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A rogue landlord prosecuted for illegally squashing seven flats into a development with planning permission for six must pay around £250,000.  In...

A court has told a multi-millionaire landlord he must pay £125,000 after a 10-year campaign of abuse against a local council.  Last...

The Health and Safety Executive is urging landlords to check the credentials of gas fitters following a case heard recently in...

Eviction specialist Landlord Action says it’s seen a sharp rise in landlords seeking to use its debt recovery service against tenants...

Another council has revealed it’s won funding from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy to boost the EPCs of...

A landlord has been fined in one of the first cases in England, for failing to comply with Electrical Safety Standards. Regulations...

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

A landlord has been fined £5,000 for letting an unlicensed HMO in London. The fine was issued by Haringey council after the...

A landlord has been hit with a bill of almost £25,000 for allegedly exposing vulnerable tenants to serious fire risks in...

A landlord has been fined £6,250 for failing to make a series of improvements to the property he lets out in...

Plans to extend tenants’ rights that were introduced as an emergency measure during pandemic will have a ‘devastating’ effect on the...

A London landlord has been fined £5,000 for letting an unlicensed HMO. The fine was issued after the landlord ignored repeated warnings...

A second-offence landlord has received fines totalling £5,259.75 after council officers found nine different safety violations at a single property. The building...

A £5,000 fine handed to a landlord for not having an HMO licence has been slashed by 50 per cent. The landlord...

Husband-and-wife landlords Robin and Susan Kirstein have been landed with a massive fine for letting a home that was deemed by...

A private landlord has been fined £1,760 and ordered to pay £1,000 costs after failing to properly licence four properties in...

A private landlord has been slapped with a £400 fine for allowing a tenant’s waste to be fly-tipped on the site...

A proposal that landlords be fined up to 36 months rent has been put forward in a consultation paper. The Scottish Government’s...

A landlord who harassed tenants and left them in dangerous accommodation hit has been branded “atrocious” and has been hit with...

Landlords are likely to be obliged to supply agents with additional details in future, before their properties are listed to let...

Covid-19 has upended most industries, at least for a short while, over the past two years. But the tourism sector has...

A council says it’s going to clampdown on landlords who are “keeping deposits unnecessarily” and agents “charging unpermitted fees.” The pledge comes...

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

A landlord has been fined for failing to ensure that gas fittings, appliances and associated flues were checked for safety. Edinburgh Sheriffs...

In recent days we have heard Michael Gove trumpet his plans to ‘level up’ the UK.  We knew that he would be...

A London council has secured banning orders against four rogue landlords after they were found to be letting an unlicensed and...

A rogue landlord has been fined a total of £57,577.92 for running an HMO without a licence.  Fahed Alam Choudhry’s property in...

A study suggests that 70 per cent of tenants would be willing to pay more for a property with good indoor...

New selective licensing schemes are now live in areas of north and east Manchester covering more than 1,400 properties.  This means compulsory...

The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper includes a dramatic reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction powers will be...

Complaints from the public about rubbish left in front of a house have led to a landlord being hit with a...

Last month, I wrote about what’s in store for the private rented sector in 2022 and, like most commentators in our...

A prominent buy to let mortgage provider is advising landlords to ensure they check EPCs and energy efficiency issues on properties...

A rogue landlord who has already been fined on numerous occasions for similar offences has now been served with a £5,000...

Landlords believe that energy efficiency upgrades required to comply with Net Zero regulations may cost up to £10,400 per property. From 2025...

A landlord has been fined almost £5,000 for failing to install smoke detectors into a house he let to a family. The...

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

A tax consultancy has produced tips for those faced with the self-assessment tax filing deadline of next Monday - and who...

A London landlord has been ordered to pay over £64,000 for breaking housing regulations. In July last year Sumon Miah was found...

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

A landlord who has been operating a licensable HMO without a licence has been fined £5,000 at a prosecution brought by...

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

Rogue landlords in one area of London could face unlimited fines, criminal convictions and bans from letting out properties. The measures are...

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

A landlord operating a House in Multiple Occupation without a licence has been fined £5,000. An officer from Chesterfield council carried out an...

Build To Rent apartment brand Essential Living is giving its tenants five New Year’s Resolutions for 2022. 1. Create Home Working Space:...

It’s being reported in the mainstream press that the government may give landlords an extra year to make rental homes more energy efficient. This...

The Daily Telegraph is reporting that Purplebricks could face a bill of as much as £30m “after it put thousands of landlords...

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 council says it’s going to contact local landlords to remind them of legal restrictions concerning energy efficiency. Caerphilly council says it’s...

Two landlords who jointly own a property to let in Wrexham have been fined for failing to licence it appropriately. Christopher Tye...

Residential landlords need no reminding of the restrictions that have prevented possessions for substantial periods during the pandemic. Nor do they...

Harry Roberts, managing director of My Favourite Cottages, outlines how holiday homes can be made more sustainable. Earlier this month, world leaders...

A private landlord who failed to carry out essential safety work has been fined for ignoring an Emergency Prohibition Order. Mohammed Deryo,...

A local council has prosecuted a rogue landlord for illegally evicting a young couple from their accommodation in Cheltenham.  The landlord -...

Fines on landlords and letting agents that fall foul of London council regulations have risen dramatically in the past month alone. Research...

A council in a largely-rural area of Suffolk is the latest to have won additional funding to push landlords into making...

A couple have been fined over £13,000 after they were found guilty of unlawfully evicting four tenants and breaching management regulations...

Private sector landlords are being warned by a council to check their investments meet the legal minimum energy efficiency standard, or...

A poll suggests that many private tenants admit to being more interested in the tidiness of their properties than safety within...

A landlord has been fined and sentenced to a 12-month community order for failing to maintain gas appliances at a rental...

A landlord has been fined £24,750 and told to repay his tenants almost £47,000 in rent. In December 2018, Preston council responded...

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

The Barrows and Forrester agency has prepared a tenant guide for those hoping to hold fireworks displays at their rental home...

Paragon Bank is doubling both the maximum loan amount it lends on an individual property and the total buy to let...

The council in Harrogate, Yorkshire, has issued what appears to be a celebration statement about its legal action against rogue landlords. The...

Three criminal landlords have paid £350,000 in fines after being found guilty of illegal ‘beds in sheds’. Brian Linskey and Catherine Hallahan...

The government has today announced a new cash injection for councils to clampdown on landlords whose properties fail to meet energy...

Private and commercial bank Arbuthnot Latham has set out what it considers to be the 10 easy mistakes which some landlords...

A landlord must pay thousands of pounds after illegally letting an outbuilding for over three years. Paul Vig admitted failing to comply with...

A Labour-controlled local authority with a reputation for clampdowns on rogue landyhas issued a statement celebrating its successes. Tower Hamlets council in...

A landlord has taken to the local media in his area to express outrage that a council has failed to find...

There’s more evidence of councils clamping down on landlords fly tipping - Landlord Today has run a series of reports on...

The Victorian phrase “as safe as houses” well describes the security of the housing market as, whether they are buying or...

A local authority admits it is using covert cameras to spot landlords illegally fly-tipping. Darlington council claims there have been several incidents...

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 has been fined over £7,000 for letting out an unsafe and unlicensed HMO. South Gloucestershire council’s private sector housing team...

It’s a common scenario: you put your house on the market, struggle to find a buyer, and then end up renting...

A landlord in the north of England has received the largest fine that his local council has ever secured for a...

A remarkable four year court battle has ended with £190,000 in fines for a rogue landlord couple who falsely claimed they...

Landlords in one part of the Midlands are being warned that they could face fines of up to £30,000 if they...

The National Residential Landlords Association has entered into partnership with a tech company to assist landlords with regulatory compliance. This partnership will...

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

Here at The ValPal Network, we know that there are other options available when considering to use a valuation tool, so...

A landlord who built extensions and converted them into flats and bedsits all without planning permission has been given a record...

A landlord has been prosecuted for a second time for breaches of Wirral council’s selective licensing scheme. The council’s housing standards team...

Activists group Generation Rent is urging renters who have renewed their tenancy but not moved since May 2019 to check if...

A landlord has pleaded guilty to harassing one of his tenants during the eviction ban period. Abid Butt from Sheffield has been...

A landlord has been ordered by a court to pay over £6,000 after admitting a string of regulation breaches.  Juliet Petrovic, of...

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

A landlord has pleaded guilty to the unlawful eviction of his tenant. Jalal Uddin of Wellingborough has pleaded guilty at the town’s...

A council is threatening to fine private landlords whose properties do not meet energy efficiency standards. Darlington council’s cabinet will meet next...

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

The SpareRoom online service has drawn up what it calls an affordability guide, which is effectively a league table of room...

A local newspaper’s investigation has revealed that a London council flouted its own policies to maximise the number of landlords it...

Some 30 per cent of landlords who plan to remortgage by mid-2022 intent to release equity from their properties according to...

A private landlord operating an unlicensed and overcrowded property in London has been hit with a fine of more than £21,000. Brent...

A landlord has overturned a council fine for letting her flat without a licence - and it’s the same local authority...

A landlord in the north of England has been given a suspended prison sentence and a huge fine for fire safety...

Hastings council has taken a landlord to court for failing to obtain a gas safety certificate, which is required by law...

Fines for landlords and lettings agents in Greater London have soared from just £22,000 in May to a huge £139,146 in...

A private landlord operating an unlicensed and overcrowded property in London has been hit with a fine of more than £21,000.  The...

A landlord has been ordered to pay thousands of pounds by magistrates after a bedroom fire revealed tenants were living in...

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

A landlord has been fined more than £16,000 for failing to license his property. It is the first time South Tyneside Council...

A rogue landlord who allowed vulnerable tenants to live in conditions without windows, proper washing facilities or fire safety measures at...

There’s been a sharp fall in money raised from a campaign encouraging landlords to voluntarily disclose tax owed on rental properties...

A landlord has been sentenced to nine months imprisonment suspended for two years for breaches of fire safety legislation. Thirunavukkaradu Kuladaisamy, the...

The people behind a new smart system for controlling electric heating and household appliances claim it has the potential to save...

A buy to let consultancy has identified those parts of the country where there’s been the biggest swing towards renting when...

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

A council has gone on record saying it’s trying to stop a rogue landlord from letting out any property anywhere, ever...

A tenant was put at risk from a ceiling that partially collapsed and was left unable to use her shower after...

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

A landlord has been prosecuted for failure to make improvements to his tenanted property, including failing to install a fire detection...

A London council has prosecuted a landlord for renting out an unauthorised and unsafe House in Multiple Occupation. Daniella Mbachu, who owns...

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

A council says it’s “on the side of tenants” against landlords. The London borough of Tower Hamlets has renewed its Selective Licensing...

A rogue landlord has been fined £2,000 and must pay a victim surcharge of £22 after pleading guilty to breaching a...

A Labour MP is proposing legislation which would mean that landlords who offer accommodation in exchange for sexual favours could be...

Rogue landlord Siddika Begum of Salisbury has been prosecuted for failing to licence a house in multiple occupation in the town. Begum...

Landlord Antanas Klibavicius has pleaded guilty to illegally evicting his tenant and not taking any steps towards ending the tenancy properly...

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

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

A London council has taken a landlord company to court after complaints of poor housing conditions in five of its rented...

A landlord who was hit with a £66,000 fine over safety breaches at a rental property has fought back - and...

There are now 10 councils with licensing schemes covering more than 20 per cent of the rental market according to activists’...

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...

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

Two landlords of a property in East London have been ordered to pay costs and fines totalling £61,057.05 after they were prosecuted...

A property company and its sole director landlord have been convicted and ordered to pay more than £50,000 in fines and...

A landlord and a property company have a total of over £90,000 to pay after being found guilty of 27 charges...

A landlord that refused to make safety improvements at two of her properties in Folkestone has been fined nearly £5,000. Madeleine Scott,...

A landlord has been handed penalties totalling nearly £8,000 after being found guilty of operating an unlicensed HMO. This follows an investigation...

A rogue landlord has been hit with a bill of £48,000 - a record for the council which brought the prosecution. Tariq...

Two landlords have been handed hefty fines after pleading guilty to renting out shared houses without the correct paperwork. The owner of...

A landlord who allowed his tenants to live in squalid conditions, has been ordered by the court to pay £5,000 for...

A council says it’s on the hunt for landlords letting properties with EPCs below the minimum standard.  Working with Exeter Community Energy,...

A reminder has gone to landlords about new electrical safety standards that come into effect for existing tenancies in a week’s...

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

From April, almost two-thirds (67%) of England’s councils are set to increase their council tax by 4.90 – 5.0%. However, the pandemic has...

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

Activists in Generation Rent have hit out at the latest extension to the ban on bailiff-enforced evictions.  The government has extended this...

A tenant who sub-let a property by falsely claiming to be its owner has been given a criminal record.  Sonia Nascimento rented...

A landlord who illegally turned a London property into 13 flats has been hit by nearly £200,000 in fines, costs and...

A landlord who persistently broke residential lettings rules has been banned from operating in what a local council calls “a landmark...

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

It might be thought that banks have made significant mistakes of their own in the recent past - including triggering the...

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...

A landlord who failed to licence his properties has been ordered to pay back over £8,000 in rent. Dexter Blackstock, a former...

A lettings agency is issuing general guidance to the landlord community ahead of changes to Electrical Safety Standards in April. Helen Hollingsworth,...

A landlord’s firm has been fined after waste accumulated in the rear yard of a tenanted property. Elahi Properties of Blackburn was...

Two landlords who illegally let a London property without providing proper washing facilities or tackling serious fire hazards have been taken to...

A landlord has been fined £6,000 for failing to licence a house in multiple occupation. Wolverhampton council prosecuted Aunberin Saddique after it...

Some policies towards landlords show how the government has lost its conservative ethos of supporting businesses and being the party of low taxes.  Rosalind...

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

A landlord has been hit with a fine of over £600 after failing to comply with an improvement notice - jeopardising...

A landlord who let out a former bank vault as an illegal flat described by the local council as “dangerous” has...

A landlord who failed to improve his rental property, leaving his tenants in dangerous conditions, has been fined. Haroon Karim from Nottingham...

Both Labour and the Scottish National Party have spoken out over online platforms carrying advertisements from landlords seeking sexual favours in...

A survey conducted for a mortgage broker suggests one in six landlords is unaware that 2019-2020 - tax assessments for which...

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

The changes to Mortgage Interest Tax Relief and impact on your wallet Before April 2017 landlords with a mortgage on their buy-to-let...

Advice from a tax software consultancy suggests that landlords must declare Coronavirus grants in future tax returns, including the next self-assessment...

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

A former tenant has been fined for sending racially offensive messages to his former landlord over three years after being evicted...

A Labour MP is demanding action against unscrupulous predator landlords who demand sex from tenants in lieu of rent. The Daily Mail...

A councillor has called for all new HMOs to be created with en suite bathrooms, and not shared bathrooms. The call came during...

A landlord has been fined £10,000 by her local council for failing to licence a HMO. Tracey Davies of Bath was found...

A leading officer in a Labour council which has in the past taken landlords to court says this process is so...

A landlord has been ordered to pay £3,928.44 after failing to licence two properties he has been letting out in Nottingham.  Jaswinder...

A London council has confirmed its right to refuse licenses to criminal landlords - even reformed ones. A story in the East...

An online quiz with 4,000 landlord participants suggests that landlords are well informed - they scored an average 70 per cent...

A landlord has been fined £2,500 for failing to licence a property that she had been renting out for several years...

A London landlord must pay over £280,000 in three months after housing eight people in a flat deems illegal for even...

The family of an 80-year-old landlord fined for failing to maintain a block of flats in Wisbech has stepped in to...

A law firm says landlords being obliged to conduct checks on the immigration status of potential tenants is encouraging and even...

A £4,550 fine has been upheld after an appeal by the landlord was rejected by a property tribunal. Fenland council served five...

A landlord who failed to properly look after two HMOs has been fined £70,500 by an Essex council. Lystra Dorval, of Ilford,...

HMOs are an important part of the UK housing market as they offer students and young professionals affordable accommodation. There is...

As all those responsible for managing property will be only too aware, landlords have many obligations under the laws and regulations...

With new regulations and rules now in place for landlords, our in-house property experts outline their 10 essential safety requirements for...

A landlord has been prosecuted following the death of a tenant in a house fire at an HMO said to have...

A council has prosecuted a local landlord for failing to safeguard the health, safety and welfare of his tenants. Eastleigh council took...

A London landlord who ignored six enforcement notices served by his local council has been ordered to pay over £300,000. Salim Mussa Patel...

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

A collapsing ceiling, filthy facilities, and an abandoned car are among the dangerous defects leading to a Banbury landlord facing a...

A landlord has been ordered to pay his ex-tenant £1,500 after failing to protect her deposit with an approved scheme. The Housing...

An accountancy firm is warning Airbnb landlords they may be investigated following a decision by the short lets platform to share data...

The Generation Rent campaign says a mandatory landlord register is necessary - and would have stopped the actions of a rogue...

A landlord who unlawfully let cramped and overcrowded bedsits and then harassed tenants who complained has been fined thousands of pounds...

The government has launched an official consultation on proposals to make the private rental sector more energy-efficient - and they include...

A PropTech firm has drawn up a list of those regions with the highest proportion of rental properties with EPC rating...

Buy-to-let landlords in Walthamstow, north east London, have been ordered to pay a collective total of £375,000 after modifying their buy-to-let...

With a number of property investors looking to take advantage of Rishi Sunak’s stamp duty holiday by expanding their portfolios, NICEIC...

Buy-to-let landlords in Bury now face the prospect of major fines if they are caught providing tenants with unsafe and substandard...

A buy-to-let landlord has been left with a £5,200 legal bill following a string of drug-dealing and possible exploitation offences linked...

New regulation introduced yesterday could see unscrupulous landlords fined up to £30,000 if they do not comply with the rules.  Under the...

New regulations that are designed to strengthen electrical safety practices and bring in line with those already well-established within gas safety regulations...

A man deemed not to be a fit and proper person to hold a licence for a house in multiple occupation...

The National Association of Professional Inspectors and Testers (NAPIT) has produced fresh guidance designed to help landlords and the electrical industry...

New electrical safety rules have been introduced to ensure that private tenants are protected.  New regulations, which were introduced yesterday, are designed to strengthen...

As more people start to think about moving home as the coronavirus restrictions are eased, sales and letting agents are being...

Who are you? Ian Wiggett What does it say on your business card? Managing Director of Henry Adams Lettings and Henry Adams...

Estate and letting agents should be among the first industries to return to work as soon as the lockdown is relaxed,...

A private landlord has been prosecuted by Bristol City Council for providing private rented accommodation that posed a “serious risk to life”.  Nine...

The cost of buy-to-let mortgages has continued to fall, according to the latest research from Property Master.  The biggest month-on-month fall in...

If the private rental sector and sharing economy is to continue to thrive, regular engagement with your tenants is required to...

A buy-to-let landlord in Liverpool has been ordered to pay almost £9.500 after failing to provide acceptable living conditions for his...

Most landlords will already be familiar with the Domestic Minimum Energy Efficiency (MEES) Regulations which came into force on 1 April...

The Residential Landlords Associations (RLA) is calling on the government to delay introducing new electrical safety rules to help ensure that...

An unscrupulous landlord who illegally rented out properties in Fife has been sentenced to two years in prison after failing to...

A buy-to-let landlord has been ordered to pay just over £90,000 for repeatedly ignoring selective licensing laws in north London.  Stephen Ige...

The 31st January deadline to submit your self-assessment tax return for the year ended 5 April 2019 has come and gone, however,...

A now-former council tenant in north London has been handed a suspended sentence and ordered to pay close to £90,000 after...

New electrical safety regulations were presented before Parliament on 13 January 2020 in a move by the government to strengthen electrical...

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