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27 October 2023
From: Breaking News
A council has prosecuted four landlords in three days, with convictions secured for seven offences. Harold Mews Management Ltd of Margate was...
03 October 2023
From: Breaking News
A London landlord has been ordered to pay over £33,000 in costs for illegally running an HMO. The three-bedroom HMO was identified...
06 April 2023
From: Breaking News
A landlord has been hit with a huge £23,000 fine for failing to properly maintain two HMOs. Landlord Lystra Dorval from Ilford...
22 August 2022
From: Breaking News
With Christmas and the New Year now over, landlords, investors and property experts are back to questioning what the coming twelve...
05 February 2022
From: Agent Advice
A national accountancy firm says HM Revenue & Customs has discovered huge numbers of landlords avoiding paying tax - as many as...
11 October 2021
From: Breaking News
A local newspaper’s investigation has revealed that a London council flouted its own policies to maximise the number of landlords it...
18 August 2021
From: Breaking News
A landlord has overturned a council fine for letting her flat without a licence - and it’s the same local authority...
11 August 2021
From: Breaking News
Redbridge council in east London has undertaken its toughest ever clampdown on buy to let, visiting 171 properties in a week. The...
04 August 2021
From: Breaking News
A landlord has been fined £2,500 for failing to licence a property that she had been renting out for several years...
27 November 2020
From: Breaking News
A landlord who failed to properly look after two HMOs has been fined £70,500 by an Essex council. Lystra Dorval, of Ilford,...
16 November 2020
From: Breaking News
A council has prosecuted a landlord who failed to ensure waste from his property was properly disposed of. Mohammed Hussain from Leeds...
29 October 2020
From: Breaking News
Landlords should be aware that eight estate and letting agents have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme (TPO), which means...
08 May 2020
From: Breaking News
Demand for rental homes is continuing to outpace supply and drive up prices in London and that is an attractive proposition...
20 January 2020
From: Breaking News
Ilford-based Kingsman Property has gone out of business after being expelled from The Property Ombudsman (TPO) scheme owing a landlord almost...
28 October 2019
From: Breaking News
A buy-to-let landlord in Nottingham been fined £6,000 and instructed to pay £1,583.18 costs, along with a £170 victim surcharge following...
13 September 2019
From: Breaking News
An unscrupulous landlord who converted three family homes into houses in multiple occupation (HMO) without planning consent has been jailed for...
18 February 2019
From: Breaking News
Crossrail will demand hundreds of millions of pounds from the government in its third bailout of the year according to various...
05 December 2018
From: Breaking News
A landlord in Ilford, Essex, who allowed 23 people to live in overcrowded conditions has been fined £7,500. Tenants in a house...
18 October 2018
From: Breaking News
A rogue managing agent of an overcrowded house of multiple occupation (HMO) in east London has been fined £26,000 for breaches...
16 October 2018
From: Breaking News
A new TV show called ‘Bad Tenants, Rogue Landlords’, a companion series to ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords’, starts today. Following the success...
05 April 2018
From: Breaking News
Colchester has been named the best place for buy-to-let investors in today’s market, based on a combination of capital value growth,...
03 April 2018
From: Breaking News
With 65,000 affordable new homes planned to be built in London per year, it would appear that the capital is offering...
05 February 2018
From: Breaking News
A landlord in Ilford, Essex, has been sentenced to four months in jail for continuing to rent out his property despite...
22 December 2017
From: Breaking News
A new property licensing scheme has been introduced by Redbridge Council in order to crack down on rogue landlords – and...
09 August 2017
From: Breaking News
A high number of buy-to-let investors prioritise rental rents over capital gains when making property purchase decisions, and with that in...
04 August 2017
From: Breaking News
Property investors looking to invest in the buy-to-let market may wish to consider buying property in Luton, which currently offers the...
17 June 2017
From: Breaking News
Rental yields in London are typically among the lowest in the UK mainly due to high house prices, but there are still good...