Scams involving fake landlords and bogus lettings agents are rife in the private rentals sector, and may have been made worse...
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23 February 2021
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The Financial Conduct Authority wants to find people who unwittingly invested in an unauthorised land banking scheme - they may be...
14 October 2020
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The Generation Rent campaign says a mandatory landlord register is necessary - and would have stopped the actions of a rogue...
06 October 2020
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Gumtree, the dedicated website for free classifieds adverts in the UK, is urging landlords and tenants to follow its ‘safety advice’ when...
05 March 2020
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A young couple who recently turned to the web to find a property to rent have fallen prey to a fraudulent...
03 March 2020
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There is a growing issue of tenants subletting their rental properties on websites like Airbnb, with some renters inappropriately using it...
28 October 2019
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Lord Alan Sugar has issued a warning to Airbnb users after a family was cheated out of around £465 because fraudsters told...
22 October 2019
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A man in Dundee has denied that he fraudulently pretended to be a landlord who asked for an up-front deposit from...
16 May 2019
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A fraudster pretending to be a landlord scammed a couple looking to move into a new property with their children out...
29 April 2019
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The National Landlords Association (NLA) is reminding would-be tenants to be vigilant when looking for somewhere new to live and to...
08 April 2019
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A tenant who was found guilty of deliberately burning down a property he was renting four years ago was sentenced to...
18 March 2019
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Fraudsters posing as landlords have conned prospective tenants out of £20,000 over the past couple months by persuading them to pay...
22 February 2019
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Many people invest in property or sign up to investment club arrangements, which are not uncommon in the industry, but sometimes it...
21 February 2019
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A rogue managing agent of an overcrowded house of multiple occupation (HMO) in east London has been fined £26,000 for breaches...
16 October 2018
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A buy-to-let landlord who pushed a council employee out of one of his properties in Blackpool has been cleared of assault. Landlord...
25 September 2018
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Propio Properties has launched a new online property investment platform that it hopes will appeal to buy-to-let investors looking for a...
14 June 2018
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Having a poor performing rental property or one you simply wish to get rid of quickly can be a real drain...
08 June 2018
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An unscrupulous individual pretending to be a private landlord in order to scam more than £10,000 from unsuspecting tenants before going...
06 February 2018
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Rogue landlords are profiting from the housing benefit system by enticing desperate local authorities to place single homeless people into small...
19 January 2018
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A couple in Plymouth have been scammed out of £1,200 by a fake landlord who copied and pasted pictures and details...
25 September 2017
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Private landlords offering accommodation to students who are planning to go to the University of Newcastle this September are being targeted...
11 August 2017
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With July being Fraud Awareness Month, the subject of online rental fraud has been brought into the spotlight by Nick Marr,...
20 July 2017
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Local councils are calling on the government to close a legal loophole that allows landlords to get away with converting properties...
14 April 2017
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The vast majority of landlords are unable to identify a fake passport when presented with one leaving them vulnerable to fraudsters...
29 March 2017
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Private tenants can now verify a landlord's credentials for any UK rental opportunity following the launch of a new landlord checking...
20 October 2016
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A landlord and her accomplice have been ordered to pay close to £28,000 after being caught out trying to con investigators...
16 September 2016
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Our latest infographic shows figures of how the majority of deposits are repaid at the end of tenancy and goes into...
05 August 2016
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A fraudster who posed as a letting agent with the sole intention of stealing from landlords and tenants has been jailed...
02 August 2016
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A rent-to-rent fraudster has been jailed for 16 months after being found guilty of six counts of fraud relating to HMOs Moses...
25 April 2016
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Bosses at internet listings site Gumtree will meet with the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) to discuss scam in which fraudsters posing...
03 March 2016
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The total number of evictions last year reached a record high of 42,728 according to data from the Ministry of Justice. Whilst...
16 February 2016
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The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is warning private investors not to be lured by firms offering schemes which allegedly promise to...
10 February 2016
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A tenant eviction specialist has warned that the Government’s proposal to introduce minimum room sizes will not prevent subletting scams which...
11 November 2015
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Stay tuned tomorrow evening at 9pm for the first in a six-part Channel 5 series about subletting. ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords’ follows...
23 June 2015
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Police are hunting for a man who posed as the landlord of the apartment he was renting in London, in order...