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A council says it’s secured the first banning order in its area, securing a stop on a rogue letting agent renting...

It’s been revealed by Propertymark that HM Revenue & Customs has fined agents over £1.6m for branches of anti-money laundering regulations. The...

Compliance issues are on the increase in the private rented sector according to a prominent industry supplier. Inventory and software chief Nick...

A lettings agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme following itsfailure to pay £1,100 out of an adjudicated award...

There’s been a rise of over 400 per cent in the monetary total of fines issued for Right To Rent offences...

A prominent industry expert says lettings agents and other property sector insiders should be extra-vigilant over cybersecurity breaches. Neil Cobbold, managing director...

Propertymark is hosting a webinar where Scott Bailey - policy manager at the Home Office - will answer questions on Right...

Fines for agents and landlords who breach Right To Rent rules increase today from £80 per lodger and £1,000 per occupier...

ARLA Propertymark has urged letting agents to take breaches of the Information Commissioner’s Office’s  data protection principle regarding GDPR seriously.   The call comes...

Airbnb and other short let platforms are from this week required to send data on their clients’ earnings to HMRC. And a...

Repairs and maintenance supplier Fixflo is warning agents of a surge in demand for Electrical Installation Condition Reports in the short...

A lettings agency has pleaded guilty to seven offences relating to an HMO. IHomes Letting Limited has been fined £16,970 for failing...

A revised code of practice for Right To Rent has been issued to agents and landlords. This sixth revision supersedes the previous...

A client account is essential to your lettings business, but the rules and regulations you need to follow to keep this...

Harlow council says it wants to take a harder line against agents and landlords who knowingly let unsafe and substandard properties...

Agents who allow rental properties to be let to migrants who do not have the right to be in the UK...

We compare traditional methods of client money account inspections by an accountant to the alternative Client Money HealthCheck. But first, let’s clarify...

A management company and a lettings agency involved in running a London HMO have been prosecuted for fire safety failures. Monsoon Properties...

Several lettings agents have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme; they are amongst eight named as having been kicked out...

The head of a property management company has been fined £25,800 after serious safety issues were discovered at a shared house...

It’s being reported in Scotland that Propertymark, along with other lettings sector trade bodies, are seeking legal advice on that country’s...

Propertymark says it’s opened compliance cases against five member agencies following the latest HMRC publication of businesses who have failed to...

A landlord has been fined a four figure sum for failing to produce documentation for a council. Fathima Syeda Kauser of Luton pleaded...

The sole director of a lettings agency, who was recently made the subject of an anti-social behaviour injunction and banning order,...

A property management company has been punished with a hefty fine for failing to both clear up and also keep free...

The UK lettings and estate agency is being targeted by crime syndicates in order to launder dirty money. That’s the claim of...

Westminster council wants central London to have the same powers as Paris and Amsterdam to stop anti-social behaviour caused by Airbnb...

Over £80,000 pounds of fines have been imposed on a letting agency and its director. Zenith Accommodation Ltd’s boss, Mohammad Mallick of...

A PropTech company says it will support agents left in the lurch by the collapse of ARPM. Ash Residential Property Management -...

Two lettings agencies are amongst three property agents which have been fined by HM Revenue & Customs for breaching anti-money laundering...

A letting agency has appeared on a ‘name and shame’ list of companies which failed to pay staff the minimum wage. Tetsuo...

Upcoming changes to Right To Rent procedures make the case for increased automation of the process to save agents from additional...

There have been just 17 First Tier Tribunal cases involving allegations of fees charged to tenants in contravention of the Tenants...

The local media in Manchester have published photographs of a property operated by a lettings agency was found to have multiple...

After a recent incident involving an Estate Agent based in Devon in which a property virtual tour they published revealed a...

A property company and its director will have to shell out £10,000 after a blaze left six tenants homeless in the...

A property company and a landlord have each been found guilty of 27 charges relating to the management of two properties...

An agency has been hit with a £330,000 bill after being found guilty of poor management of an HMO. Magistrates have found...

A clampdown on letting agents who fail to safeguard landlords’ and tenants’ money is now underway.  A statement from the National Trading Standards...

Two landlords - one of them an agent - have been given fines totalling £135,000 and must pay costs for failing to...

A lettings expert claims that many agents are failing to comply with appropriate legislation, rendering their landlord clients liable for legal...

One person had to be rescued from a fire after their landlord failed to ensure they had a working fire alarm...

A lettings firm has been ordered to pay over £18,000 after failing to provide adequate living conditions for his tenants. Chelmsford magistrates...

The announcement of the Renters’ Reform Bill in the Queen’s speech last December caused a collective groan across the country from...

A major north of England local authority wants to introduce landlord licensing for HMOs where three or four tenants live, following analysis...

A London council has launched a strategy it claims will protect private tenants and ensure they live in good quality and...

Two suspended sentences, community service, a fine and disqualification from being a director - those form the penalty for a rogue...

A landlord taken to court by a council has ended up with a bill in excess of £20,000.  Dennis Goodwin of Highbury...

Which? is warning prospective renters to beware scam lettings agencies and scam landlords following a case where £5,600 was conned out...

Two London landlords and their lettings agents will have to pay tens of thousands of pounds after a home they were letting...

A legal expert says the Court of Appeal ruling on S21 possession orders last week has resolved one of the most...

A westcountry landlord is only the second in England to have received a banning order preventing him from letting or managing...

The next formal review of lockdown processes in Wales takes place today, with high expectation that the housing market is likely...

Liverpool’s Labour council, which was prevented by the government from extending its city-wide licensing scheme for another five years, is seeking...

Despite the challenges being thrown up to the lettings sector by Coronavirus, this is a reminder that new MEES regulations on...

It’s easy to forget in the Coronavirus frenzy but from tomorrow, Friday March 20, all tenancies are to become subject to...

A landlord from Plymouth has been sentenced after failing to maintain gas appliances and failing to have landlord’s gas safety checks...

With confirmation that Section 21 will be scrapped, how can agents get ready for life after no-fault evictions? The short answer is...

The safeagent accreditation business says it has helped secure the conviction of a rogue lettings agent who falsely claimed membership of...

A newspaper claims multiple councils are opening investigations into agents allegedly defying the tenant fees ban - and at least one...

A London council says nearly half of the Airbnb-style short let properties available in its patch last year exceeded their legal...

A resident who was unable to access an emergency escape route during a fire was found standing on a windowsill hanging...

New research claims that one in every 50 homes in the capital is let on a short-term platform like Airbnb or...

It looks almost certain that agents and landlords must ensure electrical installation inspections and testing are carried out for all new...

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has rejected a bid by Labour-controlled Liverpool council to extend its licensing scheme for five years. Government approval...

A company that slots temporary tenants into properties that it manages has been found guilty of 15 charges connected with Homes...

A legal firm is warning agents and landlords that they have less than three months to prepare for the latest MEES...

A landlord has been banned for two and half years after repeatedly putting tenants’ lives at risk by letting unsafe housing. This...

A landlord has been ordered to pay almost £20,000 and has been told by a judge that he was meaner than...

A compliance consultant has explained why a local council’s penalty on a rogue landlord - initially £31,499 - was slashed to...

[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...

A rogue landlord has been fined more than £150,000 after failing to rectify safety hazards in a property he let. Latif Rehman...

The owner of two properties has been fined £35,000 for breaches of the selective licensiing regime in his local area.  At a...

A leading agent has repeated his controversial belief that the proposed scrapping of Section 21 eviction powers should be seen as...

Former QPR and Nottingham Forest striker Dexter Blackstock has been fined over £25,000 and branded a rogue landlord after admitting 12 licencing offences. He...

A landlord who failed to provide information regarding a buy to let property has been fined £2,080.  Tenants contacted Colchester council in...

London Trading Standards has made the startling claim that 46 per cent of almost 2,000 agents it has surveyed are falling...

A landlord has been ordered to pay £14,500 after he was found to be illegally letting his property out to 11...

New guidance from the government on its controversial Right To Rent scheme would see agents and landlords breaking the law if...

A rogue landlord who housed more than 25 tenants in a rundown property has been found guilty of serious housing and...

A tenant pretending to be landlord has been ordered to pay more than £21,000 after he carved up five family homes...

In the past 18 months more than 200 landlords from across Scotland have been found to be in breach of a...

Both sides of the Right To Rent debate are squaring up for their latest court battle. Earlier this year the High Court...

A rogue landlord has been ordered to pay over £60,000 after - in the words of the council - “being found...

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt have been given a message from a consortium of groups this morning - Scrap Right To...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is threatening Oxford Council with a judicial review of its landlord and letting agent accreditation scheme. The...

A local authority has written to purchasers of former council houses and apartments warning them against illegally letting them out -...

The Renting Homes (Fees etc) (Wales) Bill passed its final hurdle in the Welsh Assembly yesterday evening. This has similar policies to...

With the government already on the ropes over Brexit, there’s a call today for one of its flagship immigration policies to...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has asked the government for urgent clarification on how Right To Rent will work post-Brexit...

A rogue lettings agent has been fined over £72,000 after being found guilty of 15 separate offences relating to three illegally established houses...

There’s been general support for last week’s judgment by the High Court that the government’s Right To Rent policy breaches human...

The High Court has ruled that the government’s Right to Rent scheme breaches human rights law. Under the Right to Rent landlords are...

A buy to let investor has lost possession of his flat after converting it into an Illegal House in Multiple Occupation...

Three brothers and a property management company have received fines and a confiscation order, and must pay costs, following what a...

A buy to let investor has been fined more than £5,000 and ordered to pay a further £4,000 after HMO offences.  John...

Nottingham council - which recently introduced one of the largest and most controversial selective licensing schemes in the country - now...

Luton landlord Mervyn Kupshik has been ordered to pay nearly £30,000 to the Local council - and if he doesn’t do...

A managing agent who used ‘ghost tenants’ as a front so that she could cram 16 people into one overcrowded house...

Two private landlords have been found guilty of managing Houses in Multiple Occupation with dangerous and sub-standard conditions, following a successful...