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...
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Two landlords have been served with civil penalty notices for operating unlicensed HMOs. The notices were from Wellingborough council; one was for...
09 September 2020
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The new body representing short let digital platforms like Airbnb and the large number of associated companies that have sprung up...
23 January 2020
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The Association of Residential Lettings Agents has thrown its weight behind an initiative by the Scottish Government to control the growth...
10 January 2020
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A landlord has been fined almost £2,500 for breaching an improvement notice issued by Cambridge City Council. Noelle Salameh was fined after...
09 October 2019
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The government has this week published a learning toolkit for local authorities to help them with enforcement against rogue landlords and...
03 October 2019
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A leading PropTech chief says there is nothing inherently wrong with private tenants being given the right to buy their property,...
23 September 2019
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More details have emerged about Labour’s controversial proposal to allow private rental tenants that right to buy their landlord’s property, at...
09 September 2019
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A landlord has been ordered to pay £14,500 after he was found to be illegally letting his property out to 11...
09 September 2019
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Labour has this morning pledged to introduce a shock new policy if it wins the next general election - giving private...
02 September 2019
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A joint operation between Avon and Somerset Police and North Somerset council has uncovered a string of issues connected with rental...
02 September 2019
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Confusion reigns over inventory reports and how letting agents and landlords comply with the Homes (Fit for Human Habitation) Act 2018. That’s...
07 August 2019
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A rogue landlord who housed more than 25 tenants in a rundown property has been found guilty of serious housing and...
02 August 2019
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A buy to let investor has been fined almost £5,000 after admitting overcrowding. Matteo Mariano, from Gedling in Nottinghamshire, pleaded guilty at...
26 July 2019
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Local authority officers have found three tenants living inside a shed in the garden of a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Brent,...
20 June 2019
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A husband and wife must pay joint fines, penalties and costs totalling over £8,000 after complaints about a bungalow they owned...
23 April 2019
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Sub-standard homes remain a key weakness in the private rental sector, which needs to get its house in order in the...
20 February 2019
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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...
08 February 2019
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A report claims that England has just 825 homes for every 1,000 families as a result of two decades of house...
14 January 2019
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A property management company which kept up to 23 adults in overcrowded conditions has been fined £7,500 by a council in...
17 October 2018
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A managing agent who used ‘ghost tenants’ as a front so that she could cram 16 people into one overcrowded house...
16 October 2018
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A buy to let investor that let at least eight people from six different families rent space in his three-storey property...
03 October 2018
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A London local authority which is part way through its five year additional HMO licensing scheme wants lettings agents to give their...
02 October 2018
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Two private landlords have been found guilty of managing Houses in Multiple Occupation with dangerous and sub-standard conditions, following a successful...
26 September 2018
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An overcrowded property let by an unlicensed company with inadequate fire precautions and unheated rooms has led to a £46,620 fine...
21 September 2018
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A London local authority is looking for the landlord of a bungalow which had two bedrooms but was home to 15...
24 August 2018
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A London landlord has been ordered to pay over £13,000 for breaching the conditions of his licence as a result of...
01 August 2018
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An investor has been fined £2,525 after failing to licence her property and allegedly providing inadequate living conditions for her tenants. Adeola...
24 July 2018
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Three agencies have been heavily fined after a property in London was being used for multiple occupation with 11 people living...
04 July 2018
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The government has announced a review to assess how selective licensing is used and find out how well it is working...
20 June 2018
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The government has set out new measures to mitigate against overcrowded and dangerous living conditions of private tenants in shared homes. From...
16 March 2018
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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...
26 February 2018
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The chief operating officer of a leading PropTech company says government proposals to increase mandatory licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation...
25 January 2018
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The government has announced new minimum space requirements for private lettings in a bid to reduce problems of overcrowding. In addition to...
02 January 2018
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The government has released more details on long-discussed proposals to tighten up licensing in the private rental sector. It wants landlords in...
28 December 2017
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The new online database identifying rogue letting agents and landlords will save lives according to the London Fire Brigade. We wrote about...
21 December 2017
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The local authority at Brent in north London has secured what it calls “an important court victory” after “appalling conditions” were...
21 December 2017
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A database of rogue letting agents and landlords and new banning orders, first promised in the Housing and Planning Act announced...
04 December 2017
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A dawn raid on a home in north London has discovered 35 men bedding down on mattresses in every room except...
21 September 2017
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A buy to let investor who kept 24 adults and children in what a local council calls “appalling conditions” has a...
12 September 2017
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Council officers discovered men living mattress to mattress inside a run-down flat above a commercial premises during a dawn raid. Police and...
24 July 2017
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A family of rogue landlords who crammed 31 tenants into a 'Slumdog Millionaire'-style shanty home have this month been found guilty...
25 May 2017
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New legislation coming into force today gives local authorities in England tough new powers to crack down on rogue agents and...
06 April 2017
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Waltham Forest council has enforced an Interim Management Order on a house in its area meaning it will take over day-to-day...
21 October 2016
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The landlord of an overcrowded flat which lacked proper fire precautions and had a dangerous boiler has been fined £162,000. Abbas Rasul...
17 October 2016
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A landlord has been fined £7,000 for letting two properties which were unfit for habitation. Shahzad Mehmood was prosecuted at Swindon Magistrates'...
26 September 2016
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A letting agency has been fined after one of its landlords was found to be cramming six families into an unlicensed...
21 September 2016
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A rogue landlord faces a court bill of almost £40,000 after being caught cramming 24 people into a house in north...
18 August 2016
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Property managers operating through a company have been ordered to pay more than £30,000 following a dawn raid that uncovered more...
12 August 2016
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Yet another council private rental sector licensing scheme is being drawn up with the claim that it will improve standards of...
01 August 2016
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Labour MP Karen Buck is accusing local authorities of taking a ’softly, softly’ approach to rogue letting agents and landlords. Buck, whose...
19 January 2016
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A landlord who let out dark, damp and overcrowded rooms has been hit with a huge £67,000 fine. Rogue landlord Liakath Ali,...
15 January 2016
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MPs have given their backing to a government proposal to ban rogue letting agents and landlords who repeatedly break private rental...
13 January 2016
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It may be almost Christmas but the government is this week unveiling new laws to combat what it sees as the...
21 December 2015
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A landlord and restaurateur has to pay almost £5,000 after an apartment he was letting out was found to be overcrowded...
26 November 2015
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New funding will help up to 65 councils tackle rogue landlords who let out substandard homes including the hated Beds In...
12 November 2015
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The specialist eviction company Landlord Action says it is in full support of the government’s latest proposal to crack down on...
11 November 2015
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The government is proposing a national minimum bedroom size and a re-defining of what constitutes a House in Multiple Occupation in...
09 November 2015
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Two rogue landlords who collected rent from more than 30 tenants in five sub-standard houses all on the same street have...
05 November 2015
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Enforcement officers have swooped on three addresses in east London in the latest bid to clampdown on rogue landlords and so-called...
18 August 2015
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I don't think there is one person in lettings and property management who isn't alarmed at the scenes just over the...
03 July 2015
From: Features

Father and son rogue landlords have been fined for failing to register their property as a house in multiple occupancy. Sabbir and...
29 June 2015
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A landlord has been fined and left with a bill of nearly £6,000 for overcrowding at his property with an illegal...