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It is possible that licensing regimes operated by local councils could cut the fees they impose on landlords. The House of Commons...

Environmental health officers are making a last ditch bid to save local council licensing. The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health reckons that...

Uttlesford District Council's annual Landlord Forum, in partnership with the National Residential Landlords Association will take place on Tuesday May 14...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is demanding the government finally abolish Section 21 eviction powers - and claims over 30,000 households in...

Supporters of council selective licensing start rearguard action  Some of those involved in local councils have started a campaign to save selective...

Activists in the Generation Rent campaign says big city Mayors should “tackle the worst landlords and seize their properties.” It also wants...

A legal services provider is claiming that landlords risk criminal prosecution for breaches of licensing rules that are often “unreasonable and...

A London council has prosecuted a landlord for failing to carry out repairs on his property and causing a severe health...

Landlords Shaun and Laraine Etherington have pleaded guilty to four offences of breaching Prohibition Orders against human habitation at their properties...

The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health has given a warm welcome to many of the provision in the Renters Reform Bill...

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan and the leader of activist group Generation Rent have teamed up for an anti-damp and mouldy...

Two new forums for landlords and others serving the private rental sector are being held this month. The North Yorkshire council initiative...

The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health gas come out in support of a legal challenge to the government’s draft regulations exempting...

Claims on social media by a leader of the Renters Reform Coalition - who is also a contributor to a Labour-supporting website...

A landlord has been prosecuted for the unlawful eviction of a tenant from privately rented accommodation in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. Leading up...

A rogue landlord has been fined £27,460 for putting residents at risk by failing to maintain a property. Flintshire County Council brought...

A council has taken a landlord to court over a paperwork dispute - but the fine for the buy to let...

A court has heard that Amjad Ali Khattak, owner of a flat in Oxford, removed his tenant’s possessions and left them...

A landlord has been found guilty of operating an unlicensed House in Multiple Occupation and - in the words of a...

The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove urging him to make it easier for councils...

Coventry council has issued financial penalties on a landlord of a poorly managed and unlicensed HMO totalling £60,000. The council has also...

Islington Council in London has prosecuted a landlord who repeatedly failed to comply with licensing regulations, including refusal to provide a...

A landlord has been fined £7,500 for not complying with electrical safety standards at a property he owns and lets out...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has made a sweeping attack on the conditions of homes run by private landlords. In a statement backing...

Gedling council in Nottinghamshire is the latest local authority to resume consultations on Selective Licensing after putting initial proposals on ice...

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

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan wants rogue landlords to pay bigger fines and more compensation to tenants. He is also introducing...

The government is expected to give at least some details today of the principles enshrined in a new White Paper on...

The government needs to beef up enforcement if it wants to address rogue landlords who put tenants at risk, says the...

The latest updates affecting the work of local landlords, letting agents and property managers, plus a chance to network and catch...

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

A landlord who failed to ensure his property was clean and safe for tenants to live in has been prosecuted by...

A licensing scheme proposed for one part of the UK has been branded as “intrusive” for tenants and expensive for the...

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

Two landlords have to pay almost £8,000 for letting their flats in defiance of a Prohibition Order.  The order came into force...

The owner of a property used for an illegal party has been fined by a London council for breaking lockdown. Police were called...

Two men have been ordered to pay almost £8,000 for letting out flats in defiance of regulations designed to keep tenants...

Two landlords have been fined over £100,000 after 35 people were found living in what a judge called “criminally improper conditions.” Arun...

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

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

A buy-to-let landlord in north London has been ordered to pay more than £13,000 after breaching fire safety regulations and failing...

Two landlords in Staffordshire have been ordered to pay more £5,000 after allowing their tenants to live in poor conditions   Brian...

A private landlord has been ordered to pay £800 in fines and costs after investigators discovered several deficiencies in a property...

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...

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

A London-based property firm has been ordered to pay back 70% of their profits gained from renting poorly converted flats in...

This week’s announcement that landlords will need to pay the first £3,500 to make improvements to their properties to ensure they...

A landlord has been ordered to pay just over £5,000 after admitting safety failings at a fire-hit house in Letchworth, Hertfordshire. Lawrence...

A rogue landlord letting a cold, damp property with a lack of hot water and heating has been ordered to pay...

The government has been criticised for continuing to drag its heels over taking on key recommendations made in a recent report...

The publication yesterday of Dame Judith Hackitt’s Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety, confirming that landlords and building managers will...

The government must focus on urgently improving dangerous housing conditions across the country after new figures revealed that thousands of private...

A but-to-let landlord in south east London has been penalised for allowing his elderly tenants to live in a property that...

A landlord has been handed a £10,000 fine after failing to properly maintain his rental property, leaving tenants living in substandard...

A new licensing system in the West London neighbourhoods of Hammersmith, Shepherd’s Bush, Fulham, Chiswick and Ealing aims to protect landlords...

A buy-to-let landlord had been prosecuted for letting rooms to three disabled people in an unlicensed property in the Rose Hill...

A rogue landlord who rented out filthy and dangerous flats in Bradford likened to slums has been ordered to pay close...

A rogue landlord has been ordered to pay more than £17,000 for renting out an unsafe house in Ipswich, which posed...

A landlord has been sentenced to six weeks in prison following the illegal evicting of one of his tenants and for...

A landlord has been ordered to pay £21,000 for renting out an unlicensed house in Oxford. Six people were found to be...

A buy-to-let landlord who failed to obtain a license for a property in London has been ordered to repay close to...

A buy-to-let landlord has been prosecuted after three flats that he owns in Hull were found to be in a dangerous...

A man claiming not to be a landlord has been ordered to pay more than £7,000 for putting the lives of...

A company has been handed a hefty fine by Islington Council for letting an unlicensed flat in the north London borough. Landhouse...

Three landlords in Oxford have been fined a total of £11,000 after being convicted of housing offences. Environmental Health Officers from Oxford...

The owner of a house in Whitethorn Way, Oxford, let to tenants as a house in multiple occupation (HMO), has been...

The owner of a house in Colindale, north London, let out to tenants in a dangerous condition has been fined £25,000. Habib...

Homeowners and prospective landlords across the Deepings and Bourne districts of Lincolnshire are being offered grants of up to £5,000 to...

A landlord has been banned from renting out a converted garage after environmental health officers found a family living in sub-standard...

A series of raids on privately let properties in the West Country appear to have taken place as a way of...

Two landlords in Leamington Spa in the West Midlands have been fined £27,000 for failing to manage a house in multiple...

A Welsh landlord has been prosecuted for failing to licence her property and manage it safely, making it difficult to escape...

The tiny number of landlord convictions is no deterrent to the worst landlords, Generation Rent has said, as it calls on...

The Guardian has named and shamed a North London landlord after she topped a list of letting agents and landlords who have...

An unlicensed HMO landlord has been ordered to pay more than £25,000 after appearing in court. Emmil Seeson Watson (also known as...

A letting agency has been handed fines totalling £7,000 and costs of £1,140 after the council took it to court over...

Two private landlords have been fined for failing to tackle sub-standard conditions in their properties after successful prosecutions by Islington Council. In...

A Lincolnshire landlord has been left with a £1,600 bill for failing to comply with an improvement notice over a four-year...