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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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

It’s been a difficult summer for Airbnb and other short-let platforms operating in the UK. Recently the European Commission gave Airbnb until the...

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

A letting agent responsible for a property in Huddersfield which caught fire and killed two young boys has been jailed for...

A consumer group which conducted 30 undercover viewings in five different UK cities claims letting agents are showing potential tenants around...

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

Yet another formal government consultation is under way, this time into smoke and carbon monoxide alarms in the private rental sector...

A landlord has been fined a total of £7,298 for operating an unlicensed house in multiple occupation in Oxford that was...

The findings of the most recent English Housing Survey, an annual report published by the Department for Communities and Local Government,...

The owner of a house in multiple occupation in the leafy Hampstead area of north London has been hit with a...

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

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

A trade body has accused some letting agents and landlords of “failing to get to grips” with several recent legal changes...

A letting agency has been fined after one of its landlords was found to be cramming six families into an unlicensed...

Failing to pay rent on time or at all is the most common rule broken by tenants that is set out...

A lettings sector supply company has had to amend an advertisment after a complaint about its “misleading” statement over smoke and...

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

Property managers operating through a company have been ordered to pay more than £30,000 following a dawn raid that uncovered more...

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

Who are you? Patricia Barber What does it say on your business card? Chairman of the Association of independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC) How long has...

One of the UK’s largest suppliers of carbon monoxide and smoke alarm testing products has launched a record-pad to help agents...

A property company managing an HMO in prime central London has been £47,900. The fine is in relation to 24 charges under...

It’s not been a happy Christmas for a Leicestershire landlord who has been banned from renting out a converted garage after...

Another survey suggests that approaching 50 per cent of tenants experience unreasonable delays in getting repair work done - and one...

A survey of house- and flat-share private tenants shows 15 per cent claiming not to have a working smoke alarm in...

A landlord has been handed fines totalling £3,250 and costs of £1,426 for running an unlicensed and unsafe House in Multiple...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents says it strongly supports new health and safety legislation coming into effect today - but...

One of the UK letting industry’s leading agents says politicians should defer the new Right To Rent immigration checks until the start...

Parliament has approved the Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations 2015 - the regulations which looked in jeopardy after a...

As if to prove the lettings industry’s concern over a lack of publicity for upcoming health and safety regulation changes, a...

A group of estate agents have teamed up with a local fire and rescue service to launch an initiative aimed at...

Around 445,000 smoke alarms and 40,000 carbon monoxide alarms have now been issued to the 46 fire and rescue authorities in...

A long-time safety campaigner is reminding agents and landlords that from October 1 the new Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England)...