The lettings agency Winkworth has taken the unusual step of criticising policies of a series of councils. The councils are all Labour...
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30 October 2023
From: Breaking News
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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
From: Breaking News
A landlord who rented out a property with no hot water and poor heating, leading to a council having to rehouse...