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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...