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

A council is launching an innovative scheme whereby good landlords get long licences - and poor ones get short licences. Gloucester council...

A council has won an appeal concerning two Civil Penalty Notices imposed on a landlord. The landlords had been issued two fines...

Landlords Shaun and Laraine Etherington have pleaded guilty to four offences of breaching Prohibition Orders against human habitation at their properties...

A council has prosecuted a landlord operating a property firm for not producing the right paperwork. Luton local authority has prosecuted Poplar...

Whether you own a leasehold or freehold property, if you’re an HMO landlord who rents out rooms, individual flats or even...

A landlord has been fined almost £5,000 for failing to install smoke detectors into a house he let to a family. The...

A landlord who let out a property that raised serious concerns for the safety of 18 residents, including six children, has...

Redbridge council in east London has undertaken its toughest ever clampdown on buy to let, visiting 171 properties in a week. The...

Tell us about Airthings, why it was established, the products and what problem they were coming to solve? Airthings was established in...

As all those responsible for managing property will be only too aware, landlords have many obligations under the laws and regulations...

With new regulations and rules now in place for landlords, our in-house property experts outline their 10 essential safety requirements for...

As you will undoubtedly know, it is a legal requirement to ensure your rental property has adequate smoke detectors installed.  Some landlords...

A buy-to-let investor, who previously spent time in prison for perjury after he lied during an inquiry into the deaths of...

A buy-to-let landlord has been found guilty of failing to comply with a notice from Bradford Council ordering him to improve...

Two landlords in Staffordshire have been ordered to pay more £5,000 after allowing their tenants to live in poor conditions   Brian...

Inventory reports are increasingly showing and reporting safety and compliance issues within tenanted properties, according to the Association of Independent Inventory...

A rogue landlord has been ordered to pay more than £37,000 for allowing tenants to live in what inspectors described as...

A landlord faces prosecution after police found he had squeezed 31 beds into a very overcrowded three-bedroom house that had just...

A rogue landlord who left tenants living in substandard conditions in Selly Oak and Edgbaston has been ordered to pay in...

A buy-to-let landlord in Birmingham has been fined £25,000 after pleading guilty at Birmingham Magistrates Court for regulation breaches in relation...

A deranged tenant in Scarborough has been sentenced to 32 months in prison after he attempted to set fire to his...

There has been a sharp rise in the number of landlords in Manchester offloading buy-to-let properties at auction due to tougher...

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £4,700 by Blackburn magistrates after failing to make improvements to his property. Despite...

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

A Coventry-based landlord has avoided a prison sentence over fire safety offences after his tenant suffered life-threatening burns to 40% of...

The owner of a house in Colindale, north London, let out to tenants in a dangerous condition has been fined £25,000. Habib...

A Birmingham landlord has been fined £6,400 and ordered to pay £3,696 costs and a £120 victim surcharge for failing to...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) says it is 'entirely supportive' of today's regulation change which requires landlords to install...

Landlords can use the services of an inventory clerk to carry out checks of smoke detectors and carbon monoxide alarms in...

A charity claims there is a blind spot in the Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations 2015 coming into force next month.  Electrical...

A high profile letting agent has urged politicians to lay off the private rented sector and stop overloading it with confusion. Lisa...

City of York Council is holding a “decision session” today to discuss the introduction of fixed penalty notices for letting agents...

A West Midlands landlord has been ordered to pay costs and fines of more than £6,600 after a series of poor...