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Despite several fires in rented properties, the government is proposing to double the maximum legal power of e-bikes. A Department of Transport...

A London property managing agent has been ordered to pay more than £80,000 for safety failings which “exposed a potentially large...

A property company and its director will have to shell out £10,000 after a blaze left six tenants homeless in the...

Two landlords - one of them an agent - have been given fines totalling £135,000 and must pay costs for failing to...

A landlord taken to court by a council has ended up with a bill in excess of £20,000.  Dennis Goodwin of Highbury...

London Fire Brigade’s deputy assistant commissioner for fire safety has praised the new safety regulations which have now come in to...

A resident who was unable to access an emergency escape route during a fire was found standing on a windowsill hanging...

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

A husband and wife must pay joint fines, penalties and costs totalling over £8,000 after complaints about a bungalow they owned...

A lettings agent described as ‘rogue’ by a London council, along with two lettings companies, have been heavily fined for operating...

This week marks a major milestone in Mayor of London Sadiq Khan's efforts to crack down on the capital's rogue letting...

A buy to let property owner has received a four month prison sentence for letting out a property he had already...

The new online database identifying rogue letting agents and landlords will save lives according to the London Fire Brigade. We wrote about...

The first London boroughs are now rolling out the Greater London Authority’s ‘Rogue Landlord and Agent Checker’ - allowing tenants to...

A survey of 1,000 tenants in blocks of flats conducted on behalf of London Fire Brigade reveals that almost 40 per...

ARLA Propertymark says letting and managing agents should be aware that they can raise ‘safeguarding alerts’ if they are concerned about...

A management firm and corporate landlord have been hit with a £250,000 fine after a “potentially lethal” flat blaze in London -...

The London council of Newham is thought to be the first local authority in the UK to use new powers to...

A north London landlord who housed a family of five, including three children, in a cramped attic has been prosecuted by...

The landlord of a west London property, described by a judge as a "deathtrap" and an "accident waiting to happen", has...

A London landlord who failed to comply with an Improvement Notice to maintain his property for his tenants has a £4,000-plus...