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An agent whose business was rammed by a car believes he was targeted because of claims he was letting homes to...
08 August 2024
From: Breaking News
ARLA Propertymark and a number of other property industry bodies wants Housing Secretary Angela Rayner to regulate letting and sales agents. An...
15 July 2024
From: Breaking News
Anti-second home posters seen in parts of North Wales and on social media have been reported to the police as a...
16 May 2024
From: Breaking News
An Office of National Statistics survey shows that the top three issues facing the UK are still the cost-of-living crisis (89%),...
16 May 2024
From: Breaking News
Propertymark has welcomed proposed reforms to evict tenants who show persistent anti-social behaviour. In 2018, a Northern Ireland Department of Justice consultation...
12 March 2024
From: Breaking News
A Parliamentary committee has heard that thousands of small and medium-sized letting agencies were debanked in 2023, with financial institutions forcibly...
11 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Companies House has new powers from this week to combat fraud. These are measures under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act...
05 March 2024
From: Breaking News
Inspirational broadcaster and author Katie Piper is set to take to the stage at the Propertymark One Conference at the ExCel...
15 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Propertymark says the regulation of property agents and the creation of a statutory Code of Practice can improve the transparency of...
14 February 2024
From: Breaking News
A prominent industry expert says lettings agents and other property sector insiders should be extra-vigilant over cybersecurity breaches. Neil Cobbold, managing director...
12 February 2024
From: Breaking News
A wealthy landlord who set up a fake lettings agency in Hull has been jailed for 11 years for allowing ‘ghost tenants’ to...
07 February 2024
From: Breaking News
An organised crime group involved in producing and distributing an estimated £2.4m of cannabis has been found to have e used...
10 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Agents, landlords and others’ views are being sought in a consultation on proposals to introduce a borough-wide additional licensing scheme for...
09 January 2024
From: Breaking News
A register launched to shed light on overseas property ownership in the UK now has over 30,000 registrations. The Register of Overseas...
27 December 2023
From: Breaking News
New data reveals a 68 per cent surge in reports of meter tampering and energy theft during winter. The data - revealed...
31 October 2023
From: Breaking News
Police are urging letting agents and landlords to act swiftly if they think one of their properties is being used as...
26 September 2023
From: Breaking News
A lettings agency has removed a video of an apartment where a murder took place, following an approach by a national...
11 September 2023
From: Breaking News
Knight Frank, in conjunction with Build To Rent operator Moda Living, has published a highly supportive report about BTR. Creating what it’s...
31 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Five regional police and crime commissioners have written to letting agents highlighting the problems of cannabis farms in private rental properties. The...
21 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Propertymark has put forward a six-point plan to slash economic crime in the property sector. The trade body says a series of...
17 July 2023
From: Breaking News
A lettings agency has been accused of falsely claiming deposits were being held in a deposit protection scheme and other related...
24 April 2023
From: Breaking News
Two agents who helped establish a multi-million-pound drugs ring in two cities have been jailed. Ossama Omar and Mohamed Latif ran Platinum...
21 April 2023
From: Breaking News
A London lettings agency has been ordered to pay over £12,000 in a fine and costs for its part in running...
11 April 2023
From: Breaking News
Lettings agencies which rely on manual means of verification are risking repetitional damage caused by anti-money laundering regulations, a digital compliance...
11 April 2023
From: Breaking News
Corrupt elites and criminal gangs who abuse the property and financial sectors will be identified and stripped of their cash, the...
05 April 2023
From: Breaking News
Landlords and agents acting on their behalf are to be given more powers to evict unruly tenants who ruin neighbours’ lives...
27 March 2023
From: Breaking News
The National Crime Agency has the starring role at the first Rightmove Anti-Money Laundering webinar of the year, to be held next...
17 January 2023
From: Breaking News
Agents and landlords are to face even longer waits for eviction court cases following the spending cuts announced in the Autumn...
22 November 2022
From: Breaking News
There’s good news and bad news for letting agents on the anti-money laundering front. The good news is that the overall number...
23 September 2022
From: Breaking News
Propertymark is urging lettings agents to familiarise themselves with recent updated guidance to avoid falling into non-compliance. The trade body says updated...
15 September 2022
From: Breaking News
A lettings agency says the cost of living crisis calls into question the viability of a selective licensing scheme in its...
05 August 2022
From: Breaking News
A company claims that some 18 per cent of property firms have seen a rise in criminals attempting to launder money...
18 July 2022
From: Breaking News
Greater regulation of lettings agents, and all other property professionals, is required to ‘finish the job’ of reforming the industry which...
26 May 2022
From: Breaking News
The UK lettings and estate agency is being targeted by crime syndicates in order to launder dirty money. That’s the claim of...
27 April 2022
From: Breaking News
The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper, revealed this morning, includes a radical reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction...
02 February 2022
From: Breaking News
An hour-long webinar this week aims to inform agents how to deter property fraud by greater emphasis on compliance, due diligence...
24 January 2022
From: Breaking News
A PropTech firm claims to have saved a client more than £160,000 by preventing a criminal from illegally renting one of...
20 December 2021
From: Breaking News
Property fraud is on the rise and early in 2022 agents will have an opportunity to attend a webinar featuring a...
10 December 2021
From: Breaking News
Property is fast becoming a preferred investing option for advocates of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, an investment company claims. Sequire Property Investment...
26 November 2021
From: Breaking News
The House of Lords will today discuss the apparently-growing Sex for Rent scandal. Campaigners say a search on websites such as Craigslist...
22 November 2021
From: Breaking News
Consultation begins today on a selective licensing scheme for privately rented housing in 25 wards of Birmingham. Under the suggested scheme, all...
25 October 2021
From: Breaking News
One of the local authorities with the tightest clampdowns on letting agents has issued a statement celebrating its successes. Tower Hamlets council in...
19 October 2021
From: Breaking News
A lettings agent has been jailed for three years for defrauding tenants and landlords out of more than £182,000. Lee Clarke, 42,...
20 September 2021
From: Breaking News
Airbnb has launched a scheme it calls the UK Trust and Safety Alliance to offer hosts information on health, safety and...
23 July 2021
From: Breaking News
The Citizens Advice consumer charity is warning that fake investment scams are amongst the fraudulent activity that’s on the rise across...
23 June 2021
From: Breaking News
The online lettings platform Mashroom has set out a list of guidelines it’s offering to prospective tenants to avoid them falling...
04 June 2021
From: Breaking News
In an exclusive, the Daily Telegraph says emergency courtrooms will be used after their funding runs out over the comning summer...
26 March 2021
From: Breaking News
A landlord who built unlawful extensions to a family home and squeezed up to 14 people into the rooms has forfeited...
19 February 2021
From: Breaking News
A 24 month community order and 200 hours of unpaid work are the price being paid for an unlawful eviction. Buy to...
15 February 2021
From: Breaking News
Rightmove is to host an anti-money laundering webinar next week, aimed at lettings and sales agents. The event, which is entitled Five...
13 November 2020
From: Breaking News
The government has formally announced a pause in evictions in England until January 11 at the earliest. The only exceptions to this...
06 November 2020
From: Breaking News
It is thought likely that the new four week lockdown in England coming into effect on Thursday will mean evictions will...
02 November 2020
From: Breaking News
The property market, and therefore, estate agents have been accused of being the 'weak link' in the UK’s money laundering defences. This...
29 October 2020
From: Legislation & Compliance
A fake lettings agent has been caught trying to cheat prospective tenants out of £1,500 which she claimed was a deposit...
26 October 2020
From: Breaking News
Much has been made of the backlog of court cases - including landlords’ possession attempts - and now the Ministry of Justice...
24 September 2020
From: Breaking News
A police force is warning potential tenants to check before handing over money after scammers conned people into making rent pre-payments...
23 September 2020
From: Breaking News
Back in March 2019 we covered the story that Weymouth council in Dorset wanted a landlord licensing scheme for a town...
04 August 2020
From: Breaking News
A buy to let investor has been sentenced to two years in prison after claiming income support despite being a professional portfolio...
03 August 2020
From: Breaking News
A buy to let investor who kept a group of men as slaves – making them work 90-hour weeks in return...
04 June 2020
From: Breaking News
Another council is consulting on introducing a selective licensing scheme - and again it claims it will “create better housing for...
28 February 2020
From: Breaking News
A jailed letting agent in a long-running legal saga has now been told she must repay her victims some £43,000 -...
25 February 2020
From: Breaking News
New research claims that one in every 50 homes in the capital is let on a short-term platform like Airbnb or...
24 January 2020
From: Breaking News
It’s here - the Fifth EU Money Laundering Directive comes into force today with significant challenges and implications for letting agents. The...
10 January 2020
From: Breaking News
A Southampton lettings agency owner has been jailed after defrauding landlords and tenants out of £230,000. Andrew Whitehead has been jailed for...
19 December 2019
From: Breaking News
A rogue landlord has been fined more than £150,000 after failing to rectify safety hazards in a property he let. Latif Rehman...
02 December 2019
From: Breaking News
A landlord has been hit with court fines for a fourth time for failing to properly manage his rental properties. Landlord Jack...
27 November 2019
From: Breaking News
A rogue landlord and the property company he ran have been fined £22,000 for dishing out ‘sham licences’ to tenants in...
20 November 2019
From: Breaking News
One might have thought that if private rental tenants were as badly treated as some people suggest, housing would be their...
18 November 2019
From: Breaking News
A north of England letting agent who conned home owners out of thousands of pounds has been ordered to pay it back...
12 November 2019
From: Breaking News
An east London lettings agency must pay more than £2,500 after a six-foot-high pile of waste was found fly-tipped on land...
21 October 2019
From: Breaking News
Three criminals have been sentenced after pleading guilty to money laundering involving an online lettings agency. The sentences follow an investigation spearheaded...
18 October 2019
From: Breaking News
A lettings agent jailed in March for taking £220,000 from tenants and landlords is now in trouble over her legal representation. Heather...
14 October 2019
From: Breaking News
A man who claimed he needed a council house but was actually a landlord has been ordered to pay back more...
07 August 2019
From: Breaking News
A buy to let investor has been fined £4,800 and ordered to pay £2,200 in costs for failing to keep his...
19 June 2019
From: Breaking News
A Midlands MP says he has spoken with housing minister Kit Malthouse about the case of a two-branch lettings agency that...
24 May 2019
From: Breaking News
A London council has won one of the largest-ever Proceeds of Crime claims from an unscrupulous buy to let investor. Andre Charles Trepel,...
02 May 2019
From: Breaking News
Cornwall council has confirmed that it’s to use the Proceeds of Crime Act to try to win compensation for victims of...
25 April 2019
From: Breaking News
Prospective tenants are being warned about a fraud scam that cons people into paying an advance fee to rent a property. The...
04 April 2019
From: Breaking News
A buy to let investor who hid families in windowless rooms after failing to get planning permission for a block of...
28 March 2019
From: Breaking News
A lettings agent who stole over £350,000 is reported to have been told to pay back…£1. Local media in the south of...
27 March 2019
From: Breaking News
Leicester is the latest council to begin consultations on selective licensing in six parts of the city - with the threat...
22 March 2019
From: Breaking News
A crooked letting agent took £220,000 from tenants and landlords and has been exposed as buying a home in Florida, renting...
18 March 2019
From: Breaking News
Haringey council is the latest local authority in the capital to create a borough-wide additional licensing scheme for HMOs. It claims the...
12 March 2019
From: Breaking News
A rogue lettings agent has been fined over £72,000 after being found guilty of 15 separate offences relating to three illegally established houses...
07 March 2019
From: Breaking News
The head of a Hertfordshire lettings agency has pleaded guilty to managing a brothel, according to a statement from the police. He’s...
26 February 2019
From: Breaking News
The Money Laundering Regulations require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation to...
20 February 2019
From: Sponsored Content
Client Money Protect has gained formal government approval to operate a client money protection scheme when the regulations go live on...
20 February 2019
From: Breaking News
More local authorities have announced that they want to increase the size of the areas covered by their existing selective licensing...
19 February 2019
From: Breaking News
A landlord who left his tenant homeless after changing the locks while he was on holiday has been hit with a...
19 February 2019
From: Breaking News
Sometimes, running a lettings agency can feel as if you’re losing control of client money. Recent cases of property management fraud such...
07 February 2019
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A Trading Standards team has prosecuted a landlord who allegedly 'knew' criminal activity was taking place in his buy to let...
28 January 2019
From: Breaking News
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
From: Breaking News
A local authority claims that a court decision may set a legal precedent for other councils across the UK using the...
17 December 2018
From: Breaking News
A couple from east London who illegally converted a town centre office block into 14 flats have been ordered to pay...
10 December 2018
From: Breaking News
We regularly carry stories about fines for landlords and letting agents who have apparently broken council or national laws - but...
26 November 2018
From: Breaking News
Luton landlord Mervyn Kupshik has been ordered to pay nearly £30,000 to the Local council - and if he doesn’t do...
19 November 2018
From: Breaking News
The former owner of a lettings agency has admitted charges of fraud, false accounting and theft involving some hundreds of thousands...
29 October 2018
From: Breaking News
A man who submitted false VAT returns for the Lincoln franchise branch of Martin & Co for a period of six...