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Scams involving fake landlords and bogus lettings agents are rife in the private rentals sector, and may have been made worse...

The Financial Conduct Authority wants to find people who unwittingly invested in an unauthorised land banking scheme - they may be...

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

Gumtree, the dedicated website for free classifieds adverts in the UK, is urging landlords and tenants to follow its ‘safety advice’ when...

A young couple who recently turned to the web to find a property to rent have fallen prey to a fraudulent...

There is a growing issue of tenants subletting their rental properties on websites like Airbnb, with some renters inappropriately using it...

Lord Alan Sugar has issued a warning to Airbnb users after a family was  cheated out of around £465 because fraudsters told...

A man in Dundee has denied that he fraudulently pretended to be a landlord who asked for an up-front deposit from...

A fraudster pretending to be a landlord scammed a couple looking to move into a new property with their children out...

The National Landlords Association (NLA) is reminding would-be tenants to be vigilant when looking for somewhere new to live and to...

A tenant who was found guilty of deliberately burning down a property he was renting four years ago was sentenced to...

Fraudsters posing as landlords have conned prospective tenants out of £20,000 over the past couple months by persuading them to pay...

Many people invest in property or sign up to investment club arrangements, which are not uncommon in the industry, but sometimes it...

A rogue managing agent of an overcrowded house of multiple occupation (HMO) in east London has been fined £26,000 for breaches...

A buy-to-let landlord who pushed a council employee out of one of his properties in Blackpool has been cleared of assault. Landlord...

Propio Properties has launched a new online property investment platform that it hopes will appeal to buy-to-let investors looking for a...

Having a poor performing rental property or one you simply wish to get rid of quickly can be a real drain...

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

Rogue landlords are profiting from the housing benefit system by enticing desperate local authorities to place single homeless people into small...

A couple in Plymouth have been scammed out of £1,200 by a fake landlord who copied and pasted pictures and details...

Private landlords offering accommodation to students who are planning to go to the University of Newcastle this September are being targeted...

With July being Fraud Awareness Month, the subject of online rental fraud has been brought into the spotlight by Nick Marr,...

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

The vast majority of landlords are unable to identify a fake passport when presented with one leaving them vulnerable to fraudsters...

Private tenants can now verify a landlord's credentials for any UK rental opportunity following the launch of a new landlord checking...

A landlord and her accomplice have been ordered to pay close to £28,000 after being caught out trying to con investigators...

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

Bosses at internet listings site Gumtree will meet with the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) to discuss scam in which fraudsters posing...

The total number of evictions last year reached a record high of 42,728 according to data from the Ministry of Justice.  Whilst...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is warning private investors not to be lured by firms offering schemes which allegedly promise to...

A tenant eviction specialist has warned that the Government’s proposal to introduce minimum room sizes will not prevent subletting scams which...

Stay tuned tomorrow evening at 9pm for the first in a six-part Channel 5 series about subletting. ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords’ follows...

Police are hunting for a man who posed as the landlord of the apartment he was renting in London, in order...

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