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The police are urging landlords and tenants to be extra vigilant following a number of reports of rental scams. Since the start...

A woman who faked documents and posed as a private landlord in an elaborate tenancy scam has been jailed. Natalie Chamberlain, aged...

A London council has revealed that a social housing tenant claimed their property was a private one, and fraudulently sub-let it...

An analysis of over 600,000 tenancy applications has found that fraudulent applications rose by 140% last year.  The analysis, carried out by...

The management of BTL properties, whether it's a modest collection of three units or a more sizable portfolio of fifteen, can...

A wealthy landlord, who also ran a fake lettings agency, has been jailed for 11 years for allowing ‘ghost tenants’ to...

Letting agents’ trade body Propertymark has issued a warning to the rental sector about scams based on energy efficiency measures.  An increase...

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

Minority ethnic people are more likely to be ignored when searching for private rental homes, a pressure group claims. Generation Rent claims...

Landlords are being advised to be on their guard and not be duped by social media messages urging them to flout...

A charity is reported to be claiming that increasing numbers of landlords use security guards dressed as bailiffs to help evict...

This year is set to bring sweeping rental reforms that will change the face of lettings forever. Landlords should be following...

A risk management platform claims landlords are amongst those most at risk of fraud. Thirdfort has identified the top eight types of...

A rogue landlord who created false identities and fake lcompanies as part of an elaborate web of misinformation designed to exploit...

A fake landlord who made over £2,500 a month letting out a London that he didn’t own has been taken to...

A prominent lettings agency is warning its own and all other landlords that they are particularly vulnerable to the growing threat...

A London council has prosecuted a builder - Valeriu Sandu, of Valmic Properties Limited - for lying about fitting sufficiently fireproof...

The BBC Radio 4 consumer affairs programme You and Yours says 4,746 rental scams have been reported to the police and...

Landlords, letting agents and tenants in South Yorkshire are being warned about an increase in rental fraud. Local police there say they...

Propertymark wants to hear about examples of fraudulent tenancy applications - a growing problem in the rental sector. A statement from the ARLA wing...

The Citizens Advice consumer charity is warning that fake investment scams are amongst the fraudulent activity that’s on the rise across...

A genuine tenant who advertised on social media for a property has been scammed out of £450 by fraudsters posing as...

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

Scams involving fake landlords and bogus lettings agents are rife in the private rentals sector, and may have been made worse...

A landlord who unlawfully let cramped and overcrowded bedsits and then harassed tenants who complained has been fined thousands of pounds...

A new website has been launched with a  view to helping landlords find quality tenants.  Using Tenancy Trust, landlords can invite reviews...

A man who rented hundreds of properties that he sub-let to criminal gangs running brothels and cannabis farms has been jailed...

Brexit, climate change and the environment, and education are the top three issues for tenants as they prepare to cast their...

A tenant posing as a landlord converted two bedrooms in a flat into four bedsits, putting residents at risk. The fake landlord...

An Airbnb host who rented out his council flat in central London has been fined £100,000 and evicted by Westminster City...

The level of fraudulent rental applications being received by letting agents is on the up, new research shows. The study by Benham...

The National Landlords Association (NLA) is reminding would-be tenants to be vigilant when looking for somewhere new to live and to...

Fraudsters posing as landlords have conned prospective tenants out of £20,000 over the past couple months by persuading them to pay...

Tenant referencing provides all the background information on prospective tenants, helping landlords and letting agents make an educated choice about who...

An unscrupulous individual pretending to be a private landlord in order to scam more than £10,000 from unsuspecting tenants before going...

The findings of the BBC investigation into ID fraud linked to Right to Rent checks will come as no surprise to...

A scheme requiring landlords to check the immigration status of new tenants is fuelling a ‘black market in forged Ids’, a...

A former north London letting agent who stole thousands of pounds worth of cash and belongings from rental homes by tricking...

A couple in Plymouth have been scammed out of £1,200 by a fake landlord who copied and pasted pictures and details...

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

With July being Fraud Awareness Month, the subject of online rental fraud has been brought into the spotlight by Nick Marr,...

A rogue landlord who forced susceptible women into prostitution and sexually assaulted others while ruling his £16m property empire has been...

The vast majority of landlords are unable to identify a fake passport when presented with one leaving them vulnerable to fraudsters...

A private landlord has been jailed for almost four years after being found guilty of stealing money from more than 100...

Given the financial issues that landlords can experience when they rent their property out to a nightmare tenant, especially those that...

Private tenants can now verify a landlord's credentials for any UK rental opportunity following the launch of a new landlord checking...

A landlord and her accomplice have been ordered to pay close to £28,000 after being caught out trying to con investigators...

Vulnerable families are being exploited by ‘rogue landlords’ in the Govanhill area of Glasgow, according to a BBC Scotland investigation. The report...

Our latest infographic shows figures of how the majority of deposits are repaid at the end of tenancy and goes into...

A fraudster who posed as a letting agent with the sole intention of stealing from landlords and tenants has been jailed...

An unregistered gas fitter has been received a suspended prison sentence for illegally installing a gas boiler and undertaking landlord’s gas...

Newham Council has prosecuted what it called a “group of criminals” running a dodgy letting business with an estimated income of...

Bosses at internet listings site Gumtree will meet with the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) to discuss scam in which fraudsters posing...

Police are hunting for a man who posed as the landlord of the apartment he was renting in London, in order...