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A statement from a city council claims that a property company failed to attend court in a case of deposit protection,...

An agency has been fined by a London council for failing to licence a property it was managing. Gracechurch Property Services has...

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

A lettings agency has been accused of falsely claiming deposits were being held in a deposit protection scheme and other related...

A London lettings agency has been ordered to pay over £12,000 in a fine and costs for its part in running...

The agency and landlord responsible for letting a two-bedroom flat in Dagenham have been found guilty in court for providing extremely...

An estate agency has been prosecuted and ordered to pay £35,000 for falling foul of property licensing rules. Green House Estate Agents...

A former lettings manager has pleaded guilty to defrauding her agency employers for almost five years - but there’s uncertainty over...

The owner of a property in the Leicestershire village of Great Dalby has been fined after removing two trees within a...

A warrant backed without bail has been issued for the arrest of a lettings agent who failed to appear in court. Gareth Wills...

A retired estate agent has pleaded guilty to three charges of breaching fire safety in Devon. Retired Force and Sons agent David...

A property management company has been punished with a hefty fine for failing to both clear up and also keep free...

A lettings company has been caught up in a case where rental accommodation has been described as “atrocious” and a landlord...

It’s been reported that a tenant being evicted from a property in west Wales is alleged to have threatened the lettings...

Bristol-based lettings management company Iletpro Ltd has been ordered to pay a total of £2,700.06 in fines and costs for failing...

A London property managing agent has been ordered to pay more than £80,000 for safety failings which “exposed a potentially large...

Over £80,000 pounds of fines have been imposed on a letting agency and its director. Zenith Accommodation Ltd’s boss, Mohammad Mallick of...

A London lettings agency - that has now entered bankruptcy - has been cleared of any involvement in a rental scandal...

A letting agent has been fined £11,500 for breaking HMO houses and fire safety rules at a property he manages. Agent Benjamin...

A lettings agency director has been issued with a Criminal Behaviour Order for unlawfully evicting a tenant back in 2019. CFDP Ltd, trading as...

A property company and a landlord have each been found guilty of 27 charges relating to the management of two properties...

An agency has been hit with a £330,000 bill after being found guilty of poor management of an HMO. Magistrates have found...

A head tenant who posed as a landlord has been taken to court by a London council. Sonia Nascimento rented a converted...

A landlord who persistently broke residential lettings rules has been banned from operating in a landmark legal ruling. Julie Stoddern, of Camborne,...

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...