Archive

Lettings agency chain Lomond has revealed a list of what it calls “up and coming rental hotspots” with yields having strengthened...

A new borough-wide landlord licensing scheme is set to launch in the London borough of Brent on April 1, the council...

Lettings, property management and sales agency Johns&Co - which celebrates its 10th year in business in 2024 - is opening a...

A new report suggests London’s Build To Rent sector is being held back by a “stark inconsistency” from local councils in...

The lettings agency Winkworth has taken the unusual step of criticising policies of a series of councils. The councils are all Labour...

Tenants in Bristol are paying 41 per cent more for a rental property than they did just five years ago, it...

The new Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service - introduced this month - will make possession court case delays even worse. That’s the...

South East property group Beresfords has appointed Bernadette Barcham to its Board of Directors.  A statement from the firm says the move...

London letting agents and landlords have so far been hit with more than £900,000 in fines in the first half of...

HM Courts and Tribunals Service has halted the work of bailiffs on safety grounds.  An incident is under investigation, and it’s believed...

A year on from the Elizabeth Line opening, new Rightmove analysis reveals the latest renter trends near stations along the line. The...

Rents across Greater London are up 21 per cent year-on-year according to the Home property website, which prepares a mon they...

Propertymark has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove outlining its concerns about the latest licensing scheme proposal from a local council. The...

An analysis of lettings data across England and Wales shows that  there have been 3,737 rental property repossession orders granted in...

Some parts of London have recorded over 50 per cent of sales as second or additional properties. Research by lending firm Octane...

A ruling of the First Tier Property Tribunal has put a London property management firm in the clear following a dispute...

A head tenant who posed as a landlord has been taken to court by a London council. Sonia Nascimento rented a converted...

London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has drawn up a league table of which boroughs in the capital have had their...

A London council has dropped plans to restrict the creation of HMOs, a full 12 months after a consultation on the...

Hello: so much has happened since the last Conquering Corona column on Friday. Before we get on with it, a reminder...

The government has rejected a council’s bid to extend its licensing scheme for privately rented housing. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local...

A landlord has been ordered to pay back no less than £190,000 - equivalent to nine years’ rent - after he...

A landlord has ended up with fines totalling over £90,000 after repeatedly ignoring a council’s selective licensing regime. Stephen Ige pleaded guilty...

A former director at LSL’s Build To Rent division has today been named as head of business development at a London...

A dawn raid by enforcement officers from a London council has discovered 17 men sleeping on mattresses in a three bedroom...

London’s Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has returned to his campaign to win powers which would allow him to impose rent controls. Khan...

First, he was trying his hand in lettings, then he devised a 2.5% commission to take on Purplebricks. Now, after nine months...

A crackdown on letting agency websites by a Trading Standards team has found the significant majority of them to be breaking...

Greater London rents have risen an average of four per cent in the past year - but some boroughs performing above-average...

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

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

A buy to let investor who let out an unsafe and unlicensed property in London has now been hit with a...

Local authority officers have found three tenants living inside a shed in the garden of a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Brent,...

Consultation is underway to extend a landlord licensing scheme in a London borough where a third of households rents privately.  Three types...

A rogue landlady has been hit with a fine of £24,000 after conning her tenants and the local authorities with a...

A dawn raid on unlicensed HMOs in north London last week were the latest sign of a crackdown on rogue operators...

A flat-share website claims typical rents in some 38 per cent of London are now so high they render the areas...

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...

A council accused of paying over £500,000 to a landlord it had already ruled as unfit to rent out property is...

Edinburgh has been identified as having the UK’s fastest growing rents with the average annual sum rising by 4.63 per cent...

A court has ordered a husband and wife pair of buy to let investors to pay back £322,282 in illegal income. A...

A local authority claims that a court decision may set a legal precedent for other councils across the UK using the...

A notorious rogue landlord must pay £1.5m or risk spending up to nine years in prison after what is thought to...

Free seminars are to be held next month to help letting agents restructure their business to optimise opportunities in the current...

A lettings agent who let a tiny room behind a kitchen in a property in London has been ordered to pay...

A London local authority is looking for the landlord of a bungalow which had two bedrooms but was home to 15...

You may have spotted a particularly entertaining ad yesterday for lettings property management firm ARPM - it’s the one that featured...

A London council has agreed to a TV crew taking part in a raid on an overcrowded and unlicensed HMO. The surprise...

A tenant who was ripping off other tenants in an overcrowded bungalow "death trap" has been fined tens of thousands of...

Rents in London rose by 0.1 per cent in the 12 months to June - it’s the first annual rental increase...

A head tenant who changed the locks on a property that was illegally sublet to no fewer than 35 men has...

A lettings agency has been fined over £20,000 for failing to licence an overcrowded semi detached house in London. The fine was...

Council officers staged a dawn raid to uncover an unlicensed HMO in north London. The team discovered 10 men and women sleeping...

A property company that failed to repair a pigeon-infested loft has been fined a total of £31,026, including an order to...

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...

Brent Council has confirmed that the government has approved its request to extend the local selective licensing scheme. The local authority, which...

A London council is marking 125 successful prosecutions against agents, landlords and sub-letting tenants since 2016. The authority, Brent, says the convictions...

A London council has been the first in the country to use the Proceeds of Crime Act for a breach in...

Two landlords and two tenants were fined a total of over £11,000 after losing their appeal against housing convictions concerning property...

The local authority at Brent in north London has secured what it calls “an important court victory” after “appalling conditions” were...

Almost 60 per cent of councils across Britain have not prosecuted any landlord for any offence in the past year according...

PropTech firm PayProp has welcomed the latest measures to clamp down on rogue elements within the lettings industry - but warns...

A dawn raid on a home in north London has discovered 35 men bedding down on mattresses in every room except...

A buy to let investor who kept 24 adults and children in what a local council calls “appalling conditions” has a...

A landlord who was found guilty of illegally converting a hotel into 26 flats has been given three months to pay...

A London council is using dawn raids in its clampdown on illegal subletting and on so-called ‘beds in sheds’ where tenants...

New government figures reveal that there are 80,855 Built To Rent homes either completed or planned.    It says investment in this element...

A man who illegally housed tenants inside his converted garage has been ordered to pay £173,141 by a court.   Amir Golesorkhi turned...

More than 100 criminal prosecutions have been secured against landlords since the start of an enforcement crackdown by Brent council in...

Council officers discovered men living mattress to mattress inside a run-down flat above a commercial premises during a dawn raid.   Police and...

A lettings firm and a property management company that converted a family home into micro flats have been found guilty of...

The substantial majority of landlords could soon be required to licence their properties in one London borough if the government agrees...

A family of rogue landlords who crammed 31 tenants into a 'Slumdog Millionaire'-style shanty home have this month been found guilty...

Letting agents who have broken the law are set to be ‘named and shamed’ by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan,...

Build To Rent operator Essential Living has won planning consent for 221 new homes in Brentford - part of the firm’s...

A series of prosecutions of rogue landlords by a London council has also seen a so-called ‘property manager’ fined a four-figure...

A building firm that carried out illegal building work to create homes to let has been hit with a £250,000 confiscation...

What appears at first sight to be a low-level dispute between a landlord and a council has raised what may be...

A private landlord has been fined by a London magistrates court for poor and potentially dangerous housing conditions.    Monojor Ali was fined...

Brent council in London is seeking the views of agents- as well as landlords, tenants and others - on the extension...

A letting agency has been fined after one of its landlords was found to be cramming six families into an unlicensed...

A letting agency and one of its landlords have been fined over £20,000 and given criminal records for failing to licence...

A rogue landlord faces a court bill of almost £40,000 after being caught cramming 24 people into a house in north...

The landlord of a London flat is almost £18,000 worse off and has a criminal record after failing to make renovations to...

A raid on a house has uncovered appalling conditions including a Slumdog Millionaire-style shanty town shack made from wood offcuts, pallets...

New research by an online property lending company reveals that those towns which were strongest in voting ‘Leave’ in the EU...

A landlord who waged what a local authority describes as “a war of intimidation” against tenants living in his property has...

A previously-convicted landlord has been ordered to pay over £200,000 by a court for illegally converting two properties into flats without...

A landlord who rented out a property with no hot water and poor heating, leading to a council having to rehouse...

A local council has announced its support for a new scheme which is aiming to improve quality of housing as well...

A rogue landlord who rented out a shoddy property in north west London has become the first to be fined under...