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The Housing Ombudsman has revealed figures showing huge increases in the numbers of complaints from tenants on social housing. The Ombudsman says...

The think tank Policy Connect is warning that landlords have reported that sub-standard carbon monoxide alarms are persistently available online, leaving...

A London lettings agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman for not paying compensation to a landlord following a failure...

A council has prosecuted a private landlord who let out an uninhabitable outbuilding in Kings Langley. Deborah King of Kings Langley was...

A clampdown has found 18 council homes were being unlawfully sublet on Airbnb and other short let platforms. The investigation led by...

A council has prosecuted a private landlord who rented out an uninhabitable outbuilding in Kings Langley. Deborah King was initially fined £4,000...

A council has given an insight into its past five years of enforcement actions against private landlords. The Labour council in Newham,...

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

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

A landlord who left his tenants homeless after breaking into their house at night with a hammer has been prosecuted by...

Landlords have again become the focus of HMRC. The government department is currently using data from rent deposit schemes to assess...

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

West London landlord Shashibhushan Vyas, from Isleworth, has been fined over £115,500 for illegally converting a side extension into a separate...

West London landlord Shashibhushan Vyas, from Isleworth, has been fined over £115,500 for illegally converting a side extension into a separate...

The Housing Ombudsman has released its special investigation into Rochdale Boroughwide Housing, the social housing provider which supplied accommodation to Awaab...

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

According to the most recent statistics there are 676,452 vacant properties in England, nearly half a million of which have been...

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 landlord has admitted breaching planning rules at two properties in south London. He submitted a guilty plea in response to Southwark...

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

A council has taken the unusual step of making an announcement that investigations are underway into allegedly unlicensed private rental properties. Cambridge...

A landlord who lives in the US and lets her apartment out via Airbnb has been banned from doing so in...

Three projects are underway investigating how a tourist tax, including a levy on holiday let renters, could apply in Wales. The three...

Two tenants who were amongst a group of activists in a battle with their landlord have written in a left-wing journal...

The early bird discount period for what many regard as the country’s most controversial landlord licensing scheme has been extended. The discount...

The government says it’s going to name and shame what it considers to be bad social landlords, using social media to...

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

A local authority admits it is using covert cameras to spot landlords illegally fly-tipping. Darlington council claims there have been several incidents...

The many thousands of landlords who have snapped up properties have been advised to be on alert - a tax consultancy...

Direct Line Business Insurance has outlined seven tell-tale signs of cannabis cultivation, which it says is an increasing problem for landlords across...

An expert assessment of the average cost of damage caused by rogue tenants growing cannabis suggests landlords will typically pay almost...

A Labour-controlled council says it’s confident a huge new licensing scheme for one of Britain’s most high-profile cities will be voted...

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...