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A tenant who illegally sublet an unlicensed and poorly-maintained bungalow in north London, which was described by Brent Council as a...

Brent Council insists that it wants to build better relationships with private landlords after successfully winning close to 150 prosecution cases...

A private tenant occupying a three-bedroom house in north-west London has been jailed after he was caught illegally subletting the property...

One of the most active councils in London when it comes to prosecuting rogue landlords and letting agents has now extended...

An ‘unsafe’ house in multiple occupation (HMO) in north London has been uncovered by enforcement officers from Brent Council following a...

A landlord in North West London who failed to deal with noisy pigeons nesting at one of its properties has been...

Three tenants who sub-let a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Kingsbury, north-west London, to 35 men have been fined more than 23,000. The residents...

Plans to introduce new licensing schemes for privately rented homes across parts of North West London have been given the go-ahead by...

A buy-to-let landlord has been ordered to pay £7,400 after failing to obtain a license to rent out a property in...

Criminal landlords who crammed up to 40 migrants inside their semi-detached townhouse in north-west London face losing hundreds of thousands of...

The mayor of London Sadiq Khan yesterday launched a new public online database which ‘names and shames’ dodgy landlords and letting...

A property firm with assets in the Virgin Islands has paid a £8,000 civil penalty to Brent Council after two tenants...

More than 500 landlords attended Brent Council’s latest Landlord Forum in north London last week where they were given presentations from...

The owner of a three-bedroom house in Queensbury, north-west London, where 35 men were living in rooms full of mattresses has threatened to...

Brent Council has once again vowed to clamp down on rogue landlords in the local area after 35 men we found...

A landlord has been ordered to pay almost £10,000 after tenants were discovered living in appalling, cramped conditions, as Brent Council...

A rogue landlord who rented out squalid flats, which breached council planning laws and failed to meet basic living standards, has...

Borough wide selective licensing could soon be coming to Brent if the the local council gets its way. Brent Council wants the...

There is a direct correlation between licensed rental properties and a reduction in anti-social behaviour, according to a north London based...

No fewer than 16 men were found to be living in a one-bedroom flat filled with bunk beds made out of...

Most buy-to-let landlords could soon be required to licence their properties in the London borough of Brent if the government agrees...

Landlords renting out properties in the London borough of Brent have been ordered to pay fines totalling more than £500,000 over...

Four weeks of prosecutions by Brent Council in north London has seen six successful results with total court fines for rogue...

A company letting out an illegally converted house in North West London has been ordered to pay £250,000 under the Proceeds...

A private landlord has been fined by Willesden Magistrates Court for poor and potentially dangerous housing conditions following a prosecution by...

Two tenants in Kingsbury, north-west London, have been handed fines totalling £4,500 after being convicted of obstructing a Brent Council housing...

A landlord operating in the London borough of Brent has been has been ordered to pay close to £7,500 for cramming...

A  landlord and his letting agents have been slapped with a fine of more than £20,000 and given criminal records for failing...

A criminal landlord has been handed a fine of almost £40,000 after he was caught housing 24 tenants in a rental...

A landlord has been fined £16,000 and now has a criminal record after being punished in court for refusing to make...

No fewer than 31 people were found to be living in cramped conditions in a four bedroom house in north-west London...

A private landlord in north London has been sentenced to four months imprisonment and fined £20,000 after pleading guilty to intimidating his...

A landlord in Wembley, north west London, faces prosecution after 11 people were found living in a three-bedroom house that he...

A North London landlord has been ordered to pay more than £200,000 by Harrow Crown Court for illegally converting two Brent...

Brent Council has received more than 5,000 online applications from landlords seeking to have their Brent rental properties licensed since it...

A landlord who was found to have 16 tenants living in just one property in Willesden Green, north London, has been...

A rogue landlord who rented out a sub-standard property in Brent has become the first to be fined under Brent Council’s...