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A Crown Court judge has ordered a landlord to pay back almost £750,000 in illicit earnings made from overcrowded properties in...

An accountancy firm claims that buy to let landlords who admit evading tax on their rental income have underpaid to HMRC...

The number of overseas landlords admitting tax avoidance has risen 65 per cent in five years according to an accountancy firm. Moore,...

An accountancy firm is warning Airbnb landlords they may be investigated following a decision by the short lets platform to share data...

With fraudulent mortgage applications up by 5% in 2019, anti-money laundering service, SmartSearch, has compiled some key things to consider to...

A buy-to-let landlord in Bristol has been ordered to repay more than £3,000 following investigations by the council’s Private Housing Rogue...

The Property Ombudsman (TPO) has announced that Rebecca Marsh, the existing chief ombudsman at the Legal Ombudsman, will become the new...

A senior director at a letting agency in Exeter has been handed a six-year ban after failing to safeguard more than £68,000...

London’s first rogue landlord banning order has been issued after tenants’ lives were put at risk through the letting of unsafe...

There has been a notable increase in landlord insurance claims where properties have been damaged by people using them to grow...

A third of adults do not check if the engineer working on their property’s gas appliances is doing so legally, according...

Property management company Titlecroft Limited has been fined £5,000 for failing to join a government-approved property redress scheme, which is a...

Six directors have been banned for a total of 54 years after misleading more than 300 investors who collectively invested at...

Three tenants who sub-let a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Kingsbury, north-west London, to 35 men have been fined more than 23,000. The residents...

A Lincoln landlord has been told to pay more than £8,000 for serious overcrowding and safety breaches. Abdol Ali Javid Keshmiri of...

A Cricklewood landlord who was ordered in September to pay more than £700,000 after he breached Barnet Council’s planning enforcement rules...

Older people are facing a shortage of suitable housing for their retirement, putting pressure on the wider property market, according to...

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

Two estate agent firms have been expelled from membership of The Property Ombudsman (TPO) for a minimum of two years. AS Moon...

In the nine months since new Right To Rent immigration checks have been implemented across the West Midlands only seven landlords...