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A landlord has pleaded guilty of four counts of breaching a Criminal Behaviour Order and told to expect to pay “a...

In what has been described as a ‘first’ by the local authority concerned, a rogue landlord has been banned from letting...

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

A landlord must pay thousands of pounds after illegally letting an outbuilding for over three years. Paul Vig admitted failing to comply with...

A London landlord has been ordered to pay almost £275,000 for failing to comply with an existing planning enforcement notice. Mrs Anja...

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

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 in his 70s who claims he was just ‘helping people’ has been handed a suspended prison sentence. That’s because he...

A gas engineer was shocked to come across a large cannabis grow in a rental property after being called to change...

A landlord in south west of England has been given a nine month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, following a...

A landlord has admitted voyeurism and has been handed a suspended prison sentence and placed on the sex offenders’ register for...

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

A couple from Barry in Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, have been handed suspended prison sentences for benefit fraud after being convicted...

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

A private landlord in Lincoln has been warned that he could be given a prison sentence of up to 15 months...

We all know that investing in a buy-to-let (BTL) property is a huge responsibility, but for those of you who are...

Few people familiar with the UK property market would dispute the fact that the Right to Rent scheme has been deeply...

A buy-to-let landlord who converted a flat in London Bridge into ‘cramped bedsits’ without planning consent has been ordered to pay...

A buy-to-let landlord who allowed tenants to occupy rooms without windows after failing to get planning consent for a block of...

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

Letting a home can be an intimidating task if you’re doing it for the first time. You may have deliberately entered...

A landlord from Blackburn has been fined after failing to maintain gas appliances at his rental properties in Norwich. Norwich Magistrates’ Court...

The government has been urged to introduce new legislation to outlaw the “scandalous” and “immoral” practice of sex for rent deals. Liz...

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...

A buy-to-let landlord has been given a suspended prison sentence, instructed to undertake community service and ordered to pay almost £6,500...

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

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

A private landlord from Cornwall has been given a 12-month prison sentence suspended for 24 months, fined £5,000, and ordered to...

When investing in buy-to-let, you can’t always be sure when the appliances and pipe work in the property were last serviced...

A buy-to-let landlord in Ilfracombe, a seaside resort on the North Devon coast, has been given a suspended prison sentence for...

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

A buy-to-let landlord in Sheffield has been told that he has to pay £2,412 in court costs, fines and compensation after...

A London based landlord has been given a suspended two-year prison sentence for tax fraud, following a Revenue and Customs investigation...

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 in Scunthorpe has been prosecuted for tenancy fraud and ordered to pay back more than £30,000 after deceptively...

A buy-to-let landlord in Plymouth put the lives of his tenants at risk of a gas explosion after carrying out gas...

A Cricklewood landlord who was ordered in September to pay more than £700,000 after he breached Barnet Council’s planning enforcement rules...

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

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

An unregistered gas fitter has been received a suspended prison sentence for illegally installing a gas boiler and undertaking landlord’s gas...

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

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

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

Councils need to be handed greater powers to tackle rogue landlords ‘taking advantage’ and ‘ripping off’ tenants. This is the call from...

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