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There’s been a rise of over 400 per cent in the monetary total of fines issued for Right To Rent offences...

Fines for agents and landlords who breach Right To Rent rules increase today from £80 per lodger and £1,000 per occupier...

Two property company bosses have been sentenced following an Insolvency Service investigation which found they had abused a £30,000 Bounce Back...

A fraudster lettings agent must repay £122,922.68 to her old firm within three months - or face yet more time in...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is today charing a crisis meeting of mortgage lenders, as calls mount for him to take action to...

Trading Standards has stopped a lettings agency owner from being a company director after he defrauded customers by over £80,000. Francis Smart,...

The Competition and Markets Authority is beefing up its enforcement work against illegal cartels and offering a reward of up to...

A lettings agency maintenance manager stole almost £100,000 from her company - but has escaped prison. Farida Mughal was working at the...

A lettings agency manager stole nearly £140,000 from her company to help clear her son’s drug debt. Wendy Dare, 57, is now...

A news website is reporting that a landlord cut the asking rent of a property after social media criticism of its...

With the private rental sector stressed at the prospect of stricter energy efficiency rules in the coming years, the body representing...

The head of the Property Redress Scheme will give agents the lowdown on the recent Fairer Private Rented Sector White Paper...

An industry supplier says the recent Right To Rent changes have flown under the radar - and many agents don’t know...

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

The former director of a lettings agency has received a suspended jail sentence for making threats of violence against ex-colleagues in...

Inventories are a key tool to ensuring they, and the properties they let, comply with the law. That’s the claim from industry...

A lettings agency employee who diverted over £50,000 of landlords’ money into his own account has been given a suspended sentence. Paul...

A major Select Committee of MPs has launched an enquiry into so-called exempt rental sector accommodation - a niche sector that...

A six-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, has been handed to a former lettings agent from Eastbourne for charges of...

A London council has secured banning orders against rogue property agents who were previously fined over £70,000 for letting an unlicensed...

There are just two weeks left for letting agents to register with HM Revenue & Customs if they want to be...

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

There are growing calls for so-called ‘exempt accommodation’ to face the same controls that are exerted over the rest of the...

A Labour MP and a newspaper have joined forces to campaign against so-called ‘exempted rental accommodation’. One of Birmingham’s MPs - Jack...

Three lettings agents who kept tenants’ rent instead of passing it to the landlords have been ordered to pay almost £100,000...

A local authority is launching a six month probe into rooms let out but exempt from rental sector regulation. The project is...

A crooked lettings agent stole almost £30,000 from dozens of clients to prevent his business from going bankrupt. Tim Catherall, of Nottinghamshire,...

Media reports from Gateshead claim two brothers opened fire on a lettings agency with an air pistol when they were told they...

A  buy to let investor has been sentenced to two years in prison after claiming income support despite being a professional portfolio...

A landlord from Plymouth has been sentenced after failing to maintain gas appliances and failing to have landlord’s gas safety checks...

A landlord has been ordered to pay back no less than £190,000 - equivalent to nine years’ rent - after he...

A jailed letting agent in a long-running legal saga has now been told she must repay her victims some £43,000 -...

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

A London council tenant who for a period of seven years failed to disclose that he owned three houses, has been...

A landlord has been banned for two and half years after repeatedly putting tenants’ lives at risk by letting unsafe housing. This...

Number 10 briefings to the national media suggest that the scrapping of Section 21 - long talked about by the previous...

A landlord has been ordered to pay almost £20,000 and has been told by a judge that he was meaner than...

A north of England letting agent who conned home owners out of thousands of pounds has been ordered to pay it back...

Three criminals have been sentenced after pleading guilty to money laundering involving an online lettings agency. The sentences follow an investigation spearheaded...

New analysis by Direct Line for Business reveals a surge in the number of police investigations into the theft of electricity,...

Energy market regulator Ofgen is considering an amnesty for tenants and landlords, amongst others, to own up to ‘stealing’ energy through...

A man who claimed he needed a council house but was actually a landlord has been ordered to pay back more...

New guidance from the government on its controversial Right To Rent scheme would see agents and landlords breaking the law if...

Both sides of the Right To Rent debate are squaring up for their latest court battle. Earlier this year the High Court...

The number of landlords admitting to not paying tax has soared in the past year, according to new data. During 2018/2019, 16,110...

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have been given a message from a consortium of groups this morning - Scrap Right To...

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

More nightmare tenants have been the subject of investigation in a Channel 5 TV programme to be shown this evening. In the...

A London council has won one of the largest-ever Proceeds of Crime claims from an unscrupulous buy to let investor. Andre Charles Trepel,...

Cornwall council has confirmed that it’s to use the Proceeds of Crime Act to try to win compensation for victims of...

A buy to let investor who hid families in windowless rooms after failing to get planning permission for a block of...

A crooked letting agent took £220,000 from tenants and landlords and has been exposed as buying a home in Florida, renting...

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

A buy to let investor who converted three family homes to HMOs without securing planning permission has been jailed for falsifying...

The National Approved Lettings Scheme has taken the unusual step of commenting on, and welcoming, the outcome of a court case...

A crooked lettings agent who illegally pocketed tenants’ deposits to pay for his gambling addiction and lavish lifestyle has been convicted...

A court has ordered a husband and wife pair of buy to let investors to pay back £322,282 in illegal income. A...

A couple from east London who illegally converted a town centre office block into 14 flats have been ordered to pay...

A notorious rogue landlord must pay £1.5m or risk spending up to nine years in prison after what is thought to...

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

Luton landlord Mervyn Kupshik has been ordered to pay nearly £30,000 to the Local council - and if he doesn’t do...

A man who submitted false VAT returns for the Lincoln franchise branch of Martin & Co for a period of six...

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

A self-employed gas fitter has been sentenced to 16 months in prison after he carried out unsafe gas work while falsely...

A respected property lawyer says she wants a change in the law to prevent unscrupulous landlords from offering accommodation in return for sex.  Liz...

A head tenant who changed the locks on a property that was illegally sublet to no fewer than 35 men has...

The cash value of tenancy deposits crooked landlords and letting agents have been convicted of pocketing in 2018 has already passed...

The director of a lettings agency who who stole hundreds of thousands of pounds to spend on holidays and other luxuries...

A fake agent who made thousands from letting out rooms that didn’t exist has been arrested - a month after being...

A letting agent has been spared jail despite stealing over £7,600 from tenants to subsidise his failing business.  Simon Cawley, from Kingsbridge...

A representative of the Landlords’ Union has posted an apology on the Property118 website for accidentally using a photograph of the...

Crooked letting agents and landlords have raided close to £1m from tenancy deposit accounts in 2017, new figures show. Campaigning agent Ajay Jagota,...

A buy to let property owner has received a four month prison sentence for letting out a property he had already...

The owner of a property firm who reportedly misled tenants and let an illegally converted property has been jailed for 155...

Crooked letting agents have been convicted of stealing almost £700,000 of tenants’ deposits in the first half of 2017.   Campaigning letting agent...

An agency staff member has received a suspended prison sentence after stealing £11,500 in unclaimed deposits from a branch of Connells.   Amy...

A body representing 370 councils in England and Wales wants the government to close a legal loophole which allows the conversion...

A letting agent has been jailed for keeping more than £15,000 in client deposits. Thirugnanaselvam Damayantharan ran See Own Properties in Purley and...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has written to an immigration minister to express its concern over possible ‘further sanctions’ for landlords who...

A convicted Surrey letting agent who used his clients’ money to cover his business debts has been ordered to pay £25,000...

A report out today claims foreigners and Britons without passports, particularly from ethnic minorities, are being discriminated against in the lettings...

A fraudster has been jailed after being convicted on nine counts of fraud, theft and forgery relating to property firms which...

A letting agency specialising in student accommodation in Nottingham city centre and its director have admitted a series of breaches of...

The landlord of a property risked the lives of his tenants and their young family by not undertaking annual safety checks...

New parts of the Immigration Act 2016 come into effect today, consolidating the Right To Rent regulations that came into effect...

Three men have received prison sentences of up to 28 months after a nationwide lettings scam was unearthed by trading standards...

A landlord has been given a suspended prison sentence following his failure to maintain or check the gas fittings in one of his properties. A...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has responded to the latest government recommendations for tighter controls on the private rental sector...

A man who posed as a letting agent to swindle landlords and tenants has been jailed for just over two years.   Legal...

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

  A letting agent who scammed dozens of tenants and landlords out of more than £220,000 of rents and deposits has been...

A former letting agent has received a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to ten counts of fraud. Nicholas Dowse, also known...

A leading trade body says it’s time for the private rental sector to take gas safety more seriously following a spate...

A warning is being issued that the types of mortgages still being extended to buy to let investors risks them becoming...

A chef who is reported to have battered a letting agent over the head with a cricket bat in a row...

A 24-year-old from Luton has been jailed after being found guilty of six counts of fraud in relation to obtaining properties...

A letting agent who closed his New Malden firm leaving 17 landlords some £27,000 out of pocket has been jailed for...

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

A managing agent who tried to force out his tenants by filling the stopcock chamber with cement so that they would...

A lettings agency in south London has been found to be the front for a cannabis growing operation, with drugs grown...