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A council says it’s secured the first banning order in its area, securing a stop on a rogue letting agent renting...

Three property management companies and a landlord have been fined approaching £80,000 for health and safety failings. Mohammed Ali Abbas Rasool, Cadogan...

Letting agents have a key role in ensuring updated fire safety regulations really do improve standards for tenants in taller buildings. That’s...

A poll of 2,000 non-freehold tenants suggests that almost two-thirds claim not to feel 100 per cent safe in their homes. Some...

The local media in Manchester have published photographs of a property operated by a lettings agency was found to have multiple...

A London council has secured banning orders against rogue property agents who were previously fined over £70,000 for letting an unlicensed...

An agency has been hit with a £330,000 bill after being found guilty of poor management of an HMO. Magistrates have found...

A room-finding portal, along with the owners of a London lettings agency and management firm, must pay over £100,000 for letting...

A company that slots temporary tenants into properties that it manages has been found guilty of 15 charges connected with Homes...

A landlord has been ordered to pay almost £20,000 and has been told by a judge that he was meaner than...

A dawn raid on unlicensed HMOs in north London last week were the latest sign of a crackdown on rogue operators...

A landlord has been convicted of three offences relating to his failure to comply with fire safety requirements in a privately...

A landlord who rented out an unlicenced HMO has been fined more than £22,000 after the local council found five people...

A landlord in Reading has been handed a huge fine for serious breaches of fire safety regulations.  Philip Brotherton's company Cresctcourt Properties...

A London council has agreed to a TV crew taking part in a raid on an overcrowded and unlicensed HMO. The surprise...

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

A London council is using dawn raids in its clampdown on illegal subletting and on so-called ‘beds in sheds’ where tenants...

A landlord who exposed tenants to “miserable” living conditions because of fire safety hazards has been prosecuted by a local authority.    The...

A landlord of a shared house in Hove, near Brighton, has been found to be ‘putting people’s lives at risk’ and ordered to pay...

A letting agency which has pleaded guilty of poorly managing a house in multiple occupation has ended up with a bill...

A senior Labour politician in a London borough has branded so-called ‘rip off landlords’ as “the scourge of London.”   Councillor Laila Butt,...

Property managers operating through a company have been ordered to pay more than £30,000 following a dawn raid that uncovered more...

A landlord is to be sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court next week after pleading guilty to seven charges relating to fire...

A landlord in Milton Keynes has been ordered to pay a total of £24,168.29 for serious breaches of fire safety regulations...

A landlord has been fined almost £25,000 for a series of failings relating to a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO). Birmingham-based Salih...

Two landlords have been fined after being found guilty of fire safety failings in their rental properties. Both prosecutions were brought by...

Two rogue landlords who collected rent from more than 30 tenants in five sub-standard houses all on the same street have...