Fines totalling £108,000 have been issued to letting agents and landlords breaching HMO rules in part of London. An additional HMO licensing...
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![Government announces changes to Renters Reform Bill](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews-400x310.png)
Changes put forward to the Renters Reform Bill to crack down on rogue landlords, protect vulnerable residents and improve the safety of...
15 November 2023
From: Breaking News
![Agent Reports Tenants In Tears as Landlords Quit Sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Stressed(F)Tenant-400x310.png)
Local media in one of Britain’s busiest cities for rentals says tenants have been left in tears as a result of...
03 October 2023
From: Breaking News
![Renters Reform Bill - everything we know so far](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/_RentalHousingUK-400x310.png)
Housing Secretary Michael Gove says the long-awaited Renters Reform Bill, first promised in 2019, will finally be introduced into Parliament this...
09 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Clampdown! Sharp rise in fines for letting agents](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/Fine-2-400x310.jpg)
PropTech firm Kamma says total fines for agents and landlords have now topped £8m in London alone with a £238,000 increase...
09 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![PropTech claim to identify all private rental licensing schemes](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/PropTechCollaboration-1-400x310.jpg)
A PropTech supplier which helps agents and landlords identify private rental sector licensing issues has announced a new partnership. Geospatial technology firm...
12 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![PropTech partnership announced with tenant referencing platform](/upload/images/PropTech%20%26%20Online/OnlineProperty-400x310.png)
PropTech companies Kamma and Veri-Check are consolidating an existing partnership. Kamma users can already access Veri-Check’s instant property licensing checks, but in...
14 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Council boasts of court cases and fines against letting agents](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/Court-Fine-400x310.jpg)
One of the local authorities with the tightest clampdowns on letting agents has issued a statement celebrating its successes. Tower Hamlets council in...
19 October 2021
From: Breaking News
![Webinar - how will China’s new data protection law affect UK's letting agents?](/upload/images/Locations/ChinaUKInvestment-400x310.jpg)
As a letting agent in the UK, you might think what happens in China has no bearing on your work here....
17 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Letting agent’s huge fine is largest in five year compliance clampdown](/img/default/lat.png)
An analysis of the Mayor of London’s Rogue Landlord and Letting Agent Checker shows that since it was introduced in 2018...
05 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![Rent Repayment Orders - council reveals action against landlords](/img/default/lat.png)
The council at the centre of one of the planning controversies involving Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has issued a warning to...
30 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Repayment order means £11,000 in rent being returned to tenants](/img/default/lat.png)
Rent to the value of £10,982.25 is to be returned to tenants by a landlord who was operating without a licence. Mrs...
05 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Revealed: councils’ feeble enforcement against rogue operators](/img/default/lat.png)
Figures given through a Parliamentary answer have revealed just how bad councils in England are at policing and enforcement action against...
29 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![New funding for government crackdown on buy to let rogue operators](/img/default/lat.png)
Local authorities across the UK are to get another £2m to crack down on rogue operators in the buy to let...
08 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![Clampdown on rogue agents and landlords welcomed by PropTech firm](/img/default/lat.png)
PropTech firm PayProp has welcomed the latest measures to clamp down on rogue elements within the lettings industry - but warns...
11 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Private tenants to have their rents returned after council intervenes](/img/default/lat.png)
A landlord has been prosecuted and ordered to repay over £5,000 to his tenants for letting an unlicensed House of Multiple...
25 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Letting agents and landlords could be operating illegally after law change](/img/default/lat.png)
Agents and landlords with properties in Wales have been reminded they could be breaking the law if they're not signed up to...
16 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Government repeats 'fees will be banned' - but still no consultation...](/img/default/lat.png)
The government has issued a new statement saying unequivocally that letting agents’ fees on tenants will be banned in England -...
07 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Letting agents in the firing line as new civil penalties come into effect](/img/default/lat.png)
New legislation coming into force today gives local authorities in England tough new powers to crack down on rogue agents and...
06 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Tenants to be refunded £3,000 after HMOs found to be unlicensed](/img/default/lat.png)
A legal tribunal has ruled that a landlord must refund his tenants rent totalling £2,934 because he housed them in unlicensed...
28 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![Call for rogue letting agents' blacklist to be made public](/img/default/lat.png)
Generation Rent, the lobby group which recently narrowly escaped folding because of a lack of financial support, wants the public to...