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A prominent lettings sector expert is blaming the media for anti-landlord sentiment and a rise in tenancy disputes. Gina Peters, Head of...

A private landlord from Bridlington has been ordered to pay £1,500 for putting tenants into a dangerous property, thereby breaching a...

Landlords can benefit from a wealth of free training, courtesy of a north of England council. Cumberland council is providing the training...

A landlord has been ordered to pay £2,500 in fines, compensation and costs after a council brought a prosecution against him. Jama...

A landlord has been slammed with £9,000 in fines and costs for ignoring notices to improve his property. Following reports of disrepair...

The Housing Ombudsman has found severe maladministration by One Housing Group in its record keeping following the its failure to conduct...

Christmas goodwill towards landlords seems in short supply from activist group Generation Rent.  It has this week issued a statement saying the...

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

The Renters Reform Bill’s proposal to replace Assured Shorthold Tenancies with rolling ‘periodic’ lets could put landlords’ properties at risk, it’s...

A senior Labour MP associated with the moderate wing of the party says private rental properties should be confiscated from serial...

The Levelling-up and Regeneration Act received Royal Assent last month, meaning a major new piece of legislation has now entered the...

A new but small survey by a compensation consultancy claims there are serious mould and damp issues amongst private rental properties. Some...

A pressure group claims the threat of being evicted makes tenants age more quickly.  Generation Rent claims there is a study by...

A council has prosecuted four landlords in three days, with convictions secured for seven offences. Harold Mews Management Ltd of Margate was...

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

The death of a 27-year-old man was not caused by the mould in the private rental property he occupied. That was the verdict...

Landlords of more than 5,000 homes must register for a license and ensure their tenants have good quality housing or face...

A north of England council says it’s held two local landlords to account after they failed to make essential repairs to...

New research has uncovered what the organisations behind it call “shocking discrimination towards migrant communities” while they try to find places...

A Tory-led council says it wants to help tenants with damp, mould and disrepair to take action against their landlords. South Hams...

A landlord has been ordered to pay over £3,000 in fines and costs for operating an unsafe HMO. John Abraka pleaded guilty...

A landlord has been ordered to pay over £3,000 for operating an unsafe HMO  following enforcement action by Havering council. John Abraka...

Shelter claims that private renters who complained to their landlord, letting agent or local council in the last three years were...

The Housing Ombudsman has released its special investigation into Rochdale Boroughwide Housing, the social housing provider which supplied accommodation to Awaab...

Landlords are being invited to attend a free webinar about disrepair in residential property. The event takes place next Wednesday, March 29,...

The landlord of a property dubbed a “house of horrors” by Barking and Dagenham council enforcement officers has been ordered to...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove is urging tenants to complain about sub-standard housing with the government’s ‘Make Things Right’ advertising campaign. Social housing...

A landlord of a home with unsafe electrics has been issued with a fine of £7,500 by a west country council. Following...

An association run by a local council with the involvement of private landlords is marking its 10th anniversary. The Partnership Accreditation for...

A London borough council has revealed the number of cases it has taken against private landlords since the start of 2021...

Two law partners at a legal firm have outlined a five-step process which tenants can use to complain to their landlords...

A landlord has been issued with a £16,000 penalty after the Residential Property Tribunal dismissed an appeal and upheld a financial penalty. North Norfolk council issued the...

The government’s expected U-turn on the future of Section 21 eviction powers has provoked an explosion of anger from Generation Rent...

A landlord has been found guilty of three housing offences after it was discovered a property he let out posed a...

A landlord has pleaded guilty of four counts of breaching a Criminal Behaviour Order and told to expect to pay “a...

Bristol’s Labour council has made a name for itself with policies shifting power from landlords to tenants. Earlier this year the Mayor,...

Labour wants to bring in a UK-wide licensing system for holiday lets to preserve the “spirit” of costal and rural communities. The...

In the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, fire safety - particularly for residents - has increasingly taken centre stage in...

A landlord has been fined and must pay compensation after being involved in an illegal eviction. The landlord - Tahir Aziz - was...

A re-offending landlord housed himself and five tenants in what has been described as a death trap property.  The rogue Harrow landlord...

One of the highest profile advocates of widespread reform in the private rental sector has been Baroness Alicia Kennedy, director of...

A council has served improvement notices on a number of properties owned by the Salvation Army and let to private tenants...

A campaign group wants local candidates fighting elections in London next month sign up to a set of policies including rent...

The Renters’ Reform Coalition, a combination of some 20 groups of activists wanting to transform the lettings sector, has set its...

A London council has prosecuted a rogue landlord after a 30 month saga regarding the condition of an apartment.  Richmond council received a...

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

A Labour council in London has announced plans to expand its crackdown on what it calls “shoddy landlords.” Southwark council says the...

A lettings agent claims progress on climate change and energy efficiency is likely to be undermined by what he calls “dodgy...

An unnamed landlord has been banned from letting out his property after allowing it to fall into poor condition.  He was served...

A firm of solicitors claims that private and social sector tenants face long delays for repairs to be addressed - and...

A solicitors’ practice claims repairs initiated by landlords take an average of 41 days to be completed after a tenant complains...

A landlord who failed to comply with improvement notices for a vulnerable tenant and threatened to evict her if the improvements...

Redbridge council in east London has undertaken its toughest ever clampdown on buy to let, visiting 171 properties in a week. The...

A landlord has been given a hefty fine for housing vulnerable tenants in hazardous conditions in a case brought by a...

A lettings agent who has started a rental insurance business has launched another attack on landlords. Ajay Jagota, who runs KIS Lettings...

Residents and landlords are to be consulted by yet another council wanting to renew its selective licensing regime - saying it...

A landlord has been convicted and ordered to pay more than £11,500 in fines and legal costs for the offence of...

Shelter and tenants’ group in a major city have mobilised to set up a campaign called Fair Renting. The campaign is focussed...

A landlord has been handed nearly £30,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to maintenance and safety failures at three...

A landlord has been fined £6,000 for failing to properly maintain a HMO in Reading. Nidan Singh, 76, has also been ordered to...

A charity claims it’s helping one person every minute with problems relating to renting from a private landlord. In the first two...

A serial-offender landlord has been fined for putting tenants at serious harm from fire and exposing them to substandard and dangerous conditions. Nilendu...

A landlord has been hit with what a local authority calls a record £66,000 fine after being found guilty of letting...

The Lettings Industry Council has published a report outlining why Section 21 should not be abolished, despite the government’s commitment to...

A buy-to-let landlord has been ordered to pay more than £2,000 after ignoring several requests to carry out important repairs to...

A buy-to-let landlord who owns two properties in Scarborough has been fined £35,000 for breaches of his Selective Licence following a...

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

Unscrupulous landlords in the London Borough of Hackney face more stringent regulation after Hackney Council agreed to new property licensing powers...

Citizens Advice has called for more regulation of the private rented sector after research revealed that hundreds of thousands of tenants...

A BTL landlord who lost his cool during a heated exchange with a tenant over unpaid rent has been ordered to...

A tenant left a three-bedroom house in Birmingham “completely destroyed” after piling rubbish in every single room and dumping mattresses in...

A buy-to-let landlord in Stevenage has been fined £14,000 and told to pay Stevenage Borough Council’s legal costs of £2,845.50 and...

Buy-to-let landlords will need to pay £1,200 for a licence to rent their properties in Bristol as part of the local...

A buy-to-let landlord in Doncaster has been ordered to pay more than £5,000 in fines and costs following a successful prosecution...

Brent Council in north London looks set to take action against a buy-to-let landlord who is accused of “exploiting tenants” after ...

Section 8 delays are leaving more than half of landlords with no alternative but serve Section 21 notices, according to new...

A landlord who failed to install a proper heating system and left safety hazards across a house in Peterborough has been...

With research showing that around 61% of privately rented flats in Scotland currently have common areas like stairways and roofs in...

The deadline for submitting additional and selective licence applications in Hackney has been extended until 1 March 2019.  The deadline for applications...

An unscrupulous landlord has been ordered to pay close to £30,000 after being found guilty of a number of breaches relating...

Reading Borough Council has won a case against a buy-to-let landlord who allowed his tenants to live in unsafe conditions, despite...

Tenants look set to be given more powers to take action against rogue landlords renting out properties “unfit for human habitation”,...

Landlords with property in Hackney, east London, should be aware that following a consultation earlier this year Hackney Council has now...

A landlord was handed a huge cleaning bill after his house was left in a horrific and disgusting state. The landlord was...

A proposal to scrap Section 21 of the Housing Act 1988, the clause which allows landlords to evict tenants without cause, would...

A landlord from Greater Manchester has been fined for letting out a flat which had no heating during winter. North Staffordshire Justice...

MakeUrMove is warning that a significant number of buy-to-let landlords are thinking about quitting the private rented sector due to problem tenants...

Unscrupulous landlords in Hackney, east London, who leave tenants living in substandard conditions, will be forced to improve the condition of...

Dangerous electrical mains installation, ‘defective’ sanitary fitments in both the bathroom and kitchen, and a ‘lack of automatic fire detection’, were among...

A landlord in Luton has been handed the largest fine the town has ever seen for breaches of the law regarding...

A number of landlords are leaving themselves wide open to legal claims of retaliatory eviction and property disrepair by failing to...

Local authorities now have greater powers to control properties rented out in their areas, thanks to changes in the mandatory HMO...

Rogue landlords receive in the region of £2.5bn a year for renting out ‘non-decent’ properties, which includes homes that are unsafe,...

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

Two landlords have been ordered to pay more than £13,000 after showing what was described as a “total disregard” for the...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is calling for the introduction of a specialist new court to deal solely with housing issues...

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £4,700 by Blackburn magistrates after failing to make improvements to his property. Despite...

A buy-to-let landlord has been fined for renting out ‘dangerous and poor’ accommodation after a fire broke out at her property...

Buy-to-let investors are being warned not to leave their properties to fall into disrepair after a landlord was found guilty of...

Two landlords in Reading have been fined almost £14,000 for failing to put right a string of housing offences at a...