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A new action plan to tackle issues around HMOs is being drawn up by a Midlands council next week. West Northamptonshire council’s...

A company that tries to encourage people to buy a home in ‘chunks’ says few first time buyers are interested in...

The growth of the short term rentals sector has helped create an economy featuring jobs that benefit local communities and fit...

A property management company has been punished with a hefty fine for failing to both clear up and also keep free...

Westminster council wants central London to have the same powers as Paris and Amsterdam to stop anti-social behaviour caused by Airbnb...

ARLA Propertymark has listed tell tale signs which letting agents should look for to spot incidents of modern day slavery. It says...

An agency says its bizarre list of items left behind by departing tenants shows how many renters actually appear to keep pets. A...

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

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

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

The government and local authorities run by all political parties are keen to advocate measures to curb rogue letting agents and...

The National Union of Students claims young people at college and university are being unfairly targeted by agents and landlords when...

An east London lettings agency must pay more than £2,500 after a six-foot-high pile of waste was found fly-tipped on land...

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

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

The controversial landlord Fergus Wilson says he has purchased a Body Worn Camera for £75 in a bid to avoid at...

An overcrowded property let by an unlicensed company with inadequate fire precautions and unheated rooms has led to a £46,620 fine...

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

Three agencies have been heavily fined after a property in London was being used for multiple occupation with 11 people living...

The government has set out new measures to mitigate against overcrowded and dangerous living conditions of private tenants in shared homes. From...

A lettings agent has been charged £1,000 after telling a new tenant to dump waste left by a previous occupier into...

Romans’ lettings managing director Michael Cook has given details of his agency’s approach to identifying and responding to sub-letting. Cook says: “We...

A former councillor says letting agents should be responsible for ensuring student tenants know how to organise their bins in a...

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

The BBC’s reality programme The Week The Landlords Moved In should act as an eye-opener for the lettings industry when it...

Kensington & Chelsea council in central London has set up a series of hotline services and a working party to investigate...

A council is warning agents and landlords not to sit on long term vacant properties.   The warning, from Liverpool council, comes as...

A group of students in Bristol has won a court case after a lettings agency acting for a landlord deducted money...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is warning the government that some of its proposed changes to regulations governing HMOs may...

A London council has agreed to implement a new ‘standards charter’ for the private rental sector from next month - in...

What appears at first sight to be a low-level dispute between a landlord and a council has raised what may be...

Local authorities appear to be at the forefront of identifying abuses of the Airbnb short-let platform and have called executives from...

The government’s wave of measures to clamp down on the private rental sector and introduce harsher regulations for investors and landlords...

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

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

An online letting agency claims a third of tenants are subletting without the agreement of their landlord, with an even higher...

A landlord has been fined almost £25,000 for a series of failings relating to a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO). Birmingham-based Salih...

Two rogue landlords who collected rent from more than 30 tenants in five sub-standard houses all on the same street have...

A report claims that agents and landlords are increasingly facing filthy property damage at the end of tenancies - and the...

A letting agency that failed to apply for House of Multiple Occupation licences at three properties in Birmingham has been fined...

I don't think there is one person in lettings and property management who isn't alarmed at the scenes just over the...

The Conservatives’ election victory came as a surprise, so much so that television pundits spent all night after the vote rubbishing...