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Propertymark says the regulation of property agents and the creation of a statutory Code of Practice can improve the transparency of...

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

Propertymark is urging lettings agents to familiarise themselves with recent updated guidance to avoid falling into non-compliance. The trade body says updated...

A landlord who built unlawful extensions to a family home and squeezed up to 14 people into the rooms has forfeited...

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

A buy to let investor who kept a group of men as slaves – making them work 90-hour weeks in return...

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

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

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

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 lettings agent who stole over £350,000 is reported to have been told to pay back…£1. Local media in the south of...

A Trading Standards team has prosecuted a landlord who allegedly 'knew' criminal activity was taking place in his buy to let...

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

A local authority claims that a court decision may set a legal precedent for other councils across the UK using the...

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

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 couple who illegally converted an office block into 14 flats have been found guilty for disregarding planning laws - and...

A crooked lettings agent has been ordered to repay thousands of pounds from his pension. As previously reported on Letting Agent Today...

A London council has been the first in the country to use the Proceeds of Crime Act for a breach in...

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

A lettings firm and a property management company that converted a family home into micro flats have been found guilty of...

An east London landlord, who was also director of a letting agency, has been forced to pay out over £235,000 for...

A landlord who illegally converted a property into seven flats and rented them out without planning permission faces having to repay...

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

A building firm that carried out illegal building work to create homes to let has been hit with a £250,000 confiscation...

Two landlords must pay a combined total of over £300,000 following legal action by a central London council.    Westminster council claimed that...

Havering council has successfully prosecuted a landlord who must now pay £101,300 for building illegal flats at her property. Jaghtar Khaira was...