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Amendments to be made to the Renters Reform Bill when it returns to the Hoise of Commons next week won’t significantly...

A council is launching an innovative scheme whereby good landlords get long licences - and poor ones get short licences. Gloucester council...

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

A council statement announcing a complex new licensing regime for the local private rental sector claims “landlords and agents who are...

The Additional Licensing HMO scheme in the Bath and North East Somerset area ends on New Year’s Eve.  The scheme covers around...

A trio of Cambridge landlords have been fined more than £8,000 between them, after three separate HMOs were found to be...

Mulberry Real Estate Ltd, and its director, David Bryant, who are landlords of properties in Cardiff, have been fined for a...

A landlord has been hit with a huge £23,000 fine for failing to properly maintain two HMOs. Landlord Lystra Dorval from Ilford...

Landlords have been warned they risk fixed penalty notices and the loss of HMO licences if students leave rubbish in public...

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 handed nearly £30,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to maintenance and safety failures at three...

Havering council has agreed to the extension of its landlord licensing scheme.  It currently covers 12 wards and will be rolled out ...

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

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

Following the introduction of new HMO licences in Hackney, east London, the local council has taken legal action against four landlords...

Coventry City Council has dismissed claims that its landlord licensing and accreditation scheme is potentially unlawful. The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) wrote...

A new landlord accreditation scheme in Oxford has been deemed both discriminatory and unlawful by the Residential Landlords Association (RLA). The association...

The new regulations introduced last month to bring mandatory licensing to all Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) was designed to better...

Two landlords in Bath have been ordered to more than £16,000 for failing to hold the correct HMO licences. Elizabeth Vowles, 48,...