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A Labour council in London has issued a statement appearing to celebrate its role cracking down on landlords. The statement from Brent...

A survey of local council private rental licensing schemes says 19 selective and additional licensing schemes and consultations will be taking...

New additional and selective licensing schemes are to be considered by the controversial Bristol city council. The council’s Labour Mayor - Marvin...

A council is warning landlords of HMOs that they must meet all of their legal responsibilities ahead of a crackdown on...

Newham council in London has won what it calls a landmark case against a convicted rogue landlord. The court has dismissed the...

Landlords providing much-needed private rented accommodation in part of Merseyside are to fall under an expanded  licensing regime.  Wirral councillors have voted...

A council has secured a banning order against a landlord, taking effect almost immediately. The order is against Grzegorz Surminski, a landlord...

Almost all landlords letting out properties in a London borough will soon be legally required to have a selective license. It’s one...

Changes put forward to the Renters Reform Bill to crack down on rogue landlords, protect vulnerable residents and improve the safety of...

A council has been slammed for its “absolutely outrageous” failure to stop the eviction of up to 80 tenants - a...

A bizarre situation has arisen with a Labour council securing a banning order on a landlord - who now has to...

A landlord has found himself on the Rogue Landlord Database after repeatedly renting out hazardous properties in Sheffield. Local landlord and businessman...

A council has prosecuted a landlord for a second time, for multiple offences.  The offences concerned a tenanted caravan that had been...

A website claims that Banning Orders on private landlords have not been served because of local government funding shortfalls. Open Democracy says...

A criminal businessman has been given a London council’s first ever landlord banning order. Property dealer Jaydipkumar Rameshchandra Valand, who lives in...

A landlord and three property management companies have been fined approaching £80,000 for health and safety failings. Mohammed Ali Abbas Rasool, Cadogan...

A landlord who was banned from letting properties after repeatedly failing to meet the required standards, has lost an appeal to...

Details are emerging about a new Landlords Database, which is one of the major provisions of the Renters Reform Bill. Within the...

A PropTech entrepreneur is advising landlords worried about red tape to use letting agents. Neil Cobbold, managing director of rental payment service...

A Wirral landlord has become the first in the region to be served with a Banning Order, which will prohibit him...

It’s claimed that Liverpool’s Labour council would take almost 150 years to process applications for its landlord licensing scheme. The council has...

The government has once again declined to give any meaningful timetable for the introduction of the Renters Reform Bill. At the end...

A Bristol landlord has been banned from letting properties after repeatedly failing to meet the required standards. Naomi Knapp, a portfolio landlord...

In what has been described as a ‘first’ by the local authority concerned, a rogue landlord has been banned from letting...

A council has secured a banning order against a rogue landlord who was found guilty of failing to comply with legal...

A council is considering imposing Banning Orders on unregulated and ‘informal’ landlords who have no lettings background and who advertise on...

A London council has secured banning orders against four rogue landlords after they were found to be letting an unlicensed and...

A landlord who let out a property that raised serious concerns for the safety of 18 residents, including six children, has...

A council has obtained a banning order on a landlord in a ruling that is the first of its kind in...

Rogue landlords in one area of London could face unlimited fines, criminal convictions and bans from letting out properties. The measures are...

A report by the National Audit Office has sharply criticised the government and councils for not doing enough to help tenants...

The National Residential Landlords Association has thrown its weight behind the recommendations of the National Audit Office report urging the government...

The first landlord in the country to receive a Banning Order under the Housing and Planning Act 2016 when the new...

Only 39 rogue landlords and letting agents have been hit with banning orders in the first three years of their existence. The...

A landlord who persistently broke residential lettings rules has been banned from operating in what a local council calls “a landmark...

A four year ban on letting any residential property has been imposed on a landlord found guilty of using accommodation that could...

Northampton council is seeking a so-called Charging Order against a landlord who failed to carry out improvements to her property and then...

A collapsing ceiling, filthy facilities, and an abandoned car are among the dangerous defects leading to a Banbury landlord facing a...

A landlord who unlawfully let cramped and overcrowded bedsits and then harassed tenants who complained has been fined thousands of pounds...

The government’s decision to invest an additional £4m in funding for local councils to tackle criminal landlords and letting agents has...

A rogue landlord in Doncaster has been given a banning order for two-and-a-half years after repeatedly putting tenants’ lives at risk...

London’s first rogue landlord banning order has been issued after tenants’ lives were put at risk through the letting of unsafe...

Proposals for a national register of landlords have been rejected by the government.  A report on the joint research project between the...

Fresh funding for local councils in England to tackle unscrupulous landlords has been made available, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local...

A man deemed not to be a fit and proper person to hold a licence for a house in multiple occupation...

Introducing a ‘rogue landlords’ database without better enforcement would be a pointless exercise, according to the National Landlords Association (NLA). A rogue...

As many of you already know, the ban on tenant fees will come into force on 1 June 2019, and the...

A landlord in Stevenage who allowed his tenant to live in an excessively cold attic with a serious fire safety hazard...

With a new year now upon us, it’s time to look forward to what might happen (and what is definitely happening)...

Rogue landlords with properties in Scarborough now face fines of up to £30,000 as the local council looks to clampdown on...

Yesterday’s announcement that councils in England are going to be handed an additional £2m in government funding to tackle the small...

Tenant Fees Bill that will ban most charges set by landlords and letting agents to tenants in England will continue its...

The next stage of the Tenants’ Fees Bill through Parliament will be a Second Reading in the House of Lords this...

Rogue landlords in Ashford will now face fines of up to £30,000 after Ashford Borough Council voted to adopt new rules...

ARLA Propertymark has launched a new database in partnership with GetRentr, a technology platform which automatically monitors property portfolios for compliance...

Doncaster Council’s Cabinet will be discussing new ways to tackle rogue landlords at their meeting later today. The proposal is to introduce...

Unscrupulous landlords who rent out substandard properties face being driven out of the private rented sector as new banning orders are...

Rogue landlords in Milton Keynes are being put on notice as the local council announces a new ‘tough approach’, including the...

ARLA Propertymark has slammed the new database of rogue landlords and letting agents, which will come into effect from tomorrow, as...

Councils will be handed tough new powers to punish rogue landlords up to £30,000. Under the new legislation, being introduced in October,...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has expressed its support for new legislation that will help ensure rented homes are safe and...

Tenants will be given the right to take legal action against landlords who offer properties that are not ‘fit for human...

West Suffolk councils have agreed to clamp down on dodgy landlords by adopting new powers to tackle them, following a joint...

It has been confirmed that a database of rogue landlords and letting agents as well as new banning orders will be...

The government has vowed to offer private renters extra protections and safeguards, as set out in the long-awaited white paper yesterday,...

The government has launched an official consultation process on plans to for new banning orders to clampdown on rogue landlords and...

Liverpool City Council (LCC) has issued just 2% of licensing applications since launching its citywide landlord licensing scheme in April last...

Eviction firm Landlord Action is calling for a blacklist of persistent rogue tenants to be made public. The Housing and Planning Bill...

The legislative system dealing with rogue landlords is ‘unfit for purpose’ and should be replaced with a national database covering all...

Rogue landlords will be banned from letting property under new measures to be brought in under the Housing and Planning Bill. The...