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Some 39 agents and landlords have had banning orders over the past three years according to a report in The Guardian. Under the...

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

A council says it’s looking for lettings agencies that worked with a rogue landlord who's been issued with a four year banning order. Bristol...

A London council describes two new licensing schemes as ‘making renting fairer’ - even though they are launched during the pandemic. Islington’s Labour...

Two landlords - one of them an agent - have been given fines totalling £135,000 and must pay costs for failing to...

Lambeth council is consulting agents, landlords and others on its latest licensing proposals for Houses in Multiple Occupation. The new proposals would...

A lettings firm has been ordered to pay over £18,000 after failing to provide adequate living conditions for his tenants. Chelmsford magistrates...

A new report from the Nationwide and campaigning charity Shelter puts letting agents in the dock over the standards in the...

A London council has launched a strategy it claims will protect private tenants and ensure they live in good quality and...

A Liberal Democrat Baroness says she is to make a last-ditch bid in the House of Lords tomorrow to stop evictions...

West Midlands Police have revealed that a major drugs racket being run by a rogue landlord from his properties in Coventry...

Two suspended sentences, community service, a fine and disqualification from being a director - those form the penalty for a rogue...

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

A new report demands that online rental platforms and portals allowing direct advertising by clients do more to deter fake landlords...

A London council is telling its private rental sector residents to use a new tool to check whether they may be...

A landlord taken to court by a council has ended up with a bill in excess of £20,000.  Dennis Goodwin of Highbury...

The author of a book described as being about “insecure renters haemorrhaging cash” has used her newspaper column to make a...

Rogue landlords have been accused of tax evasion which could cost the Treasury as much as £1.73 billion a year. The accusation...

A Liberal Democrat bid is underway to accelerate the government timetable to scrap Section 21. The Renters’ Rights Bill put forward by government...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan, has told the government of “illegal evictions by letting agents” - without specifying the incidents he refers...

The council in Liverpool is likely to propose a scaled-back private rental licensing scheme after its original suggestion was rejected by...

The council at the centre of one of the planning controversies involving Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has issued a warning to...

Two Bristol landlords have been ordered to repay nearly £5,000 following investigations by the council’s so called rogue landlord unit. One, Lucy...

A westcountry landlord is only the second in England to have received a banning order preventing him from letting or managing...

Rent to the value of £10,982.25 is to be returned to tenants by a landlord who was operating without a licence. Mrs...

Government advice to local authorities to sit tight with new licensing proposals during the Coronavirus pandemic appears to have been ignored...

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

A shocking case of a buy to let HMO that did not even have a working smoke detector has led to...

A buy to let investor has been found guilty of letting out poor quality living accommodation that was said to pose...

Pressure group Generation Rent claims half of London’s councils did not fine any landlords for letting out unsafe homes in the...

The West Midlands Police force says it’s secured what it calls a “landmark court order” against a rogue landlord who turned...

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

A landlord has been ordered to pay nearly £6,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to harassing and financially exploiting...

A council’s intervention has stopped a landlord forcing his private tenants to use an external staircase to enter their home -...

A buy to let investor has been hit with a bill of almost £9,500 after being accused of allowing a tenant...

The government has failed the private rental sector says the Residential Landlords Association. In a statement released even before the resignation of...

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 London Labour council wants to introduce rent controls to its borough. The South London Press reports that Lambeth councillors have voted through...

A council has prosecuted five private landlords who failed to get licences for the properties they let out. Oldham council says its...

A judge has ordered two landlords to pay a total of £14,858 for illegally renting out an unlicensed house without working...

Another Labour council wants to introduce a city-wide landlord licensing scheme - a proposal that would require government approval to implement. Last...

Councils that have been awarded additional cash injections by government could use their windfalls to enhance their enforcement of the private...

The fallout continues over the government’s shock refusal to allow Liverpool council to continue its huge landlord licensing scheme. Yesterday we reported that...

The Labour party has mocked the government’s £4m new funding for councils to combat rogue agents and landlords as “puny.” A statement...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and The Guild of Property Professionals have both given their backing to the government’s latest...

The government has announced an additional £4m in funding for local councils to combat rogue agents and landlords - but it’s...

No date has been set by government for the second reading of the Renters' Reform Bill 2019-20. The Bill was announced in...

A rogue landlord has been fined £1,384 for failing to get a council licence for two buy to let properties. The case...

A rogue landlord has been found guilty of unlawful harassment and misleading and aggressive practices, and will be sentenced next month. Ragoopathy...

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

A prominent buy to let mortgage chief says lenders should be able to access the rogue landlord database launched last year. John...

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

A compliance consultant has explained why a local council’s penalty on a rogue landlord - initially £31,499 - was slashed to...

[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...

A rogue landlord has been fined more than £150,000 after failing to rectify safety hazards in a property he let. Latif Rehman...

The owner of two properties has been fined £35,000 for breaches of the selective licensiing regime in his local area.  At a...

A dawn raid by enforcement officers from a London council has discovered 17 men sleeping on mattresses in a three bedroom...

You don’t need to go far for news about the UK lettings market. From the banning of tenant fees to proposed...

A landlord has been hit with court fines for a fourth time for failing to properly manage his rental properties.  Landlord Jack...

Labour has given shocking new details of its proposals for the private rental sector including £100.000 fines if properties are deemed...

The Liberal Democrats is the first of the major parties to release its party manifesto for the December 12 manifesto, and...

A rogue landlord and the property company he ran have been fined £22,000 for dishing out ‘sham licences’ to tenants in...

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

The safeagent accreditation scheme says the next government should not scrap landlord licensing as some trade groups have requested, but should...

A rented home in Mansfield was found to have serious health and safety hazards, including a leaking roof and a lack of smoke...

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has returned to his campaign to win powers which would allow him to impose rent controls. Khan...

The government has given an extra £3.8m to councils to come up with ways of catching rogue landlords - and in...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and the National Association of Estate Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...

A new piece of legislation has been invoked to ban a landlord from any involvement in the private rental sector for...

The owner of a house believed to be occupied by multiple tenants has been prosecuted by a Kent council for failing...

A landlord has been found guilty of failing to license an HMO - and has ended up with a bill of...

A seaside council has issued over £15,000 in fines to owners of unlicensed HMOs.  Torbay council in south Devon adds that “a...

Former QPR and Nottingham Forest striker Dexter Blackstock has been fined over £25,000 and branded a rogue landlord after admitting 12 licencing offences. He...

Government plans to end so-called ‘no fault’ evictions may backfire and not improve tenants’ security at all. That’s the warning from Osbornes...

A landlord has been fined almost £2,500 for breaching an improvement notice issued by Cambridge City Council. Noelle Salameh was fined after...

The government has this week published a learning toolkit for local authorities to help them with enforcement against rogue landlords and...

A Shropshire man has become the first in England to be banned from being a landlord.  In a case brought by Telford...

A rogue landlord who divided his three-bedroom home in central London into eight flats has ended up with a bill of...

A Labour councillor on Islington council - which is controlled by the party and has Jeremy Corbyn as a local member...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents wants agents and tenants to have access to the government’s high profile but so far...

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

Birmingham council has issued its first civil penalty against a House in Multiple Occupation landlord - and it says that move...

A council has used a drone with a thermal imaging camera to identify illegal ‘sheds’ where tenants are being rented beds...

A joint operation between Avon and Somerset Police and North Somerset council has uncovered a string of issues connected with rental...

A husband and wife pair of buy to let investors have been prosecuted after letting out a property that contained serious...

The Labour Party appears to be entering the arena of organising private rental sector tenants who have grievances. Party leader Jeremy Corbyn...

A Labour council which has become famous for its critical approach to the private rental sector has now been given almost £200,000...

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

A rogue landlord who housed more than 25 tenants in a rundown property has been found guilty of serious housing and...

A buy to let investor has been fined almost £5,000 after admitting overcrowding.  Matteo Mariano, from Gedling in Nottinghamshire, pleaded guilty at...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says it fears the government needs to do more to prevent the possibility of banned...

There’s been a sceptical response to news leaked from government over the weekend suggesting that a database of rogue landlords would...

A rogue landlord in Chesterfield has received a hefty fine for a second time after the council took her to court...

The chairman of Hunters estate agency, who is also a Conservative MP, has hit out at the government over its handling...

In the past 18 months more than 200 landlords from across Scotland have been found to be in breach of a...

A managing agent has been convicted by a local council for failing to properly license his property. Leon Hill, of Leighton Buzzard,...

A rogue landlord has been ordered to pay over £60,000 after - in the words of the council - “being found...

A managing agent and several landlords have been fined almost £5,000 after forcing tenants to live in unacceptable conditions in a...

An activists’s group which in the past has held protests immediately outside letting agents’ offices is appealing for £10,000 to develop...

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

A group of activists has expressed outrage over a council’s private rental licensing scheme, claiming it is too small to catch...

Local authority officers have found three tenants living inside a shed in the garden of a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Brent,...

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

A London council has successfully prosecuted a so-called “dodgy operator” landlord for failing to comply with fire safety regulations and carry...

A rogue landlady has been hit with a fine of £24,000 after conning her tenants and the local authorities with a...

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

A new PropTech start-up that claims to make student house-hunting easier is offering free listings to lettings agents with London properties. Polygon...

Two rogue landlords have been convicted of failing to comply with a Prohibition Order on the rental property they owned. Sandeep Jarjapu...

A husband and wife must pay joint fines, penalties and costs totalling over £8,000 after complaints about a bungalow they owned...

A Freedom of Information request by The Guardian newspaper has produced the startling admission from government that not even one landlord...

A buy to let investor has received a hefty fine “for endangering the lives of his tenants by failing to meet...

The government has beefed up its support for councils identifying and prosecuting rogue landlords. Yesterday the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local...

The owner of a buy to let HMO has been found guilty of six offences but has received a fine of...

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

Figures given through a Parliamentary answer have revealed just how bad councils in England are at policing and enforcement action against...

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

Two landlords have been ordered to pay more than £30,000 for breaching fire safety and over-occupancy licence conditions at their House...

A landlord has been convicted of three offences relating to his failure to comply with fire safety requirements in a privately...

A buy to let investor has been landed with a fine and costs of over £20,000 because he failed to apply...

New figures from a leading trade body suggest that councils across England have cut by a quarter the amount they are...

Just when you thought there could not be any more rival licensing or accreditation systems in the private rental sector, a...

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...

A landlord has been ordered to pay over £5,000 in fines and costs in a licensing dispute with a local council.  Almas...

Hounslow council wants its additional licensing scheme for HMOs - due to expire in May 2019 - to be extended for...

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

The news this week that even individual private landlords must join a redress scheme is just the latest in an onslaught...

A council accused of paying over £500,000 to a landlord it had already ruled as unfit to rent out property is...

A buy to let investor has lost possession of his flat after converting it into an Illegal House in Multiple Occupation...

More than 50 councils across the country will share nearly £2.4m of extra government funding to crack down on rogue landlords. Among...

Councils have been accused of routinely pursuing the most serious enforcement option open to them if they find a local licensing...

A council has prosecuted a buy to let investor for not making necessary improvements to his property. The landlord, Balwinder Singh Chandi,...

The Daily Mail has reported on a massive buy to let fiddle which involved a £10.8m property empire, rents totalling £500,000...

Three brothers and a property management company have received fines and a confiscation order, and must pay costs, following what a...

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

A buy to let investor has been fined more than £5,000 and ordered to pay a further £4,000 after HMO offences.  John...

The owner of a buy to let property already shut by police has been fined by a court in Devon.  In June...

Buy to let investor Changhaiz Ishaq has been ordered to pay a £8,510 fine for defying a prohibition order on his...

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

Famous buy to let landlord Judith Wilson has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay almost £15,000 costs for failing to...

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...

Agents and landlords have united against what is being seen as the latest attack on the private rental sector by the...

The head of a lettings agency has launched a petition in opposition to a bid by a local council to extend...

A government minister says the phrase ”rogue landlord” is too “cuddly” and he wants buy to let investors who broke the...

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

Nottingham council - which recently introduced one of the largest and most controversial selective licensing schemes in the country - now...

A buy to let investor has been forced to close down two rat infested homes he owns in Rotherham after they...

A landlord is almost £42,000 worse off after repeatedly ignoring council orders to stop illegally letting so called “beds in sheds”...

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

A lettings trade body has welcomed extra government funding for English councils to clamp down on criminal landlords. But the Residential Landlords...

Local authorities across the UK are to get another £2m to crack down on rogue operators in the buy to let...

A council in the north of England has issued its first-ever Civil Penalty Notice on a landlord - and it involved...

The party conferences of the two main political parties threw up some interesting developments with regards to housing and the rental...

The Labour MP who chairs the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee in the House of Commons is pressing the government...

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has made a clear pledge to tighten regulations surrounding the private rental sector. In an interview with The...

The heavy-handed administration of selective licensing schemes is driving out buy to let investors. That’s the claim from David Kirwan of Kirwans...

A landlord had been ordered to give back almost £4,000 that was paid to him while operating without a licence. The case...

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

The Guardian says the government is committed to making a datebase of rogue letting agents and landlords available to tenants. The newspaper quotes...

A landlord has been ordered to pay £452 after he breached the terms of his licence in an area of County...

A landlord has been hit with more than £5,500 of fines and costs after he allowed a family with three young...

A landlord who rented out an unlicenced HMO has been fined more than £22,000 after the local council found five people...

A buy to let investor that let at least eight people from six different families rent space in his three-storey property...

The Labour-led local authority in Hackney has issued a statement pledging fines or even bans if landlords fail to get appropriate...

Two private landlords have been found guilty of managing Houses in Multiple Occupation with dangerous and sub-standard conditions, following a successful...

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

The policy director of the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is calling on local councils to use the 'extensive powers' they have...

An Essex council claims it is one of the first to be granted a rent repayment order - part of legislation...

A London local authority is looking for the landlord of a bungalow which had two bedrooms but was home to 15...

A local authority has taken the unusual step of naming seven buy to let landlords prosecuted in the past month in...

Negative media portrayals of the buy to let sector could help to tip Britain into a housing crisis, claims an online...

A buy to let investor has been fined £1,750 because of his alleged “aggressive practices”.  Shafaqat Ali Sadiq, of Derby, has been...

A London council has agreed to a TV crew taking part in a raid on an overcrowded and unlicensed HMO. The surprise...

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

Which?, the consumer body that appears to be taking an increasingly-aggressive line against letting agents and landlords, has now issued a...

From August 1 Nottingham council is introducing a new selective licensing regime covering an estimated 32,000 privately rented homes. This is an...

A tenant who was ripping off other tenants in an overcrowded bungalow "death trap" has been fined tens of thousands of...

Councillors in Stockton-on-Tees are under pressure to rethink plans to introduce Selective Licensing of private rented housing in two areas of...

A gas safety engineer has pleaded guilty with a landlord of falsifying gas safety certificates for a string of private rental...

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

A students’ union is the latest body to partner a review platform allowing renters to give their verdict on dealing with...

Property expert Kate Faulkner says the massive surge in new regulations, legislation and fiscal measures aimed at the private rental sector...

A landlord has been prosecuted for failing to comply with Improvement Notices on her property and failing to licence her house...

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

A buy to let investor has ended up with a bill for thousands of pounds after being found guilty of breaching...

A council leader in London, so outraged after a bust of a rogue lettings property, has asked: “What kind of monster...

Renee Wells, on behalf of Just Landlords, has compiled a list of what letting agents can do to ensure that tenants...

A council tax fraud totaling over £2,800 across three properties and over six years has resulted in the buy to let...

This week marks a major milestone in Mayor of London Sadiq Khan's efforts to crack down on the capital's rogue letting...

Spicerhaart says that with the lettings agency industry under attack there is a danger of some within the sector focussing too...

A local authority has described a lettings property as “a real House of Horrors that put the health and safety of...

A lettings agency has been fined over £20,000 for failing to licence an overcrowded semi detached house in London. The fine was...

A buy to let investor faces a fine of £7,000 plus costs and a victim surcharge for failing to upgrade his...

The government has been told is should simply adopt some Labour rental policies or risk losing the next General Election -...

A buy to let investor has been found guilty of 35 HMO-related offences - and has to pay a total fine...

A TV show on Channel 5 this evening may well serve as a warning to letting agents about the dangers of...

Council officers staged a dawn raid to uncover an unlicensed HMO in north London. The team discovered 10 men and women sleeping...

West Midlands Police and Birmingham council teamed up to investigate a property in the city which was riddled with health and...

A statement from the government has repeated its determination to clean up the private rental sector through a series of measures,...

A rogue lettings agency which is no longer trading is to be featured in a TV documentary this evening on Channel...

ARLA has branded the government’s long-awaited database of rogue landlords as “pointless” because it will not be made public. The Ministry of...

A property management company which ignored a series of housing safety regulations and flouted laws designed to protect tenants’ rights has...

A Brighton and Hove lettings agent has been fined more than £3,000 for allowing two properties that he owned himself to...

Two landlords have been hit with hefty court fines for failing to comply with a local licensing scheme. The pair are the...

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

The head of a major PropTech company serving the lettings sector says he want to see the introduction of a database...

Brent Council has confirmed that the government has approved its request to extend the local selective licensing scheme. The local authority, which...

A rogue landlord has been fined twice in the space of two months for failing to provide a suitable standard of...

Crooked landlords and letting agents were convicted of stealing £1,162,037 of tenant’s cash in 2017 – a rise of 14 per...

Two buy to let investors have been fined a total of more than £27,000 under enforcement powers introduced in Burnley to...

This is a rare story: a council has dropped a plan for a lettings licensing scheme as a result of 900...

A London council is marking 125 successful prosecutions against agents, landlords and sub-letting tenants since 2016. The authority, Brent, says the convictions...

A council says it hopes a massive set of fines and costs imposed on one buy to let investor and his...

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

A TV news programme has exposed how a sleazy male landlord - who presumably did not instruct a letting agent -...

Two landlords and two tenants were fined a total of over £11,000 after losing their appeal against housing convictions concerning property...

Romans has thrown its weight behind the banning orders being introduced in April which could see rogue letting agents and landlords...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and other trade bodies have not yet responded to the government’s announcement over the holiday...

The government has released more details on long-discussed proposals to tighten up licensing in the private rental sector. It wants landlords in...

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

The new online database identifying rogue letting agents and landlords will save lives according to the London Fire Brigade. We wrote about...

The first London boroughs are now rolling out the Greater London Authority’s ‘Rogue Landlord and Agent Checker’ - allowing tenants to...

There has been another prosecution under the controversial Rent Smart Wales regulations - although this time the landlord in question was...

Prime minister Theresa May has repeated that the current government will not introduce rent controls in the private sector. The issue of...

The director of a property management firm has been found guilty of nine offences of breaching regulations relating to a house...

The landlord of an HMO has been fined £3,300 for failures to meet his obligations, particularly regarding fire safety. At Northampton magistrates...

A buy to let investor who a judge said “cut corners” and exposed his tenants to “significant risk” has been ordered...

A database of rogue letting agents and landlords and new banning orders, first promised in the Housing and Planning Act announced...

The Conveyancing Association has made a wide-ranging response to the government’s call for evidence on the regulation of letting and managing...

A buy to let investor who failed to purchase a £542 licence for his HMO has been ordered to pay almost...

The National Landlords Association reports that Bournemouth council has taken the unusual step of rejecting a proposal to introduce a landlord licensing...

A buy to let investor has been fined over £12,000 for illegally renting out a basement underneath an outbuilding at his...

Almost 60 per cent of councils across Britain have not prosecuted any landlord for any offence in the past year according...

A local authority has prosecuted a landlord for illegally evicting a tenant. Tendring district council prosecuted Lisa Bottone of Chelmsford who admitted...

A lettings agency chief who monitors legal action against rogue agencies and landlords says almost £850,000 of deposits have been stolen...

The Secretary of State for Wales has called on the Welsh Government to take measures against what he calls “unjust fees...

Four landlords have been fined and ordered to pay costs totalling £232,155.68 in the first prosecutions of its kind brought by...

The powerful and all-party Communities & Local Government Select Committee of MPs has launched a new enquiry into improving the quality...

PropTech firm PayProp has welcomed the latest measures to clamp down on rogue elements within the lettings industry - but warns...

The National Landlords’ Association says the extra £2 billion in funding made available by the government for additional affordable housing may...

A property company and a landlord have been fined over £200,000 after being accused of putting tenants’ lives in danger by...

A buy to let investor reported to be receiving rental income of £150,000 a year must pay over £340,000 after illegally...

A dawn raid on a home in north London has discovered 35 men bedding down on mattresses in every room except...

A Scarborough buy to let investor has been found guilty of two offences under the Housing Act 2004 for non-compliance with...

A buy to let investor who kept 24 adults and children in what a local council calls “appalling conditions” has a...

A landlord from Cornwall has been fined after failing to maintain gas appliances at his rental properties in Launceston.   Truro Crown Court...

A landlord who was found guilty of illegally converting a hotel into 26 flats has been given three months to pay...

A rogue landlord in Corby has been ordered to pay over £20,000 and sign up to a Criminal Behaviour Order which...

A London council is using dawn raids in its clampdown on illegal subletting and on so-called ‘beds in sheds’ where tenants...

A man who illegally housed tenants inside his converted garage has been ordered to pay £173,141 by a court.   Amir Golesorkhi turned...

Council officers discovered men living mattress to mattress inside a run-down flat above a commercial premises during a dawn raid.   Police and...

A landlord has been fined over £15,000 after failing to maintain gas appliances at the domestic property in Haverfordwest.   Llanelli Magistrates’ Court...

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

The head of a property management company is calling on the government to introduce a tenants' register which would help rogue...

A Newport landlord has been fined £4,400 for operating a dangerous, unlicensed house in multiple occupation and failing to comply with...

A family of rogue landlords who crammed 31 tenants into a 'Slumdog Millionaire'-style shanty home have this month been found guilty...

The London council of Newham is thought to be the first local authority in the UK to use new powers to...

The Liberal Democrats want a raft of additional controls on the private rented sector aimed at addressing what it describes as...

A private landlord in Saffron Walden has been fined for letting what the local council describes as “poor and potentially dangerous...

A north London landlord who housed a family of five, including three children, in a cramped attic has been prosecuted by...

A buy to let expert says there should be stronger enforcement and streamlining of legislation in the private rental sector. In a...

A man who rented out rooms above a town centre bar has been banned from being a buy to let landlord...

The Conservatives should introduce rent controls to kick-start a seaside town renaissance, suggests an organisation set up originally by the David Cameron...

The landlord of a west London property, described by a judge as a "deathtrap" and an "accident waiting to happen", has...

A landlord who exposed tenants to “miserable” living conditions because of fire safety hazards has been prosecuted by a local authority.    The...

The National Approved Lettings Scheme has called for the London Mayor’s new rogue agents’ database to be extended to include those...

Letting agents who have broken the law are set to be ‘named and shamed’ by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan,...

The Residential Landlords Association has broken ranks with the Association of Residential Letting Agents by opposing an ARLA-backed public database of...

A trade body has suggested that the General Election on June 8 may lead to a government with new priorities, meaning...

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says she has been “horrified” to read allegations of some property owners offering rent-free accommodation in...

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

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £17,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty at St Albans Magistrates'...

A landlord of a shared house in Hove, near Brighton, has been found to be ‘putting people’s lives at risk’ and ordered to pay...

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

The government has issued a new statement saying unequivocally that letting agents’ fees on tenants will be banned in England -...

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

A private landlord in Sheffield has been prosecuted for harassing a tenant and failing to manage his property adequately.   Nilendu Das was...

A landlord who admitted threatening violence against a tenant who left the property he was renting has been given a substantial...

The landlord of an HMO above a Chinese takeway in Cornwall has been fined for failing to comply with the requirements...

An advice website claims that more than half of the privately rented properties in the selective licensing area imposed by a...

A rogue landlord found guilty of waging a campaign of harassment and intimidation against a young mother he wanted to illegally...

A council’s first case for non-compliance with its landlord licensing regime has seen one individual plead guilty to 12 offences -...

A buy to let landlord who converted an Uxbridge house into two flats without planning permission has been ordered to pay...

A trade body has backed government plans to introduce so-called ‘banning orders’ for rogue letting agents and landlords, but it says...

A series of prosecutions of rogue landlords by a London council has also seen a so-called ‘property manager’ fined a four-figure...

The government has announced in its Housing White Paper that it is still “working with industry experts” to consider whether Client...

A senior Labour politician in a London borough has branded so-called ‘rip off landlords’ as “the scourge of London.”   Councillor Laila Butt,...

A landlord and letting agency have been fined more than £26,000 after being found guilty of housing offences at two properties...