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An analysis of over 600,000 tenancy applications has found that fraudulent applications rose by 140% last year.  The analysis, carried out by...

A man assaulted his housemates before holding his landlord in a room at knifepoint. Amin Zehar, 37, was living at a property...

A property law specialist wants a national register of tenants to allow landlords to check their history before rental agreements are...

Eviction experts claim the UK court system is nearing crisis point as many County Court bailiff evictions are being put on...

Research by the National Residential Landlords Association reveals that of those private landlords who have served a repossession notice, half have...

A couple growing cannabis at a house in Cambridgeshire jumped through a window and hid in the loft of their rental...

Lettings agency and property management consultancy Bramleys has revealed the most common landlord complaints, and has provided suggestions as to how...

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

Over half of tenants who have stayed at short let home-based properties via Airbnb or similar platforms have broken or damaged...

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

Some tenants are effectively “professional crooks” taking advantage of Coronavirus law changes to avoid paying landlords, a leading letting agent says. Benham...

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

Direct Line Business Insurance has outlined seven tell-tale signs of cannabis cultivation, which it says is an increasing problem for landlords across...

A former tenant who tried two frame his landlord’s partner as being involved in the Westminster terrorist attack has been convicted...

An expert assessment of the average cost of damage caused by rogue tenants growing cannabis suggests landlords will typically pay almost...

It’s a story that’s seldom told - how some tenants steal items from landlords’ properties when a tenancy ends. Now the Oxford...

A tenant who sub-let a property by falsely claiming to be its owner has been given a criminal record.  Sonia Nascimento rented...

A former tenant has been fined for sending racially offensive messages to his former landlord over three years after being evicted...

An industry service supplier has revealed the scale of the backlog in possession cases which cannot be pursued to eviction because of...

A landlord says he feared for his safety and locked himself in his bedroom following a drunken rampage by a tenant. The...

Evicting an unscrupulous tenant could potentially cost landlords thousands, even hundreds of thousands of pounds, new research shows. Benham and Reeves has...

Amid the headline-grabbing political manoeuvring over Brexit, a policy proposal which could have serious ramifications for thousands of private landlords –...

MakeUrMove is warning that a significant number of buy-to-let landlords are thinking about quitting the private rented sector due to problem tenants...

A new TV show called ‘Bad Tenants, Rogue Landlords’, a companion series to ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords’, starts today. Following the success...

The new blacklist of rogue agents and landlords, introduced as part of the Housing and Planning Bill, will go a long...

Significantly more must be done to protect landlords from rogue tenants, according to a couple who were left with a £10,000...

The government has vowed to offer private renters extra protections and safeguards, as set out in the long-awaited white paper yesterday,...

Given the financial issues that landlords can experience when they rent their property out to a nightmare tenant, especially those that...

Sheffield Council has promised to continue targeting rogue landlords after bringing its highest-ever number of successful prosecutions. Seven individuals and companies were...

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

Eviction firm Landlord Action is calling for a blacklist of persistent rogue tenants to be made public. The Housing and Planning Bill...

Police are seeking a rogue tenant who posed as a landlord to con cash out of potential tenants for a studio...

The National Landlords Association (NLA) has launched its latest campaign, Reinventing Renting, which identifies opportunities for landlords to enhance their lettings...

A blog post by eviction specialists Landlord Action has exposed bad tenants who can clearly afford to pay the rent but...

In a welcome change to rogue landlord stories, a number of national newspapers have run a story about tenants trashing a...

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