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

The Tenant Farmers Association says its latest survey of tenant farmers paints a bleak picture of the relationships between landlords and...

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

The controversial activist group Acorn has made a formal public apology to the chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association. On...

A council has prosecuted a landlord for a second time, for multiple offences.  The offences concerned a tenanted caravan that had been...

A study of almost four years of cases reported to Citizens Advice has suggested that illegal eviction and landlord harassment are...

Activist group Generation Rent has thrown its weight behind the initiative by Home Secretary Suella Braverman to clampdown on so-called ‘sex...

A council has issued a formal caution to a landlord for harassing his female tenant on social media. The landlord posted details...

A landlord has been prosecuted for unlawfully evicting and harassing a tenant by, amongst other things, removing the toilet. The landlord also...

This week (September 12-18) marks the twelfth annual Gas Safety Week. All landlords renting properties with gas appliances have a legal duty...

A landlord has been sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for the illegal eviction and harassment of a tenant, and has been...

A group delivering tenant relations training claims thousands of illegal evictions are made possible because many local councils have no trained...

A points-based system of rent controls is being advocated by activists associated with a controversial pro-tenant group. Living Rent, which is calling...

A senior committee of MPs claims that it’s “too difficult for renters to realise their legal right to a safe and...

Rental activists have made clear that they are not going to stop when their objective to scrap Section 21 eviction powers...

Local media in Sheffield are reporting that the activist group Acorn must pay just under £100,000 in costs and damages to...

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

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 working with police to target landlords which it claims are flouting the law and illegally eviction and...

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

A man has pleaded guilty in a magistrates’ court after he evicted a tenant by unlawfully harassing him and obliging him...

Camden council in north London has become the first local authority to secure an anti-social behaviour injunction against a landlord in...

A council is appealing for witnesses to help with its prosecution of a landlord for illegal eviction. Sohila Tamiz who is a...

A landlord has begun legal proceedings against a pressure group after being the victim of a four-month campaign of harassment. Lawyers acting...

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

A charity claims it’s helping one person every minute with problems relating to renting from a private landlord. In the first two...

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

The activists group Acorn, which has staged several anti-landlord demonstrations including some outside homes, is opposing a new Bill going through...

Labour MP Stephen Timms has asked Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick to commit to five measures to tighten controls on the private...

A London council is running what it describes as “an innovative project” to help private tenants reclaim rent from landlords who...

Multi-millionaire landlord Fergus Wilson - at one time described as Britain’s most successful buy to let landlord - is reported to...

A landlord who breached a court order not to harass or evict his tenants has been given a prison sentence.  Saakib Khan,...

The Labour-controlled Greater London Authority and 18 other groups of activists, charities and students have formed a new pro-renter coalition. Called the...

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

A rogue landlord in Gainsborough will be sentenced later this month after being found guilty of unlawful harassment towards his tenants...

An unscrupulous landlord has been ordered to pay almost £4,000 after tenants were discovered living in an appalling and unsafe property.  Officers...

A landlord's son has confessed to stealing 30 pairs of knickers from his father's tenant and hiding them around her property. Magistrates...

Introducing a ‘rogue landlords’ database without better enforcement would be a pointless exercise, according to the National Landlords Association (NLA). A rogue...

A private landlord who was reported to police for sending what has been described as a “threatening letter” to a letting...

A private landlord in Telford has been ordered to pay £29,000 in costs and fines for harassing two tenants out of...

As a landlord, you have a number of different responsibilities and obligations that you need to stay on top of, in...

Local authorities should be given the power to confiscate properties from landlords who break the law, according to a committee of...

A pair of private landlords from Sheffield who harassed and illegal evicted their tenant have been handed suspended prison sentences. Mark Cashin...

The mayor of London’s decision to launch a new public online database which ‘names and shames’ rogue landlords and letting agents...

A buy-to-let landlord pleaded guilty to two charges relating to the harassment of his tenants during a short hearing at Sheffield...

A buy-to-let landlord has been ordered to pay just over £2,800 after pleading guilty to a charge of ‘harassing an occupier...

A buy-to-let landlord in Sheffield has been told that he has to pay £2,412 in court costs, fines and compensation after...

When a landlord switched off his tenants’ electricity, leaving them without heating, hot water, lighting or cooking facilities, in a bid...

Recovering rental arrears from non-paying tenants is one of a landlord’s biggest challenges. But while no-one actually enjoys chasing money, it...

Thousands of private tenants claim to have suffered abuse at the hands of landlords according to Shelter, which include threats, assaults...

The new mayor of London has pledged to get tough on rogue landlords in the capital by introducing a ‘London Landlord...

A landmark court case heard in the Midlands is believed to be the first to issue a Criminal Behaviour Order on...

An Oxford landlord has been convicted of unlawfully evicting a tenant after “a campaign of sustained harassment”. Riasat Ali was ordered to...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has written to Shelter questioning the latest statistics from the housing charity which claimed that tenants...

A landlord who attacked a tenant in the street following a “campaign of harassment and violence” over rent has been jailed...