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A landlord has been ordered to pay £2,500 in fines, compensation and costs after a council brought a prosecution against him. Jama...

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

Activists in the Generation Rent campaign says big city Mayors should “tackle the worst landlords and seize their properties.” It also wants...

A council has secured a banning order against a landlord, taking effect almost immediately. The order is against Grzegorz Surminski, a landlord...

A council has prosecuted a private landlord who let out an uninhabitable outbuilding in Kings Langley. Deborah King of Kings Langley was...

A council has prosecuted a private landlord who rented out an uninhabitable outbuilding in Kings Langley. Deborah King was initially fined £4,000...

A Bristol landlord who confronted handed the tenant an illegal eviction notice after finding him using the bathroom in the house,...

A landlord has been ordered to pay £5,312 for unlawfully evicting his tenant of 18 months. In April this year Bassetlaw council...

A landlord has been prosecuted for the unlawful eviction of a tenant from privately rented accommodation in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. Leading up...

A council has prosecuted a rogue landlord for the second time for illegally evicting a tenant. The prosecution for offences relating to...

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

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £1,600 after pleading guilty to an illegal eviction. Grace Young of Derby let...

Dacorum council in Hertfordshire has prosecuted a private landlord who rented out an uninhabitable outbuilding in Kings Langley. Deborah King was fined...

A landlord has been sentenced at Wolverhampton Crown Court after she had previously been found guilty of illegal eviction. Dr Amy Eskander,...

A council has issued formal cautions to two local landlords who illegally evicted their tenants. Both landlords gave their tenants incorrect paperwork...

A landlord has been found guilty by a jury of illegally evicting their tenant during the Covid-19 pandemic. Dr Amy Eskander let...

A landlord had been sentenced after being found guilty of the illegal eviction of his former tenant. A lengthy investigation was conducted...

A landlord has been fined and must pay compensation after being involved in an illegal eviction. The landlord - Tahir Aziz - was...

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...

Airbnb, so often criticised for operating in the largely-unregulated short lets market, has called on the UK government to scrap Section...

Renting is changing. That’s what we keep being told by the Government as it prepares the ground for its renters’ reform...

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

A campaign group wants local candidates fighting elections in London next month sign up to a set of policies including rent...

A proposal that landlords be fined up to 36 months rent has been put forward in a consultation paper. The Scottish Government’s...

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

A landlord has been jailed for six months, suspended for a year, after being found guilty of illegally evicting a tenant...

Shelter has given what appears to be unconditional support to the SNP-Green proposals for reform of the private rental sector in...

A local council has prosecuted a rogue landlord for illegally evicting a young couple from their accommodation in Cheltenham.  The landlord -...

A couple have been fined over £13,000 after they were found guilty of unlawfully evicting four tenants and breaching management regulations...

Activists including Generation Rent are to lobby MPs this afternoon, to complain against eviction notice periods in England reverting to pre-Covid...

A landlord has pleaded guilty to the unlawful eviction of his tenant. Jalal Uddin of Wellingborough has pleaded guilty at the town’s...

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...

The tenants’ campaign group Generation Rent is planning a week of events to promote renters’ rights later this month. The campaign says...

Tenant activist group Generation Rent says it’s working with five councils to find out more about private renters in those areas. The...

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

The Generation Rent campaign group has entered the fray for the Police and Crime Commissioner elections which will be held in some...

A pressure group for tenants wants the next Mayor of London to win powers from the government to reduce rents, through a...

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

Activists are aiming to make the eviction ban a central theme in this spring’s local elections. In early May there are elections...

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...

Robert Rinder, the reality TV celebrity and barrister, has joined the campaigning charity Shelter to oppose what he describes as illegal...

There has been a sharp rise in illegal evictions by rogue landlords, it has been claimed.  According to The Independent, illegal evictions...

A buy-to-let landlord in Leeds who left his tenant homeless after changing the locks while he was on holiday has been...

Rogue landlords with properties in Scarborough now face fines of up to £30,000 as the local council looks to clampdown on...

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

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

A buy-to-let landlord has been given a suspended prison sentence, handed a 16-week curfew and ordered to pay more than £10,600...

Hefty fines could soon be issued to rogue landlords in Bradford without being taken to court, under plans due to be...

A landlord has been given a 12-month community service order with a rehabilitation activity requirement of 20 days after being convicted...

Rogue landlords in Hackney face heavy fines after the local council gained new powers to issue penalties of up to £30,000.  Landlords...

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

After lobbying Tower Hamlets Council for three years, private renters in the east London district have finally been granted a new...

The mayor of London Sadiq Khan has vowed to crackdown on criminal landlords by ensuring that they are ‘named and shamed’...

A landlord has been sentenced to six weeks in prison following the illegal evicting of one of his tenants and for...

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

A landlord has been fined almost £500 after changing the locks on his rental property.  Peter Lamont was prosecuted by Halton Council...

Private tenants north of the border have come together to launch Scotland’s first national union for people living in the private...

A man who illegally sub-let his council home in Sheffield and then evicted his tenant using force has been prosecuted in...

A Cambridge letting agent who unlawfully evicted a tenant from a property has been ordered to pay a total of £4,315...

Rogue landlords are being weeded out by councils for some of the worst cases of illegal eviction, according to the Local...

A Birmingham landlord has been fined £700 and order to pay £1,500 costs for illegally evicting a family of nine. Mirsad Solakovic,...

A landlord in Cornwall, who has not been named, has been fined £1,000 and ordered to pay £2,000 costs after illegally...