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A management company and a lettings agency involved in running a London HMO have been prosecuted for fire safety failures. Monsoon Properties...

A PropTech expert is warning that letting agents can expect hefty fines if they fail to comply with complex Client Money...

A council says it’s considering introducing criminal record checks on individuals who apply to run HMOs as part of a wide-ranging...

A report by the National Audit Office claims that the way private renting is regulated makes the sector unfair to renters. It...

A letting agency has been issued with penalty notices worth £3,000 for operating illegally. Back in 2014 it became a legal requirement...

A local authority in Essex is cracking down on what it claims to be the increase of illegally positioned estate agent...

A major north of England local authority wants to introduce landlord licensing for HMOs where three or four tenants live, following analysis...

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

A former letting agent has been censured over the handling of tenancy deposits following an investigation by a local council. Andrew Rhys...

The government’s hugely-publicised database for rogue letting agents and landlords has been running for almost two years and has…wait for it…just...

A newspaper in Liverpool has sharply criticised the government for refusing to allow the city council to continue a huge landlord...

A local council claims it has received over 500 complaints from private rental tenants since the start of April - approaching...

A crackdown on letting agency websites by a Trading Standards team has found the significant majority of them to be breaking...

The most controversial local council rental licensing scheme in the country has been deemed a success - at least by the...

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

The Renting Homes (Fees etc.) (Wales) Act - which bans fees levied by agents and landlords on tenants - comes into...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Landlords Association have spoken out about the complexity of the fees ban...

A London council wants to extend its private rental sector licensing scheme - and in doing so is boasting of the...

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

Two buy to let investors have been fined thousands of pounds after failing to carry out improvements to unfit rental properties. Adur...

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

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

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

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

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

A PropTech company chief is backing the controversial idea of spot checks on private rental sector properties in a bid to...

The industry has reacted angrily to the announcement yesterday that the Tenants’ Fees Bill is now formally starting its progress through...

A council says it is adopting a new approach to proactively tackling poor housing conditions in privately rented homes in one...

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

The government is being urged by the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) to do more to enforce compulsory fee disclosure. Since May 2015,...

A buy to let investor who ignored the controversial Rent Smart Wales scheme faces a bill of more than £3,500 for...

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

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

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

York Council is seeking the introduction of fixed penalty notices for letting agents and landlords in the city who are found...

A letting agent is angry that there has not been a single prosecution in his region as a result of agencies...