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A London council has prosecuted landlord Syed Shah, owner of an HMO, for a string of  breaches that posed significant risks...

A landlord and a property management company have been found guilty of putting tenants at risk after a council probe. Kensington and...

Over the last 15 years, the HMO market has been transformed.  Back in the ‘90s, multi-lets were mainly student housing or cheap...

A rogue landlord has been fined £27,460 for putting residents at risk by failing to maintain a property. Flintshire County Council brought...

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

A landlord has been ordered to pay over £44,000 after a court found him guilty of a serious housing offence. Giuseppe Sutera,...

Having insurance is a sensible way to protect yourself as a landlord against the financial cost of damage or liability claims....

A landlord and his property company have been ordered to pay a total of £40,000 in fines after a council says...

A trade body says inventories are set to play an increasingly important role in the private rental sector as fire regulations...

The landlord of a property dubbed a “house of horrors” by Barking and Dagenham council enforcement officers has been ordered to...

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

A landlord has been ordered to pay over £10,000 at Cardiff Magistrates' Court for a catalogue of failures relating to a...

Time is running out’ for building owners and managers to take action over fire door risk assessments under new Fire Safety...

A landlord has been found guilty of three housing offences after it was discovered a property he let out posed a...

A Bristol landlord has been banned from letting properties after repeatedly failing to meet the required standards. Naomi Knapp, a portfolio landlord...

In the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, fire safety - particularly for residents - has increasingly taken centre stage in...

A landlord who repeatedly let out an unsafe house has been fined £20,000 by magistrates. Housing officers from Salford council found fire...

A landlord who failed to comply with an Emergency Prohibition Order to make safe an HMO has been fined £1,000 and...

A safety organisation is warning of a “tragedy waiting to happen” because three quarters of fire doors fail to meet the...

A landlord has been hit with a bill of almost £25,000 for allegedly exposing vulnerable tenants to serious fire risks in...

A second-offence landlord has received fines totalling £5,259.75 after council officers found nine different safety violations at a single property. The building...

A landlord who harassed tenants and left them in dangerous accommodation hit has been branded “atrocious” and has been hit with...

A landlord has been found guilty of a series of fire safety failings which left residents with only one option to...

A company behind a fire safety initiative has surveyed tenants in both the private and social rental sectors, and claims shortcomings...

A landlord has been ordered by a court to pay over £6,000 after admitting a string of regulation breaches.  Juliet Petrovic, of...

A landlord in the north of England has been given a suspended prison sentence and a huge fine for fire safety...

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

A landlord has been given a hefty fine for housing vulnerable tenants in hazardous conditions in a case brought by a...

A landlord has been sentenced to nine months imprisonment suspended for two years for breaches of fire safety legislation. Thirunavukkaradu Kuladaisamy, the...

A council has gone on record saying it’s trying to stop a rogue landlord from letting out any property anywhere, ever...

Salford council in Greater Manchester is to introduce landlord licensing for HMOs where three or four tenants live - and the...

A landlord and a property company have a total of over £90,000 to pay after being found guilty of 27 charges...

A serial-offender landlord has been fined for putting tenants at serious harm from fire and exposing them to substandard and dangerous conditions. Nilendu...

A landlord in south west of England has been given a nine month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, following a...

The family of an 80-year-old landlord fined for failing to maintain a block of flats in Wisbech has stepped in to...

A £4,550 fine has been upheld after an appeal by the landlord was rejected by a property tribunal. Fenland council served five...

A landlord has been prosecuted following the death of a tenant in a house fire at an HMO said to have...

A private landlord has been prosecuted by Bristol City Council for providing private rented accommodation that posed a “serious risk to life”.  Nine...

New technology is being launched in an attempt to improve fire safety in the rental sector.  Following the changing recommendations around fire...

An unscrupulous landlord has been ordered to pay more than £150,000 after failing to fix several safety hazards in his property. Officers from...

A buy-to-landlord in Worcester has been ordered to pay almost £3,000 for failing to install adequate safety measures.  Mohammed Rafiq, who was...

City of Lincoln Council has taken action against a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) landlord in Lincoln for failing to comply...

A private landlord in Evesham has been ordered to pay £14,500 after he was found to be illegally renting his property...

A buy-to-let landlord has been ordered to pay £14,500 for illegally renting out an overcrowded House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) without...

A private landlord has been ordered to pay £800 in fines and costs after investigators discovered several deficiencies in a property...

A buy-to-let landlord in Stevenage has been fined £14,000 and told to pay Stevenage Borough Council’s legal costs of £2,845.50 and...

Luton Council has successfully prosecuted an unscrupulous landlord for letting three unlicensed houses in which several people lived in squalor. Zenith Accommodation...

Fire safety knowledge in the private rented sector has improved over the past 12 months but there is still significant room...

Less than one in five BTL landlords have contacted with their tenants regarding basic fire safety precautions since the Grenfell Tower...

A neglectful landlord, who allowed his tenants to occupy a property without working smoke alarms, a lack of sufficient fire doors...

A rogue landlord has been ordered to pay more than £37,000 for allowing tenants to live in what inspectors described as...

Singer Midge Ure and West End actress Carley Stenson have backed a campaign attempting to make homes in this country safer. Ure...

A buy-to-let landlord in Immingham, near Gimsby, has been ordered to pay £1,380 after being found guilty of renting an unlicensed...

A rogue landlord has been ordered to pay almost £3,000 after being found guilty of a number of breaches relating to...

A rogue landlord who left tenants living in substandard conditions in Selly Oak and Edgbaston has been ordered to pay in...

An ‘unsafe’ house in multiple occupation (HMO) in north London has been uncovered by enforcement officers from Brent Council following a...

A buy-to-let landlord in Birmingham has been fined £25,000 after pleading guilty at Birmingham Magistrates Court for regulation breaches in relation...

A landlord in Luton has been handed the largest fine the town has ever seen for breaches of the law regarding...

A buy-to-let landlord who was convicted of nine counts of breaching regulations for a house in multiple occupation (HMO) that he...

A buy-to-let landlord has been convicted of nine counts of breaching regulations for a house in multiple occupation (HMO) that he...

A landlord in Ilford, Essex, has been sentenced to four months in jail for continuing to rent out his property despite...

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...

A landlord in Luton has been fined £11,620 for letting an unlicensed and poorly-maintained house in the town which is classed...

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

Being a student landlord can be an attractive proposition especially in an area with a high student population which has the...

A new fire door checker has been launched as part of Fire Door Safety Week (25 September - 1 October), designed...

Landlords have been accused of doing little to improve fire safety in their rental properties following the Grenfell Tower disaster. New research,...

Following the Grenfell Tower tragedy and in support of this year’s Fire Door Safety Week (25 September – 1 October 2017),...

A private landlord in Liverpool has been handed a hefty fine for putting his tenants at risk of fire. Following an inspection...

Two landlords have been ordered to pay more than £13,000 after showing what was described as a “total disregard” for the...

A man who rented out rooms above a town centre bar has been banned from being a landlord after putting the...

The owner of a rental property in west London, which was described by a judge as a “deathtrap”, has been told...

A buy-to-let landlord in Sheffield has been told that he has to pay £2,412 in court costs, fines and compensation after...

Sheffield Council has promised to continue targeting rogue landlords after bringing its highest-ever number of successful prosecutions. Seven individuals and companies were...

A landlord has been fined £162,000 after 18 people were found to be living in his ‘unsafe’ Georgian Grade II-listed flat...

A landlord operating in the London borough of Brent has been has been ordered to pay close to £7,500 for cramming...

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

A Nottingham landlord has been ordered to pay £29,000 in fines after a rental property was found to be in what...

A landlord in Grimsby has been jailed and ordered to pay costs of more than £100,000 after putting the lives of...

A criminal landlord has been handed a fine of almost £40,000 after he was caught housing 24 tenants in a rental...

Rogue landlords in the London Borough of Barnet are being targeted by the local council as part of a crackdown on...

A Birmingham landlord has been fined £6,400 and ordered to pay £3,696 costs and a £120 victim surcharge for failing to...

Two landlords in Leamington Spa in the West Midlands have been fined £27,000 for failing to manage a house in multiple...

A Bristol landlord has been handed a suspended jail sentence after student flats under his ownership were found to have numerous...

On 9 June Ceyam Rahman, 24, of Whalley Range, pleaded guilty to seven offences and was hit with fines and costs...