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A landlord faces a hefty jail sentence unless she finds over £50,000 in the next three months - and on top...

A landlord has been slammed with £9,000 in fines and costs for ignoring notices to improve his property. Following reports of disrepair...

Renting out dangerous properties in Cardiff has cost two landlords thousands of pounds. Rowshanara Begum has been fined £20,000 at Cardiff Magistrates'...

The landlord of a flat has been ordered to pay a total of £3,287 for failing to carry out repairs.  Carlo Ykhlef,...

Landlords who fail to ensure their private rented homes meet required standards face massively increased charges from a council. Bath & North...

A London council has prosecuted a landlord for failing to carry out repairs on his property and causing a severe health...

A local authority is introducing charges for the issuing of Improvement Notices to landlords - and has chosen to announce it...

Landlords Shaun and Laraine Etherington have pleaded guilty to four offences of breaching Prohibition Orders against human habitation at their properties...

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

Arun council has prosecuted a Littlehampton landlord for failing to comply with an improvement notice. The case was heard at Worthing Magistrates...

A landlord has been given a £20,000 fine for failing to carry-out badly needed repairs on a property in Lancashire.  The fixed...

A landlord has been fined more than £8,000 for failing to complete necessary improvements to properties. Eric Bland pleaded guilty at Chesterfield...

The landlord of two flats in Cardiff has been fined over £4,500 for failing to fix fire safety defects after being...

Activist group Generation Rent is demanding that the government tighten regulations on damp and mould - and is tying this to...

A local authority controlled by the Green Party says it’s issued 550 per cent more fines against landlords in the past...

A Wirral landlord has become the first in the region to be served with a Banning Order, which will prohibit him...

A newspaper has discovered that over 1,500 warnings for damp or mould have been issued to landlords by just one city...

Another landlord has been hit with a substantial fine for failing to licence an HMO. Ryan Antony Otto, a director of Otto...

The latest attack on landlords by Generation Rent director Baroness Alicia Kennedy concerns insulation and household warmth. She claims a quarter of...

A council has served improvement notices on a number of properties owned by the Salvation Army and let to private tenants...

A landlord has been fined £6,250 for failing to make a series of improvements to the property he lets out in...

Husband-and-wife landlords Robin and Susan Kirstein have been landed with a massive fine for letting a home that was deemed by...

A local authority says the fact that it has conducted no prosecutions against private landlords despite over 1,100 complaints from tenants...

A landlord has been fined for failing to ensure that gas fittings, appliances and associated flues were checked for safety. Edinburgh Sheriffs...

The majority of local authorities in England do not accurately record the number of private rented sector tenure complaints which they...

New selective licensing schemes are now live in areas of north and east Manchester covering more than 1,400 properties.  This means compulsory...

A rogue landlord who has already been fined on numerous occasions for similar offences has now been served with a £5,000...

A London council has prosecuted a rogue landlord after a 30 month saga regarding the condition of an apartment.  Richmond council received a...

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 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 Rogue Landlord Team of a local authority has triggered a civil penalty notice resulting in a fine of over £21,000...

A Midlands council says it’s sent thousands of letters to landlords in the last 12 months in response to complaints from...

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

There are now 10 councils with licensing schemes covering more than 20 per cent of the rental market according to activists’...

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 has been sentenced for failing to maintain gas appliances at a rental property in accordance with the law. Swansea magistrates’...

A landlord has been hit with a fine of over £600 after failing to comply with an improvement notice - jeopardising...

A landlord who committed 33 offences at a property he owns has been issued with civil penalties totalling £50,500. Zaheer Uddin Babar,...

A £4,550 fine has been upheld after an appeal by the landlord was rejected by a property tribunal. Fenland council served five...

Generation Rent activists are back on the warpath, this time accusing councils of not doing enough - and sometimes nothing -...

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 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 rogue landlord who repeatedly rented out a substandard property in Yeadon, West Yorkshire, has been fined more than £25,000. Jack Collins,...

An unscrupulous landlord in Chesterfield has been ordered to pay a total of £5,684.91 after being prosecuted by a second time...

A buy-to-let landlord in South Yorkshire has been fined £4,000 and ordered to pay costs of £1,121 as well as a...

A landlord who failed to install a proper heating system and left safety hazards across a house in Peterborough has been...

Two thirds of councils in England and Wales responding to a FOI request by the Residential Landlords Association brought no prosecutions...

Reading Borough Council has won a case against a buy-to-let landlord who allowed his tenants to live in unsafe conditions, despite...

A private landlord in St Leonards has been fined £2,000 for failing to comply with an improvement notice.   Hastings Borough Council decided...

Rogue landlords in Ashford will now face fines of up to £30,000 after Ashford Borough Council voted to adopt new rules...

Rogue landlords in Milton Keynes are being put on notice as the local council announces a new ‘tough approach’, including the...

A landlord in North West London who failed to deal with noisy pigeons nesting at one of its properties has been...

Four landlords in Gainsborough have been heavily penalised after failing to comply with West Lindsey District Council’s selective licensing scheme. The quartet...

Four landlords in Lincolnshire have been ordered to pay a collective fine of £232,155.68 for failing to comply with licensing regulations. The...

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

An unscrupulous landlord who failed to maintain his rental property, which included mould and a leaking toilet, has been prosecuted by...

A landlord who confessed to renting out houses in Stotfold and Arlesey with serious safety hazards has been ordered to pay...

The head of housing at Woking Borough Council has vowed to clampdown on landlords in the local area that put tenants’...

The landlord of a house in St Helens has been fined £2,500 and ordered to pay £1,332.30 in costs, as well...

A landlord in Southend has been slapped with a £39,000 fine for breaching regulations for houses in multiple occupation (HMOs). Chelmsford Magistrates’...

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

A west London landlord has been ordered to pay a total of £75,215 for failing to licence four properties, protect tenants,...

Two private landlords have been fined for failing to tackle sub-standard conditions in their properties after successful prosecutions by Islington Council. In...