their weight behind a review into whether Client Money Protection should be mandatory for letting...

Two training seminars geared towards letting agents operating in London are being organised for the autumn.    Organised by the National Approved Letting...

A council has scrapped its proposal to introduce a licensing campaign for private sector landlords following large-scale opposition and the formation...

The local authority in Manchester is proposing to introduce a landlord licensing scheme in the north of the city and has...

Former shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham - now Labour’s candidate for Mayor of Greater Manchester - has outlined a string of...

An organisation called Somerset Property Network has organised over 50 landlords in the course of little over one month and it...

Two private landlords have been found guilty of failing to obtain the appropriate licenses for their properties.   Jagtar and Jagdish Kandola, who...

A London council will introduce two new licensing schemes in the New Year. These make it a legal requirement for landlords to obtain...

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

A House in Multiple Occupation located on the third floor of a property with a restaurant at ground level was one...

Yet another council private rental sector licensing scheme is being drawn up with the claim that it will improve standards of...

A consumer group dedicated to reducing tax says recent fiscal changes introduced by the government will end up hurting private rental...

The Residential Landlords’ Association says Gavin Barwell, the new housing minister appointed by Theresa May this week, is a known critic...

Another local authority is aiming to set up its own ‘social’ lettings agency.   The proposal is one of five put forward by...

Controversial licensing conditions for a city’s landlords have been changed following complaints from an industry group.    Liverpool council has modified the conditions...

A local council has halted proposals to introduce a licensing regime for a town’s privately let properties after what a newspaper called...

A new scheme governing the letting out of residential property above retail premises is to be launched in September in the London borough of...

Burnley Council has brought a series of prosecutions against people responsible for unlicensed rented houses in the borough. The council has introduced...

Bexley council in south east London says it is going to announce what it describes as a “crackdown” on HMOs next...

A legal tribunal has ruled that a landlord must refund his tenants rent totalling £2,934 because he housed them in unlicensed...

Yet another local authority looks likely to adopt a licensing scheme for private rental sector properties, described as a bid “to...

A row has broken out between landlords and the council in Oxford, where the local authority is considering a private rental...

An industry body is warning new London Labour mayor Sadiq Khan not to think he is helping renters by tying up...

A landlord has been fined almost £25,000 for a series of failings relating to a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO). Birmingham-based Salih...

Burnley Council has named and shamed eleven landlords that have been prosecuted for ignoring its selective licensing scheme. One landlord, Pierce Mullally,...

Letting agents are being invited to join landlords and local authority rental housing experts in a Twitter debate on private rental...

Twelve landlords in Waltham Forest have been prosecuted for not signing up to a council Private Rented Property Licencing scheme, and...

An ‘ethical lettings charter’ set up over a year ago by a pressure group for improved private rental sector housing has...

The owner of a rented property in west London has received a penalty of more than £20,000 having pleaded guilty to...

Before new London mayor Sadiq Khan has had his first working day in office, his proposals for a private rental sector...

A letting agent and four landlords face bills totalling more than £20,000 after being prosecuted by Islington Council for operating unlicensed...

A private landlord has been ordered to pay more than £1,000 after admitting operating in Burnley without a proper licence.  Matthew Hartley...

A private landlord aged 72 must pay £4,800 after pleading guilty to 11 offences of breaching the Licensing and Management of...

A local council has closed down what it describes as a ‘House of Horrors’ let to a family despite being in...

The 1,000th person has been trained as part of Rent Smart Wales, the compulsory scheme that says it aims to raise...

Lettings companies and an organised group of criminals described as a “gang of chancers” have been hit with fines and costs...

New licence fees for letting and managing agents have been announced by Rent Smart Wales, the Welsh Government’s registration and licensing scheme which...

A landlord has become the first to be prosecuted by Waltham Forest council for failing to obtain one of its controversial...

A proposal to make it easier for some local councils to introduce licensing schemes governing the private rental sector will do...

Enforcement officers from Barking and Dagenham council, one of the most active in chasing up private rental sector issues, has discovered...

A landlord has to pay over £16,500 after being found guilty of failing to licence her ex-council flat with the local...

A campaign group which last year held protests outside letting agents’ offices in Bristol is claiming victory in persuading the city’s...

Liverpool council has completed only 648 of 39,100 licence applications by landlords in the first six months of its controversial scheme.  The...

The Residential Landlords Association has entered into a deal which gives its members a 50 per cent reduction if they sign...

Ealing Council in London is undergoing a formal consultation about a proposal that all houses in multiple occupation within its boundaries...

MPs have given their backing to a government proposal to ban rogue letting agents and landlords who repeatedly break private rental...

We’ve seen large numbers of local councils set up private rental accreditation systems, and a string of politicians from all major...

Chancellor George Osborne has “effectively declared war on individual landlords” according to the Residential Landlords’ Association - but don’t expect a...

A failed bid by a council to introduce a blanket landlord licensing scheme was both unnecessary and unjustified according to the...

The Secretary of State for Department of Communities and Local Government, Greg Clark, has rejected a council’s call for a blanket...

Countrywide is calling on the Greater London Assembly to implement a single landlord licensing scheme which individual borough councils can opt...

The government should rein in its plans to transform the way Houses in Multiple Occupation are licensed. That is the view of...

Two landlords of HMOs have been prosecuted for failing to license their properties - and now have to pay fines of...

An organisation representing councils wants a government database covering all housing-related convictions to deter rogue landlords switching from one area to...

Up to 5,000 landlords are reported to be receiving licensing fee refunds as a result of legal advice given to the...

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