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A landlord who has repeatedly flouted housing rules has been fined a further £36,000 following a prosecution brought by a council.  Giuseppe...

A tribunal case has ended with fines imposed on two landlords - Nigel William Harry Hobbs and James Robert Hobbs -...

A prominent lettings sector expert is blaming the media for anti-landlord sentiment and a rise in tenancy disputes. Gina Peters, Head of...

A private landlord from Bridlington has been ordered to pay £1,500 for putting tenants into a dangerous property, thereby breaching a...

A charity is calling for landlord licensing schemes which cost enough to fund annual inspections, and the issuing of “sentencing guidelines”...

UK house prices rose for the fifth consecutive month in February, up by 0.4 per cent or £1,091 in cash terms,...

An activist group is demanding that the lower Capital Gains Tax should apply only to landlords who sell with sitting tenants. In...

A landlord who failed to produce annual gas safety certificates as she ignored warnings from a council, has left court with...

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

A prominent lawyer has stepped up her criticisms of Housing Secretary Michael Gove and his attacks on buy to let and...

Labour deputy leader and shadow housing secretary Angela Rayner says she is not ashamed to have brought her council house at...

A private landlord has been prosecuted for failing to carry out works to make his rented property safe . David Almond of...

A council has won an appeal concerning two Civil Penalty Notices imposed on a landlord. The landlords had been issued two fines...

A council has prosecuted a landlord after a family of nine were discovered living in an outbuilding. Tariq Khan of Peterborough was...

Landlords seeking capital appreciation will be encouraged from two new housing market surveys - one showing a surprise rise in house...

The landlord of a flat has been ordered to pay a total of £3,287 for failing to carry out repairs.  Carlo Ykhlef,...

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

A landlord who failed to provide a council with information about one of his properties when served notices requiring him to...

A council claims “hundreds of residents have been made safer in their homes” thanks to a licencing regime. Sheffield council insists the...

Newham council in London has won what it calls a landmark case against a convicted rogue landlord. The court has dismissed the...

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

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

A local authority is introducing charges for the issuing of Improvement Notices to landlords - and has chosen to announce it...

Landlords providing much-needed private rented accommodation in part of Merseyside are to fall under an expanded  licensing regime.  Wirral councillors have voted...

Councils in Greater Manchester admit to charging landlords over £14,000 for “officer time” involved in licensing schemes. There are currently eight selective...

Two landlords who let their two-bedroom flat in Tower Hamlets to as many as 22 people, have pleaded guilty to nine...

Recent data from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities show that 24,260 households served a valid Section 21 notice...

Our generations-old obsession with home-ownership may be waning for the first time in recent memory. The introduction of the Housing Act in...

The breakthrough on council tax and HMOs, announced just before the weekend, may not be all that it seems. That’s the view...

A landlord has been ordered to pay almost £50,000 for failing to adhere to licensing legal requirements on several rental properties,...

An unnamed landlord with a large portfolio of homes has been prosecuted by Portsmouth council for obstructing officers in carrying out...

A landlord has been found guilty of operating eight unlicensed HMOs and a range of breaches of the HMO Management Regulations. Northampton...

A council has prosecuted four landlords in three days, with convictions secured for seven offences. Harold Mews Management Ltd of Margate was...

A council has prosecuted a landlord for a second time, for multiple offences.  The offences concerned a tenanted caravan that had been...

A leading lettings industry figure says politicians should have the repeal of Section 24 as a major priority. Section 24 removes a...

A new poll from the StepChange Debt Charity claims that over a third of private renters have used some form of...

New directives issued by the government put the emphasis firmly on private landlords to take responsibility for issues of damp and...

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

The Generation Rent group of activists has written an open letter to mortgage firm chief executives asking for special dispensation for...

Arun council has prosecuted a Littlehampton landlord for failing to comply with an improvement notice. The case was heard at Worthing Magistrates...

A landlord responsible for the management of an HMO has been fined a total of £5,000. The penalties were imposed by Boston...

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

A council has issued a statement boasting of its record prosecuting rogue landlords. Somerset council says it has successfully prosecuted a Taunton...

A landlord and three property management companies have been fined approaching £80,000 for health and safety failings. Mohammed Ali Abbas Rasool, Cadogan...

An experienced property lawyer who has specialised in residential landlord and tenant law for 22 years says she is embarrassed at...

The long-awaited Renters Reform Bill has been unveiled, as Ministers bid to address the housing crisis and create a fairer rental...

A council has taken a landlord to court over a paperwork dispute - but the fine for the buy to let...

An unnamed landlord has been fined more than £3,500 after an HMO in Cambridge was found to have been unlicensed. After receiving...

The government is proposing to slash the regulations on HMOs used to house asylum seekers.  Part 2 of the Housing Act 2004...

A landlord was prosecuted after a council discovered he had unlawfully allowed occupation of a prohibited property. Following a complaint from a...

A landlord will have to pay £22,861 after he failed to apply for a licence to operate an HMO. Mohammad Safdar, of...

A London landlord has been found guilty of not licensing three buy to lets. Gurbachan Matharu from Dagenham was found guilty at...

The controversial Section 21 powers are neither overused by landlords, nor abused by them - despite some organisations claiming otherwise. Research by...

Eight criminal landlords - three of them companies - have been fined approaching half a million pounds. They were prosecuted for offences...

There have been no fewer than 10 different enquiries into selective licensing of landlords or rental properties by local councils -...

The landlord of two flats in Cardiff has been fined over £4,500 for failing to fix fire safety defects after being...

A third of landlords say that the scrapping of Section 21 is of major concern to them according to a Mortgages...

An unnamed landlord has been prosecuted after Rochdale council discovered they had unlawfully allowed occupation of a property that had been...

Campaigners in a group called Housing Rebellion are to meet in Central London today and make what they call “a few...

Dacorum council in Hertfordshire has prosecuted a private landlord who rented out an uninhabitable outbuilding in Kings Langley. Deborah King was fined...

A private landlord has been prosecuted after a family, including a baby and two older children, were left without water or adequate...

A landlord has been fined after pleading guilty to breaching a prohibition order preventing him from letting a property. The Isle of...

A council at the heart of a controversial scheme claims to be “pleased” with the interest shown by private landlords. Leasing Scheme...

A London council is relaunching its consultation on a new borough-wide Additional HMO Licensing Scheme, following feedback from the community.  The original...

The landlord of a former hotel with no working kitchen, unusable toilets, blocked drains, and rats, has been ordered to pay...

Purplebricks has detailed the price it is paying for a lettings compliance blunder first spotted last year. It predicts that, at worst,...

Lambeth council in south London has prosecuted a rogue landlord who illegally ran a bed-sit in the borough. Frank Otuo of Putney...

A landlord has been fined £10,000 by a Devon council for failing to tackle what it calls “essential repairs following a...

A landlord has been fined £10,000 by a Devon council for failing to tackle what it calls “essential repairs following a...

A landlord who left her tenants to live in filthy and unsafe conditions, while running an unlicensed HMO, has been prosecuted...

For the last decade, successive Governments have promised a review of the rules around renting in the UK – in part...

London Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan wants private landlords letting ex-council properties to consider selling the properties to local councils.  Since launching in...

Two landlords have been fined £3,000 and ordered to pay more than £6,000 in costs for failing to provide documents to...

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

Leading rental payment platform PayProp has welcomed the added protections for landlords and renters outlined in the UK government’s rental reform...

Thank goodness the uncertainty is over - but is it all too skewed towards tenants? That’s the worry of suppliers as Daniel...

Housing has always been one of the most sensitive political issues, meaning that legislation in this area is unusually sensitive to...

The abolition of Section 21 eviction notices could lead to a surge in evictions by private landlords anxious to sell before...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has made a sweeping attack on the conditions of homes run by private landlords. In a statement backing...

This is the entirety of the detail given by the government about the Renters’ Reform Bill, confirmed in yesterday’s Queen’s Speech. --- Renters Reform...

The government is widely expected to announce that Section 21 eviction powers will be scrapped in new legislation coming to Parliament...

Renting is changing. That’s what we keep being told by the Government as it prepares the ground for its renters’ reform...

Whether you own a leasehold or freehold property, if you’re an HMO landlord who rents out rooms, individual flats or even...

Husband-and-wife landlords Robin and Susan Kirstein have been landed with a massive fine for letting a home that was deemed by...

Trading Standards has approved a new alternative dispute resolution body for the private rental sector. It’s The Dispute Service Ltd, and it...

A private landlord has been fined £1,760 and ordered to pay £1,000 costs after failing to properly licence four properties in...

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 fined almost £5,000 for failing to install smoke detectors into a house he let to a family. The...

A landlord has been fined £3,607 over properties that were so dangerous tenants’ lives were at risk. North Lincolnshire council brought a...

A landlord who has been operating a licensable HMO without a licence has been fined £5,000 at a prosecution brought by...

A landlord operating a House in Multiple Occupation without a licence has been fined £5,000. An officer from Chesterfield council carried out an...

A private landlord who failed to carry out essential safety work has been fined for ignoring an Emergency Prohibition Order. Mohammed Deryo,...

An unnamed landlord has been banned from letting out his property after allowing it to fall into poor condition.  He was served...

Labour has echoed campaign groups Generation Rent and Shelter in calling for the speediest possible ending of Section 21 eviction powers,...

A Labour-controlled local authority with a reputation for clampdowns on rogue landyhas issued a statement celebrating its successes. Tower Hamlets council in...

There’s more evidence of councils clamping down on landlords fly tipping - Landlord Today has run a series of reports on...

A landlord has been fined over £7,000 for letting out an unsafe and unlicensed HMO. South Gloucestershire council’s private sector housing team...

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

A former member of Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet has thrown his weight behind Generation Rent’s latest campaign. Lloyd Russell-Moyle - chair of...

A landlord company has been fined more than £15,000 for failing to improve housing conditions in three properties. North Somerset council received...