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Amendments to be made to the Renters Reform Bill when it returns to the Hoise of Commons next week won’t significantly...

Private landlords applied for licences covering more than 12,000 homes during the first year of a controversial council’s selective licensing scheme. The...

A council is launching an innovative scheme whereby good landlords get long licences - and poor ones get short licences. Gloucester council...

A landlord has quit the private rental sector after a battle with his council over why his properties were put into...

A London council is consulting on another controversial landlord licensing scheme. Barking and Dagenham council’s existing Selective Licensing Scheme has been applied to...

A landlord has warned her local authority that high charges for licensing are unaffordable without the fee being passed on to...

Bristol’s controversial Labour council is extending previous licensing schemes to other parts of the city at some £1,800 HMO per licence...

A legal services provider is claiming that landlords risk criminal prosecution for breaches of licensing rules that are often “unreasonable and...

Labour is using a Bill currently going through Parliament as a backdoor method to introduce the regulation of lettings, estate and...

Landlords who fail to ensure their private rented homes meet required standards face massively increased charges from a council. Bath & North...

Michael Gove has written to 10 social housing providers - housing associations and councils - slamming them after findings of severe...

A council statement announcing a complex new licensing regime for the local private rental sector claims “landlords and agents who are...

The Additional Licensing HMO scheme in the Bath and North East Somerset area ends on New Year’s Eve.  The scheme covers around...

Bristol’s Labour-controlled council says it wants to spend some £17m of local council tax payers’ money on two new licensing schemes...

Trade bodies and short let landlords have made a last-ditch appeal to politicians to stop new rules which could see the...

A council is warning HMO landlords to apply for a licence ahead of a new regime starting this week. From September 1...

The Competitioin and Markets Authority is to probe five activities involving landlords and letting agents and their responsibilities to private tenants. Sarah...

A trio of Cambridge landlords have been fined more than £8,000 between them, after three separate HMOs were found to be...

A Labour council says local landlords have only a week to apply for a licence before a big rise in the...

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

A statement from Oxford’s Labour controlled council says private landlords in the city have under a month to apply for a...

Owners of short-term let properties are being urged to apply for a licence under Scotland’s short-term licensing scheme before the October...

Mulberry Real Estate Ltd, and its director, David Bryant, who are landlords of properties in Cardiff, have been fined for a...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who wants the government to give him the powers to impose rent controls, is now demanding licensing...

A landlord who did not hold licences for her six properties, has ended up with a criminal conviction and a hefty...

A landlord who failed to get his properties licensed has been fined. Under the Selective Landlord Licensing scheme in part of Middlesbrough...

One of London’s most aggressive landlord licensing regimes says it has an early-bird offer running until July 14. Landlords applying for Newham...

A plan to regulate short lets such as Airbnbs has been ruled unlawful by a judge before it even comes into...

The Welsh Government has published draft legislation that changes the terms of converted contracts and any renewals that replace them, closing...

The Generation Rent activist group says the government’s proposed clampdown on short let landlords does not go far enough. At the end...

A council launching a new selective licensing regime admits that three quarters of the applicants so far have omitted to provide...

Another Labour controlled council is introducing additional licensing for small HMOs. York council says that from April 1 an additional licence is...

A landlord’s company called Trophy Homes Limited, based in Liverpool, has pleaded guilty to failing to apply for an HMO licence...

A Wirral landlord has become the first in the region to be served with a Banning Order, which will prohibit him...

It’s claimed that Liverpool’s Labour council would take almost 150 years to process applications for its landlord licensing scheme. The council has...

Activist group Generation Rent says it’s not convinced about government proposals to increase regulation of holiday lets and short lets -...

Views are being sought on the designation of a scheme to improve standards in part of Middlesbrough.  A selective landlord licensing scheme...

A confused and complicated approach to holiday homes in England, Scotland and Wales threatens the future of the holiday letting sector...

A Selective Licensing scheme introduced by a council back in 2016 is set for expansion.  Middlesbrough council claims that its scheme has...

A scheme which some regard as the most controversial landlord licensing regime in the country is coming under scrutiny. Labour councillors on...

Local authorities in one part of the UK have revealed their charges for the licensing of Airbnb and other short lets. Scotland’s...

Landlords who rent out HMOs in parts of the Midlands are urged to act now so they don’t get hit with...

The first step within the UK to officially monitor Airbnb-style short lets comes into effect tomorrow, October 1. Scotland’s Short-Term Lets Licensing...

MPs are to have another opportunity to debate possible restrictions on the number of so-called party houses let from AirBnb and...

Barnet council in London is pushing ahead with plans to reintroduce an HMO licensing scheme next month, following a 15-month hiatus.  Additional...

Landlords are being encouraged to work with a local council “to give families a stable home, improve the quality of properties...

A landlord has been hit with a huge £23,000 fine for failing to properly maintain two HMOs. Landlord Lystra Dorval from Ilford...

A 10 week consultation by Portsmouth council on proposals for new HMO licensing has finished with 1,050 responses. Licences are required for...

Landlords have been warned they risk fixed penalty notices and the loss of HMO licences if students leave rubbish in public...

An MP has introduced a Private Member’s Bill which, if successful, would reduce what she calls the “nightmare” of Airbnb party...

A survey of over 600 landlords by a business insurance service has found that 55 per cent have still to make...

A new and huge landlord licensing scheme has launched in County Durham. A total of at least 29,000 properties, or 42 per...

PropTech firm Kamma says 11 new discretionary licensing schemes for landlords are set to launch in April - a record. This is the...

New selective licensing schemes are now live in areas of north and east Manchester covering more than 1,400 properties.  This means compulsory...

Bristol-based lettings management company Iletpro Ltd has been ordered to pay a total of £2,700.06 in fines and costs for failing...

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

A landlord has been prosecuted for a second time for breaches of Wirral council’s selective licensing scheme. The council’s housing standards team...

Home repairs service Rightio has provided a useful checklist of the hidden costs of being a landlord. Many seasoned hands will...

A landlord has been ordered to pay thousands of pounds by magistrates after a bedroom fire revealed tenants were living in...

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

There’s a warning that there’s been a huge rise in fraudulent tenant applications since the start of the pandemic. In terms of...

A landlord has been handed nearly £30,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to maintenance and safety failures at three...

A lettings agency is issuing general guidance to the landlord community ahead of changes to Electrical Safety Standards in April. Helen Hollingsworth,...

It appears that a London borough council’s two licensing schemes have expired at the turn of the year, with no alternative...

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

Havering council has agreed to the extension of its landlord licensing scheme.  It currently covers 12 wards and will be rolled out ...

London’s Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan has launched a new tool for tenants to check on their landlords - and possibly claim...

A landlord who failed to properly look after two HMOs has been fined £70,500 by an Essex council. Lystra Dorval, of Ilford,...

With new regulations and rules now in place for landlords, our in-house property experts outline their 10 essential safety requirements for...

South Tyneside council is considering a selective licensing in two areas of South Shields - and looks likely to ignore its...

A London local authority is to extend its current additional licensing scheme from 12 council wards to 18 - and is...

The Scottish government has announced new measures to regulate short-term lets north of the border.  The government is handing local authorities fresh...

Nottingham City Council has been criticised for targeting responsible landlords whilst doing little to clampdown on rogue operators in the local...

Letting agents who fail to obtain licences for rented properties that fall under selective licensing rules could be prosecuted either alongside...

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

A buy-to-let landlord in Nottingham been fined £6,000 and instructed to pay  £1,583.18 costs, along with a £170 victim surcharge following...

Private landlords in Enfield may soon have to obtain new licences after the local council launched a consultation aimed at gaining...

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

Do you know how much your deposits should be? Since June 1 of this year, the government has capped deposits at...

Coventry City Council has dismissed claims that its landlord licensing and accreditation scheme is potentially unlawful. The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) wrote...

A new landlord accreditation scheme in Oxford has been deemed both discriminatory and unlawful by the Residential Landlords Association (RLA). The association...

As many of you already know, the ban on tenant fees will come into force on 1 June 2019, and the...

Two landlords have been ordered to pay more than £30,000 for breaching fire safety and over-occupancy licence conditions at their House...

Buy-to-let investors should be ‘extremely wary’ of buying property in an area affected by selective licensing rules because many local authorities...

Assertions made by UK Finance that the leasehold system is not in need of major reform have been rejected by Leasehold...

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

Changes to mandatory Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) licensing come into force in England today, requiring properties with five or more...

The Liberal Democrats once again called for the introduction of mandatory licensing for PRS homes as well as a publicly available...

As a landlord, you have a number of different responsibilities and obligations that you need to stay on top of, in...

Buy-to-let landlords in Wales who offer free accommodation in return for sex could lose their operating licences, according to plans being...

Councils will be handed tough new powers to punish rogue landlords up to £30,000. Under the new legislation, being introduced in October,...

Gedling Borough Council yesterday voted to approve plans to impose selective licensing charges on private landlords in the Nottinghamshire district. Following a consultation...

The government has confirmed that the long-awaited extension of Mandatory HMO Licensing will be introduced from 1st October 2018, subject to...

A plan to introduce a new selective licensing scheme in Telford has been scrapped by Telford & Wrekin Council after more...

A buy-to-let landlord has been ordered to pay almost £6,500 for renting out four houses in Nottingham without a license. Dilip Gohil...

Two landlords in Bath have been ordered to more than £16,000 for failing to hold the correct HMO licences. Elizabeth Vowles, 48,...

A new licensing system in the West London neighbourhoods of Hammersmith, Shepherd’s Bush, Fulham, Chiswick and Ealing aims to protect landlords...

This month has seen the approval or introduction of a number of new licensing schemes for landlords in several English cities,...

A London based letting company has been fined £20,000 after issuing false documents that gave tenants no protection from landlords or...

Four landlords in Peterborough have become the first to have been fined for not holding a licence under a new city...