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A fire and rescue service has successfully prosecuted a landlord for failing to comply with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order...
27 March 2024
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The management of BTL properties, whether it's a modest collection of three units or a more sizable portfolio of fifteen, can...
15 March 2024
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A wealthy landlord, who also ran a fake lettings agency, has been jailed for 11 years for allowing ‘ghost tenants’ to...
07 February 2024
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A Bristol landlord who confronted handed the tenant an illegal eviction notice after finding him using the bathroom in the house,...
24 October 2023
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A family of landlords have been jailed for a total of 31 years after committing horrific violence against tenants and in...
04 October 2023
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This year is set to bring sweeping rental reforms that will change the face of lettings forever. Landlords should be following...
02 June 2023
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The landlord of a cellar ‘flat’ where a fire resulted in the death of a man has been jailed for breaching...
04 May 2023
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A rogue landlord has been sentenced to 10 months in prison at Chesterfield Crown Court for the state of his properties. In...
04 April 2023
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A bankrupt landlord in the Midlands is behind bars or eight months for failing to tell the Official Receiver about an...
04 November 2022
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A London landlord has been fined and ordered to pay a confiscation order for ignoring planning rules Magistrates ordered landlord Zulfiqar Ahmed...
27 October 2022
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Councils have demanded draconian punishments for landlords who fail to bring their homes up to the Decent Homes Standard which is...
20 October 2022
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A landlord has been sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for the illegal eviction and harassment of a tenant, and has been...
09 June 2022
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A man has been sentenced to 33 years after murdering his landlords at their property in south London. Daniel Briceno Garcia was...
30 May 2022
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A landlord has been jailed for a year after making a homeless woman perform sexual favours for him in return for...
11 May 2022
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A landlord has been accused of a “disgusting offence” after installing a camera in the bathroom of a house he let...
25 April 2022
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A London council has prosecuted a builder - Valeriu Sandu, of Valmic Properties Limited - for lying about fitting sufficiently fireproof...
25 February 2022
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A landlord has been jailed for six months, suspended for a year, after being found guilty of illegally evicting a tenant...
20 January 2022
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A landlord must demolish two penthouse apartments by mid July - or else go to jail. It’s being reported that a case...
20 January 2022
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A London landlord has been ordered to pay over £64,000 for breaking housing regulations. In July last year Sumon Miah was found...
11 January 2022
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A lodger who punched, kicked and bit his landlord after being challenged about his drinking has been jailed. Mickey Boots punched the...
10 December 2021
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A man who broke into the home of his prospective landlord and threatened him with a screwdriver has been jailed for...
06 October 2021
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Substantial numbers of expats who own a buy to let property in the UK are approaching HMRC to admit they have...
20 September 2021
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A landlord in the north of England has been given a suspended prison sentence and a huge fine for fire safety...
09 August 2021
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A Labour MP is proposing legislation which would mean that landlords who offer accommodation in exchange for sexual favours could be...
27 May 2021
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A man who tried to frame his landlord’s partner as being involved in the Westminster terrorist attack has been jailed. Gerald Banyard,...
21 May 2021
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Two men - one a landlord, the other a shopkeeper- have been jailed after being found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter. Mushtaq...
23 February 2021
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A landlord has been sentenced for failing to maintain gas appliances at a rental property in accordance with the law. Swansea magistrates’...
19 February 2021
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A landlord who breached a court order not to harass or evict his tenants has been given a prison sentence. Saakib Khan,...
22 December 2020
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Members of a wealthy Blackburn family of landlords with a portfolio of properties have been sentenced for defrauding the Department for...
07 December 2020
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A London landlord must pay over £280,000 in three months after housing eight people in a flat deems illegal for even...
27 November 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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A landlord who unlawfully let cramped and overcrowded bedsits and then harassed tenants who complained has been fined thousands of pounds...
02 October 2020
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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...
28 September 2020
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An unscrupulous landlord who illegally rented out properties in Fife has been sentenced to two years in prison after failing to...
24 February 2020
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A man who rented hundreds of properties that he sub-let to criminal gangs running brothels and cannabis farms has been jailed...
27 December 2019
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An unscrupulous letting agent has been jailed for two years for conning landlords and tenants out of almost a quarter of...
19 December 2019
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A buy-to-let investor, who previously spent time in prison for perjury after he lied during an inquiry into the deaths of...
08 October 2019
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A buy-to-let landlord who claimed that he needed a council home has been ordered to pay back more than £48,000 or...
05 August 2019
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An unscrupulous tenant who forged a statement to back up a county court claim against her landlord has been jailed for...
12 July 2019
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When you rent a property to a tenant, you are required to pay tax on any profit you make from rental...
26 June 2019
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A man has been jailed for a six years and three months for stabbing his landlord in an unprovoked attack. Ainars Jozans,...
25 June 2019
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A rogue landlord who made almost £130,000 in illegal rent after converting his three-bedroom house in east London into two flats...
20 June 2019
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A buy-to-let landlord who used violence and intimidation to illegally evict his tenant has been handed a suspended jail sentence and...
12 March 2019
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A new fire safety campaign urging private sector landlords and letting agents to always abide by the law and install smoke...
01 March 2019
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A buy-to-let landlord in Leeds who left his tenant homeless after changing the locks while he was on holiday has been...
18 February 2019
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An unscrupulous landlord who converted three family homes into houses in multiple occupation (HMO) without planning consent has been jailed for...
18 February 2019
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Three rogue directors of a letting agency in London who conned at least landlords and tenants out of more than £105,000 were...
28 January 2019
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Dodgy solicitor Ross McKay, who helped a fraudster create a £10.8m property empire with the help of Tameside’s criminal underworld, has...
08 January 2019
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A woman who repeatedly ignored council orders to stop renting ‘beds in sheds’ has been ordered to pay back almost £450,000...
26 November 2018
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The government is once again being urged to introduce fresh legislation to outlaw the ‘despicable’ practice of sex-for-rent deals. Speaking in the...
14 September 2018
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A disgusting landlord has been ordered to pay a £5,000 fine plus £500 in costs, and handed 100 hours of unpaid...
14 August 2018
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A Lanarkshire-based letting firm has been told to stump up almost £1,000 in compensation to a disgruntled landlord after breaching the...
06 August 2018
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Rogue letting agents and landlords have reportedly been convicted of stealing almost £1m worth of tenancy deposits so far this year,...
17 July 2018
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A couple who claim they are owed thousands of pounds in unpaid rent have called for a ban on the letting...
04 July 2018
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A private tenant occupying a three-bedroom house in north-west London has been jailed after he was caught illegally subletting the property...
22 June 2018
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As a landlord, you have a number of different responsibilities and obligations that you need to stay on top of, in...
11 June 2018
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A rogue landlord who swindled £28,000 from a family friend has been sentenced to four years in prison. Mark Thorogood of Maelgwyn...
04 June 2018
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The law has finally caught up with a letting agent who stole £22,000 from clients, including landlords. Peter Bell, now the former...
11 April 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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A landlord in Ilford, Essex, has been sentenced to four months in jail for continuing to rent out his property despite...
22 December 2017
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A deranged tenant in Scarborough has been sentenced to 32 months in prison after he attempted to set fire to his...
18 December 2017
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A crooked property manager who pocketed thousands of pounds in rental income which he failed to pass on to landlords has been...
05 December 2017
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A landlord who failed to provide his tenants with adequate living conditions has been sent to jail. Majid Saniinejad, of Stoke Newington,...
29 November 2017
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When a landlord let his property in Hartlepool to two cousins, he did not expect them to be sent to jail...
24 October 2017
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A former north London letting agent who stole thousands of pounds worth of cash and belongings from rental homes by tricking...
06 October 2017
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A landlord in east London will have to cough up more than £100,000 or face going to jail for illegally converting...
04 October 2017
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Buy-to-let landlords allowing illegal immigrants to live in their properties may face jail after hundreds of people suspected of not having...
21 August 2017
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A landlord has been jailed for failing to declare Capital Gains Tax from the sale of his rental properties. Richard Fuller, 53,...
14 August 2017
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A landlord has been apprehended by the police for running over a tenant with his tractor and breaking her hip because...
04 August 2017
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A rogue landlord who made almost £130,000 in illegal rent after converting his three-bedroom house into two flats without planning consent...
28 June 2017
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A tenant who set fire to her flat because her landlord was planning to evict her has been sentenced to three...
21 June 2017
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A rogue landlord who forced susceptible women into prostitution and sexually assaulted others while ruling his £16m property empire has been...
05 June 2017
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A landlord has been ordered to pay in excess of £235,000 for renting out illegal bedsits in east London after pleading...
21 April 2017
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The recent conviction of letting agent Thirunga Damayantharan for illegally keeping £15,000 of tenancy deposits has taken the total value of...
18 April 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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A letting agent in Croydon has been sentenced to 19 months in prison after being found guilty of keeping more than...
04 April 2017
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A private tenant in Motherwell faces a possible jail sentence after pleading guilty to producing cannabis at a flat in Addie...
15 March 2017
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A landlord has been ordered to pay £108,000 within three months or go to jail. Mohamed Omar Hassibi was refused consent to...
20 February 2017
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A buy-to-let landlord has narrowly escaped jail after failing to ensure gas appliances in one of her properties were checked for...
15 February 2017
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A private landlord has been jailed for almost four years after being found guilty of stealing money from more than 100...
09 February 2017
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Two cousins who turned their rental property in central Hartlepool into a drug factory were jailed yesterday. Mark Robbins, 42, and Sean...
17 January 2017
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A landlord in Hayes, west London, has been ordered to pay back more than £140,000 in rent she received unlawfully after...
24 November 2016
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A man has been sentenced to almost three-and-a-half-years in jail after being found guilty of remortgaging his elderly parents’ £1.5m house...
29 October 2016
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A Coventry-based landlord has avoided a prison sentence over fire safety offences after his tenant suffered life-threatening burns to 40% of...
27 September 2016
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A landlord who was jailed earlier this year after being found guilty of cultivating a cannabis crop of £75,000 in two...
19 September 2016
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A landlord in Norfolk who flew into a rage and fired his 12 bore shotgun in the air before telling his...
07 September 2016
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A landlord in Grimsby has been jailed and ordered to pay costs of more than £100,000 after putting the lives of...
24 August 2016
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A significant number of EU citizens living in the private rented sector (PRS) say they are worried that the result of...
11 August 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 private landlord in north London has been sentenced to four months imprisonment and fined £20,000 after pleading guilty to intimidating his...
19 July 2016
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An unscrupulous letting agent who conned landlords and tenants out of more than £220,000 has been sentenced to four and a half...
29 June 2016
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A letting agent who closed his New Malden firm leaving 17 landlords some £27,000 out of pocket has been jailed for...
27 April 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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A letting agent in South London has been found to be the front for a cannabis growing operation, with drugs grown...
19 April 2016
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A Birmingham landlord has been sent to prison for 19 months and ordered to pay £13,820 costs over a catalogue of...
07 April 2016
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A Staffordshire letting agent who stole £123,000 from landlords and tenants has been given a suspended prison sentence which has been...
05 April 2016
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A buy-to-let landlord in Stockton-on-Tees, has been sentenced after illegally uncapping and reconnecting a gas supply. Teeside Magistrates’ Court heard that David...