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Buy to let landlords have been savagely attacked by the country’s biggest investment company - which just happens to be a...

The coalition of 20-plus groups which have previously spoken enthusiastically about the Renters Reform Bill has now changed its mind. On April...

In the recent landlord sentiment survey conducted by the Property Redress Scheme, it came as no surprise to me to discover...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is demanding the government finally abolish Section 21 eviction powers - and claims over 30,000 households in...

MPs have given the Renters Reform Bill its Second Reading - a procedure which means it now continues into the Committee...

Councillors in part of Wales are considering the creation of a 'Report A Rogue Landlord’ system for tenants who claim their...

Home Secretary Suella Braverman has been accused of using landlords to do her dirty work for her. In a response to the...

Landlords who allow rental properties to be let to migrants who do not have the right to be in the UK...

A Labour MP who last held shadow office under the party leadership of Jeremy Corbyn has attacked the government for having...

Labour will create a national landlord register to protect tenants from what the party calls “unscrupulous property owners.: Party leader Sir Kier...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has pledged that the long awaited Rental Reform Bill will be introduced into the Commons in two...

Illegal meter-tampering is putting people’s lives at risk as they resort to increasingly desperate measures to reduce spiralling energy bills, two...

Trafford council is believed to be the first to have signed up to a scheme created by Greater Manchester Labour Mayor...

A Labour council is being tipped to vote tomorrow to introduce rent controls for the private sector, even though it has...

A former lettings agent who has become a sharp critic of landlords has made another attack - this time suggesting that...

Landlord and letting agent fears over the impact of rental reform could be eased if only the industry used rigorous and...

A former lettings agent who’s turned poacher is now claiming students are faced with what he calls “rip-off renting”. Ajay Jagota, who...

The government’s expected U-turn on the future of Section 21 eviction powers has provoked an explosion of anger from Generation Rent...

Unscrupulous landlords in the ‘exempt rental’ niche will be driven out by a new clampdown, the government insists. The exempt sector provides...

One of the highest profile advocates of widespread reform in the private rental sector has been Baroness Alicia Kennedy, director of...

There has been an angry response by some politicians in Wales to the decision by the Labour administration to delay implementation...

Michael Gove’s Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has given £650,000 to one town to clampdown on rogue landlords. A statement...

A government housing minister says the Boris Johnson administration wants to shift the balance of power in the rental sector favour...

The long-running saga of unscrupulous landlords taking advantage of lone tenants to suggest a ‘sex for rent’ arrangement continues with a...

Airbnb has issued a lengthy statement in response to a recent raft of criticisms about the effects of soaring numbers of...

One of the leading industry suppliers has given a warning to government that continual regulation and legal changes restricting landlords will...

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

A Labour MP is demanding action against unscrupulous predator landlords who demand sex from tenants in lieu of rent. The Daily Mail...

Landlords considering taking advantage of the government’s new Green Homes Grant are being warned of a surge in cowboy building works. Sheffield...

Landlords who frequently have to change locks after tenants leave are being warned to be on their guard against rogue locksmiths...

Buy-to-let landlords in Walthamstow, north east London, have been ordered to pay a collective total of £375,000 after modifying their buy-to-let...

The government is being encouraged to consider introducing a national register of rental properties to improve tax compliance in the buy-to-let...

Ashfield District Council has joined forces with police officers in the Sutton area of Nottinghamshire to clampdown on unscrupulous landlords operating...

A new licensing scheme designed to clampdown on unscrupulous landlords has been put forward for consideration by  Liverpool City Council. The new...

Unscrupulous landlords in the East End of London been ordered to pay more than £100,000 over the past 12 months for...

New regulation introduced yesterday could see unscrupulous landlords fined up to £30,000 if they do not comply with the rules.  Under the...

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

Back in 1940, when this country was again fighting a ruthless enemy, albeit of a very different kind to now, Winston...

An unscrupulous landlord who illegally rented out properties in Fife has been sentenced to two years in prison after failing to...

An unscrupulous landlord has been fined £27,000 over an unlicensed HMO in Luton with multiple fire and safety breaches. ​ Luton Magistrates Court...

An unscrupulous letting agent has been jailed for two years for conning landlords and tenants out of almost a quarter of...

Slough Borough Council has taken action against an unscrupulous landlord in Slough who to date has refused to pay a fine...

An unscrupulous landlord has been ordered to pay more than £150,000 after failing to fix several safety hazards in his property. Officers from...

Labour has pledged to clampdown on rogue landlords and restrict rent hikes in England if it wins next month’s general election.  A...

Marks Out Of Tenancy, a letting review website, has launched a digital service to help local authorities crackdown on unscrupulous landlords...

Fresh funding for local councils in England to tackle unscrupulous landlords has been made available, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local...

Unscrupulous landlords in the London Borough of Hackney face more stringent regulation after Hackney Council agreed to new property licensing powers...

An unscrupulous landlord has been ordered to pay almost £4,000 after tenants were discovered living in an appalling and unsafe property.  Officers...

Council officers from Brent and Harrow Trading Standards have pledged to clampdown on unscrupulous letting agents in the London boroughs of...

ARLA Propertymark is urging the government to continue taking action to clampdown on unscrupulous agents in the letting industry.  A significant number...

Following the introduction of new HMO licences in Hackney, east London, the local council has taken legal action against four landlords...

A council used a plane with thermal imaging to catch unscrupulous landlords that allowed tenants to live in substandard conditions.  Several people...

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

It is not always possible for an individual or company to improve its image beyond that of its industry, and that is...

An unscrupulous landlord has been ordered to pay £47,500 after council officers found 11 people living in a small flat in...

An unscrupulous landlord who housed at least 25 tenants in a rundown property in north-west London has been ordered to pay...

The latest episode of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords left many viewers stunned after the show exposed extensive damage to a property...

An unscrupulous landlord in Chesterfield has been ordered to pay a total of £5,684.91 after being prosecuted by a second time...

Portsmouth City Council is controversially planning to introduce a landlord licensing scheme in the city without potentially allowing around half of...

Throughout April and May, we ran a high-profile campaign across our sites, Landlord Today, Estate Agent Today, Letting Agent Today and...

An unscrupulous tenant who forged a statement to back up a county court claim against her landlord has been jailed for...

But-to-let landlords will have little alternative but to become more selective over what tenants they are willing to accept if the...

Hostmaker, which specialises in managing London properties put on to Airbnb and other short-let platforms, has apologised for causing controversy over...

More than 8,300 Londoners have called on London Mayor Sadiq Khan to ban adverts ‘encouraging’ landlords to abandon long-term tenants for...

Controversial short-lets managing agents Hostmaker has defended its latest advertising campaign after once again sparking outrage among some industry professionals for...

When it comes to letting a property, it is important that landlords and renters have faith in their agent.   To many renters,...

Housing charity Shelter has launched a £600,000 fund in Greater Manchester today with a view to finding real-life solutions to the...

An unscrupulous landlord has been told to pay close to £25,000 after being prosecuted for renting out rooms in an unlicensed...

Local authorities across England are spending significantly less on dealing with rogue landlords than in 2009-10, new research shows. According to Residential...

An unscrupulous landlord who converted three family homes into houses in multiple occupation (HMO) without planning consent has been jailed for...

Luton Council has successfully prosecuted an unscrupulous landlord for letting three unlicensed houses in which several people lived in squalor. Zenith Accommodation...

The proportion of income spent by private tenants on rents in England has continued to fall, according to an official report...

Ealing council has praised buy-to-let landlords operating in the local area after fresh figures revealed that there are more properly accredited...

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

Buy-to-let landlords are “getting away with murder” according to Advice4Renters, after new figures revealed that just two out of almost 2,000...

Close to £2.4m of additional funding designed to clampdown on unscrupulous landlords will be made available for more than 50 councils...

An unscrupulous landlord has been punished for providing his tenant with poor living conditions by being ordered to pay more than...

Six directors have been banned for a total of 54 years after misleading more than 300 investors who collectively invested at...

A buy-to-let landlord in Luton has been ordered to pay £8,510 by Luton Magistrates Court for continuing to rent out a...

At least 19 landlords and tenants have been left £105,000 out of pocket by unscrupulous letting agents who ran London-based letting...

A woman who repeatedly ignored council orders to stop renting ‘beds in sheds’ has been ordered to pay back almost £450,000...

Buy-to-let landlords who have endured the misfortune of being lumbered with nightmare tenants are being encouraged to enter a competition which...

An unscrupulous landlord has been ordered to pay close to £30,000 after being found guilty of a number of breaches relating...

A buy-to-let landlord has been left with a major clean-up bill after a tenant from hell trashed his rented home in...

Middlesborough Council is hoping to clampdown on unscrupulous landlords operating in the Newport ward, particularly in and around the Gresham area,...

An unscrupulous landlord who crammed six families into a three-bedroom house has been ordered to pay just under £3,000 by a...

An unscrupulous landlord whose tenants were living in degrading and hazardous conditions has been banned from renting out his property. Several complaints...

Councils must do more to root out unscrupulous landlords that give the sector a bad name, according to the Residential Landlords...

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

An unscrupulous landlord who allowed up to 40 tenants to live in poor conditions in a disused pub in North Wales...

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

Rogue letting agents and landlords have reportedly been convicted of stealing almost £1m worth of tenancy deposits so far this year,...

With more Airbnb listings in this country than ever before, there is growing concern among MPs that the home sharing website...

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

Automated payment systems can help to reduce letting agency fraud, it has been claimed. PropTech firm PayProp says that automating rental payment...

Buy-to-let landlords are being urged to prepare for the introduction of the letting fees ban, which will make it illegal to...

Criminal landlords across London will be named and shamed on an online database after all London boroughs signed up to a rogue...

A rogue landlord has been ordered to pay almost £3,000 after being found guilty of a number of breaches relating to...

Local authorities should be given the power to confiscate properties from landlords who break the law, according to a committee of...

A rogue landlord who left tenants living in substandard conditions in Selly Oak and Edgbaston has been ordered to pay in...