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Energy Performance Certificates can be riddled with inaccuracies and give unhelpful advice to property owners. That’s the view of consumer service...

An advisory service is warning landlords to heed the lessons from a recent court case concerning legal obligation to ensure fire...

A landlord has been sentenced to six months in prison - suspended for 18 months - and 250 hours community service...

A Labour MP who served in Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow administration and has spent much of his Parliamentary career criticising the private...

High profile landlord Fergus Wilson has been sentenced to six months in prison suspended for three years and ordered to pay...

The National Residential Landlords Association has suspended its link with Less Tax 4 Landlords. This follows publicity surrounding Less Tax 4 Landlords...

A prominent lawyer says the use of Section 8 eviction powers as envisaged under the Renters Reform Bill could lead to...

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

Eviction experts claim the UK court system is nearing crisis point as many County Court bailiff evictions are being put on...

A landlord and two businesses have been fined over £145,000 following a fire in a building containing residential flats and a...

A court has heard that Amjad Ali Khattak, owner of a flat in Oxford, removed his tenant’s possessions and left them...

Politicians in the Scottish Parliament have backed a controversial cap which means rent rises for private tenants mid-tenancy cannot exceed 3.0...

Ruling politicians in Scotland have agreed that from April private rents can rise by 3.0 per cent in a 12 month period...

Shelter’s controversial management appears to have given in to pay demands in order to end a high-profile strike by the campaigning...

A strike by members of Unite, employed by the charity Shelter, has been suspended pending a ballot on a new pay...

* Angels Media and Landlord Today are deeply saddened by the passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II * - Agents are warning that...

A landlord had been sentenced after being found guilty of the illegal eviction of his former tenant. A lengthy investigation was conducted...

On 16 June 2022, the Government introduced a White Paper called “A Fairer Rented Private Sector”. It proposes the biggest changes...

A landlord who repeatedly let out an unsafe house has been fined £20,000 by magistrates. Housing officers from Salford council found fire...

The Health and Safety Executive is urging landlords to check the credentials of gas fitters following a case heard recently in...

In a surprise move, a local authority has suspended a consultation process into a proposed selective licensing scheme following criticisms.  The leader...

A London council has prosecuted a builder - Valeriu Sandu, of Valmic Properties Limited - for lying about fitting sufficiently fireproof...

New selective licensing schemes are now live in areas of north and east Manchester covering more than 1,400 properties.  This means compulsory...

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

It’s understood there will be a Christmas truce with tenants not enduring bailiff-enforced evictions between December 13 and January 10. HM Courts...

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

A landlord in the north of England has been given a suspended prison sentence and a huge fine for fire safety...

There’s a new call for all Section 24 evictions to be suspended until the passing of the Rental Reform Act -...

A landlord has been sentenced to nine months imprisonment suspended for two years for breaches of fire safety legislation. Thirunavukkaradu Kuladaisamy, the...

A landlord in his 70s who claims he was just ‘helping people’ has been handed a suspended prison sentence. That’s because he...

A gas engineer was shocked to come across a large cannabis grow in a rental property after being called to change...

A landlord in south west of England has been given a nine month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, following a...

A landlord has been sentenced for failing to maintain gas appliances at a rental property in accordance with the law. Swansea magistrates’...

A landlord has admitted voyeurism and has been handed a suspended prison sentence and placed on the sex offenders’ register for...

Members of a wealthy Blackburn family of landlords with a portfolio of properties have been sentenced for defrauding the Department for...

Mark Horsey, a landlord who has been convicted of voyeurism, has now been banned from continuing to work in the financial...

The Green Homes Grant scheme went live on September 30 2020, offering landlords and investors the chance to apply for £5,000...

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

Many renters have welcomed the government's latest announcement around protecting tenants from eviction over the winter period, but tenants and landlords...

A letting agent in north London has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman (TPO) after receiving a complaint from a landlord...

Crisis, a national charity for homeless people, is calling on the government to do more to help renters facing homelessness due...

The latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggests that the housing market continued to recover at the tail...

The London Renters Union (RLU) will hold a day of action next week demanding that the government acts to protect renters,...

The government’s decision to extend the ban on landlords evicting renters will help to ensure that no-one will be evicted from...

Some of the UK’s largest tenants unions have joined forces to heap pressure on the government to suspend all rent immediately,...

A letting agency is asking tenants to sign a ‘moral contract’ to express their unconditional commitment to repay their rental arrears...

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced that Universal Credit rent arrears deductions have been suspended amid the coronavirus...

The National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) has criticised the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) after it announced yesterday that the...

Property Redress Scheme (PRS) has launched a tenancy mediation service for residential and commercial landlords, or their appointed letting agent, and...

Three quarters of landlords warn that tenants will not be in a financial position to pay their rent if the coronavirus...

HSBC has stopped all buy-to-let lending during the Covid-19 outbreak due to limitations on physical valuations. Research by Moneyfacts has found that...

The government is under mounting pressure to consider doing more to protect tenants from the threat of eviction during the coronavirus pandemic,...

Gatehouse Bank has lowered its finance-to-value (FTV) limit to 65% on buy-to-let and home purchase plans to help cope with existing...

Mansfield Building Society has limited lending to 65% loan-to-value across its buy-to-let mortgage range in response to the coronavirus outbreak.  The Society has...

Labour is urging the government to permit private tenants who are struggling to pay their rent due to the coronavirus epidemic to...

The court service has from today suspended all ongoing housing possession action, which means that neither cases currently in the or...

Buy-to-let landlords could be banned from evicting private tenants in Scotland for up to six months if the Scottish government’s plans...

A buy-to-let landlord has been sentenced after failing to maintain gas appliances at a rental property he owns in Plymouth.  Plymouth Crown...

A now-former council tenant in north London has been handed a suspended sentence and ordered to pay close to £90,000 after...

A letting agent has been ordered to pay back just £850 despite pocketing more than £16,000 at the expense of three...

A landlord's son has confessed to stealing 30 pairs of knickers from his father's tenant and hiding them around her property. Magistrates...

A private landlord who put the lives of his tenants at risk has been ordered to pay a £20,000 fine and...

A couple from Barry in Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, have been handed suspended prison sentences for benefit fraud after being convicted...

A buy-to-let landlord who allowed tenants to occupy rooms without windows after failing to get planning consent for a block of...

A buy-to-let landlord who used violence and intimidation to illegally evict his tenant has been handed a suspended jail sentence and...

A buy-to-let landlord who crammed at least seven people into a two-bedroom flat has been ordered to pay almost £3,000 by...

A buy-to-let landlord in Leeds who left his tenant homeless after changing the locks while he was on holiday has been...

A buy-to-let landlord has been handed a two-year suspended sentence, ordered to pay more than £4,000 and given 100 hours of...

A landlord from Blackburn has been fined after failing to maintain gas appliances at his rental properties in Norwich. Norwich Magistrates’ Court...

The controversial Right to Rent scheme requiring landlords to check the immigration status of new tenants is fuelling discrimination and should...

A pair of private landlords from Sheffield who harassed and illegal evicted their tenant have been handed suspended prison sentences. Mark Cashin...

A buy-to-let landlord has been given a suspended prison sentence, handed a 16-week curfew and ordered to pay more than £10,600...

A company and the manager of a house of multiple occupation (HMO) in South Hampstead, north-west London, have been hit with...

A buy-to-let landlord has been given a suspended prison sentence, instructed to undertake community service and ordered to pay almost £6,500...

Delays in universal credit benefit payments for housing costs are leaving claimants unable to pay rent and pushing some deep into...

A private landlord from Cornwall has been given a 12-month prison sentence suspended for 24 months, fined £5,000, and ordered to...

When investing in buy-to-let, you can’t always be sure when the appliances and pipe work in the property were last serviced...

A buy-to-let landlord in Ilfracombe, a seaside resort on the North Devon coast, has been given a suspended prison sentence for...

A letting agent responsible for managing a large buy-to-let portfolio in Norwich has been handed a 20-month suspended sentence for two...

Most landlords hope that their experience of letting a property is a positive one but, whether you are a seasoned landlord...

The consultation period for the proposed ban on letting agents’ fees in England should either be extended or suspended until after...

A London based landlord has been given a suspended two-year prison sentence for tax fraud, following a Revenue and Customs investigation...

A buy-to-let landlord has narrowly escaped jail after failing to ensure gas appliances in one of her properties were checked for...

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

A private landlord in Scunthorpe has been prosecuted for tenancy fraud and ordered to pay back more than £30,000 after deceptively...

A buy-to-let landlord in Plymouth put the lives of his tenants at risk of a gas explosion after carrying out gas...

A group of landlords has suspended its plans to take the Bank of Ireland to court over their tracker rate being...

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

It is now been three years since Property 118 questioned West Brom’s – the now obsolete specialist lending arm - decision...

A landlord who continued to rent out a house to tenants despite being warned that it posed serious health and a...

A fraudster who posed as a letting agent with the sole intention of stealing from landlords and tenants has been jailed...

A group of disgruntled customers are expected to start legal action against Skipton Building Society and Bank of Ireland next month...

An unregistered gas fitter has been received a suspended prison sentence for illegally installing a gas boiler and undertaking landlord’s gas...

A Staffordshire letting agent who stole £123,000 from landlords and tenants has been given a suspended prison sentence which has been...

A buy-to-let landlord in Stockton-on-Tees, has been sentenced after illegally uncapping and reconnecting a gas supply. Teeside Magistrates’ Court heard that David...

Rogue landlords are being weeded out by councils for some of the worst cases of illegal eviction, according to the Local...

A Bristol landlord has been handed a suspended jail sentence after student flats under his ownership were found to have numerous...

Work of council fraud investigators in Barnet to expose tenancy fraud has led to almost 50 council houses being re-let to...