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A landlord who failed to comply with an Emergency Prohibition Order to make safe an HMO has been fined £1,000 and...
01 July 2022
From: Breaking News

Housing has always been one of the most sensitive political issues, meaning that legislation in this area is unusually sensitive to...
21 May 2022
From: Rental Reform

Trading Standards has approved a new alternative dispute resolution body for the private rental sector. It’s The Dispute Service Ltd, and it...
07 March 2022
From: Breaking News

A private landlord has been fined £1,760 and ordered to pay £1,000 costs after failing to properly licence four properties in...
04 March 2022
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been fined almost £5,000 for failing to install smoke detectors into a house he let to a family. The...
26 January 2022
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been fined £3,607 over properties that were so dangerous tenants’ lives were at risk. North Lincolnshire council brought a...
25 January 2022
From: Breaking News

A landlord who has been operating a licensable HMO without a licence has been fined £5,000 at a prosecution brought by...
04 January 2022
From: Breaking News

A landlord operating a House in Multiple Occupation without a licence has been fined £5,000. An officer from Chesterfield council carried out an...
16 December 2021
From: Breaking News

A private landlord who failed to carry out essential safety work has been fined for ignoring an Emergency Prohibition Order. Mohammed Deryo,...
26 November 2021
From: Breaking News

An unnamed landlord has been banned from letting out his property after allowing it to fall into poor condition. He was served...
25 November 2021
From: Breaking News

A Labour-controlled local authority with a reputation for clampdowns on rogue landyhas issued a statement celebrating its successes. Tower Hamlets council in...
20 October 2021
From: Breaking News

There’s more evidence of councils clamping down on landlords fly tipping - Landlord Today has run a series of reports on...
18 October 2021
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been fined over £7,000 for letting out an unsafe and unlicensed HMO. South Gloucestershire council’s private sector housing team...
11 October 2021
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been prosecuted for a second time for breaches of Wirral council’s selective licensing scheme. The council’s housing standards team...
22 September 2021
From: Breaking News

A landlord company has been fined more than £15,000 for failing to improve housing conditions in three properties. North Somerset council received...
07 September 2021
From: Breaking News

A landlord who failed to comply with improvement notices for a vulnerable tenant and threatened to evict her if the improvements...
25 August 2021
From: Breaking News

The first-ever history of Tenancy Deposit legislation, legal challenges and proposed future changes has been published by the House of Commons...
13 August 2021
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been ordered to pay thousands of pounds by magistrates after a bedroom fire revealed tenants were living in...
30 July 2021
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been given a hefty fine for housing vulnerable tenants in hazardous conditions in a case brought by a...
27 July 2021
From: Breaking News

A landlord who failed to ensure his property was clean and safe for tenants to live in has been prosecuted by...
22 July 2021
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been hit with a fine of more than £4,200 for failing to keep tenants safe in their homes. North...
24 June 2021
From: Breaking News

A London council has taken a landlord company to court after complaints of poor housing conditions in five of its rented...
05 May 2021
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been fined £6,000 for failing to properly maintain a HMO in Reading. Nidan Singh, 76, has also been ordered to...
22 April 2021
From: Breaking News

A landlord that refused to make safety improvements at two of her properties in Folkestone has been fined nearly £5,000. Madeleine Scott,...
08 April 2021
From: Breaking News

A serial-offender landlord has been fined for putting tenants at serious harm from fire and exposing them to substandard and dangerous conditions. Nilendu...
22 March 2021
From: Breaking News

A landlord who persistently broke residential lettings rules has been banned from operating in what a local council calls “a landmark...
09 March 2021
From: Breaking News

A landlord who failed to licence his property has been ordered to pay back over £5,000 in rent. Michael Convery from Belfast...
04 March 2021
From: Breaking News

Two landlords have to pay almost £8,000 for letting their flats in defiance of a Prohibition Order. The order came into force...
24 February 2021
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been fined £6,000 for failing to licence a house in multiple occupation. Wolverhampton council prosecuted Aunberin Saddique after it...
12 February 2021
From: Breaking News

Two men have been ordered to pay almost £8,000 for letting out flats in defiance of regulations designed to keep tenants...
08 February 2021
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been hit with a fine of over £600 after failing to comply with an improvement notice - jeopardising...
22 January 2021
From: Breaking News

A landlord who failed to improve his rental property, leaving his tenants in dangerous conditions, has been fined. Haroon Karim from Nottingham...
21 January 2021
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been hit with what a local authority calls a record £66,000 fine after being found guilty of letting...
13 January 2021
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been ordered to pay £3,928.44 after failing to licence two properties he has been letting out in Nottingham. Jaswinder...
10 December 2020
From: Breaking News

A council has prosecuted a local landlord for failing to safeguard the health, safety and welfare of his tenants. Eastleigh council took...
26 October 2020
From: Breaking News

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...
26 June 2020
From: Breaking News

A buy-to-let landlord has been ordered to pay more than £2,000 after ignoring several requests to carry out important repairs to...
21 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A senior director at a letting agency in Exeter has been handed a six-year ban after failing to safeguard more than £68,000...
15 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A property firm has been fined £3,000 after neglecting a property in Derbyshire. A & S Milward Property Limited was found guilty...
10 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A rogue landlord in Doncaster has been given a banning order for two-and-a-half years after repeatedly putting tenants’ lives at risk...
18 December 2019
From: Breaking News

A buy-to-let landlord who was originally fined £31,499 by Coventry City Council for breaches of the Housing Act 2004 has had...
11 December 2019
From: Breaking News

There are more than 130,000 unlicensed properties in London that should be licensed under either selective, additional or mandatory HMO licensing...
14 October 2019
From: Breaking News

City of Lincoln Council has taken action against a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) landlord in Lincoln for failing to comply...
04 October 2019
From: Breaking News

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...
13 September 2019
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been penalised for operating an unlicensed house in multiple occupancy (HMO) in south London. Fouad Ahmad, from Streatham, pleaded...
08 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Two landlords have been fined for letting out a flat that had no heating or windows. The flat, located above commercial premises,...
01 May 2019
From: Breaking News

A private landlord has been ordered to pay £800 in fines and costs after investigators discovered several deficiencies in a property...
10 April 2019
From: Breaking News

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...
09 April 2019
From: Breaking News

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...
15 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Tenants living in sub-standard rented accommodation need greater support, according to Neil Cobbold, chief operating officer of PayProp UK, who has...
20 February 2019
From: Breaking News

Buy-to-let investors should be ‘extremely wary’ of buying property in an area affected by selective licensing rules because many local authorities...
15 February 2019
From: Breaking News

A buy-to-let landlord in Doncaster has been ordered to pay more than £5,000 in fines and costs following a successful prosecution...
15 February 2019
From: Breaking News

With several licensing consultations currently being run by local authorities across the country, the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is encouraging buy-to-let...
12 February 2019
From: Breaking News

A buy-to-let landlord has been fined close to £6,500 after failing to make improvements to a house in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, including...
31 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A landlord in Stevenage who allowed his tenant to live in an excessively cold attic with a serious fire safety hazard...
23 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A growing number of local authorities are using selective licensing to introduce penalties for buy-to-let landlords that go well beyond the...
16 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A London-based property firm has been ordered to pay back 70% of their profits gained from renting poorly converted flats in...
20 November 2018
From: Breaking News

A private landlord from St Helens has been ordered to pay £21,000 after a prosecution by the local council found a...
07 November 2018
From: Breaking News

An unscrupulous landlord who forced a tenant to live in appalling conditions has been ordered to repay more than £1,000 in...
30 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Buy-to-let landlords could have grounds to challenge HMO licensing fees which could save them hundreds of pounds each year, according to...
17 August 2018
From: Breaking News

A buy-to-let landlord has been found guilty of aggressive practices, failing to protect a tenancy deposit and operating an unlicensed House...
07 August 2018
From: Breaking News

The government has been criticised for continuing to drag its heels over taking on key recommendations made in a recent report...
05 July 2018
From: Breaking News

Doncaster Council’s Cabinet will be discussing new ways to tackle rogue landlords at their meeting later today. The proposal is to introduce...
10 April 2018
From: Breaking News

A private landlord has been fined more than £11,000 for operating an unlicensed property in Bedford. Mr Fhalora of Ampthill Road, Bedford,...
08 March 2018
From: Breaking News

A but-to-let landlord in south east London has been penalised for allowing his elderly tenants to live in a property that...
31 January 2018
From: Breaking News

A buy-to-let landlord in Flintshire has been given 28 days to pay a fine of £11,081 after being found guilty of...
19 December 2017
From: Breaking News

A rogue landlord in Newmarket who exposed tenants to ‘significant risk’ has been ordered to pay almost £33,000 after being found...
08 December 2017
From: Breaking News

It has been confirmed that a database of rogue landlords and letting agents as well as new banning orders will be...
04 December 2017
From: Breaking News

Two landlords in Bath have been ordered to more than £16,000 for failing to hold the correct HMO licences. Elizabeth Vowles, 48,...
13 October 2017
From: Breaking News

A buy-to-let landlord has been fined £1,000 for renting out a property in Peterborough without a licence which he was legally...
29 September 2017
From: Breaking News

A private landlord has been fined £2,000 for renting out two properties in Peterborough without a licence which he was legally...
18 September 2017
From: Breaking News

Luton Council is considering introducing a ‘selective licensing’ within the town, and has this week launched a consultation regarding proposals to...
12 July 2017
From: Breaking News

West Lindsey District Council made a number of unannounced inspections of private rental homes in Gainsborough yesterday, supported by police officers,...
22 June 2017
From: Breaking News

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £4,700 by Blackburn magistrates after failing to make improvements to his property. Despite...
19 May 2017
From: Breaking News

A buy-to-let landlord has been fined for renting out ‘dangerous and poor’ accommodation after a fire broke out at her property...
11 May 2017
From: Breaking News

A landlord had been ordered to pay more than £7,000 after putting the lives of his tenants at risk. Daniel Woulfe of...
30 March 2017
From: Breaking News

A landlord from Sheffield has been fined more than £1,000 for failing to comply with new licensing regulations for properties in...
01 December 2016
From: Breaking News

A man claiming not to be a landlord has been ordered to pay more than £7,000 for putting the lives of...
02 November 2016
From: Breaking News

A landlord operating in the London borough of Brent has been has been ordered to pay close to £7,500 for cramming...
21 September 2016
From: Breaking News

A local authority has opted not to introduce a new landlord licensing scheme, an investigation by London Property Licensing has revealed. Wandsworth...
08 September 2016
From: Breaking News

Two Reading landlords face a total bill of £6,000 after admitting a string of offences which resulted in tenants living in...
22 April 2016
From: Breaking News

Newham Council has prosecuted what it called a “group of criminals” running a dodgy letting business with an estimated income of...
24 March 2016
From: Breaking News

A west London property company managing an HMO in Notting Hill has been fined £47,900 in relation to 24 charges under...
17 February 2016
From: Breaking News

Two Brighton & Hove landlords of shared houses have been prosecuted for failing to license their properties as Houses in Multiple...
14 December 2015
From: Breaking News

A Worthing landlord has been fined £4,864 for ignoring a prohibition order issued by Worthing Borough Council's private sector housing team. Kaher...
25 November 2015
From: Breaking News

A west London landlord has been fined more than £70,000 for breaking HMO regulations after prosecution by Ealing Council. Balwinder Singh Kahlon...
20 November 2015
From: Breaking News

A Plymouth landlord has been fined more than £20,000 after admitting renting out substandard houses to 30 people without obtaining a...
06 November 2015
From: Breaking News

A Worthing landlord has been ordered to pay more than £4,000 for ignoring a council improvement notice. Daniel Woulfe of Rugby Road,...
12 October 2015
From: Breaking News

An unlicensed HMO landlord has been ordered to pay more than £25,000 after appearing in court. Emmil Seeson Watson (also known as...
21 July 2015
From: Breaking News

A Welsh landlord has become the first to be prosecuted by Carmarthenshire County Council under its selective licensing scheme. The council introduced...
14 July 2015
From: Breaking News

The Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC) is pledging its support for new deposit protection rules coming into force this week. Under...
23 June 2015
From: Sponsored Content

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