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

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

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

An unnamed landlord has been banned from letting out his property after allowing it to fall into poor condition.  He was served...

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

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

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

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

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

The first-ever history of Tenancy Deposit legislation, legal challenges and proposed future changes has been published by the House of Commons...

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 who failed to ensure his property was clean and safe for tenants to live in has been prosecuted by...

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

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

A landlord has been fined £6,000 for failing to properly maintain a HMO in Reading. Nidan Singh, 76, has also been ordered to...

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

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

A landlord who failed to licence his property has been ordered to pay back over £5,000 in rent. Michael Convery from Belfast...

Two landlords have to pay almost £8,000 for letting their flats in defiance of a Prohibition Order.  The order came into force...

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

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

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

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

A buy-to-let landlord in Bristol has been forced to hand £1,569 back to the council for housing benefit payments he received. Charles...

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

A senior director at a letting agency in Exeter has been handed a six-year ban after failing to safeguard more than £68,000...

A property firm has been fined £3,000 after neglecting a property in Derbyshire.  A & S Milward Property Limited was found guilty...

A rogue landlord in Doncaster has been given a banning order for two-and-a-half years after repeatedly putting tenants’ lives at risk...

A buy-to-let landlord who was originally fined £31,499 by Coventry City Council for breaches of the Housing Act 2004 has had...

There are more than 130,000 unlicensed properties in London that should be licensed under either selective, additional or mandatory HMO licensing...

City of Lincoln Council has taken action against a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) landlord in Lincoln for failing to comply...

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...

A landlord has been penalised for operating an unlicensed house in multiple occupancy  (HMO) in south London. Fouad Ahmad, from Streatham, pleaded...

Two landlords have been fined for letting out a flat that had no heating or windows. The flat, located above commercial premises,...

A private landlord has been ordered to pay £800 in fines and costs after investigators discovered several deficiencies in a property...

A buy-to-let landlord in Stevenage has been fined £14,000 and told to pay Stevenage Borough Council’s legal costs of £2,845.50 and...

A buy-to-let landlord has been ordered to pay a fine of £2,646, costs of £2,000 and a victim surcharge of £170...

Tenants living in sub-standard rented accommodation need greater support, according to Neil Cobbold, chief operating officer of PayProp UK, who has...

Buy-to-let investors should be ‘extremely wary’ of buying property in an area affected by selective licensing rules because many local authorities...

A buy-to-let landlord in Doncaster has been ordered to pay more than £5,000 in fines and costs following a successful prosecution...

With several licensing consultations currently being run by local authorities across the country, the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is encouraging buy-to-let...

A buy-to-let landlord has been fined close to £6,500 after failing to make improvements to a house in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, including...

A landlord in Stevenage who allowed his tenant to live in an excessively cold attic with a serious fire safety hazard...

A growing number of local authorities are using selective licensing to introduce penalties for buy-to-let landlords that go well beyond the...

A London-based property firm has been ordered to pay back 70% of their profits gained from renting poorly converted flats in...

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

An unscrupulous landlord who forced a tenant to live in appalling conditions has been ordered to repay more than £1,000 in...

Buy-to-let landlords could have grounds to challenge HMO licensing fees which could save them hundreds of pounds each year, according to...

A buy-to-let landlord has been found guilty of aggressive practices, failing to protect a tenancy deposit and operating an unlicensed House...

The government has been criticised for continuing to drag its heels over taking on key recommendations made in a recent report...

Doncaster Council’s Cabinet will be discussing new ways to tackle rogue landlords at their meeting later today. The proposal is to introduce...

A private landlord has been fined more than £11,000 for operating an unlicensed property in Bedford. Mr Fhalora of Ampthill Road, Bedford,...

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 in Flintshire has been given 28 days to pay a fine of £11,081 after being found guilty of...

A rogue landlord in Newmarket who exposed tenants to ‘significant risk’ has been ordered to pay almost £33,000 after being found...

It has been confirmed that a database of rogue landlords and letting agents as well as new banning orders will be...

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

A buy-to-let landlord has been fined £1,000 for renting out a property in Peterborough without a licence which he was legally...

A private landlord has been fined £2,000 for renting out two properties in Peterborough without a licence which he was legally...

Luton Council is considering introducing a ‘selective licensing’ within the town, and has this week launched a consultation regarding proposals to...

West Lindsey District Council made a number of unannounced inspections of private rental homes in Gainsborough yesterday, supported by police officers,...

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £4,700 by Blackburn magistrates after failing to make improvements to his property. Despite...

A buy-to-let landlord has been fined for renting out ‘dangerous and poor’ accommodation after a fire broke out at her property...

A landlord had been ordered to pay more than £7,000 after putting the lives of his tenants at risk. Daniel Woulfe of...

A landlord from Sheffield has been fined more than £1,000 for failing to comply with new licensing regulations for properties in...

A man claiming not to be a landlord has been ordered to pay more than £7,000 for putting the lives of...

A landlord operating in the London borough of Brent has been has been ordered to pay close to £7,500 for cramming...

A local authority has opted not to introduce a new landlord licensing scheme, an investigation by London Property Licensing has revealed. Wandsworth...

Two Reading landlords face a total bill of £6,000 after admitting a string of offences which resulted in tenants living in...

Newham Council has prosecuted what it called a “group of criminals” running a dodgy letting business with an estimated income of...

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

Two Brighton & Hove landlords of shared houses have been prosecuted for failing to license their properties as Houses in Multiple...

A Worthing landlord has been fined £4,864 for ignoring a prohibition order issued by Worthing Borough Council's private sector housing team. Kaher...

A west London landlord has been fined more than £70,000 for breaking HMO regulations after prosecution by Ealing Council. Balwinder Singh Kahlon...

A Plymouth landlord has been fined more than £20,000 after admitting renting out substandard houses to 30 people without obtaining a...

A Worthing landlord has been ordered to pay more than £4,000 for ignoring a council improvement notice. Daniel Woulfe of Rugby Road,...

An unlicensed HMO landlord has been ordered to pay more than £25,000 after appearing in court. Emmil Seeson Watson (also known as...

A Welsh landlord has become the first to be prosecuted by Carmarthenshire County Council under its selective licensing scheme. The council introduced...

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC) is pledging its support for new deposit protection rules coming into force this week. Under...

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC) is pledging its support for new deposit protection rules coming into force this week. Under...

A landlord from Hitchin, Hertfordshire has been ordered to pay a fine of £1,344.57 by Stevenage Magistrates Court last week for...