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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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...