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A landlord faces a hefty jail sentence unless she finds over £50,000 in the next three months - and on top...

Fines for rogue landlords and agents in London have surged past the £10 million mark.   With 19 council licensing schemes and...

A landlord who illegally converted a property into six flats has been ordered to pay more than £220,000. A previous unlawful change...

A London council has successfully prosecuted two landlords who failed to comply with a planning enforcement notice originally issued against substandard...

A flamboyant property in Oxford which has been the subject of a decades-long planning dispute has been removed from Airbnb by...

Newham council in London has won what it calls a landmark case against a convicted rogue landlord. The court has dismissed the...

A landlord who used a fake name to evade detection has been hit with £485,000 in fines after illegally renting out...

Councils in Greater Manchester admit to charging landlords over £14,000 for “officer time” involved in licensing schemes. There are currently eight selective...

A landlord who repeatedly failed to comply with a Planning Enforcement Notice has received a hefty fine. Sultan Mahmood, of Woking, was...

A council has issued a statement boasting of its record prosecuting rogue landlords. Somerset council says it has successfully prosecuted a Taunton...

A landlord and two businesses have been fined over £145,000 following a fire in a building containing residential flats and a...

A London landlord has been ordered to pay over £33,000 in costs for illegally running an HMO. The three-bedroom HMO was identified...

A rogue landlord has been ordered to pay over £15,000 after illegally altering buildings he let out as HMOs in the...

A London Labour council is putting an extra £400,000 into enforcement against private landlords allegedly ignoring serious damp and mould issues. The...

A London landlord has been fined and ordered to pay a confiscation order for ignoring planning rules Magistrates ordered landlord Zulfiqar Ahmed...

The latest attack on landlords by Generation Rent director Baroness Alicia Kennedy concerns insulation and household warmth. She claims a quarter of...

A London landlord has been ordered to pay over £64,000 for breaking housing regulations. In July last year Sumon Miah was found...

Rogue landlords in one area of London could face unlimited fines, criminal convictions and bans from letting out properties. The measures are...

A planning inspector has ordered a rogue landlord to comply with enforcement notices after being found to be illegally renting two...

Two married landlords from Southall have been ordered to pay over £290,000 after failing to comply with a planning enforcement notice. Kartar and...

A landlord must pay thousands of pounds after illegally letting an outbuilding for over three years. Paul Vig admitted failing to comply with...

A London landlord has been ordered to pay almost £275,000 for failing to comply with an existing planning enforcement notice. Mrs Anja...

A landlord who built extensions and converted them into flats and bedsits all without planning permission has been given a record...

Fines totalling more than £250,000 were issued to rogue landlords in Barking and Dagenham last year. Offences included failing to have a...

A landlord who illegally turned a London property into 13 flats has been hit by nearly £200,000 in fines, costs and...

A Crown Court judge has ordered a landlord to pay back almost £750,000 in illicit earnings made from overcrowded properties in...

Two landlords have to pay almost £8,000 for letting their flats in defiance of a Prohibition Order.  The order came into force...

Two men have been ordered to pay almost £8,000 for letting out flats in defiance of regulations designed to keep tenants...

A council clampdown on four short let flats in Edinburgh has been backed by the Scottish Government. The council discovered that the...

A London landlord must pay over £280,000 in three months after housing eight people in a flat deems illegal for even...

A London landlord who ignored six enforcement notices served by his local council has been ordered to pay over £300,000. Salim Mussa Patel...

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...

A landlord in Oxford is no longer allowed to offer a local property for short-term lets following a lengthy planning battle...

A buy-to-let landlord in Doncaster has lost an appeal at the High Court after he built an extension on a property...

A buy-to-let landlord has been ordered to pay back a whopping £190,000 after he was caught receiving rental from illegal flats. A...

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

Hull City Council has come under pressure for unjustly taking an aggressive stance against landlords after a sharp rebuke from the...

Plans to introduce a new licensing scheme for privately rented homes in Barking and Dagenham has been approved by the government. Under...

A buy-to-let landlord who converted a flat in London Bridge into ‘cramped bedsits’ without planning consent has been ordered to pay...

A buy-to-let landlord who allowed tenants to occupy rooms without windows after failing to get planning consent for a block of...

More needs to be done to stem the rise in short-term lets on Airbnb in Scotland to ensure that the market...

Rogue landlords who converted terrace houses into shoebox flats without planning permission have been ordered to re-pay illegal income or face...

One of the UK’s biggest and arguably most contentious buy-to-let landlords has been ordered to pay £25,000 after ignoring a notice...

Folkestone Magistrates Court’s decision last week to find high profile landlord, Judith Wilson, guilty of failing to comply with an enforcement...

Britain’s biggest and arguably most contentious buy-to-let landlord could be slapped with an ‘unlimited’ fine after leaving a wheelchair-bound tenant without...

A landlord who built an outbuilding and converted it into eight small flats without planning consent has been ordered to pay...

A Conservative councillor has been ordered to pay more than £57,000 after being taken to court by his own council for...

A buy-to-let landlord who rented out a converted British Telecom station in Osterley without consent has been ordered to pay over...

The mayor of London’s decision to launch a new public online database which ‘names and shames’ rogue landlords and letting agents...

A pair of landlords in Dagenham have been slapped with a hefty fine for renting out two illegally converted flats over...

A landlord in east London will have to cough up more than £100,000 or face going to jail for illegally converting...

A private landlord who converted several houses into bedsits without planning consent has been ordered to pay more than £340,000. Latif Rehman,...

A rogue landlord who rented out squalid flats, which breached council planning laws and failed to meet basic living standards, has...

A landlord has been prosecuted by Barkingside Magistrates' Court for renting out a property in Dagenham with damp and mould issues,...

A landlord has been ordered to pay in excess of £235,000 for renting out illegal bedsits in east London after pleading...

A landlord who broke the law by converting a building into seven flats in east London without planning consent could be...

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £100,000 for developing illegal flats at her property after being prosecuted by...

A self-styled property investor known as “HMO Daddy” has been the subject of an enforcement notice by the local council after...

Two north London landlords who breached planning regulations by converting a house into seven studio flats have been ordered to pay...

A North London landlord has been ordered to pay more than £200,000 by Harrow Crown Court for illegally converting two Brent...

A landlord who let tenants sleep in an outbuilding in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex has been fined nearly £6,000. Syed Junid Ul Hassan Shah...

Two unauthorised outhouses have been demolished by Ealing Council after the landlord failed to comply with an enforcement notice. Demolition of the...