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A council has fined a landlord £17,500 for failing to license two of his properties in the area. However, the identify of...

A landlord who has repeatedly flouted housing rules has been fined a further £36,000 following a prosecution brought by a council.  Giuseppe...

Fines for rogue landlords and agents in London have surged past the £10 million mark.   With 19 council licensing schemes and...

A landlord referred to only as ‘Mr Gurung’ has been named by two councils as being penalised £3,000 for an overcrowded...

Private landlords applied for licences covering more than 12,000 homes during the first year of a controversial council’s selective licensing scheme. The...

A new additional HMO licensing scheme is about to hit landlords in part of London.  Haringey council claims its initiative aims to...

Government proposals on limiting short lets "fall a long way short of what's needed and will do nothing to put right...

A council is reminding prospective tenants about the importance of making sure their next shared rental is licensed as a house...

A landlord has warned her local authority that high charges for licensing are unaffordable without the fee being passed on to...

A council has won an appeal to enforce a Financial Penalty Notice that was served on a landlord who let out...

A council has prosecuted a landlord after a family of nine were discovered living in an outbuilding. Tariq Khan of Peterborough was...

A landlord has been fined a total of £10,000 for breaching regulations when renting HMOs to vulnerable residents, as a supported...

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...

Warwick council is the latest to launch an Additional Licensing Scheme - it came into force just before last weekend. The district...

Labour is using a Bill currently going through Parliament as a backdoor method to introduce the regulation of lettings, estate and...

Landlords who fail to ensure their private rented homes meet required standards face massively increased charges from a council. Bath & North...

A local authority is introducing charges for the issuing of Improvement Notices to landlords - and has chosen to announce it...

Councils in Greater Manchester admit to charging landlords over £14,000 for “officer time” involved in licensing schemes. There are currently eight selective...

The trade publication Inside Housing says a 20,000-home housing association has apologised after saying it would take enforcement action against a...

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

A council is running a pilot project to manage litter issues associated with HMOs. All homes in parts of Coventry were given...

An unnamed landlord with a large portfolio of homes has been prosecuted by Portsmouth council for obstructing officers in carrying out...

A rogue landlord and his company have been found guilty of failing to licence an HMO and breaches of management regulations. Broadland...

Councillors in part of Wales are considering the creation of a 'Report A Rogue Landlord’ system for tenants who claim their...

The Competitioin and Markets Authority is to probe five activities involving landlords and letting agents and their responsibilities to private tenants. Sarah...

A Labour council says local landlords have only a week to apply for a licence before a big rise in the...

A landlord responsible for the management of an HMO has been fined a total of £5,000. The penalties were imposed by Boston...

A statement from Oxford’s Labour controlled council says private landlords in the city have under a month to apply for a...

A council has given an insight into its past five years of enforcement actions against private landlords. The Labour council in Newham,...

A city council has slammed what it calls ‘neglectful landlords’ as part of an illegal dumping crackdown. Stoke-on-Trent’s Labour authority has declared...

The Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Bill has passed its third reading in the House of Lords and is set to become law...

A landlord and his property company have been ordered to pay a total of £40,000 in fines after a council says...

A Tory MP representing a popular tourist area has attacked the proliferation of short lets, and wants a “locals first” policy...

Activists who until last week were focussing their campaigning on demanding the publication of the Renters Reform Bill have now announced...

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

Landlords in a county in England may be issued with a Compliance Notice as part of a clampdown to improve the...

Landlords in a county in England may be issued with a Compliance Notice as part of a clampdown to improve the...

Landlords in a county in England may be issued with a Compliance Notice as part of a clampdown to improve the...

A council is to spend £1m “to gather information about the conditions of specific groups of privately rented properties and proactively...

A local authority controlled by the Green Party says it’s issued 550 per cent more fines against landlords in the past...

Trafford council is believed to be the first to have signed up to a scheme created by Greater Manchester Labour Mayor...

A council is telling private tenants in its area to make contact if they believe their mould-related problems are not being...

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

Two groups of activists who campaign for rent controls and reform of the private lettings sector have turned on each other. Acorn...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has made an announcement overnight that “the government will always act to protect tenants.” The claim comes as...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has praised tenants in the capital for using a register that names and shames rogue landlords -...

A new property licensing scheme that claims to provide “safer, well managed housing for renters” has now come into force in...

Rogue landlords who exploit the supported housing system at the expense of vulnerable residents could be banned from operating or fined...

A Selective Licensing scheme introduced by a council back in 2016 is set for expansion.  Middlesbrough council claims that its scheme has...

More enforcement is required if the government is to introduce the scale of reforms it has called for in its recent...

A controversial Labour council aims to make life more expensive for landlords who let out whole properties via Airbnb or other...

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

A trade body is warning that landlords may face a new challenge if, as expected, the government agrees a controversial expansion...

PropTech firm Kamma says total fines for agents and landlords have now topped £8m in London alone with a £238,000 increase...

A landlord has been fined £7,500 for letting an unlicensed HMO. Having ignored numerous requests and failing to renew the St Helen’s...

A council in Wales is warning landlords that enforcement action is on its way for those who fail to meet Minimum...

A council has launched an information pack as part of a wider project to address the issue of empty properties. The ‘Caerphilly...

A rogue landlord has been fined £5,500 following a successful prosecution by Mendip council in Somerset. The council’s private sector housing team brought a...

A local authority in London is threatening landlords with enforcement action if they don’t pay up for a new license. Lewisham’s Labour...

The government recently passed into law the much-anticipated Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Act 2022. This effectively ends government interventions to prevent commercial...

A new and huge landlord licensing scheme has launched in County Durham. A total of at least 29,000 properties, or 42 per...

Fifteen businesses which had bought freeh­olds from housing developer Countryside have now given formal undertakings to remove terms that cause ground...

A landlord has been fined £3,607 over properties that were so dangerous tenants’ lives were at risk. North Lincolnshire council brought a...

A leading accountancy firm says the relative good health of the rental market and house price appreciation will trigger stricter enforcement...

A local council is inviting landlords within its boundaries to take up funding from a £49,057 pot it has to improve...

Bristol-based lettings management company Iletpro Ltd has been ordered to pay a total of £2,700.06 in fines and costs for failing...

A council in the north of England has identified 166 private rental properties within the district that do not comply with...

A council says it’s offering landlords what it calls ‘an enforcement amnesty’ if they have failed to bring their rental units...

An independent think-tank is the latest organisation wanting landlord licensing schemes across England plus a nationa landlord register, emulating similar schemes...

The Generation Rent activist group has repeated its call for a landlord register in England, saying it could mean more tax...

With more than 60 per cent of landlords losing rental income during the pandemic, it is no surprise that many are...

A London landlord has been ordered to pay almost £275,000 for failing to comply with an existing planning enforcement notice. Mrs Anja...

A landlord company has been fined more than £15,000 for failing to improve housing conditions in three properties. North Somerset council received...

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

The government claims its new Building Safety Bill, published yesterday, will create “lasting generational change” after Grenfell and the cladding crisis...

Fines totalling more than £250,000 were issued to rogue landlords in Barking and Dagenham last year. Offences included failing to have a...

A landlord has been hit with a fine of more than £4,200 for failing to keep tenants safe in their homes. North...

A warning has been issued to landlords about a crackdown on compliance issues surrounding property management. No Letting Go, the country’s largest...

Landlords are being warned of an urgent change to the arrears process thanks to the launch of the government’s Breathing Space...

Salford council in Greater Manchester is to introduce landlord licensing for HMOs where three or four tenants live - and the...

Landlords and managing agents of HMOs could face unlimited fines following new measures being brought in to strengthen fire safety, the...

There is growing momentum for local councils to freeze their plans for landlord licensing while the pandemic continues. Lettings agency trade body...

The government has set out details of its new Debt Respite Scheme - also known as Breathing Space - which comes...

It’s been confirmed that during the current one month lockdown in England there will be no enforcement of possession orders except...

A London local authority is to extend its current additional licensing scheme from 12 council wards to 18 - and is...

Generation Rent activists are back on the warpath, this time accusing councils of not doing enough - and sometimes nothing -...

Buy-to-let landlords with a rental property in Harrow have just a few weeks left to have their say in a consultation...

A buy-to-let landlord in Doncaster has lost an appeal at the High Court after he built an extension on a property...

Harrow Council is looking to renew its landlord licensing scheme in Edgware, enabling tougher enforcement action on rogue landlords. It is consulting...

New guidance from ARLA Propertymark’s legal helpline aims to provide landlords and letting agents with greater clarity based on frequent queries they...

A number of property firms and landlord organisations have welcomed government action to support landlords and tenants affected by coronavirus. Private tenants...

A selective licensing scheme covering two areas in the suburbs of Leeds has been introduced by Leeds City Council.  Under the new...

Marks Out Of Tenancy, a letting review website, has launched a digital service to help local authorities crackdown on unscrupulous landlords...

The government crackdown on the buy-to-let sector has seen landlord regulations increase by a third since the Conservative party came into...

A buy-to-let landlord has been ordered to pay almost £6,000 after the council was unable to determine if his property in...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has criticised the London Trading Standards (LTS) for what it says is an admission of failure in...

Birmingham  City Council has taken action against a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) landlord in the Small Heath area in what...

A landlord has been penalised for operating an unlicensed house in multiple occupancy  (HMO) in south London. Fouad Ahmad, from Streatham, pleaded...

It is not always possible for an individual or company to improve its image beyond that of its industry, and that is...