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A study by the Tenancy Deposit Service has found that garden maintenance remains one of the most common reasons behind deposit...
04 April 2022
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been fined £6,250 for failing to make a series of improvements to the property he lets out in...
23 March 2022
From: Breaking News

The Mirror newspaper has launched a campaign to “make rented homes safer”. It says its campaign - called Safe As Houses -...
21 March 2022
From: Breaking News

A second-offence landlord has received fines totalling £5,259.75 after council officers found nine different safety violations at a single property. The building...
16 March 2022
From: Breaking News

A new voluntary redress scheme has been launched to help landlords and tenants solve disputes. The scheme - by the National Residential...
14 March 2022
From: Breaking News

Trading Standards has approved a new alternative dispute resolution body for the private rental sector. It’s The Dispute Service Ltd, and it...
07 March 2022
From: Breaking News

A local authority says the fact that it has conducted no prosecutions against private landlords despite over 1,100 complaints from tenants...
22 February 2022
From: Breaking News

Has there ever been a better time to buy-to-let? Zoopla just last week revealed that demand and rent prices, especially in city...
19 February 2022
From: Top tips & guides

The majority of local authorities in England do not accurately record the number of private rented sector tenure complaints which they...
11 February 2022
From: Breaking News

The activist group Generation Rent says it’s celebrating a victory in its campaign to secure a national mandatory landlord register. Newspaper leaks...
01 February 2022
From: Breaking News

Complaints from the public about rubbish left in front of a house have led to a landlord being hit with a...
31 January 2022
From: Breaking News

A council has admitted that it had received literally hundreds of complaints about landlords, and it investigates each one - yet...
14 January 2022
From: Breaking News

ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...
15 December 2021
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been given a severe warning over a Glasgow apartment that has been home to a noisy bagpiper and has...
10 November 2021
From: Breaking News

The steps landlords need to take to improve their own image and enhance their reputation in the eyes of consumers was...
04 November 2021
From: Breaking News

The government’s Green Homes Grant Voucher Scheme - which left thousands of landlords in the lurch when it collapsed earlier this...
08 September 2021
From: Breaking News

A landlord company has been fined more than £15,000 for failing to improve housing conditions in three properties. North Somerset council received...
07 September 2021
From: Breaking News

A new survey has shown what may be an early warning of complaints over the Covid-compliance of purpose built student accommodation...
26 August 2021
From: Breaking News

Perhaps unsurprisingly, landlords formed the bulk of the complainants about letting agents in the 2020 calendar year according to The Property...
25 August 2021
From: Breaking News

A private landlord operating an unlicensed and overcrowded property in London has been hit with a fine of more than £21,000. Brent...
12 August 2021
From: Breaking News

A private landlord operating an unlicensed and overcrowded property in London has been hit with a fine of more than £21,000. The...
02 August 2021
From: Breaking News

Residents and landlords are to be consulted by yet another council wanting to renew its selective licensing regime - saying it...
14 July 2021
From: Breaking News

Landlords in one part of England are being urged to get their properties back on the market or face inevitable council...
05 July 2021
From: Breaking News

A new scheme has been launched encouraging tenants to complain about their landlords and seek compensation. Ajay Jagota - who used to...
23 June 2021
From: Breaking News

The landlords’ trade body says there’s an enforcement postcode lottery across part of the UK. The National Residential Landlords Association’s Welsh Enforcement...
26 May 2021
From: Breaking News

A Midlands council says it’s sent thousands of letters to landlords in the last 12 months in response to complaints from...
05 May 2021
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been convicted and ordered to pay more than £11,500 in fines and legal costs for the offence of...
05 May 2021
From: Breaking News

A London council has taken a landlord company to court after complaints of poor housing conditions in five of its rented...
05 May 2021
From: Breaking News

Three lettings agencies have been expelled for The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensation to landlords. And as they are now...
15 April 2021
From: Breaking News

A charity claims it’s helping one person every minute with problems relating to renting from a private landlord. In the first two...
29 March 2021
From: Breaking News

A serial-offender landlord has been fined for putting tenants at serious harm from fire and exposing them to substandard and dangerous conditions. Nilendu...
22 March 2021
From: Breaking News

A Labour-controlled council says it’s confident a huge new licensing scheme for one of Britain’s most high-profile cities will be voted...
10 March 2021
From: Breaking News

Multi-millionaire landlord Fergus Wilson - at one time described as Britain’s most successful buy to let landlord - is reported to...
03 February 2021
From: Breaking News

The Property Ombudsman has ordered a lettings agent to pay £200 compensation to a landlord after accepting a tenant on the...
28 January 2021
From: Breaking News

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for an extension of the eviction ban and a two year rent freeze in the...
08 January 2021
From: Breaking News

A leading officer in a Labour council which has in the past taken landlords to court says this process is so...
16 December 2020
From: Breaking News

Landlords now have another year to apply for the government’s Green Homes Grant scheme. The 12 months extension, announced last evening, follows...
19 November 2020
From: Breaking News

A landlord who failed to properly look after two HMOs has been fined £70,500 by an Essex council. Lystra Dorval, of Ilford,...
16 November 2020
From: Breaking News

A council in the westcountry says it’s going to come down hard on rogue landlords and has identified ‘high risk’ properties...
03 November 2020
From: Breaking News

Many landlords will be familiar with the scourge that is mould. It is a major source of complaints by tenants and...
29 October 2020
From: Legislation, Regulation & Compliance

It’s being reported that a so-called ‘rental union’ group of activists has staged a protest outside a landlord’s own home. Acorn - a...
27 October 2020
From: Breaking News

Generation Rent activists are back on the warpath, this time accusing councils of not doing enough - and sometimes nothing -...
12 October 2020
From: Breaking News

A landlord who unlawfully let cramped and overcrowded bedsits and then harassed tenants who complained has been fined thousands of pounds...
02 October 2020
From: Breaking News

The Property Ombudsman (TPO) has announced that Rebecca Marsh, the existing chief ombudsman at the Legal Ombudsman, will become the new...
05 June 2020
From: Breaking News

The Property Ombudsman (TPO) dealt with 2,518 letting complaints last year, according to the organisation’s 2019 annual report, which shows continued...
11 May 2020
From: Breaking News

A new landlord organistaion has become the largest ever trade body in the letting sector after officially launching this morning. The National...
02 April 2020
From: Breaking News

Most landlords are wary of the potential damage, smells and noise complaints that can come with accommodating a tenant with pets,...
24 March 2020
From: Breaking News

The minister for local government, housing and planning in Scotland, Kevin Stewart, has received a joint letter from the UK Short...
22 January 2020
From: Breaking News

The Scottish government has announced new measures to regulate short-term lets north of the border. The government is handing local authorities fresh...
10 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Most landlords are wary of the potential damage, smells and noise complaints that can come with accommodating a tenant with pets....
23 October 2019
From: Sponsored Content

Council officers from Brent and Harrow Trading Standards have pledged to clampdown on unscrupulous letting agents in the London boroughs of...
30 September 2019
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has criticised the London Trading Standards (LTS) for what it says is an admission of failure in...
17 September 2019
From: Breaking News

With new figures showing that almost half of letting agents do not comply with the law, London Trading Standards (LTS) has...
13 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Spotahome has expanded its landlord functionality for landlords to secure and process long-term rental bookings online. The PropTech startup decided to introduce...
22 August 2019
From: Breaking News

An unscrupulous landlord who housed at least 25 tenants in a rundown property in north-west London has been ordered to pay...
01 August 2019
From: Breaking News

A buy-to-let landlord in north London has been ordered to pay more than £13,000 after breaching fire safety regulations and failing...
12 June 2019
From: Breaking News

There was a significant increase in the number of disputes under the Property Redress Scheme last year, according to the organisation’s...
29 May 2019
From: Breaking News

Private landlords in Newcastle have rejected a new licensing policy put forward by Newcastle City Council, which would require them to...
24 April 2019
From: Breaking News

A husband and wife have been issued with fines, penalties and costs totalling more than £8,000 after showing a complete disregard...
23 April 2019
From: Breaking News

On April 1 2019, the rental sector shifted into a new era of even greater professionalisation with the introduction of mandatory...
09 April 2019
From: Sponsored Content

Pet-friendly rentals are growing in popularity, as reflected by Zoopla’s latest analysed search data from its keyword property search tool, which...
15 March 2019
From: Breaking News

As an income investment, buy-to-let continues to look attractive, especially compared to low savings rates and stock market swings, but when...
25 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Landlords are being urged to seek guidance to ensure that they are clear on the ‘bombardment’ of regulatory changes that could...
25 February 2019
From: Breaking News

A rogue landlord who allowed a family to live in a house described as “unfit for human habitation” has been fined...
12 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Three rogue directors of a letting agency in London who conned at least landlords and tenants out of more than £105,000 were...
28 January 2019
From: Breaking News

For the first time ever, buy-to-let landlords will be legally required to become members of a redress scheme, as part of measures...
25 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Buy-to-let landlords are “getting away with murder” according to Advice4Renters, after new figures revealed that just two out of almost 2,000...
21 January 2019
From: Breaking News

The Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS), one of three government-backed tenancy deposit protection (TDP) schemes, has appointed a new external independent complaints...
10 January 2019
From: Breaking News

At least 19 landlords and tenants have been left £105,000 out of pocket by unscrupulous letting agents who ran London-based letting...
12 December 2018
From: Breaking News

Almost four out five tenants who own at least one animal have struggled to find pet-friendly accommodation, according to new research. The...
28 November 2018
From: Breaking News

A letting agency in Isleworth, West London, which was recently penalised for a number of offences, has been expelled from The...
21 September 2018
From: Breaking News

SDV HQ Limited, trading as Sterling de Vere, has been ordered to pay more than £50,000 after letting an overcrowded flat...
21 September 2018
From: Breaking News

An unscrupulous landlord whose tenants were living in degrading and hazardous conditions has been banned from renting out his property. Several complaints...
13 September 2018
From: Breaking News

The deadline for the new selective licensing scheme which comes into effect at the start of November is looming, and time...
15 August 2018
From: Breaking News

A tenant has appeared in court after being caught with a drug haul worth in the region of £60,000. The man was...
08 August 2018
From: Breaking News

The Ombudsman Services (OS) is no longer handling consumer complaints in the property and housing sector after withdrawing from the industry. The...
07 August 2018
From: Breaking News

A single housing ombudsman is crucial to ensure that the current system for complaining about housing is no longer confusing, according...
18 July 2018
From: Breaking News

The Property Ombudsman (TPO) scheme has released its latest annual report revealing an increase in the number of consumers contacting the...
17 May 2018
From: Breaking News

Almost seven in 10 people find the current system for complaining about housing confusing, according to the results of Ombudsman Services'...
02 May 2018
From: Breaking News

A rogue landlord who left tenants living in substandard conditions in Selly Oak and Edgbaston has been ordered to pay in...
23 April 2018
From: Breaking News

The security deposits that tenants leave with their landlord or their letting agent could be capped at no more than five...
29 March 2018
From: Breaking News

A letting agent in Hove has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman (TPO) scheme for 18 months for not passing on...
27 March 2018
From: Breaking News

A north London council is being encouraged to take a tough stance on reported Airbnb and equivalent style rentals in an...
19 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Plans to introduce a new rental complaints system to help support private tenants who are forced to live in shoddy housing...
13 March 2018
From: Breaking News

A new rental complaints system has been proposed to help support private tenants who are forced to live in shoddy housing...
19 February 2018
From: Breaking News

Using an ombudsman has long been a pretty successful way of trying to resolve a complaint with a property firm without...
07 February 2018
From: Breaking News

Fly-tipping has become rife and is creating a blot on the landscape around the Manchester Road area of Swindon due to...
09 January 2018
From: Breaking News

The mayor of London’s decision to launch a new public online database which ‘names and shames’ rogue landlords and letting agents...
21 December 2017
From: Breaking News

In order to solve tenant disputes, landlords will soon be required to register with a redress scheme, helping to improve operating...
10 November 2017
From: Breaking News

A number of landlords are leaving themselves wide open to legal claims of retaliatory eviction and property disrepair by failing to...
01 November 2017
From: Breaking News

A new licensing system in the West London neighbourhoods of Hammersmith, Shepherd’s Bush, Fulham, Chiswick and Ealing aims to protect landlords...
12 October 2017
From: Sponsored Content

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...
22 September 2017
From: Breaking News

Richard Leonard, the Scottish Labour leadership candidate backed by supporters of Jeremy Corbyn, has called for ‘stringent’ rent controls to be...
18 September 2017
From: Breaking News

With more sales and letting agent branches than ever before now signed up to redress schemes, partly because it has been...
11 September 2017
From: Breaking News

The Property Ombudsman (TPO) has opted to extend its exclusion of a letting agency by an additional four years after seven...
05 September 2017
From: Breaking News

New measures to clamp down on unscrupulous landlords who trap and cram vulnerable tenants in unsafe, overcrowded homes in Govanhill, Glasgow,...
30 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Tenants and landlords accounted for over 85% of complaints made to The Property Redress Scheme (The PRS) in 2016. The organisation's annual...
15 August 2017
From: Breaking News

After a tenant paid his rent, he did not expect a few weeks later to be contacted by the landlord wanting...
28 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Thousands of tenants are evicted from their homes every year, but to make sure that eviction firms follow correct procedure they...
25 July 2017
From: Breaking News

No fewer than 16 men were found to be living in a one-bedroom flat filled with bunk beds made out of...
24 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Fears about potential eviction, blacklisting, and rent increases are stopping four in ten private tenants from making complaints about or requesting...
14 July 2017
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been fined over £4,000 at Cardiff Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to eight charges relating to five rented...
26 June 2017
From: Breaking News

A tenant who set fire to her flat because her landlord was planning to evict her has been sentenced to three...
21 June 2017
From: Breaking News

Complaints against letting agents often make the headlines, but the reality is that most tenants and landlords are happy with the...
15 May 2017
From: Breaking News

A private tenant has pleaded guilty to cultivating up to £37,000 worth of cannabis at his rented flat in Dundee. The cannabis...
12 May 2017
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlord Association (RLA), National Landlord Association (NLA), Leeds Landlords’ Accreditation Scheme (LLAS) and Unipol have teamed up with Leeds...
09 May 2017
From: Breaking News

Close to 6,300 private renters in the North East of England lodged formal complaints to their local council about their landlord between...
08 May 2017
From: Breaking News

A landlord in Newcastle has been left with no alternative but to evict a tenant who was repeatedly disturbing his neighbours...
05 May 2017
From: Breaking News

Since 2004, the private rental sector has almost doubled in size to 4.5 million households. This may be good news, but this...
25 April 2017
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been found guilty of being in possession of stolen goods, having accepted £40,000 worth of stolen whisky in...
15 March 2017
From: Breaking News

Every landlord wants a happy tenant, as it makes it more likely that they will live in the property longer, pay...
01 March 2017
From: Breaking News

Nottingham City Council has launched a public consultation on plans to introduce a selective landlord licensing scheme in the city. The consultation,...
19 January 2017
From: Breaking News

When a landlord switched off his tenants’ electricity, leaving them without heating, hot water, lighting or cooking facilities, in a bid...
16 December 2016
From: Breaking News

A Twitter debate on Section 21 notices will take place today from midday to help property professionals, including landlords, properly understand...
16 November 2016
From: Breaking News

Two landlords have issued complaints to The Property Ombudsman (TPO) after it materialised that a letting agent in Huddersfield had not passed on rent...
15 November 2016
From: Breaking News

There are a significant amount of private landlords who fail to keep rental properties in a safe condition for their tenants,...
14 November 2016
From: Breaking News

A landlord has become the first to be prosecuted for not signing up to Liverpool council’s new landlord licensing scheme which...
21 October 2016
From: Breaking News

A landlord who confessed to renting out houses in Stotfold and Arlesey with serious safety hazards has been ordered to pay...
26 September 2016
From: Breaking News

All letting agency fees should be paid by landlords, rather than tenants, as is the case in Scotland, according to Citizens...
19 September 2016
From: Breaking News

It is now been three years since Property 118 questioned West Brom’s – the now obsolete specialist lending arm - decision...
14 September 2016
From: Breaking News

A local authority has opted not to introduce a new landlord licensing scheme, an investigation by London Property Licensing has revealed. Wandsworth...
08 September 2016
From: Breaking News

Landlords have been warned that ignoring damp complaints could put their rental property at risk. The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC) says...
17 August 2016
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been fined £16,000 and now has a criminal record after being punished in court for refusing to make...
10 August 2016
From: Breaking News

The landlord of a house in St Helens has been fined £2,500 and ordered to pay £1,332.30 in costs, as well...
28 July 2016
From: Breaking News

Private landlords in Ealing, one of London’s largest boroughs, will soon have to obtain a licence to operate a house in...
26 July 2016
From: Breaking News

A group of disgruntled customers are expected to start legal action against Skipton Building Society and Bank of Ireland next month...
20 July 2016
From: Breaking News

We all know headlines sell newspapers, but a report in yesterday’s Daily Mirror brought shame on a host of letting agents...
08 July 2016
From: Breaking News

Ever mounting issues such as regulation, rent arrears, handling tenant complaints, immigration checks, tax and inland revenue are causing many landlords...
13 June 2016
From: Breaking News

Two Reading landlords face a total bill of £6,000 after admitting a string of offences which resulted in tenants living in...
22 April 2016
From: Breaking News

One of Britain’s largest local authorities has beefed up its powers so it can issue fines of up to £5,000 on...
13 November 2015
From: Breaking News

Two estate agent firms have been expelled from membership of The Property Ombudsman (TPO) for a minimum of two years. AS Moon...
12 November 2015
From: Breaking News

A Worthing landlord has been ordered to pay more than £4,000 for ignoring a council improvement notice. Daniel Woulfe of Rugby Road,...
12 October 2015
From: Breaking News

Two of the three government-approved property redress schemes have made announcements in recent days. The Property Ombudsman Scheme (TPO) has revised its...
05 October 2015
From: Breaking News

The vast majority of tenants are unaware of new laws introduced today which change the Section 21 evictions process. From today, under...
01 October 2015
From: Breaking News

A Leicester estate agent which offers “guaranteed rent” has been ordered to pay more than £12,000 in fines and court costs...
08 September 2015
From: Breaking News

City of York Council is holding a “decision session” today to discuss the introduction of fixed penalty notices for letting agents...
25 August 2015
From: Breaking News

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC) has announced the details of two new training courses taking place later this year. The...
24 August 2015
From: Sponsored Content

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC) has announced the details of two new training courses taking place later this year. The...
24 August 2015
From: Breaking News

A local authority has refused to issue a private landlord licence after it was revealed the applicant had a conviction for...
30 July 2015
From: Breaking News

An unlicensed HMO landlord has been ordered to pay more than £25,000 after appearing in court. Emmil Seeson Watson (also known as...
21 July 2015
From: Breaking News

The Property Ombudsman (TPO) has expelled Allen & Crane Estates for two years following complaints from landlords. Allen & Crane Estates, a...
21 July 2015
From: Breaking News

MT Properties Central Limited (MTPC), a Birmingham-based sales and letting agent, has been expelled from membership of The Property Ombudsman (TPO)...
13 July 2015
From: Breaking News

A new mobile and web based app has promised to change the way landlords and tenants communicate with one another. The new...
02 June 2015
From: Breaking News

Rogue landlords are raking in £5.6billion a year for unsafe homes that fail to meet legal standards, a report by Citizens...