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A London council has prosecuted landlord Syed Shah, owner of an HMO, for a string of  breaches that posed significant risks...

The Housing Ombudsman - which assesses problems involving social housing landlords - has found severe maladministration in four cases involving Croydon...

A landlord has been found guilty of operating eight unlicensed HMOs and a range of breaches of the HMO Management Regulations. Northampton...

There is a real difficulty for Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party at the moment.  After 14 years in power, any failings land squarely...

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 issued financial penalties of over £20,000 to landlords failing to manage their properties.   Three of the four cases...

A London council that just days ago threatened private landlords with unlimited fines and “have control of their properties removed” has...

A council that is often outspoken in its criticism of rogue private landlords has been slammed for literally thousands of health...

A landlord and three property management companies have been fined approaching £80,000 for health and safety failings. Mohammed Ali Abbas Rasool, Cadogan...

Rogue landlord Hazmar Fauz of Welwyn in Hertfordshire has been given a hefty fine of over £15,000 for a series of...

A Labour pressure group wants the party to campaign on housing at the next General Election, including railing against what it...

A landlord and two businesses have been fined over £145,000 following a fire in a building containing residential flats and a...

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

A not-for-profit business that advocates tenants use Rent Repayment Orders against landlords has issued a furious response to a Supreme Court...

The landlords’ trade body is welcoming a landmark ruling from the Supreme Court which provides vital clarification about so called ‘rent-to-rent’...

A landlord has been ordered to pay over £25,000 by magistrates for a catalogue of failings relating to his rental property...

The Scottish Government’s dramatic immediate introduction of a rent freeze and eviction ban could mark the beginning of the end of the...

A council now consulting on a huge licensing scheme for private landlords has been slammed - over its own record as...

Labour MP Hilary Benn has spoken out in favour of buy to let landlords currently expected to pay towards remediation work...

A council has obtained a banning order on a landlord in a ruling that is the first of its kind in...

A landlord has been found guilty of a series of fire safety failings which left residents with only one option to...

The government has approved a vast landlord licensing scheme in Liverpool - but even including 45,000 homes it is still much...

A small proportion of private landlords grab the spotlight because of their poor treatment of tenants and properties - yet figures...

A London council has prosecuted a rogue landlord and his associated property firm for letting unsafe properties and being unlicensed -...

The Rogue Landlord Team of a local authority has triggered a civil penalty notice resulting in a fine of over £21,000...

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 who committed 33 offences at a property he owns has been issued with civil penalties totalling £50,500. Zaheer Uddin Babar,...

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

An unscrupulous landlord has been ordered to pay more than £150,000 after failing to fix several safety hazards in his property. Officers from...

A buy-to-let landlord in Nottingham been fined £6,000 and instructed to pay  £1,583.18 costs, along with a £170 victim surcharge following...

Buy-to-let landlords are concerned about the proposed scrapping of Section 21 in the absence of a new system that allows them...

Private landlords will have a major say in a court case considering the future of the government’s Right to Rent scheme. The...

A buy-to-let landlord has been ordered to pay more than £6,000 in relation to 12 charges under the Housing Act after...

We all know that buy-to-let investors provide a vital service for people looking for housing, and yet an article in The...

A private landlord from St Helens has been ordered to pay £21,000 after a prosecution by the local council found a...

A neglectful landlord, who allowed his tenants to occupy a property without working smoke alarms, a lack of sufficient fire doors...

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

Around 5% of buy-to-let properties are set to fail new Minimum Energy Efficient Standards (MEES) that come into effect in April...

The rapid growth in popularity of buy-to-let in recent years has been fuelled in part by the failings of the pensions...

After a tenant paid his rent, he did not expect a few weeks later to be contacted by the landlord wanting...

A landlord has been fined over £4,000 at Cardiff Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to eight charges relating to five rented...

The owner of a rental property in west London, which was described by a judge as a “deathtrap”, has been told...

A buy-to-let landlord has narrowly escaped jail after failing to ensure gas appliances in one of her properties were checked for...

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

A west London property company managing an HMO in Notting Hill has been fined £47,900 in relation to 24 charges under...

A landlord has been found guilty and fined for fire safety failings and denying that his property was being used as...

A Warwickshire landlord has been fined £10,744 for failing to properly manage a two-storey property he owns in Leamington. Manjit Chima owned...

A Bristol landlord has been handed a suspended jail sentence after student flats under his ownership were found to have numerous...

A Birmingham landlord has been ordered to pay nearly £20,000 for a number of failings in managing an HMO. Amrik Singh Gill,...

A West Midlands landlord has been ordered to pay costs and fines of more than £6,600 after a series of poor...