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Companies House has new powers from this week to combat fraud. These are measures under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act...

Insurance giant Aviva is urging consumers to be on their guard after seeing a seven per cent increase in customer claims...

Propertymark has responded to two consultations on the proposals to introduce electrical safety standards and smoke and carbon monoxide alarms in...

A trade body representing short lets operators has slammed government housing failures. The Short Term Accommodation Association says it’s analysed local authority...

Police are urging letting agents and landlords to act swiftly if they think one of their properties is being used as...

Propertymark is urging agents to give it their views on two consultations on health and safety issues coming out of Northern...

Private landlords and lettings agents are being offered free advice and information at a networking event. Cumberland council says property owners and...

Five regional police and crime commissioners have written to letting agents highlighting the problems of cannabis farms in private rental properties.  The...

The Labour-run London Assembly says it is concerned about government plans to allow landlords to house asylum seekers for two years without...

A comparison website has compiled a list of what it claims to be the most common lies on tenancy applications -...

A trade body says inventories are set to play an increasingly important role in the private rental sector as fire regulations...

The agency and landlord responsible for letting a two-bedroom flat in Dagenham have been found guilty in court for providing extremely...

The government has indicated that the delayed publication of the latest How To Rent document is to be Friday March 24. The...

The head of a property management company has been fined £25,800 after serious safety issues were discovered at a shared house...

A council has prosecuted an agency and landlord for not producing the right paperwork. Luton local authority has prosecuted Poplar Homes Ltd...

A lettings agency says it’s vital that the government reconsiders the new laws and regulations seen as attacking landlords. The Leaders Romans...

A new lettings regime that is described as the biggest change in many decades comes into effect tomorrow in Wales, with...

A risk management service says agents and landlords must do more to create a culture of safety, particularly around fire. Research released...

The law around the requirement for smoke and carbon monoxide alarms in rental properties will change in England on October 1. Propertymark...

Yet another revision to the Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations takes effect from October 1 - that’s just under...

The government has issued detailed guidance ahead of a change in the law around smoke and carbon monoxide alarms coming into...

The UK Association of Letting Agents is introducing four new products to its agent members. Several of the products are from the...

Propertymark has set up a working group of experts, agents, landlords and stakeholders in response to radical reforms to the private...

Comprehensive rental reform requires the buy in and understanding of letting agents and landlords from the outset - and not as...

A prominent agency lettings chief is alerting the industry that new smoke and carbon monoxide alarm rules are changing from October 1. Since...

A property law expert is aiming to demystify the upcoming rental legislation for agents at a webinar tomorrow. Robert Bolwell, senior partner...

Agents have reacted with amazement to the latest delay that the Labour-run Welsh Government has announced for its much-hyped rental reform. The...

Propertymark members are to get a briefing on Northern Ireland’s new Private Tenancies Act at a webinar hosted by the trade...

A property ownership and management company has been fined £20,000 for failing to carry out safety and fire safety improvement works...

Agents are being urged to prepare for  changes to the Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm Regulations which may come in this...

A lettings company has been caught up in a case where rental accommodation has been described as “atrocious” and a landlord...

Trade body UKALA has cautioned letting agents to act now following the government announcement that it intends to extend the need...

A London property managing agent has been ordered to pay more than £80,000 for safety failings which “exposed a potentially large...

The UK Association of Letting Agents says it welcomes new rules for alarms which put the social and private rental sectors...

Agents have raised a specific concern about one aspect of a law change regarding carbon monoxide alarms.  Earlier this week the government...

The government has announced that carbon monoxide alarms must be fitted in all private rental properties with fixed appliances such as...

Police officers are this week raising awareness among agents about the signs of potential cannabis grows. The campaign is being led in...

Airbnb is now introducing pet insurance cover for its hosts as it continues attempts to win long-term renters away from the...

New laws to limit rent increases to once a year in Northern Ireland have moved a step closer and lettings agents...

Almost half of renters in England have been victims of illegal behaviour from landlords or lettings agents, Shelter claims. The stark allegations...

There has still been no formal response to a government consultation on the database of rogue agents and landlords, 25 months...

Propertymark has given its broad support to a new Private Members Bill introduced into the Northern Ireland assembly, aimed at improving...

Rental and other households should replace optical smoke alarms every 12 years unless manufacturers recommend otherwise, according to a study by...

The local media in Manchester have published photographs of a property operated by a lettings agency was found to have multiple...

An agency has been hit with a £330,000 bill after being found guilty of poor management of an HMO. Magistrates have found...

A head tenant who posed as a landlord has been taken to court by a London council. Sonia Nascimento rented a converted...

The government has been urged to backtrack on proposals for letting agents to check smoke and carbon monoxide alarms on day one...

Letting agents should stand proud of their record helping both landlords and tenants, especially in these more difficult times. That’s the view...

The Scottish Parliament has postponed new fire and smoke alarm legislation for 12 months. This move, by its local government committee, follows...

A Labour councillor in Yorkshire claims letting agents are not showing the actual properties available to rent when they use virtual...

A controversial Labour council that locked horns with the government over landlord licensing is now submitting a new proposal for its...

A lettings expert claims that many agents are failing to comply with appropriate legislation, rendering their landlord clients liable for legal...

Tell us about Airthings, why it was established, the products and what problem they were coming to solve? Airthings was established in...

Lettings agents have until January 11 to respond to the latest consultation proposal stiffening health and safety in the private rental...

A major north of England local authority wants to introduce landlord licensing for HMOs where three or four tenants live, following analysis...

Making sure the check-in process for tenants is carried out in a smooth manner is more important than ever, in light...

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

A local council is warning the HMO rental sector that tenants may be put at unnecessary risk as a result of...

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...

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...

A resident who was unable to access an emergency escape route during a fire was found standing on a windowsill hanging...

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

The Welsh Government says new regulations are to be introduced to combat carbon monoxide poisoning. The regulations will require landlords and their...

The owner of a Derbyshire property must pay out more than £3,000 after being found guilty of failing to comply with...

Almost 40 per cent of battery-powered smoke alarms failed to activate in residential fires in England in the past year –...

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...

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

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

Government data suggests that almost 54 per cent of the UK’s remaining smokers are tenants - and against that backdrop, an...

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...

The most controversial local council rental licensing scheme in the country has been deemed a success - at least by the...

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

A London council’s action against a property agent it has accused of “repeated negligence” has resulted in £37,000 of fines and...

A tenant pretending to be landlord has been ordered to pay more than £21,000 after he carved up five family homes...

The Welsh Government has started a formal consultation on proposals that include extending the minimum notice period applicable to a section...

Weak regulation of private renting is leaving hundreds of thousands of tenants living in hazardous homes in England, claims Citizens Advice. A...

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

Inventory reports are increasingly revealing illegal safety and compliance issues within tenanted property, a trade body claims. The Association of Independent Inventory...

Six months on from the introduction of stricter licencing for Homes in Multiple Occupation, awareness “remains limited” according to one of...

A compliance company has accused “thousands” of buy to let investors of failing to address major household hazards which render properties...

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

A rogue lettings agent has been fined over £72,000 after being found guilty of 15 separate offences relating to three illegally established houses...

A regional fire service says a tragic anniversary is a good opportunity for agents and landlords to remember their legal obligations...

The Tenants’ Fees Bill has now become law, receiving formal Royal Assent yesterday afternoon - and within minutes, the government issued...

Council enforcement officers have raided a house in Wembley, north London, and found 19 tenants paying a landlord £1,000 a week. Brent council’s...

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

The private rental sector can help reduce smoking according to a report from Action on Smoking and Health, a pressure group. The...

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

A warning has gone out to the lettings sector to check that rental properties are ‘Gas Safe’ as the colder weather...

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

There have been “significant leaps forward” in the standards of the private rental sector in the past four years, but safety...

MPs have proposed a series of amendments to the Tenant Fees Bill as part of its Report Stage and Third Reading...

A London council has fined a letting agency over £10,000 for failing to install smoke alarms in a rental property. Waltham Forest...

A landlord has been hit with a total fine of almost £40,000 for breaching House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) management regulations. David...

The council behind a controversial private rental sector licensing scheme is trying to justify its introduction on health and safety grounds. On...

A buy to let investor has been fined £20,000 after a kitchen fire that occurred in May last year at a...

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