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The National Residential Landlords Association says the government has chosen the wrong benchmark against which to judge property conditions. Responding to proposals...

ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...

A lettings sector trade body is blasting local authorities for their poor record on trying to eliminate rogue landlords. The National Residential...

Rogue landlords who create portfolios of overcrowded, unregulated and unsafe properties - including the infamous beds in sheds - now face...

Three criminal landlords have paid £350,000 in fines after being found guilty of illegal ‘beds in sheds’. Brian Linskey and Catherine Hallahan...

A London council is urging landlords to check whether their properties require licensing under a new scheme introduced this month. Enfield’s new...

The government needs to beef up enforcement if it wants to address rogue landlords who put tenants at risk, says the...

Over half of local authorities in England have not issued any civil penalties against rogue or criminal landlords in the last...

Activists led by Baroness Alicia Kennedy of Generation Rent say the proposed reform of the private rental system must include a...

There are now 10 councils with licensing schemes covering more than 20 per cent of the rental market according to activists’...

The Generation Rent campaign group has entered the fray for the Police and Crime Commissioner elections which will be held in some...

The Rent Smart Wales quango, now five years old, has been sharply criticised by the National Residential Landlords Association.  A report commissioned...

A London council has confirmed its right to refuse licenses to criminal landlords - even reformed ones. A story in the East...

While some rogue landlords and bad players grab the headlines, the reality is that the vast majority of private sector landlords...

The government’s decision to invest an additional £4m in funding for local councils to tackle criminal landlords and letting agents has...

Proposals for a national register of landlords have been rejected by the government.  A report on the joint research project between the...

The government crackdown on the buy-to-let sector has seen landlord regulations increase by a third since the Conservative party came into...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has compiled a manifesto that it hopes all political parties will take note of ahead of...

Introducing a ‘rogue landlords’ database without better enforcement would be a pointless exercise, according to the National Landlords Association (NLA). A rogue...

Citizens Advice has called for more regulation of the private rented sector after research revealed that hundreds of thousands of tenants...

Landlord licensing schemes are being introduced across England, while they are mandatory in Scotland and Wales, as local authorities attempt to...

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

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

The new regulations introduced last month to bring mandatory licensing to all Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) was designed to better...

Two thirds of councils in England and Wales responding to a FOI request by the Residential Landlords Association brought no prosecutions...

The launch yesterday of a consultation by the government on establishing a new housing court has been welcomed by the Residential...

Rogue landlords in Ashford will now face fines of up to £30,000 after Ashford Borough Council voted to adopt new rules...

There was an increase in the number of tenants in the private rented sector experiencing a rent increase in May compared...

The government’s decision to review how selective licensing is used across the private rental sector in order to find out how well...

The government is hoping to improve standards in the private rented sector in Telford by handing £388,925 to Telford & Wrekin...

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

Three tenants who sub-let a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Kingsbury, north-west London, to 35 men have been fined more than 23,000. The residents...

Criminal landlords who crammed up to 40 migrants inside their semi-detached townhouse in north-west London face losing hundreds of thousands of...

The mayor of London Sadiq Khan yesterday launched a new public online database which ‘names and shames’ dodgy landlords and letting...

The Home Office is hoping to drive up standards in the private rented sector in Bristol by handing £321,750 to Bristol...

A new property licensing scheme has been introduced by Redbridge Council in order to crack down on rogue landlords – and...

Landlords renting out properties in the London borough of Brent have been ordered to pay fines totalling more than £500,000 over...

The mayor of London Sadiq Khan has vowed to crackdown on criminal landlords by ensuring that they are ‘named and shamed’...

Councils across the country are being urged to raise their game when it comes to protecting private tenants from a minority...

New measures under the Immigration Act 2016, which came into play yesterday, will only be welcomed by those operating in the...

Don Valley MP Caroline Flint is calling for selective licensing to be extended across the borough, after visiting Newham in London,...

Let's face it - landlords have a bad reputation. The press often portray buy-to-let landlords as greedy money-grabbers who are looking...

The government’s proposed changes to mortgage interest relief, which will  see landlords taxed on their turnover rather than profit, has been...

Andy Burnham, former Labour leadership candidate and now the party's candidate for Greater Manchester Mayor, has put forward a number of...

A landlord has been fined almost £500 after changing the locks on his rental property.  Peter Lamont was prosecuted by Halton Council...

A criminal landlord has been handed a fine of almost £40,000 after he was caught housing 24 tenants in a rental...

No fewer than 31 people were found to be living in cramped conditions in a four bedroom house in north-west London...

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

Action is needed to tackle the scandal of ‘buy-to-leave’ investors who are denying Londoners the homes they need, according to the...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has set out what it believes should be priorities for the successful London Mayoral candidate in...

Proposals to make it easier for London boroughs to introduce landlord licensing schemes will do nothing to root out criminal landlords,...

The consumer charity Citizens Advice is the latest body to say the government’s heavily-publicised £5m given to councils to tackle rogue...

New funding from the government to tackle criminal landlords is just not sufficient according to the Residential Landlords Association. It has been...

The legislative system dealing with rogue landlords is ‘unfit for purpose’ and should be replaced with a national database covering all...

Local authorities that charge landlords for licences solely to collect information on the number of landlords in an area have been...

Local councils are being urged to drop landlord licensing schemes following the publication of new laws showing that they are not...

A Scottish letting agency and rental campaign group are working in partnership to assess the implications of what they call the...

Two landlords in Leamington Spa in the West Midlands have been fined £27,000 for failing to manage a house in multiple...

Two landlords in Wolverhampton have pleaded guilty to several housing failures. The landlords, Joginder and Rashpal Bains, who own 100 properties in...

Some 71% of the public agree that landlords who commit housing offences should face prison sentences. A YouGov poll, commissioned by the...

Reading Council has launched a consultation on the creation of a Private Rented Sector Housing Charter. If established, the Charter will include...

Enforcement officers from Barking and Dagenham Council swooped on three addresses in east London last week as part of clamp down...

The tiny number of landlord convictions is no deterrent to the worst landlords, Generation Rent has said, as it calls on...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has said the key to protecting tenants is enforcement of existing rules and regulations rather than...

MPs have introduced two new bills that will crackdown on rogue landlords. The first measure introduced to parliament yesterday was by the...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is calling on ministers to take action to find and root out the criminals who bring...

In a surprise move, Prime Minister David Cameron said the Tories will introduce a mandatory licencing scheme for private landlords. In a...