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A landlord has been ordered to pay £2,500 in fines, compensation and costs after a council brought a prosecution against him. Jama...

There’s been a large rise in complaints and a huge increase in compensation according to figures out today from the Property...

The Housing Ombudsman has revealed figures showing huge increases in the numbers of complaints from tenants on social housing. The Ombudsman says...

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

The Housing Ombudsman has found severe maladministration by One Housing Group in its record keeping following the its failure to conduct...

I’m not especially political and certainly carry no candle for one flavour or another. I might argue that they’re all pretty...

The Housing Ombudsman has ordered Yorkshire Housing to pay £3,780 after it found three findings of severe maladministration for how it...

The Labour Party has committed to extending a crackdown on social housing landlords who fail to fix mouldy homes, to include...

The Housing Ombudsman - which assesses problems involving social housing landlords - has found severe maladministration in four cases involving Croydon...

While most landlords will be aware of the fact, they are required by law to renew the gas safety certificate for...

There is to be no comparable law for private landlords, following the introduction of Awaab’s Law. Earlier this week the Department of...

A rental sector insurance firm has hit back at claims made about Section 21 by the charity Citizens Advice. A spokesperson for...

New plans to clamp down on rogue social landlords who fail to provide safe homes have been announced today. This is part...

The National Residential Landlords Association wants to show the government that some local councils still advise tenants served with a valid...

A London lettings agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman for not paying compensation to a landlord following a failure...

Plans for leasehold reform face a major early stumbling block as analysis shows plans to retrospectively introduce a cap on ground...

Homes situated close to new electricity pylons and sub-stations could receive up to £1,000 a year off energy bills, for up...

A new but small survey by a compensation consultancy claims there are serious mould and damp issues amongst private rental properties. Some...

The Housing Ombudsman - who presides over housing associations and other social housing providers - has ordered a chief executive to...

Hawks Properties Limited has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for failing to honour a compensation award. The agency - with...

A left-wing pressure group wants new laws to force landlords to pay hefty relocation expenses to tenants who claim high rents...

A landlord who left his tenants homeless after breaking into their house at night with a hammer has been prosecuted by...

Consumer champion Martin Lewis - the man behind the Money Saving Expert website and TV shows - has backed the Renters...

A lettings agency chief is operating a course to help landlords meet new requirements imposed by the Welsh Government. Landlords in Wales...

A newspaper report claims that some Conservative MPs are unhappy at the anti-landlord tone of the Renters Reform Bill which is...

A lettings agency has identified the three most complained-about issues by tenants last year. All the tenants were in Greater London and...

A rogue landlord has been sentenced to 10 months in prison at Chesterfield Crown Court for the state of his properties. In...

The Housing Ombudsman - a service which deals with social housing - says it’s found severe maladministration in how Leeds council...

A landlord has been sentenced at Wolverhampton Crown Court after she had previously been found guilty of illegal eviction. Dr Amy Eskander,...

Three more social housing landlords have been ‘named and shamed’ by Housing Secretary Michael Gove. The trio - two of which are...

Two law partners at a legal firm have outlined a five-step process which tenants can use to complain to their landlords...

More enforcement is required if the government is to introduce the scale of reforms it has called for in its recent...

A landlord has pleaded guilty of four counts of breaching a Criminal Behaviour Order and told to expect to pay “a...

A council now consulting on a huge licensing scheme for private landlords has been slammed - over its own record as...

Landlords are being invited to join the advisory council of the country’s largest lettings redress scheme. The Property Redress Scheme covers more...

A landlord has been fined and must pay compensation after being involved in an illegal eviction. The landlord - Tahir Aziz - was...

Two tenants who were amongst a group of activists in a battle with their landlord have written in a left-wing journal...

With over 40 million Airbnb users across Europe and the US, and approximately 250,000 listings in the UK alone, the short-term...

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

A landlord has been sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for the illegal eviction and harassment of a tenant, and has been...

The Health and Safety Executive is urging landlords to check the credentials of gas fitters following a case heard recently in...

A landlord has been accused of a “disgusting offence” after installing a camera in the bathroom of a house he let...

The government says it’s going to name and shame what it considers to be bad social landlords, using social media to...

All-inclusive rents have exploded in popularity in the student rental sector over the past few years, but the rampant surge in...

New research from insurance provider Paymentshield has found that over one in five UK tenants have experienced a negative property event...

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan wants rogue landlords to pay bigger fines and more compensation to tenants. He is also introducing...

With over 40m Airbnb users across Europe and the US, and approximately 250,000 listings in the UK alone, the short-term accommodation...

A landlord has been jailed for six months, suspended for a year, after being found guilty of illegally evicting a tenant...

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

The Daily Telegraph is reporting that Purplebricks could face a bill of as much as £30m “after it put thousands of landlords...

Earlier this week Zoopla released some rather healthy statistics on the UK rental market. In recent months, the rental market has been...

A firm of solicitors claims that private and social sector tenants face long delays for repairs to be addressed - and...

Landlords are hesitant about buying more property according to a new study by Simply Business. The study of 560 landlords from across...

A landlord is going to court to try to recover £150,000 allegedly owed by an agency in the form of guaranteed...

A landlord in the north of England has received the largest fine that his local council has ever secured for a...

A landlord has been ordered to pay £2,400 to his former tenants after a tribunal appeal following the issuing of a...

There are a huge array of products and services covering the entire journey of lettings, from prospecting all the way through to...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, landlords formed the bulk of the complainants about letting agents in the 2020 calendar year according to The Property...

A letting agent who campaigns against rogue landlords says the government has “no idea” how many convictions there have been regarding...

A lettings agent who has started a rental insurance business has launched another attack on landlords. Ajay Jagota, who runs KIS Lettings...

The government claims its new Building Safety Bill, published yesterday, will create “lasting generational change” after Grenfell and the cladding crisis...

A new scheme has been launched encouraging tenants to complain about their landlords and seek compensation. Ajay Jagota - who used to...

A landlord in Norwich has paid almost £1,000 in compensation following the discovery of black mould and damp in a property...

Landlord Antanas Klibavicius has pleaded guilty to illegally evicting his tenant and not taking any steps towards ending the tenancy properly...

Three lettings agencies have been expelled for The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensation to landlords. And as they are now...

Landlords have been warned not to try to deceive departing tenants after a controversial tribunal ruling. Lindsays law firm says Scotland’s first...

Trade unions have joined the call for renters with Covid-related arrears to get cash help from the government - but they...

An influential all-party committee of MPs and members of the House of Lords is calling for a new council tax fund...

The Property Ombudsman has ordered a lettings agent to pay £200 compensation to a landlord after accepting a tenant on the...

Landlords of a property in Peterborough have been compensated £6,000 by the local council. The payment follows a delay in agreeing a...

It’s being reported that a so-called ‘rental union’ group of activists has staged a protest outside a landlord’s own home. Acorn - a...

A landlord says he feared for his safety and locked himself in his bedroom following a drunken rampage by a tenant. The...

In recent years, there has been considerable controversy over the use of ‘no DSS’ in homes being listed for let, with...

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

In principle, tenancy contracts are binding upon both parties and hence can be enforced in a court of law. In practice,...

The cost of buy-to-let mortgages has continued to fall, according to the latest research from Property Master.  The biggest month-on-month fall in...

A now-former council tenant in north London has been handed a suspended sentence and ordered to pay close to £90,000 after...

Britain has faced terrible flooding this year. Floods and other property emergency can take minutes to occur and years to remedy....

Thousands of landlords trapped in developer contracts with spiraling costs could be entitled to compensation, according to legal experts.  Around 100,000 homeowners...

Assessing what constitutes fair wear and tear to a rental home is among the least understood areas of the lettings process,...

Pop star Tulisa Contostavlos has been ordered to pay £70,000 in compensation to her former landlord after she trashed a rented...

Zero Deposit is the only deposit replacement product worth considering in the market, according to the Residential Landlords Association (RLA). The landlord...

There was a significant increase in the number of disputes under the Property Redress Scheme last year, according to the organisation’s...

A private landlord in Telford has been ordered to pay £29,000 in costs and fines for harassing two tenants out of...

The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee has published a report calling for wide ranging reforms to the leasehold system in...

A tenant who was found guilty of deliberately burning down a property he was renting four years ago was sentenced to...

A buy-to-let landlord who used violence and intimidation to illegally evict his tenant has been handed a suspended jail sentence and...

A buy-to-let landlord in Leeds who left his tenant homeless after changing the locks while he was on holiday has been...

Following the passing of Karen Buck’s Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 into law, it is important that landlords are aware...

For the first time ever, buy-to-let landlords will be legally required to become members of a redress scheme, as part of measures...

A buy-to-let landlord in Edinburgh who evicted a young family and dumped their belongings in the garden after they fell into...

The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill will soon become law after passing its third reading at the House of Lords...

Tenants are on the verge of being handed fresh powers to take action against rogue landlords thanks to the Homes (Fitness...

A landlord in Edinburgh who evicted a young family and dumped their belongings in the garden after they fell into rent...

The government’s existing strategy to protect rent paid by tenants to letting agents will fail to provide adequate protection for landlords,...

A fresh survey of more than 1,000 people involved in the UK private rental sector has found a staggering and worrying...

Thousands of landlords and lettings agents across the country could be flouting equality laws by rejecting housing benefit claimants, according to...

A landlord’s son has been ordered to pay £1,000 compensation to a tenant after changing the locks with her belongings still...

A tenant who caused almost £6,000 worth of damage to his rented home after refusing to vacate the flat, despite being...

Tenants look set to be given more powers to take action against rogue landlords renting out properties “unfit for human habitation”,...