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A landlord who built unlawful extensions to a family home and squeezed up to 14 people into the rooms has forfeited...

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

Restaurant staff were kept in “dangerous and overcrowded” conditions by a property company and its landlord-director, a court has heard. The company...

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

Two landlords in the same town - one the director of a lettings firm - have been prosecuted as their properties...

One person had to be rescued from a fire after their landlord failed to ensure they had a working fire alarm...

A lettings firm has been ordered to pay over £18,000 after failing to provide adequate living conditions for his tenants. Chelmsford magistrates...

A Derbyshire estate agent has escaped a driving ban after being found smoking cannabis in a car. Annabelle Lamb was spotted with...

Two London landlords and their lettings agents will have to pay tens of thousands of pounds after a home they were letting...

The safeagent accreditation business says it has helped secure the conviction of a rogue lettings agent who falsely claimed membership of...

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

A resident who was unable to access an emergency escape route during a fire was found standing on a windowsill hanging...

A room-finding portal, along with the owners of a London lettings agency and management firm, must pay over £100,000 for letting...

A judge has ordered two landlords to pay a total of £14,858 for illegally renting out an unlicensed house without working...

The owner of a Derbyshire property must pay out more than £3,000 after being found guilty of failing to comply with...

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

[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...

A rogue landlord has been fined more than £150,000 after failing to rectify safety hazards in a property he let. Latif Rehman...

The owner of two properties has been fined £35,000 for breaches of the selective licensiing regime in his local area.  At a...

A rogue landlord and the property company he ran have been fined £22,000 for dishing out ‘sham licences’ to tenants in...

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

The owner of a house believed to be occupied by multiple tenants has been prosecuted by a Kent council for failing...

A landlord has been found guilty of failing to license an HMO - and has ended up with a bill of...

A long-term legal critic of selective licensing is warning that letting agents could be held jointly accountable with the landlords, -...

Former QPR and Nottingham Forest striker Dexter Blackstock has been fined over £25,000 and branded a rogue landlord after admitting 12 licencing offences. He...

A landlord who failed to provide information regarding a buy to let property has been fined £2,080.  Tenants contacted Colchester council in...

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

A local council says it has now successfully prosecuted a landlord for flouting the law that protects the health and safety...

A rogue landlord who housed more than 25 tenants in a rundown property has been found guilty of serious housing and...

A tenant pretending to be landlord has been ordered to pay more than £21,000 after he carved up five family homes...

A buy to let investor has been fined almost £5,000 after admitting overcrowding.  Matteo Mariano, from Gedling in Nottinghamshire, pleaded guilty at...

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

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

A director of a lettings agency has been fined for creating false tenancies in a bid to avoid paying council tax...

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

A landlord who illegally converted a London home into two flats without planning permission has been given a prison sentence after...

A buy to let investor has been fined £4,800 and ordered to pay £2,200 in costs for failing to keep his...

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

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

A rogue letting agent has been ordered to pay £42,596 in fines and costs of £10,626 after pleading guilty to a...

A husband and wife must pay joint fines, penalties and costs totalling over £8,000 after complaints about a bungalow they owned...

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

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

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

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

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

A leading PropTech exponent is supporting the government’s Housing Court initiative, suggesting it could make redress for agents, landlords and tenants...

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

Agents have under three weeks left to respond to the government’s proposals to introduce a Housing Court to settle disputes in...

A landlord and building contractor have been fined after quantities of asbestos fibres were released from the demolition of a conservatory...

The owner of a buy to let property already shut by police has been fined by a court in Devon.  In June...

We regularly carry stories about fines for landlords and letting agents who have apparently broken council or national laws - but...

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...

A landlord is almost £42,000 worse off after repeatedly ignoring council orders to stop illegally letting so called “beds in sheds”...

One of Britain's highest profile landlords is to be sentenced on December 11 - and she must show the court details of...

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

A landlord had been ordered to give back almost £4,000 that was paid to him while operating without a licence. The case...

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

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

An overcrowded property let by an unlicensed company with inadequate fire precautions and unheated rooms has led to a £46,620 fine...

A lettings agent described as ‘rogue’ by a London council, along with two lettings companies, have been heavily fined for operating...

A property management firm chief who had to pay over £20,000 after being found guilty of nine offences relating to an...

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

A landlord in Reading has been handed a huge fine for serious breaches of fire safety regulations.  Philip Brotherton's company Cresctcourt Properties...

A landlord has been hit with a total fine of almost £40,000 for breaching House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) management regulations. David...

A Luton lettings agency and its director, plus a landlord, have all been found guilty of offences related to a breach...

A buy to let investor has been fined £20,000 after a kitchen fire that occurred in May last year at a...

A buy to let investor has been fined £1,750 because of his alleged “aggressive practices”.  Shafaqat Ali Sadiq, of Derby, has been...

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

A gas safety engineer has pleaded guilty with a landlord of falsifying gas safety certificates for a string of private rental...

Three agencies have been heavily fined after a property in London was being used for multiple occupation with 11 people living...

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

The owner of a Plymouth lettings agency is to stand trial in November and faces charges of fraud, false accounting and...

A buy to let investor has been found guilty of 35 HMO-related offences - and has to pay a total fine...

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 has been landed with a legal bill of almost £2,000 after admitting that it failed to keep...

The former owner and director of a Plymouth lettings agency are to stand trial on charges of fraud, false accounting and...

Three head tenants who sub-let a three bedroom house to 35 men have been hit with over £23,000 in fines. Gheorghe-Valentin Lingurar...

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

A council says it hopes a massive set of fines and costs imposed on one buy to let investor and his...

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

A landlord has been ordered to pay £20,000 after being found guilty of nine offences in relation to a house in...

The local authority at Brent in north London has secured what it calls “an important court victory” after “appalling conditions” were...

A new team of investigative council officers are hitting the streets of the capital to tackle unlawful nightly letting using websites like...

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

A buy to let investor who a judge said “cut corners” and exposed his tenants to “significant risk” has been ordered...

Foxtons has been fined £35,000 for failing to prove to a local council that a house it was letting was safe...

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

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

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

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

A lettings agency and its director have been ordered to pay more than £2,500 in fines and costs for illegally advertising...

A landlord has been prosecuted and fined for evicting a tenant illegally.  Last week, Suhail Mahmood, 30, was convicted at Sheffield Magistrates'...

This month’s prosecution of a letting agency for issuing ‘sham licences’ that suggested occupiers had no right to challenge eviction and...

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

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

A landlord has been fined over £15,000 after failing to maintain gas appliances at the domestic property in Haverfordwest.   Llanelli Magistrates’ Court...

A south London property firm has been prosecuted by a local authority over its HMO management and may now have to...

A lettings firm and a property management company that converted a family home into micro flats have been found guilty of...

A local authority has clamped down on what it describes as illegal advertising boards, fining agencies thousands of pounds in the...

A landlord has been ordered to pay over £10,000 after pleading guilty to breaching three separate fire regulations. Charles Thornton was fined...

Two landlords have been fined almost £14,000 for breaching a multitude of property management regulations. Abdul Qadir, 56, and Dr Mohammed Anwar,...

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

A Newport landlord has been fined £4,400 for operating a dangerous, unlicensed house in multiple occupation and failing to comply with...

A private landlord in Saffron Walden has been fined for letting what the local council describes as “poor and potentially dangerous...

A man who rented out rooms above a town centre bar has been banned from being a buy to let landlord...

A landlord who exposed tenants to “miserable” living conditions because of fire safety hazards has been prosecuted by a local authority.    The...

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £17,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty at St Albans Magistrates'...

A landlord of a shared house in Hove, near Brighton, has been found to be ‘putting people’s lives at risk’ and ordered to pay...

A council is warning agents and landlords not to sit on long term vacant properties.   The warning, from Liverpool council, comes as...

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...

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...

A rogue landlord found guilty of waging a campaign of harassment and intimidation against a young mother he wanted to illegally...

A landlord and letting agency have been fined more than £26,000 after being found guilty of housing offences at two properties...

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

Property campaigner Ajay Jagota has launched what he calls a “stolen deposits totaliser” to keep track of how much cash crooked...

A former administrator at a Savills letting office has admitted embezzling around £16,000 from the firm over a five and a...

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

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

A private landlord has been fined by a London magistrates court for poor and potentially dangerous housing conditions.    Monojor Ali was fined...

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

A landlord has been found guilty of letting a property with "extremely dangerous electrics" as well as no heating and a...

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

The landlord of an overcrowded flat which lacked proper fire precautions and had a dangerous boiler has been fined £162,000. Abbas Rasul...

A Norwich landlord has been prosecuted “for putting lives at risk” according to the local council.  Piang Fui Pun has pleaded guilty...

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

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

A landlord has been fined £7,000 for letting two properties which were unfit for habitation. Shahzad Mehmood was prosecuted at Swindon Magistrates'...

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 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...

The owner of a series of flats to let in Cardiff has been fined £3,500 and ordered to pay £200 costs...

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

A landlord has been fined just £440 after he effectively left a tenant homeless.    Warrington Magistrates Court heard that Peter Lamont, the...

A rogue landlord faces a court bill of almost £40,000 after being caught cramming 24 people into a house in north...

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

A landlord’s company has been left with a bill of over £14,000 for letting unlicensed flats in north London.   Appearing at Highbury...

Property managers operating through a company have been ordered to pay more than £30,000 following a dawn raid that uncovered more...

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

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

A landlord who waged what a local authority describes as “a war of intimidation” against tenants living in his property has...

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

A landlord who rented out a house in multiple occupation has ended up with a £10,000 fine after pleading guilty to failing...

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

A lettings agency has been fined over £11,000 for alleged breaches of regulations in advertising an unlicenced HMO that was later...

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

Magistrates have fined the leaseholders and landlords of a 10-flat property in north London £120,000 after finding they had put the...

Havering council has successfully prosecuted a landlord who must now pay £101,300 for building illegal flats at her property. Jaghtar Khaira was...

A letting agent’s day in court turned into a nightmare when he ended up paying four times the original parking ticket...

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

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

A landmark court case heard in the Midlands is believed to be the first to issue a Criminal Behaviour Order on...

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

A London landlord has been given an eight week suspended prison sentence after failing to have a gas boiler in a...

A tenant has been found guilty of an assault of a letting agency staff member and has been ordered to do...

A buy to let landlord in Stockton-on-Tees, has been sentenced after illegally uncapping and reconnecting a gas supply. Teeside Magistrates’ Court heard...

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

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...

Who are you? I’m the Head of Redress at the Property Redress Scheme. I previously worked for Legal & General PLC dealing...

A landlord has been fined £6,160 by St Helens magistrates after he admitted failing to tidy up two properties he owned. The...

A landlord has been fined after a family of five suffered carbon monoxide poisoning at their rented home. North Avon Magistrates’ Court...

A landlord and his letting agent who failed to declare they were operating a series of bedsits at an address in...

A rogue landlord who illegally converted one house into a nine flats has been handed a maximum £20,000 fine after being...

Two rogue landlords who collected rent from more than 30 tenants in five sub-standard houses all on the same street have...

A rogue landlord has been fined £20,000 and ordered to pay £3,343 costs as well as a victim surcharge of £120...

A landlord has been fined a meagre £265 after a defective gas appliance was found to be in operation at his...

An Oxford landlord has been convicted of unlawfully evicting a tenant after “a campaign of sustained harassment”. Riasat Ali was ordered to...

The landlord of a rental property in Harrogate has been fined over £8,200 after pleading guilty to two offences under the Regulatory...

A letting agent is reported to have lied to police about his name when he was tracked down by officers investigating...

A body representing over 370 local councils in England and Wales wants more powers to control the private rental sector, letting...

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

A letting agency has been ordered to pay more than £12,000 in fines and court costs after being convicted of seven...

A mother and her young son were put at risk of suffering carbon monoxide poisoning for seven years at their home,...

A landlord whose Home in Multiple Occupation was closed down by the local council has been left with a court bill...

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

A landlord who did not have the required licence for the number of tenants living in his property, and who also...

An amnesty on the licensing of houses in multiple occupation is being held in Barnet in north London following the successful...

A landlord has been ordered to pay fines adding up to over £6,600.  Balwinder Singh Dhadwal was prosecuted at Dudley Magistrates’ Court...

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 landlord described as a professional opera singer has been ordered to pay more than £15,000 for refusing to comply with...

A landlord who overcrowded his property has had to pay over £4,500 after being prosecuted by his local council.  The property in...

A landlord who failed to apply for an HMO licence despite being interviewed on the subject under caution has now been...

A rogue landlord who rented out a shoddy property in north west London has become the first to be fined under...