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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 who failed to licence his property has been ordered to pay back over £5,000 in rent. Michael Convery from Belfast...

A London council is running what it describes as “an innovative project” to help private tenants reclaim rent from landlords who...

A landlord who failed to licence his properties has been ordered to pay back over £8,000 in rent. Dexter Blackstock, a former...

A leading officer in a Labour council which has in the past taken landlords to court says this process is so...

London’s Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan has launched a new tool for tenants to check on their landlords - and possibly claim...

Northampton council is seeking a so-called Charging Order against a landlord who failed to carry out improvements to her property and then...

A landlord in Winchester has been ordered to pay nearly £30,000 in rent after a tribunal backed his tenants in a...

A man deemed not to be a fit and proper person to hold a licence for a house in multiple occupation...

Buy-to-let investors should be ‘extremely wary’ of buying property in an area affected by selective licensing rules because many local authorities...

A landlord in Stevenage who allowed his tenant to live in an excessively cold attic with a serious fire safety hazard...

A London-based property firm has been ordered to pay back 70% of their profits gained from renting poorly converted flats in...

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

An unscrupulous landlord who forced a tenant to live in appalling conditions has been ordered to repay more than £1,000 in...

Cheshire East Council has pledged to clampdown on rogue landlords who allow tenants to live in poor housing standards within the...

West Suffolk councils have agreed to clamp down on dodgy landlords by adopting new powers to tackle them, following a joint...

With less than two weeks until the new registration and licensing system in Wales, Rent Smart Wales, becomes a mandatory requirement, thousands...

Private landlord Pierce Mullally has been ordered to repay more than £3,000 for operating in Burnley without a proper licence. He admitted...

The Housing and Planning Bill, which includes measures to tackle criminal landlords and letting agents, should also address the issue of...

Liverpool City Council (LCC) has issued just 2% of licensing applications since launching its citywide landlord licensing scheme in April last...

The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has published the full outcome of its consultation: Tackling rogue landlords and improving...

Rogue landlords will be banned from letting property under new measures to be brought in under the Housing and Planning Bill. The...