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A landlord faces a hefty jail sentence unless she finds over £50,000 in the next three months - and on top...

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 landlord who was involved in a decade-long dispute with a London council has been hit with a £1.44 million penalty...

A wealthy landlord, who also ran a fake lettings agency, has been jailed for 11 years for allowing ‘ghost tenants’ to...

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

A council chief has spoken out in support of landlords who lost money to a “despicable fraudster” who is now in...

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

The landlord of a cellar ‘flat’ where a fire resulted in the death of a man has been jailed for breaching...

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

A landlord has admitted breaching planning rules at two properties in south London. He submitted a guilty plea in response to Southwark...

A rogue landlord who created false identities and fake lcompanies as part of an elaborate web of misinformation designed to exploit...

A landlord has been sentenced at Wolverhampton Crown Court after she had previously been found guilty of illegal eviction. Dr Amy Eskander,...

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

A bankrupt landlord in the Midlands is behind bars or eight months for failing to tell the Official Receiver about an...

A landlord has been found guilty by a jury of illegally evicting their tenant during the Covid-19 pandemic. Dr Amy Eskander let...

A landlord has been sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for the illegal eviction and harassment of a tenant, and has been...

A rogue landlord prosecuted for illegally squashing seven flats into a development with planning permission for six must pay around £250,000.  In...

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

A landlord has been jailed for a year after making a homeless woman perform sexual favours for him in return for...

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

A landlord must pay thousands of pounds after illegally letting an outbuilding for over three years. Paul Vig admitted failing to comply with...

A London landlord has been ordered to pay almost £275,000 for failing to comply with an existing planning enforcement notice. Mrs Anja...

A man who broke into the home of his prospective landlord and threatened him with a screwdriver has been jailed for...

A landlord who built extensions and converted them into flats and bedsits all without planning permission has been given a record...

A council is appealing for witnesses to help with its prosecution of a landlord for illegal eviction. Sohila Tamiz who is a...

A former tenant who tried two frame his landlord’s partner as being involved in the Westminster terrorist attack has been convicted...

Many landlords awaiting the hearing of possession cases will hardly need reminding, but new figures from the Ministry of Justice give...

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

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

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

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

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

A landlord who unlawfully let cramped and overcrowded bedsits and then harassed tenants who complained has been fined thousands of pounds...

A letting agent in Nottinghamshire stole close to £30,000 from several landlord clients and tenants to help prevent his business from...

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 buy-to-let landlord has been ordered to pay back a whopping £190,000 after he was caught receiving rental from illegal flats. A...

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

A man who rented hundreds of properties that he sub-let to criminal gangs running brothels and cannabis farms has been jailed...

A rogue landlord who squeezed 15 people into a modest home in west London has been ordered to pay more than...

A woman in Cutteslowe, north Oxford, has pleaded not guilty to one count of attempted murder against her landlord.  A jury at...

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

Three rogue operators in London have been sentenced after pleading guilty to money laundering fraudulent rental payments received for properties that...

A buy-to-let landlord who claimed that he needed a council home has been ordered to pay back more than £48,000 or...

A managing agent who defrauded buy-to-let landlords out of £16,500 over an 18-month period will face a Proceeds of Crime Act...

An unscrupulous tenant who forged a statement to back up a county court claim against her landlord has been jailed for...

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 man has been jailed for a six years and three months for stabbing his landlord in an unprovoked attack. Ainars Jozans,...

A rogue landlord who made almost £130,000 in illegal rent after converting his three-bedroom house in east London into two flats...

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 private landlord in Telford has been ordered to pay £29,000 in costs and fines for harassing two tenants out of...

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

A new fire safety campaign urging private sector landlords and letting agents to always abide by the law and install smoke...

An unscrupulous landlord who converted three family homes into houses in multiple occupation (HMO) without planning consent has been jailed for...

Three rogue directors of a letting agency in London who conned at least landlords and tenants out of more than £105,000 were...

Dodgy solicitor Ross McKay, who helped a fraudster create a £10.8m property empire with the help of Tameside’s criminal underworld, has...

A family of slum landlords who crammed 31 people into a suburban four-bedroom house has been ordered to pay back almost...

The recent conviction of former letting agent Heather Crabb for illegally pocketing £260,000 from renters in Plymouth has contributed significantly to...

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

At least 19 landlords and tenants have been left £105,000 out of pocket by unscrupulous letting agents who ran London-based letting...

A notorious rogue landlord who illegally built a number of tiny bedsits across North West London has been ordered to pay...

A woman who repeatedly ignored council orders to stop renting ‘beds in sheds’ has been ordered to pay back almost £450,000...

A tenant who caused almost £6,000 worth of damage to his rented home after refusing to vacate the flat, despite being...

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

A landlord who burnt his tenant’s possessions has been ordered to pay £12,000 compensation. Buy-to-let investor Tyrone Holmes, of Kensington Grove in...

A rogue landlord who swindled £28,000 from a family friend has been sentenced to four years in prison. Mark Thorogood of Maelgwyn...

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 has been found guilty of exploiting six vulnerable tenants by bullying them into working for him without pay. Hargit...

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

Universal credit will cause up to 1.3 million evictions from privately rented homes, Liberal Democrat Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)...

An unscrupulous individual pretending to be a private landlord in order to scam more than £10,000 from unsuspecting tenants before going...

Criminal landlords who crammed up to 40 migrants inside their semi-detached townhouse in north-west London face losing hundreds of thousands of...

A landlord in Ilford, Essex, has been sentenced to four months in jail for continuing to rent out his property despite...

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

A crooked property manager who pocketed thousands of pounds in rental income which he failed to pass on to landlords has been...

A landlord has been given a 12-month community service order with a rehabilitation activity requirement of 20 days after being convicted...

A pair of landlords in Dagenham have been slapped with a hefty fine for renting out two illegally converted flats over...

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

A former north London letting agent who stole thousands of pounds worth of cash and belongings from rental homes by tricking...

A private landlord who converted several houses into bedsits without planning consent has been ordered to pay more than £340,000. Latif Rehman,...

A landlord has pleaded not guilty to gross negligence manslaughter after a house fire in Huddersfield last year tragically claimed the...

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

A rogue landlord who rented out squalid flats, which breached council planning laws and failed to meet basic living standards, has...

A buy-to-let landlord pleaded guilty to two charges relating to the harassment of his tenants during a short hearing at Sheffield...

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

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...

A rogue landlord who made almost £130,000 in illegal rent after converting his three-bedroom house into two flats without planning consent...

A tenant who set fire to her flat because her landlord was planning to evict her has been sentenced to three...

A rogue landlord who forced susceptible women into prostitution and sexually assaulted others while ruling his £16m property empire has been...

A landlord has been ordered to pay in excess of £235,000 for renting out illegal bedsits in east London after pleading...

All members of the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) can now expect to receive free Right to Rent legal expenses when they...

A letting agent in Croydon has been sentenced to 19 months in prison after being found guilty of keeping more than...

A landlord who broke the law by converting a building into seven flats in east London without planning consent could be...

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

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