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A new borough-wide landlord licensing scheme is set to launch in the London borough of Brent on April 1, the council...
27 March 2024
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Lettings, property management and sales agency Johns&Co - which celebrates its 10th year in business in 2024 - is opening a...
16 February 2024
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A new report suggests London’s Build To Rent sector is being held back by a “stark inconsistency” from local councils in...
15 November 2023
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The lettings agency Winkworth has taken the unusual step of criticising policies of a series of councils. The councils are all Labour...
30 October 2023
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Tenants in Bristol are paying 41 per cent more for a rental property than they did just five years ago, it...
05 October 2023
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The new Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service - introduced this month - will make possession court case delays even worse. That’s the...
25 August 2023
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South East property group Beresfords has appointed Bernadette Barcham to its Board of Directors. A statement from the firm says the move...
24 July 2023
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London letting agents and landlords have so far been hit with more than £900,000 in fines in the first half of...
05 July 2023
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HM Courts and Tribunals Service has halted the work of bailiffs on safety grounds. An incident is under investigation, and it’s believed...
16 June 2023
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A year on from the Elizabeth Line opening, new Rightmove analysis reveals the latest renter trends near stations along the line. The...
26 May 2023
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Rents across Greater London are up 21 per cent year-on-year according to the Home property website, which prepares a mon they...
20 February 2023
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Propertymark has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove outlining its concerns about the latest licensing scheme proposal from a local council. The...
04 January 2023
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An analysis of lettings data across England and Wales shows that there have been 3,737 rental property repossession orders granted in...
09 August 2022
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Some parts of London have recorded over 50 per cent of sales as second or additional properties. Research by lending firm Octane...
01 July 2022
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A ruling of the First Tier Property Tribunal has put a London property management firm in the clear following a dispute...
23 July 2021
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A head tenant who posed as a landlord has been taken to court by a London council. Sonia Nascimento rented a converted...
11 March 2021
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London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has drawn up a league table of which boroughs in the capital have had their...
17 November 2020
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A London council has dropped plans to restrict the creation of HMOs, a full 12 months after a consultation on the...
04 November 2020
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Hello: so much has happened since the last Conquering Corona column on Friday. Before we get on with it, a reminder...
23 March 2020
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The government has rejected a council’s bid to extend its licensing scheme for privately rented housing. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local...
28 February 2020
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A landlord has been ordered to pay back no less than £190,000 - equivalent to nine years’ rent - after he...
27 February 2020
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A landlord has ended up with fines totalling over £90,000 after repeatedly ignoring a council’s selective licensing regime. Stephen Ige pleaded guilty...
04 February 2020
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A former director at LSL’s Build To Rent division has today been named as head of business development at a London...
09 January 2020
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A dawn raid by enforcement officers from a London council has discovered 17 men sleeping on mattresses in a three bedroom...
29 November 2019
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London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has returned to his campaign to win powers which would allow him to impose rent controls. Khan...
08 November 2019
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First, he was trying his hand in lettings, then he devised a 2.5% commission to take on Purplebricks. Now, after nine months...
09 October 2019
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A crackdown on letting agency websites by a Trading Standards team has found the significant majority of them to be breaking...
30 September 2019
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Greater London rents have risen an average of four per cent in the past year - but some boroughs performing above-average...
13 September 2019
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A rogue landlord who housed more than 25 tenants in a rundown property has been found guilty of serious housing and...
02 August 2019
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A rogue landlord has been ordered to pay over £60,000 after - in the words of the council - “being found...
27 June 2019
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A buy to let investor who let out an unsafe and unlicensed property in London has now been hit with a...
21 June 2019
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Local authority officers have found three tenants living inside a shed in the garden of a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Brent,...
20 June 2019
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Consultation is underway to extend a landlord licensing scheme in a London borough where a third of households rents privately. Three types...
12 June 2019
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A rogue landlady has been hit with a fine of £24,000 after conning her tenants and the local authorities with a...
10 May 2019
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A dawn raid on unlicensed HMOs in north London last week were the latest sign of a crackdown on rogue operators...
19 March 2019
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A flat-share website claims typical rents in some 38 per cent of London are now so high they render the areas...
11 February 2019
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Council enforcement officers have raided a house in Wembley, north London, and found 19 tenants paying a landlord £1,000 a week. Brent council’s...
08 February 2019
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A council accused of paying over £500,000 to a landlord it had already ruled as unfit to rent out property is...
22 January 2019
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Edinburgh has been identified as having the UK’s fastest growing rents with the average annual sum rising by 4.63 per cent...
27 December 2018
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A court has ordered a husband and wife pair of buy to let investors to pay back £322,282 in illegal income. A...
18 December 2018
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A local authority claims that a court decision may set a legal precedent for other councils across the UK using the...
17 December 2018
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A notorious rogue landlord must pay £1.5m or risk spending up to nine years in prison after what is thought to...
06 December 2018
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Free seminars are to be held next month to help letting agents restructure their business to optimise opportunities in the current...
18 September 2018
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A lettings agent who let a tiny room behind a kitchen in a property in London has been ordered to pay...
14 September 2018
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A London local authority is looking for the landlord of a bungalow which had two bedrooms but was home to 15...
24 August 2018
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You may have spotted a particularly entertaining ad yesterday for lettings property management firm ARPM - it’s the one that featured...
10 August 2018
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A London council has agreed to a TV crew taking part in a raid on an overcrowded and unlicensed HMO. The surprise...
07 August 2018
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A tenant who was ripping off other tenants in an overcrowded bungalow "death trap" has been fined tens of thousands of...
23 July 2018
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Rents in London rose by 0.1 per cent in the 12 months to June - it’s the first annual rental increase...
06 July 2018
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A head tenant who changed the locks on a property that was illegally sublet to no fewer than 35 men has...
22 June 2018
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A lettings agency has been fined over £20,000 for failing to licence an overcrowded semi detached house in London. The fine was...
08 May 2018
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Council officers staged a dawn raid to uncover an unlicensed HMO in north London. The team discovered 10 men and women sleeping...
16 April 2018
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A property company that failed to repair a pigeon-infested loft has been fined a total of £31,026, including an order to...
04 April 2018
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Three head tenants who sub-let a three bedroom house to 35 men have been hit with over £23,000 in fines. Gheorghe-Valentin Lingurar...
26 February 2018
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Brent Council has confirmed that the government has approved its request to extend the local selective licensing scheme. The local authority, which...
20 February 2018
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A London council is marking 125 successful prosecutions against agents, landlords and sub-letting tenants since 2016. The authority, Brent, says the convictions...
13 February 2018
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A London council has been the first in the country to use the Proceeds of Crime Act for a breach in...
02 February 2018
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Two landlords and two tenants were fined a total of over £11,000 after losing their appeal against housing convictions concerning property...
30 January 2018
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The local authority at Brent in north London has secured what it calls “an important court victory” after “appalling conditions” were...
21 December 2017
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Almost 60 per cent of councils across Britain have not prosecuted any landlord for any offence in the past year according...
31 October 2017
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PropTech firm PayProp has welcomed the latest measures to clamp down on rogue elements within the lettings industry - but warns...
11 October 2017
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A dawn raid on a home in north London has discovered 35 men bedding down on mattresses in every room except...
21 September 2017
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A buy to let investor who kept 24 adults and children in what a local council calls “appalling conditions” has a...
12 September 2017
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A landlord who was found guilty of illegally converting a hotel into 26 flats has been given three months to pay...
06 September 2017
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A London council is using dawn raids in its clampdown on illegal subletting and on so-called ‘beds in sheds’ where tenants...
17 August 2017
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New government figures reveal that there are 80,855 Built To Rent homes either completed or planned. It says investment in this element...
04 August 2017
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A man who illegally housed tenants inside his converted garage has been ordered to pay £173,141 by a court. Amir Golesorkhi turned...
01 August 2017
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More than 100 criminal prosecutions have been secured against landlords since the start of an enforcement crackdown by Brent council in...
25 July 2017
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Council officers discovered men living mattress to mattress inside a run-down flat above a commercial premises during a dawn raid. Police and...
24 July 2017
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A lettings firm and a property management company that converted a family home into micro flats have been found guilty of...
07 July 2017
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The substantial majority of landlords could soon be required to licence their properties in one London borough if the government agrees...
28 June 2017
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A family of rogue landlords who crammed 31 tenants into a 'Slumdog Millionaire'-style shanty home have this month been found guilty...
25 May 2017
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Letting agents who have broken the law are set to be ‘named and shamed’ by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan,...
27 April 2017
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Build To Rent operator Essential Living has won planning consent for 221 new homes in Brentford - part of the firm’s...
10 April 2017
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A series of prosecutions of rogue landlords by a London council has also seen a so-called ‘property manager’ fined a four-figure...
17 February 2017
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A building firm that carried out illegal building work to create homes to let has been hit with a £250,000 confiscation...
12 December 2016
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What appears at first sight to be a low-level dispute between a landlord and a council has raised what may be...
06 December 2016
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A private landlord has been fined by a London magistrates court for poor and potentially dangerous housing conditions. Monojor Ali was fined...
05 December 2016
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Brent council in London is seeking the views of agents- as well as landlords, tenants and others - on the extension...
24 October 2016
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A letting agency has been fined after one of its landlords was found to be cramming six families into an unlicensed...
21 September 2016
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A letting agency and one of its landlords have been fined over £20,000 and given criminal records for failing to licence...
15 September 2016
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A rogue landlord faces a court bill of almost £40,000 after being caught cramming 24 people into a house in north...
18 August 2016
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The landlord of a London flat is almost £18,000 worse off and has a criminal record after failing to make renovations to...
05 August 2016
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A raid on a house has uncovered appalling conditions including a Slumdog Millionaire-style shanty town shack made from wood offcuts, pallets...
29 July 2016
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New research by an online property lending company reveals that those towns which were strongest in voting ‘Leave’ in the EU...
28 July 2016
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A landlord who waged what a local authority describes as “a war of intimidation” against tenants living in his property has...
19 July 2016
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A previously-convicted landlord has been ordered to pay over £200,000 by a court for illegally converting two properties into flats without...
17 November 2015
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A landlord who rented out a property with no hot water and poor heating, leading to a council having to rehouse...
16 September 2015
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A local council has announced its support for a new scheme which is aiming to improve quality of housing as well...