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A landlord has been jailed for a year after making a homeless woman perform sexual favours for him in return for...

A landlord has been accused of a “disgusting offence” after installing a camera in the bathroom of a house he let...

A London council has prosecuted a builder - Valeriu Sandu, of Valmic Properties Limited - for lying about fitting sufficiently fireproof...

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

A landlord must demolish two penthouse apartments by mid July - or else go to jail. It’s being reported that a case...

A London landlord has been ordered to pay over £64,000 for breaking housing regulations. In July last year Sumon Miah was found...

A lodger who punched, kicked and bit his landlord after being challenged about his drinking has been jailed. Mickey Boots punched the...

A man who broke into the home of his prospective landlord and threatened him with a screwdriver has been jailed for...

Substantial numbers of expats who own a buy to let property in the UK are approaching HMRC to admit they have...

A landlord in the north of England has been given a suspended prison sentence and a huge fine for fire safety...

A Labour MP is proposing legislation which would mean that landlords who offer accommodation in exchange for sexual favours could be...

A man who tried to frame his landlord’s partner as being involved in the Westminster terrorist attack has been jailed. Gerald Banyard,...

Two men - one a landlord, the other a shopkeeper- have been jailed after being found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter. Mushtaq...

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

A landlord who breached a court order not to harass or evict his tenants has been given a prison sentence.  Saakib Khan,...

Members of a wealthy Blackburn family of landlords with a portfolio of properties have been sentenced for defrauding the Department for...

A London landlord must pay over £280,000 in three months after housing eight people in a flat deems illegal for even...

The Generation Rent campaign says a mandatory landlord register is necessary - and would have stopped the actions of a rogue...

A landlord who unlawfully let cramped and overcrowded bedsits and then harassed tenants who complained has been fined thousands of pounds...

Buy-to-let landlords in Walthamstow, north east London, have been ordered to pay a collective total of £375,000 after modifying their buy-to-let...

An unscrupulous landlord who illegally rented out properties in Fife has been sentenced to two years in prison after failing to...

A man who rented hundreds of properties that he sub-let to criminal gangs running brothels and cannabis farms has been jailed...

An unscrupulous letting agent has been jailed for two years for conning landlords and tenants out of almost a quarter of...

A buy-to-let investor, who previously spent time in prison for perjury after he lied during an inquiry into the deaths of...

A buy-to-let landlord who claimed that he needed a council home has been ordered to pay back more than £48,000 or...

An unscrupulous tenant who forged a statement to back up a county court claim against her landlord has been jailed for...

  When you rent a property to a tenant, you are required to pay tax on any profit you make from rental...

A man has been jailed for a six years and three months for stabbing his landlord in an unprovoked attack. Ainars Jozans,...

A rogue landlord who made almost £130,000 in illegal rent after converting his three-bedroom house in east London into two flats...

A buy-to-let landlord who used violence and intimidation to illegally evict his tenant has been handed a suspended jail sentence and...

A new fire safety campaign urging private sector landlords and letting agents to always abide by the law and install smoke...

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

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

Three rogue directors of a letting agency in London who conned at least landlords and tenants out of more than £105,000 were...

Dodgy solicitor Ross McKay, who helped a fraudster create a £10.8m property empire with the help of Tameside’s criminal underworld, has...

A woman who repeatedly ignored council orders to stop renting ‘beds in sheds’ has been ordered to pay back almost £450,000...

The government is once again being urged to introduce fresh legislation to outlaw the ‘despicable’ practice of sex-for-rent deals. Speaking in the...

A disgusting landlord has been ordered to pay a £5,000 fine plus £500 in costs, and handed 100 hours of unpaid...

A Lanarkshire-based letting firm has been told to stump up almost £1,000 in compensation to a disgruntled landlord after breaching the...

Rogue letting agents and landlords have reportedly been convicted of stealing almost £1m worth of tenancy deposits so far this year,...

A couple who claim they are owed thousands of pounds in unpaid rent have called for a ban on the letting...

A private tenant occupying a three-bedroom house in north-west London has been jailed after he was caught illegally subletting the property...

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

A rogue landlord who swindled £28,000 from a family friend has been sentenced to four years in prison. Mark Thorogood of Maelgwyn...

The law has finally caught up with a letting agent who stole £22,000 from clients, including landlords. Peter Bell, now the former...

An unscrupulous individual pretending to be a private landlord in order to scam more than £10,000 from unsuspecting tenants before going...

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

A deranged tenant in Scarborough has been sentenced to 32 months in prison after he attempted to set fire to his...

A crooked property manager who pocketed thousands of pounds in rental income which he failed to pass on to landlords has been...

A landlord who failed to provide his tenants with adequate living conditions has been sent to jail. Majid Saniinejad, of Stoke Newington,...

When a landlord let his property in Hartlepool to two cousins, he did not expect them to be sent to jail...

A former north London letting agent who stole thousands of pounds worth of cash and belongings from rental homes by tricking...

A landlord in east London will have to cough up more than £100,000 or face going to jail for illegally converting...

Buy-to-let landlords allowing illegal immigrants to live in their properties may face jail after hundreds of people suspected of not having...

A landlord has been jailed for failing to declare Capital Gains Tax from the sale of his rental properties. Richard Fuller, 53,...

A landlord has been apprehended by the police for running over a tenant with his tractor and breaking her hip because...

A rogue landlord who made almost £130,000 in illegal rent after converting his three-bedroom house into two flats without planning consent...

A tenant who set fire to her flat because her landlord was planning to evict her has been sentenced to three...

A rogue landlord who forced susceptible women into prostitution and sexually assaulted others while ruling his £16m property empire has been...

A landlord has been ordered to pay in excess of £235,000 for renting out illegal bedsits in east London after pleading...

The recent conviction of letting agent Thirunga Damayantharan for illegally keeping £15,000 of tenancy deposits has taken the total value of...

Local councils are calling on the government to close a legal loophole that allows landlords to get away with converting properties...

A letting agent in Croydon has been sentenced to 19 months in prison after being found guilty of keeping more than...

A private tenant in Motherwell faces a possible jail sentence after pleading guilty to producing cannabis at a flat in Addie...

A landlord has been ordered to pay £108,000 within three months or go to jail. Mohamed Omar Hassibi was refused consent to...

A buy-to-let landlord has narrowly escaped jail after failing to ensure gas appliances in one of her properties were checked for...

A private landlord has been jailed for almost four years after being found guilty of stealing money from more than 100...

Two cousins who turned their rental property in central Hartlepool into a drug factory were jailed yesterday. Mark Robbins, 42, and Sean...

A landlord in Hayes, west London, has been ordered to pay back more than £140,000 in rent she received unlawfully after...

A man has been sentenced to almost three-and-a-half-years in jail after being found guilty of remortgaging his elderly parents’ £1.5m house...

A Coventry-based landlord has avoided a prison sentence over fire safety offences after his tenant suffered life-threatening burns to 40% of...

A landlord who was jailed earlier this year after being found guilty of cultivating a cannabis crop of £75,000 in two...

A landlord in Norfolk who flew into a rage and fired his 12 bore shotgun in the air before telling his...

A landlord in Grimsby has been jailed and ordered to pay costs of more than £100,000 after putting the lives of...

A significant number of EU citizens living in the private rented sector (PRS) say they are worried that the result of...

Our latest infographic shows figures of how the majority of deposits are repaid at the end of tenancy and goes into...

A fraudster who posed as a letting agent with the sole intention of stealing from landlords and tenants has been jailed...

A private landlord in north London has been sentenced to four months imprisonment and fined £20,000 after pleading guilty to intimidating his...

An unscrupulous letting agent who conned landlords and tenants out of more than £220,000 has been sentenced to four and a half...

A letting agent who closed his New Malden firm leaving 17 landlords some £27,000 out of pocket has been jailed for...

A rent-to-rent fraudster has been jailed for 16 months after being found guilty of six counts of fraud relating to HMOs Moses...

A letting agent in South London has been found to be the front for a cannabis growing operation, with drugs grown...

A Birmingham landlord has been sent to prison for 19 months and ordered to pay £13,820 costs over a catalogue of...

A Staffordshire letting agent who stole £123,000 from landlords and tenants has been given a suspended prison sentence which has been...

A buy-to-let landlord in Stockton-on-Tees, has been sentenced after illegally uncapping and reconnecting a gas supply. Teeside Magistrates’ Court heard that David...

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

A firefighter has been jailed after inadequate fire safety measures contributed to the deaths of five people at a rented property...

Some 71% of the public agree that landlords who commit housing offences should face prison sentences. A YouGov poll, commissioned by the...

A letting agent who fled the country leaving creditors, landlords, tenants and his own staff hundreds of pounds out of pocket...

A landlord who attacked a tenant in the street following a “campaign of harassment and violence” over rent has been jailed...

Plans to force landlords to act as border control and potentially be jailed if they house illegal immigrants have met with...

Landlords could face a prison sentence for breaching the Government’s ‘Right to Rent’ checks in a series of measures to tackle...

A Bristol landlord has been handed a suspended jail sentence after student flats under his ownership were found to have numerous...

A letting agent who lost at least £577,865 in missing tenancy deposits and rent payments has escaped jail. However Peter Leonard, 58,...

A court has heard how two landlords have lost thousands of pounds to a tenant who allegedly claimed to be their...

A landlord has been jailed for four years for cultivating cannabis. Sixty-year-old James Sullivan was thought to have been overseeing the cultivation...