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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...

A Prohibition Order has been served on the owner of a flat being let to an elderly couple - one of...

A landlord has been prosecuted and fined for failure to comply with two Improvement Notices “resulting in a catalogue of health...

One of London’s leading politicians has created guidelines to help individuals ‘secret shop’ in a bid to expose what she claims...

A leading personal finance journalist - and a former editor of Landlord Today - has used the columns of right wing...

It hasn’t been a happy Christmas for one London landlord, who has been told to repay £40,000 in rent received in...

Sheffield council claims it receives 2,000 complaints relating to private rental sector conditions each year - and in one month it...

The National Landlords Association has rejected a central plank of London mayor Sadiq Khan’s plan for housing - the introduction of yet more...

A landlord has been given a conditional discharge and a four-figure bill after being found guilty of unlawfully evicting a tenant.   Cornwall...

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

The government has launched an official consultation process on a package of measures to crack down on what it calls ‘rogue...

A council believes that a landlord was “putting tenants’ lives in danger” because he did not have local authority licenses for...

A private landlord has been fined by a London magistrates court for poor and potentially dangerous housing conditions.    Monojor Ali was fined...

A landlord has been prosecuted and ordered to pay a £12,000 fine as well as over £12,000 in court costs, after...

Unsafe gas appliances have been found in 21 per cent of privately-rented flats and houses according to Gas Safe Register.   Investigation data...

A buy to let investor has been fined £29,200 after being prosecuted for 56 offences in what a local authority describes...

A landlord has been found guilty of letting a property with "extremely dangerous electrics" as well as no heating and a...

Councils in eight of London's 32 boroughs have failed to prosecute even a single landlord for providing unsafe accommodation during the...

A 71 year old landlord has been fined £5,037.97 at Birmingham Magistrates Court for failing to obtain an HMO licence and...

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £4,200 in fines and costs for not having a licence for his...

Age UK says the number of older people renting in the private sector is set to soar in the near future...

Waltham Forest council has enforced an Interim Management Order on a house in its area meaning it will take over day-to-day...

The landlord of an overcrowded flat which lacked proper fire precautions and had a dangerous boiler has been fined £162,000. Abbas Rasul...

A Norwich landlord has been prosecuted “for putting lives at risk” according to the local council.  Piang Fui Pun has pleaded guilty...

A landlord has received a £5,620 court bill after he pleaded guilty to three fly tipping offences. John Hills - who ironically...

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

A landlord guilty of breaching a planning enforcement notice has been ordered to pay £700,000 in fines and costs - the...

A London landlord who failed to comply with an Improvement Notice to maintain his property for his tenants has a £4,000-plus...

A pair of landlords have been slapped with a hefty fine for allowing people to live in damp-riddled rooms without fire...

A landlord who endangered the lives of his tenants has been prosecuted and fined for failing to comply with 16 issues...

A landlord that continually refused to sign up to a council’s selective licensing regime has been found guilty by the courts...

The BBC is claiming that vulnerable families are being exploited by rogue landlords in Glasgow - including in the constituency for...

A private landlord has been jailed after being accused by a judge of "cutting corners" and deliberately putting his "wealth" before...

A landlord has been fined just £440 after he effectively left a tenant homeless.    Warrington Magistrates Court heard that Peter Lamont, the...

A rogue landlord faces a court bill of almost £40,000 after being caught cramming 24 people into a house in north...

An industry body says agents and landlords who ignore tenants' complaints about damp and mould could be putting their property at...

Failing to provide an energy certificate and not complying with an improvement notice has resulted in a landlord being ordered to...

A landlord’s company has been left with a bill of over £14,000 for letting unlicensed flats in north London.   Appearing at Highbury...

A millionaire landlord who built an illegal outbuilding at his home has been forced to demolish it after pressure from his...

Two private landlords have been found guilty of failing to obtain the appropriate licenses for their properties.   Jagtar and Jagdish Kandola, who...

A council has issued a press release to say that a trio of prosecutions on private landlords combine to prove it...

Yet another council private rental sector licensing scheme is being drawn up with the claim that it will improve standards of...

A raid on a house has uncovered appalling conditions including a Slumdog Millionaire-style shanty town shack made from wood offcuts, pallets...

A landlord has been left with a court bill totalling more than £6,000 after allowing a house in to fall into...

Two landlords have received fines totalling £3,000 – and were ordered to pay costs of nearly £2,000 - after failing to...

A landlord has been fined £550 after failing to take action from a prohibition order issued by a council.   West Lindsey authority...

A damp garage with completely inadequate security, heating, and insulation which was being let as a flat for more than £1,000...

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

A landlord faces a bill of over £9,000 for putting his tenants at risk of harm.   Jack Kensell of Folkestone was prosecuted...

Citizens Advice claims that 2,087 people asked it for help after being threatened with what it describes as ‘illegal eviction’ in...

A landlord who illegally converted a house to squeeze 28 tenants into just seven rooms has been handed a £20,000 fine...

There has been yet another prosecution over an unsafe house in multiple occupation.   Syed Masum Ali appeared in Stafford Magistrates Court and...

A landlord who rented out a house in multiple occupation has ended up with a £10,000 fine after pleading guilty to failing...

Burnley Council has brought a series of prosecutions against people responsible for unlicensed rented houses in the borough. The council has introduced...

Bexley council in south east London says it is going to announce what it describes as a “crackdown” on HMOs next...

A letting agent and his landlord client have been fined thousands of pounds for a number of offences relating to what...

An investment company claims government and councils should do more to stamp out so-called rogue landlords who, it says, are giving...

A landlord in Milton Keynes has been ordered to pay a total of £24,168.29 for serious breaches of fire safety regulations...

A row has broken out between landlords and the council in Oxford, where the local authority is considering a private rental...

Sheffield council has prosecuted a private landlord for failing to provide safe accommodation - with a bill of over £10,000 to...

An industry body is warning new London Labour mayor Sadiq Khan not to think he is helping renters by tying up...

There was a series of raids on HMOs led by a local authority early one morning at the end of last...

A landlord has been prosecuted for both illegal sub-letting and illegal eviction at the same time - an occurrence which is...

An Oxfordshire letting agent has been ordered to pay £3,500 and costs of £2,700 for letting a house in multiple occupation...

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

The owner of a rented property in west London has received a penalty of more than £20,000 having pleaded guilty to...

Before new London mayor Sadiq Khan has had his first working day in office, his proposals for a private rental sector...

The Residential Landlords’ Association has revealed what it calls “worryingly low levels of enforcement of rented housing regulations” by local authorities. Using...

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

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

A leading trade body has called for the Housing and Planning Bill now going through parliament to be widened to include...

A private landlord has been ordered to pay more than £1,000 after admitting operating in Burnley without a proper licence.  Matthew Hartley...

The landlord of a property in Plymouth risked the lives of his tenants through a dangerous gas boiler installed in the...

A landmark court case heard in the Midlands is believed to be the first to issue a Criminal Behaviour Order on...

A private landlord aged 72 must pay £4,800 after pleading guilty to 11 offences of breaching the Licensing and Management of...

A local council has closed down what it describes as a ‘House of Horrors’ let to a family despite being in...

The 1,000th person has been trained as part of Rent Smart Wales, the compulsory scheme that says it aims to raise...

Two buy to let investors who breached planning regulations by converting a house into seven studio flats have been ordered to...

The demonisation of agents continues with the launch of a web-based application designed to “enable local authorities to take action against rogue...

A London landlord has been given an eight week suspended prison sentence after failing to have a gas boiler in a...

An unauthorised outhouse with a concealed entrance constructed at the back of a residential property in west London - one of...

Haringey Council in North London is the latest local authority to launch its own letting agency for private tenants. Move 51⁰ North...

Some 66% of landlords predict more rental sector turbulence in this week's Budget, according to research by property crowdfunding platform The...

Labour’s candidate for the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has published his manifesto which returns to the party’s recent themes of...

The internet classified listings service Gumtree will meet with the Residential Landlords Association to discuss scams in which fraudsters posing as...

A buy to let landlord in Stockton-on-Tees, has been sentenced after illegally uncapping and reconnecting a gas supply. Teeside Magistrates’ Court heard...

Enforcement officers from Barking and Dagenham council, one of the most active in chasing up private rental sector issues, has discovered...

A landlord has to pay over £16,500 after being found guilty of failing to licence her ex-council flat with the local...

A campaign group which last year held protests outside letting agents’ offices in Bristol is claiming victory in persuading the city’s...

A landlord who has had previous conflicts with his local council has effectively lost control of his 16 private rental properties. William...

The Local Government Association says recent prosecutions show that councils are cracking down on illegal evictions by landlords and their agents...

Labour MP Karen Buck is accusing local authorities of taking a ’softly, softly’ approach to rogue letting agents and landlords. Buck, whose...

A landlord who let out dark, damp and overcrowded rooms has been hit with a huge £67,000 fine. Rogue landlord Liakath Ali,...