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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...

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

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

Two landlords have been served with civil penalty notices for operating unlicensed HMOs.  The notices were from Wellingborough council; one was for...

The government’s hugely-publicised database for rogue letting agents and landlords has been running for almost two years and has…wait for it…just...

A London council has caught out a rogue lettings agency for illegally operating two properties, with issues ranging from gas safety...

A local council claims it has received over 500 complaints from private rental tenants since the start of April - approaching...

The most controversial local council rental licensing scheme in the country has been deemed a success - at least by the...

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

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

Two buy to let investors have been fined thousands of pounds after failing to carry out improvements to unfit rental properties. Adur...

A council in the north of England has issued its first-ever Civil Penalty Notice on a landlord - and it involved...

It may be almost Christmas but the government is this week unveiling new laws to combat what it sees as the...