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A landlord has been fined over £3,800 for letting out an unsafe and unlicensed HMO. South Gloucestershire council issued the landlord a...

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

Fines for rogue landlords and agents in London have surged past the £10 million mark.   With 19 council licensing schemes and...

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

A landlord referred to only as ‘Mr Gurung’ has been named by two councils as being penalised £3,000 for an overcrowded...

Private landlords applied for licences covering more than 12,000 homes during the first year of a controversial council’s selective licensing scheme. The...

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

A survey of local council private rental licensing schemes says 19 selective and additional licensing schemes and consultations will be taking...

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

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

Labour is using a Bill currently going through Parliament as a backdoor method to introduce the regulation of lettings, estate and...

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

A new council licensing scheme has been given the go ahead by the government. Peterborough council’s selective licensing scheme will be run...

A council is running a pilot project to manage litter issues associated with HMOs. All homes in parts of Coventry were given...

An Airbnb survey first reported last week on Landlord Today has exploded into a national newspaper controversy. Airbnb claims that almost 80...

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

The Additional Licensing HMO scheme in the Bath and North East Somerset area ends on New Year’s Eve.  The scheme covers around...

Haringey council has got a £200,000 windfall from landlords of unlicensed HMOs. And now it’s set to get even more. Councillors are to...

Landlords across just one London borough who failed to license HMOs have been issued with fines amounting to £207,500. To date, 59...

An unlicensed landlord has been ordered to pay back almost £15,000 in rent to his tenants after they were forced to...

A council has issued financial penalties of over £20,000 to landlords failing to manage their properties.   Three of the four cases...

A trio of Cambridge landlords have been fined more than £8,000 between them, after three separate HMOs were found to be...

A Labour council says local landlords have only a week to apply for a licence before a big rise in the...

A London council is telling landlords that if they don’t apply for a licence in the next nine days they face...

A statement from Oxford’s Labour controlled council says private landlords in the city have under a month to apply for a...

Illicit HMOs have been targeted in a bid to improve housing standards and make communities safer. North Northamptonshire council joined forces with...

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

Licensing schemes continue to spread - even to the Channel Islands. The Jersey Evening Post reports that the island’s Chief Minister has...

A landlord and three property management companies have been fined approaching £80,000 for health and safety failings. Mohammed Ali Abbas Rasool, Cadogan...

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

An unnamed landlord has been fined more than £3,500 after an HMO in Cambridge was found to have been unlicensed. After receiving...

A trade body says inventories are set to play an increasingly important role in the private rental sector as fire regulations...

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

A landlord will have to pay £22,861 after he failed to apply for a licence to operate an HMO. Mohammad Safdar, of...

A landlord has been found guilty of operating an unlicensed House in Multiple Occupation and - in the words of a...

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

A London landlord has been fined £2,500 by the local council for letting an unlicensed HMO. The fine was issued after the...

The House of Commons will today debate a proposal for local authorities to have specific controls over the proliferation of Airbnbs...

Lambeth council in south London has prosecuted a rogue landlord who illegally ran a bed-sit in the borough. Frank Otuo of Putney...

The landlord of a property in Northampton has paid a £2,750 civil penalty after failing to licence their HMO. In December 2021...

The landlord of a property in Northampton has paid a £2,750 civil penalty after failing to licence their HMO. In December 2021...

Coventry council has issued financial penalties on a landlord of a poorly managed and unlicensed HMO totalling £60,000. The council has also...

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

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

A tribunal has ordered a student accommodation management company to refund more than £84,000 in rent after it ran an unlicensed...

Landlords risk being overwhelmed and deterred by the volume of changing legislation surrounding the private rental sector, a PropTech entrepreneur warns. Jonathan...

Media reports from Cambridge say that rent protesters in the city are to demand the council employs staff dedicated to chasing...

A landlord has been fined £7,500 for letting an unlicensed HMO. Having ignored numerous requests and failing to renew the St Helen’s...

A London landlord has been fined £1,000 for letting an unlicensed HMO in Tottenham. Having ignored numerous requests and failing to renew...

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...

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

Telford & Wreken council has served a fixed penalty notice on a private landlord in its patch. The £300 fixed penalty notice...

A landlord has been fined £5,000 for letting an unlicensed HMO in London. The fine was issued by Haringey council after the...

A London landlord has been fined £5,000 for letting an unlicensed HMO. The fine was issued after the landlord ignored repeated warnings...

A private landlord has been slapped with a £400 fine for allowing a tenant’s waste to be fly-tipped on the site...

A landlord who harassed tenants and left them in dangerous accommodation hit has been branded “atrocious” and has been hit with...

A non-profit organisation called Justice For Tenants has spearheaded a campaign which has ultimately led to a Rent Repayment Order being...

A London council has secured banning orders against four rogue landlords after they were found to be letting an unlicensed and...

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...

Two landlords who jointly own a property to let in Wrexham have been fined for failing to licence it appropriately. Christopher Tye...

A London council is consulting on what it claims to be “a groundbreaking property licensing scheme.” Newham council says its licensing of more...

A Labour-controlled local authority with a reputation for clampdowns on rogue landyhas issued a statement celebrating its successes. Tower Hamlets council in...

A landlord has been fined over £7,000 for letting out an unsafe and unlicensed HMO. South Gloucestershire council’s private sector housing team...

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

A local newspaper’s investigation has revealed that a London council flouted its own policies to maximise the number of landlords it...

A private landlord operating an unlicensed and overcrowded property in London has been hit with a fine of more than £21,000. Brent...

A private landlord operating an unlicensed and overcrowded property in London has been hit with a fine of more than £21,000.  The...

A one-time promoter of The Rolling Stones was so busy on the road that he forgot to get an HMO licence...

Rogue landlord Siddika Begum of Salisbury has been prosecuted for failing to licence a house in multiple occupation in the town. Begum...

A landlord has been handed penalties totalling nearly £8,000 after being found guilty of operating an unlicensed HMO. This follows an investigation...

A tenant who sub-let a property by falsely claiming to be its owner has been given a criminal record.  Sonia Nascimento rented...

A London council is running what it describes as “an innovative project” to help private tenants reclaim rent from landlords who...

A landlord who failed to licence his properties has been ordered to pay back over £8,000 in rent. Dexter Blackstock, a former...

A landlord has been fined £2,500 for failing to licence a property that she had been renting out for several years...

London’s Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan has launched a new tool for tenants to check on their landlords - and possibly claim...

A London local authority is to extend its current additional licensing scheme from 12 council wards to 18 - and is...

An angry landlord has appeared at a magistrates court to deny a charge relating to local council licensing.  Local media report that...

Unscrupulous landlords in the East End of London been ordered to pay more than £100,000 over the past 12 months for...

A buy-to-let landlord has been ordered to pay just over £90,000 for repeatedly ignoring selective licensing laws in north London.  Stephen Ige...

An unscrupulous landlord has been fined £27,000 over an unlicensed HMO in Luton with multiple fire and safety breaches. ​ Luton Magistrates Court...

A buy-to-let landlord has been fined £1,384 after pleading guilty to failing to selectively license a rental property he owns in...

City of York Council has vowed to crack down on rogue landlords looking to exploit the housing market, as part of...

Brent Council in north London will be taking action against a buy-to-let landlord who is accused of “exploiting tenants” after  17...

London’s first rogue landlord banning order has been issued after tenants’ lives were put at risk through the letting of unsafe...

Marks Out Of Tenancy, a letting review website, has launched a digital service to help local authorities crackdown on unscrupulous landlords...

House sharing has becoming increasingly popular as more (and older) people opt to live with housemates over ownership or renting alone....

A buy-to-let landlord in Lincolnshire been ordered to pay just over £1,200 following a breach of HMO licensing rules.  Nicholas Moyses allowed...

A buy-to-let landlord in Worcester has been ordered to pay almost £3,000 for operating an unlicensed House of Multiple Occupation (HMO)...

Letting agents who fail to obtain licences for rented properties that fall under selective licensing rules could be prosecuted either alongside...

A buy-to-let landlord in Nottingham has been fined £24,000 and told to pay £1,100 costs as well as a victim surcharge...

There are more than 130,000 unlicensed properties in London that should be licensed under either selective, additional or mandatory HMO licensing...

A buy-to-landlord in Worcester has been ordered to pay almost £3,000 for failing to install adequate safety measures.  Mohammed Rafiq, who was...

City of Lincoln Council has taken action against a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) landlord in Lincoln for failing to comply...

A buy-to-let landlord in Nottingham been fined £6,000 and instructed to pay  £1,583.18 costs, along with a £170 victim surcharge following...

A council used a plane with thermal imaging to catch unscrupulous landlords that allowed tenants to live in substandard conditions.  Several people...

A landlord has been penalised for operating an unlicensed house in multiple occupancy  (HMO) in south London. Fouad Ahmad, from Streatham, pleaded...

An unscrupulous landlord who housed at least 25 tenants in a rundown property in north-west London has been ordered to pay...

A buy-to-let landlord has been ordered to pay £14,500 for illegally renting out an overcrowded House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) without...