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Landlord Action founder Paul Shamplina says landlords are still being hit by unacceptable delays in regaining possession of their properties. Shamplina has...

The leader of Landlord Action has commended the efforts of MP Theresa Villiers for raising issues surrounding court delays which must...

Brent council in North London has launched a new selective licensing regime across part of the borough. Landlords who let properties in the...

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

Labour controlled Brent council in London has taken the possibly-unique step of paying a landlord’s legal fees and rent to avert...

A new law requiring landlords in three wards of the London borough of Brent to pay for a selective licence will...

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

It’s comforting to think that the UK has a well-established and effective judicial system. If we are wronged we can turn...

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

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

A Crown Court judge has ordered a landlord to pay back almost £750,000 in illicit earnings made from overcrowded properties in...

Brent Council’s application to extend its selective licensing scheme in the north west London ward has been rejected by central government.  Brent...

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

A rogue landlord in north London has been ordered to pay more than £66,000 after being found guilty of making tenants'...

A rogue landlord has been ordered to pay a fine of £10,000 after being convicted for renting out two unlicensed properties...

Members of the general public are being offered the opportunity to have their say on Brent’s landlord licensing scheme. Brent Council wants...

An unscrupulous landlord has been told to pay close to £25,000 after being prosecuted for renting out rooms in an unlicensed...

Two landlords have been ordered to pay more than £30,000 for breaching fire safety and over-occupancy licence conditions at their House...

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

A rogue landlord whose tenants were living in degrading conditions has been ordered to pay £9,000. Housing enforcement officers from Harrow Council...

A managing agent has been fined more than £30,000 for allowing a tenant to occupy an unsafe tiny room behind a...

A tenant who illegally sublet an unlicensed and poorly-maintained bungalow in north London, which was described by Brent Council as a...

Brent Council insists that it wants to build better relationships with private landlords after successfully winning close to 150 prosecution cases...

A landlord who built an outbuilding and converted it into eight small flats without planning consent has been ordered to pay...

A buy-to-let landlord in North West London has been ordered to pay more than £10,000 for licensing breaches in connection with...

A landlord in North West London who failed to deal with noisy pigeons nesting at one of its properties has been...

Three tenants who sub-let a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Kingsbury, north-west London, to 35 men have been fined more than 23,000. The residents...

Plans to introduce new licensing schemes for privately rented homes across parts of North West London have been given the go-ahead by...

A buy-to-let landlord has been ordered to pay £7,400 after failing to obtain a license to rent out a property in...

A property firm with assets in the Virgin Islands has paid a £8,000 civil penalty to Brent Council after two tenants...

A landlord has been ordered to pay almost £10,000 after tenants were discovered living in appalling, cramped conditions, as Brent Council...

There is a direct correlation between licensed rental properties and a reduction in anti-social behaviour, according to a north London based...

Four weeks of prosecutions by Brent Council in north London has seen six successful results with total court fines for rogue...

A company letting out an illegally converted house in North West London has been ordered to pay £250,000 under the Proceeds...

A private landlord has been fined by Willesden Magistrates Court for poor and potentially dangerous housing conditions following a prosecution by...

Two tenants in Kingsbury, north-west London, have been handed fines totalling £4,500 after being convicted of obstructing a Brent Council housing...

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

A  landlord and his letting agents have been slapped with a fine of more than £20,000 and given criminal records for failing...

A criminal landlord has been handed a fine of almost £40,000 after he was caught housing 24 tenants in a rental...

A landlord has been fined £16,000 and now has a criminal record after being punished in court for refusing to make...

A private landlord in north London has been sentenced to four months imprisonment and fined £20,000 after pleading guilty to intimidating his...

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

A North London landlord has been ordered to pay more than £200,000 by Harrow Crown Court for illegally converting two Brent...

A landlord who was found to have 16 tenants living in just one property in Willesden Green, north London, has been...

A rogue landlord who rented out a sub-standard property in Brent has become the first to be fined under Brent Council’s...