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A London property managing agent has been ordered to pay more than £80,000 for safety failings which “exposed a potentially large...
08 December 2021
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A lettings agency in central London has been issued with a fine for not belonging to a Client Money Protection scheme. The...
17 March 2021
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A landlord who built unlawful extensions to a family home and squeezed up to 14 people into the rooms has forfeited...
19 February 2021
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A long-running case about a house divided up and let out without planning permission has resulted in a fine of nearly...
09 December 2020
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A council has won a planning appeal banning the use of a property for short lets - considered a landmark case...
21 August 2020
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A property built without planning consent and then illegally let to a family has been knocked down by Ealing council in...
25 June 2020
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The so-called King and Queen of Buy To Let, the controversial husband and wife team of Fergus and Judith Wilson, are...
04 June 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 rogue landlord who divided his three-bedroom home in central London into eight flats has ended up with a bill of...
18 September 2019
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A council has used a drone with a thermal imaging camera to identify illegal ‘sheds’ where tenants are being rented beds...
03 September 2019
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The government has agreed that a council in London where all 51 councillors are Labour should go ahead with a five...
03 June 2019
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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
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A buy to let investor who hid families in windowless rooms after failing to get planning permission for a block of...
28 March 2019
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A buy to let investor has lost possession of his flat after converting it into an Illegal House in Multiple Occupation...
22 January 2019
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A lettings agency has been banned from running an Airbnb let in a residential block. It relates to a block in Glasgow...
28 December 2018
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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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Famous buy to let landlord Judith Wilson has been fined £10,000 and ordered to pay almost £15,000 costs for failing to...
13 December 2018
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A couple from east London who illegally converted a town centre office block into 14 flats have been ordered to pay...
10 December 2018
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We regularly carry stories about fines for landlords and letting agents who have apparently broken council or national laws - but...
26 November 2018
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A landlord is almost £42,000 worse off after repeatedly ignoring council orders to stop illegally letting so called “beds in sheds”...
22 November 2018
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One of Britain's highest profile landlords is to be sentenced on December 11 - and she must show the court details of...
20 November 2018
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A couple who illegally converted an office block into 14 flats have been found guilty for disregarding planning laws - and...
15 March 2018
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The new online database identifying rogue letting agents and landlords will save lives according to the London Fire Brigade. We wrote about...
21 December 2017
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A new team of investigative council officers are hitting the streets of the capital to tackle unlawful nightly letting using websites like...
14 December 2017
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The owner of a property firm who reportedly misled tenants and let an illegally converted property has been jailed for 155...
29 November 2017
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A buy to let investor reported to be receiving rental income of £150,000 a year must pay over £340,000 after illegally...
02 October 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 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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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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An east London landlord, who was also director of a letting agency, has been forced to pay out over £235,000 for...
21 April 2017
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A buy to let landlord who converted an Uxbridge house into two flats without planning permission has been ordered to pay...
20 February 2017
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A letting agency specialising in student accommodation in Nottingham city centre and its director have admitted a series of breaches of...
23 January 2017
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A landlord guilty of breaching a planning enforcement notice has been ordered to pay £700,000 in fines and costs - the...
04 October 2016
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Havering council has successfully prosecuted a landlord who must now pay £101,300 for building illegal flats at her property. Jaghtar Khaira was...
17 May 2016
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Two buy to let investors who breached planning regulations by converting a house into seven studio flats have been ordered to...
29 March 2016
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An unauthorised outhouse with a concealed entrance constructed at the back of a residential property in west London - one of...
21 March 2016
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A council has asked agents in its area to tell landlords of additional planning powers taken by the authority which may...
09 March 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
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A rogue landlord who illegally converted one house into a nine flats has been handed a maximum £20,000 fine after being...
09 November 2015
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Two unauthorised outbuildings occupied by five adults and a child have been demolished by a London council after a landlord failed...
28 October 2015
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A landlord has a bill of more than £85,000 for unlawfully letting a basement flat. As part of a council planning enforcement...