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A landlord deemed to be unfairly profiting from properties has been fined a total of £5,825.27. Greenwich council prosecuted Anna Yang, an...

A landlord faces a hefty jail sentence unless she finds over £50,000 in the next three months - and on top...

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

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

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

A council has prosecuted a landlord for letting out two HMOs without a licence and failing to comply with HMO Management...

A landlord who illegally converted a property into six flats has been ordered to pay more than £220,000. A previous unlawful change...

Liverpool council and Merseyside Police have secured the eviction of a private tenant making life ‘a nightmare’ for the local community. The...

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

A council has prosecuted a landlord for letting two HMOs without a licence and failing to comply with HMO Management Regulations.Mohammed...

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

Renting out dangerous properties in Cardiff has cost two landlords thousands of pounds. Rowshanara Begum has been fined £20,000 at Cardiff Magistrates'...

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

A Manchester-based solicitors’ firm that incorrectly prosecuted a London council over a private rental case has been ordered to pay thousands...

A council is warning landlords of HMOs that they must meet all of their legal responsibilities ahead of a crackdown on...

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

A council has secured a banning order against a landlord, taking effect almost immediately. The order is against Grzegorz Surminski, a landlord...

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

A landlord has been hit with an £11,800 fine for operating an HMO without a licence. Stoke-on-Trent council launched an investigation into...

A landlord who repeatedly failed to comply with a Planning Enforcement Notice has received a hefty fine. Sultan Mahmood, of Woking, was...

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

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

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 served closure orders on three properties in Bridlington, following police warrants for drug related organised crime at the...

A landlord has been ordered to pay £5,312 for unlawfully evicting his tenant of 18 months. In April this year Bassetlaw council...

A landlord who let tenants live in properties riddled with hazardous electrics, unsafe boilers, mould and no smoke alarms must pay...

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

A criminal businessman has been given a London council’s first ever landlord banning order. Property dealer Jaydipkumar Rameshchandra Valand, who lives in...

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

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

A north of England council says it’s held two local landlords to account after they failed to make essential repairs to...

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

A prominent Labour councillor in Liverpool has told the local media: “Parts of Liverpool are blighted by landlords who treat the...

A landlord who failed to get his properties licensed has been fined. Under the Selective Landlord Licensing scheme in part of Middlesbrough...

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

A private landlord in Mansfield has been ordered to pay a £17,000 penalty after renting out sub-standard accommodation. The unnamed landlord, investigated...

Rogue landlord Hazmar Fauz of Welwyn in Hertfordshire has been given a hefty fine of over £15,000 for a series of...

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

A landlord has been fined more than £8,000 for failing to complete necessary improvements to properties. Eric Bland pleaded guilty at Chesterfield...

A landlord has been ordered to pay over £3,000 in fines and costs for operating an unsafe HMO. John Abraka pleaded guilty...

A landlord has received a combined total of £10,478 in fines and costs for breaching safety regulations. Stroud council brought the prosecution...

The Health and Safety Executive Northern Ireland has prosecuted landlord Paul Coyle, resulting in fines totalling £3,000. Belfast Magistrates Court found Coyle...

A mystery unnamed landlord has been hit with a bill of over £115,000 as a result of a series of problem...

A landlord has been ordered to pay over £3,000 for operating an unsafe HMO  following enforcement action by Havering council. John Abraka...

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

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

A London landlord has been ordered to pay over £33,000 in costs for illegally running an HMO. The three-bedroom HMO was identified...

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

A rogue landlord has been ordered to pay over £15,000 after illegally altering buildings he let out as HMOs in the...

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £1,600 after pleading guilty to an illegal eviction. Grace Young of Derby let...

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

A Cardiff landlord has been ordered to pay just over £4,500 for failing to rectify faults relating to two flats he...

A landlord has been landed with a bill of almost £2,800 for failing to clear rubbish and maintain his vacant property. Alex...

A private landlord has been ordered to pay more than £1,000 by magistrates for failing to properly licence a rented property. The...

A landlord has been ordered to pay over £25,000 by magistrates for a catalogue of failings relating to his rental property...

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

A landlord has been sentenced at Wolverhampton Crown Court after she had previously been found guilty of illegal eviction. Dr Amy Eskander,...

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

A rogue landlord has been fined £2,814 for failing to license an HMO in Wolverhampton. Dudley Magistrates Court found Maciej Piotr Zaremba...

The freeholders to a block of maisonettes have been ordered to pay more than £22,000 after failing to carry out repairs...

A London landlord has been fined and ordered to pay a confiscation order for ignoring planning rules Magistrates ordered landlord Zulfiqar Ahmed...

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

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

Sheffield City Council has prosecuted Uttoxeter-based landlord Gunes Ata for failing to provide information about the insurance of the building he...

A landlord has been prosecuted for unlawfully evicting and harassing a tenant by, amongst other things, removing the toilet. The landlord also...

* Angels Media and Landlord Today are deeply saddened by the passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II * - A landlord has been...

A landlord has been found guilty by a jury of illegally evicting their tenant during the Covid-19 pandemic. Dr Amy Eskander let...

A landlord has been fined and must pay compensation after being involved in an illegal eviction. The landlord - Tahir Aziz - was...

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 re-offending landlord housed himself and five tenants in what has been described as a death trap property.  The rogue Harrow landlord...

A council has prosecuted after a landlord who it alleges put his tenants’ safety at risk. Beej Patel and his company Hatfield...

Another landlord has been hit with a substantial fine for failing to licence an HMO. Ryan Antony Otto, a director of Otto...

A landlord has been sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for the illegal eviction and harassment of a tenant, and has been...

A landlord has been accused of a “disgusting offence” after installing a camera in the bathroom of a house he let...

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...

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

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...

Complaints from the public about rubbish left in front of a house have led to a landlord being hit with a...

A rogue landlord who has already been fined on numerous occasions for similar offences has now been served with a £5,000...

A landlord has been jailed for six months, suspended for a year, after being found guilty of illegally evicting a tenant...

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

Bristol-based lettings management company Iletpro Ltd has been ordered to pay a total of £2,700.06 in fines and costs for failing...

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,...

A local council has prosecuted a rogue landlord for illegally evicting a young couple from their accommodation in Cheltenham.  The landlord -...

A landlord has been fined and sentenced to a 12-month community order for failing to maintain gas appliances at a rental...

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

A London landlord has been ordered to pay almost £275,000 for failing to comply with an existing planning enforcement notice. Mrs Anja...

A landlord in the north of England has received the largest fine that his local council has ever secured for a...

A remarkable four year court battle has ended with £190,000 in fines for a rogue landlord couple who falsely claimed they...

A London council has prosecuted a rogue landlord and his associated property firm for letting unsafe properties and being unlicensed -...

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 landlord has pleaded guilty to harassing one of his tenants during the eviction ban period. Abid Butt from Sheffield has been...

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 has pleaded guilty to the unlawful eviction of his tenant. Jalal Uddin of Wellingborough has pleaded guilty at the town’s...

A landlord who failed to comply with improvement notices for a vulnerable tenant and threatened to evict her if the improvements...

The first landlord in the country to receive a Banning Order under the Housing and Planning Act 2016 when the new...