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Private rental property conditions and the enforcement of regulations by councils and government have all been in the firing line from...

Westminster council wants central London to have the same powers as Paris and Amsterdam to stop anti-social behaviour caused by Airbnb...

ARLA Propertymark says letting agents have a vital role to play in highlighting the rights of private rental sector tenants. The comment...

A £5,000 fine has been handed to five landlords in London for failing to license HMOs.  One of the properties, a four-bedroom HMO in...

Two landlords have been served with civil penalty notices for operating unlicensed HMOs.  The notices were from Wellingborough council; one was for...

The new body representing short let digital platforms like Airbnb and the large number of associated companies that have sprung up...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents has thrown its weight behind an initiative by the Scottish Government to control the growth...

A landlord has been fined almost £2,500 for breaching an improvement notice issued by Cambridge City Council. Noelle Salameh was fined after...

The government has this week published a learning toolkit for local authorities to help them with enforcement against rogue landlords and...

A leading PropTech chief says there is nothing inherently wrong with private tenants being given the right to buy their property,...

More details have emerged about Labour’s controversial proposal to allow private rental tenants that right to buy their landlord’s property, at...

A landlord has been ordered to pay £14,500 after he was found to be illegally letting his property out to 11...

Labour has this morning pledged to introduce a shock new policy if it wins the next general election - giving private...

A joint operation between Avon and Somerset Police and North Somerset council has uncovered a string of issues connected with rental...

Confusion reigns over inventory reports and how letting agents and landlords comply with the Homes (Fit for Human Habitation) Act 2018. That’s...

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

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

Local authority officers have found three tenants living inside a shed in the garden of a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Brent,...

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

Sub-standard homes remain a key weakness in the private rental sector, which needs to get its house in order in the...

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 report claims that England has just 825 homes for every 1,000 families as a result of two decades of house...

A property management company which kept up to 23 adults in overcrowded conditions has been fined £7,500 by a council in...

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

A buy to let investor that let at least eight people from six different families rent space in his three-storey property...

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

Two private landlords have been found guilty of managing Houses in Multiple Occupation with dangerous and sub-standard conditions, following a successful...

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

A London local authority is looking for the landlord of a bungalow which had two bedrooms but was home to 15...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

The new online database identifying rogue letting agents and landlords will save lives according to the London Fire Brigade. We wrote about...

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

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

A dawn raid on a home in north London has discovered 35 men bedding down on mattresses in every room except...

A buy to let investor who kept 24 adults and children in what a local council calls “appalling conditions” has a...

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

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

New legislation coming into force today gives local authorities in England tough new powers to crack down on rogue agents and...

Waltham Forest council has enforced an Interim Management Order on a house in its area meaning it will take over day-to-day...

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

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

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

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

Labour MP Karen Buck is accusing local authorities of taking a ’softly, softly’ approach to rogue letting agents and landlords. Buck, whose...

A landlord who let out dark, damp and overcrowded rooms has been hit with a huge £67,000 fine. Rogue landlord Liakath Ali,...

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

It may be almost Christmas but the government is this week unveiling new laws to combat what it sees as the...

A landlord and restaurateur has to pay almost £5,000 after an apartment he was letting out was found to be overcrowded...

New funding will help up to 65 councils tackle rogue landlords who let out substandard homes including the hated Beds In...

The specialist eviction company Landlord Action says it is in full support of the government’s latest proposal to crack down on...

The government is proposing a national minimum bedroom size and a re-defining of what constitutes a House in Multiple Occupation in...

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

Enforcement officers have swooped on three addresses in east London in the latest bid to clampdown on rogue landlords and so-called...

I don't think there is one person in lettings and property management who isn't alarmed at the scenes just over the...

Father and son rogue landlords have been fined for failing to register their property as a house in multiple occupancy. Sabbir and...

A landlord has been fined and left with a bill of nearly £6,000 for overcrowding at his property with an illegal...

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