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

A fire and rescue service has successfully prosecuted a landlord for failing to comply with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order...

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

A London council has successfully prosecuted two landlords who failed to comply with a planning enforcement notice originally issued against substandard...

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

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

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

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

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

A rogue landlord has been sentenced to 10 months in prison at Chesterfield Crown Court for the state of his properties. In...

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

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...

Around half of the Nightingale courts set up in 2020 at the height of the pandemic are to close, with the...

The long-running saga of unscrupulous landlords taking advantage of lone tenants to suggest a ‘sex for rent’ arrangement continues with a...

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

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

A landlord has been given a hefty fine for housing vulnerable tenants in hazardous conditions in a case brought by a...

A Labour MP is proposing legislation which would mean that landlords who offer accommodation in exchange for sexual favours could be...

A coalition of 20 pro-tenant organisations - including at least one actively campaigning against some government measures - wants a meeting...

The State Opening of Parliament will take place on Tuesday May 11, with many expecting this to be when the government confirms...

A group of activists at the centre of campaigns for renters’ rights has claimed the police help landlords commit illegal acts. The London...

The activists group Acorn, which has staged several anti-landlord demonstrations including some outside homes, is opposing a new Bill going through...

A landlord who illegally turned a London property into 13 flats has been hit by nearly £200,000 in fines, costs and...

A landlord has been prosecuted following the death of a tenant in a house fire at an HMO said to have...

A council has prosecuted a local landlord for failing to safeguard the health, safety and welfare of his tenants. Eastleigh council took...

Two landlords have been fined over £100,000 after 35 people were found living in what a judge called “criminally improper conditions.” Arun...

A buy-to-let landlord will be sentenced today in Plymouth Crown Court after he admitted to using a secret camera to spy...

A buy-to-let landlord who converted a flat in London Bridge into ‘cramped bedsits’ without planning consent has been ordered to pay...

A rogue landlord who allowed a family to live in a house described as “unfit for human habitation” has been fined...

Rogue landlords who converted terrace houses into shoebox flats without planning permission have been ordered to re-pay illegal income or face...

One of the UK’s biggest and arguably most contentious buy-to-let landlords has been ordered to pay £25,000 after ignoring a notice...

Britain’s biggest and arguably most contentious buy-to-let landlord could be slapped with an ‘unlimited’ fine after leaving a wheelchair-bound tenant without...

A disgusting landlord has been ordered to pay a £5,000 fine plus £500 in costs, and handed 100 hours of unpaid...

A now former landlord has been fined £20,000 for putting the lives of five residents at risk after a broke out...

A buy-to-let landlord has been found guilty of exploiting six vulnerable tenants by bullying them into working for him without pay. Hargit...

A landlord in Luton has been handed the largest fine the town has ever seen for breaches of the law regarding...

A buy-to-let landlord who was convicted of nine counts of breaching regulations for a house in multiple occupation (HMO) that he...

A furious tenant who sprayed offensive comments, such as ‘racist’, ‘Arab’ and ‘no means no’, across her landlord’s car after she...

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

A landlord who endangered the lives of his tenants has been successfully prosecuted and fined more than £200,000 for failing to...

A private landlord in Liverpool has been handed a hefty fine for putting his tenants at risk of fire. Following an inspection...

A landlord has been jailed for failing to declare Capital Gains Tax from the sale of his rental properties. Richard Fuller, 53,...

A landlord has pleaded guilty to trespassing charges after being caught having sex in his tenant's bedroom by a home security...

A private tenant has pleaded guilty to cultivating up to £37,000 worth of cannabis at his rented flat in Dundee. The cannabis...

A landlord has been ordered to pay £108,000 within three months or go to jail. Mohamed Omar Hassibi was refused consent to...

A private landlord has been jailed for almost four years after being found guilty of stealing money from more than 100...

A landlord in Hayes, west London, has been ordered to pay back more than £140,000 in rent she received unlawfully after...

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

A landlord operating in the London borough of Brent has been has been ordered to pay close to £7,500 for cramming...

A letting agent who closed his New Malden firm leaving 17 landlords some £27,000 out of pocket has been jailed for...

A Camden councillor has been prosecuted by the council he works for after failing to carry out improvement works to a...

Councils need to be handed greater powers to tackle rogue landlords ‘taking advantage’ and ‘ripping off’ tenants. This is the call from...