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A council’s new selective property licensing scheme for rented properties will be live and open for applications from Wednesday November 1. Ilford...

A council has prosecuted four landlords in three days, with convictions secured for seven offences. Harold Mews Management Ltd of Margate was...

A London landlord has been ordered to pay over £33,000 in costs for illegally running an HMO. The three-bedroom HMO was identified...

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

With Christmas and the New Year now over, landlords, investors and property experts are back to questioning what the coming twelve...

A national accountancy firm says HM Revenue & Customs has discovered huge numbers of landlords avoiding paying tax - as many as...

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

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

Redbridge council in east London has undertaken its toughest ever clampdown on buy to let, visiting 171 properties in a week. The...

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

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

A council has prosecuted a landlord who failed to ensure waste from his property was properly disposed of. Mohammed Hussain from Leeds...

Landlords should be aware that eight estate and letting agents have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme (TPO), which means...

Demand for rental homes is continuing to outpace supply and drive up prices in London and that is an attractive proposition...

Ilford-based Kingsman Property has gone out of business after being expelled from The Property Ombudsman (TPO) scheme owing a landlord almost...

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...

An unscrupulous landlord who converted three family homes into houses in multiple occupation (HMO) without planning consent has been jailed for...

Crossrail will demand hundreds of millions of pounds from the government in its third bailout of the year according to various...

A landlord in Ilford, Essex, who allowed 23 people to live in overcrowded conditions has been fined £7,500. Tenants in a house...

A rogue managing agent of an overcrowded house of multiple occupation (HMO) in east London has been fined £26,000 for breaches...

A new TV show called ‘Bad Tenants, Rogue Landlords’, a companion series to ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords’, starts today. Following the success...

Colchester has been named the best place for buy-to-let investors in today’s market, based on a combination of capital value growth,...

With 65,000 affordable new homes planned to be built in London per year, it would appear that the capital is offering...

A landlord in Ilford, Essex, has been sentenced to four months in jail for continuing to rent out his property despite...

A new property licensing scheme has been introduced by Redbridge Council in order to crack down on rogue landlords – and...

A high number of buy-to-let investors prioritise rental rents over capital gains when making property purchase decisions, and with that in...

Property investors looking to invest in the buy-to-let market may wish to consider buying property in Luton, which currently offers the...

Rental yields in London are typically among the lowest in the UK mainly due to high house prices, but there are still good...

Landlords may look at launching a judicial review of a new licensing scheme in Redbridge, it has been suggested. The Ilford Recorder,...