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Three directors from two letting agencies and a landlord have been fined £27,500 after failing to secure the appropriate license for...

The government has done a U-turn on its original policy to relax HMO regulations on private rental properties used by asylum...

A lettings agency has initiated new systems to ensure there is no repeat of a mistake that left some client properties...

Agents representing landlords of HMOs In Portsmouth are being warned by the council that their need to be licensed or face...

A landlord who is also the owner of a High Street lettings agency has been fined £17,293 for breaching housing licence...

The Labour-run London Assembly says it is concerned about government plans to allow landlords to house asylum seekers for two years without...

A council is pleading with the government to think again about proposals to suspend the need for an HMO licence for...

A property firm has been fined £8,000 for operating an HMO on one of Britain’s most famous roads. Westminster council has won...

A lettings company called Trophy Homes Limited, based in Liverpool, has pleaded guilty to failing to apply for an HMO licence...

A council says it’s considering introducing criminal record checks on individuals who apply to run HMOs as part of a wide-ranging...

Bristol-based lettings management company Iletpro Ltd has been ordered to pay a total of £2,700.06 in fines and costs for failing...

Over £80,000 pounds of fines have been imposed on a letting agency and its director. Zenith Accommodation Ltd’s boss, Mohammad Mallick of...

A landlord who persistently broke residential lettings rules has been banned from operating in a landmark legal ruling. Julie Stoddern, of Camborne,...

There are growing calls for so-called ‘exempt accommodation’ to face the same controls that are exerted over the rest of the...

Restaurant staff were kept in “dangerous and overcrowded” conditions by a property company and its landlord-director, a court has heard. The company...

A lettings agency is in the news because it has asked a student to stop using a specific room in a...

A new private rental licensing regime in a London borough is being described as “a major step forward in improving living...

A local authority has taken the unusual step of saying that a £600 surcharge will be added to the licensing costs...

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

A trade body has come out against a council’s HMO licensing scheme, claiming that its consultation period was too short -...

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

A new piece of legislation has been invoked to ban a landlord from any involvement in the private rental sector for...

The owner of a house believed to be occupied by multiple tenants has been prosecuted by a Kent council for failing...

A landlord who made a perverted request to take photographs of a teenager in her underwear has had his request for...

A landlord has been found guilty of failing to license an HMO - and has ended up with a bill of...

The Property Ombudsman has expelled three lettings agencies from its scheme because of unpaid awards to landlord clients. The first is Kingsman...

A Shropshire man has become the first in England to be banned from being a landlord.  In a case brought by Telford...

A local council says it has now successfully prosecuted a landlord for flouting the law that protects the health and safety...

A local authority is being warned that its landlord licensing and accreditation scheme is potentially unlawful. The Residential Landlords Association, which represents...

A London council wants to extend its private rental sector licensing scheme - and in doing so is boasting of the...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) is threatening Oxford Council with a judicial review of its landlord and letting agent accreditation scheme. The...

A buy to let investor has been fined more than £5,000 and ordered to pay a further £4,000 after HMO offences.  John...

The owner of a buy to let property already shut by police has been fined by a court in Devon.  In June...

Shock figures released by an insurance company suggest that councils are woefully unable to police new regulations regarding mandatory HMO licensing. Figures...

A London property firm must repay no less than £60,000 in rent after a council obtained a Rent Repayment Order against...

A property management company which kept up to 23 adults in overcrowded conditions has been fined £7,500 by a council in...

A buy to let investor that let at least eight people from six different families rent space in his three-storey property...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has issued a reminder to the industry of the need to understand and abide by...

It is now just three weeks until licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) is extended. The new rules, which will require...

An investor has been fined £2,525 after failing to licence her property and allegedly providing inadequate living conditions for her tenants. Adeola...

A petition has appeared on the government’s e-petition website calling for a review of a city council’s newly-introduced selective licensing system. Nottingham...

Three head tenants who sub-let a three bedroom house to 35 men have been hit with over £23,000 in fines. Gheorghe-Valentin Lingurar...

Homes in Multiple Occupation produced average yields of 8.9 per cent in 2017, the highest of all buy to let property...

The government has announced new minimum space requirements for private lettings in a bid to reduce problems of overcrowding. In addition to...

HM Revenue & Customs has launched a consultation on adding tax checks to private rental sector licensing schemes - in other...

A buy to let investor who failed to purchase a £542 licence for his HMO has been ordered to pay almost...

A student landlord has been fined for failing to obtain the appropriate licences for two rental properties. Lisa Chatfield was ordered to...

The landlord of an HMO above a Chinese takeway in Cornwall has been fined for failing to comply with the requirements...

A Birmingham letting agency and a landlord have been fined £5,590 for failing to obtain an HMO licence and for breaching...

No decision yet appears to have been taken on the fate of the Renters’ Rights Bill - which had as a...

Fees charged by letting agents will be discussed in the House of Lords tomorrow as the Renters’ Rights Bill reaches its...

The Renters’ Rights Bill - which includes provisions scrapping agents’ fees for tenants, mandatory registration of landlords and limiting the size of...

A 71 year old landlord has been fined £5,037.97 at Birmingham Magistrates Court for failing to obtain an HMO licence and...

A landlord operating in Wales has been fined almost £3,000 for failing to renew the House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) licences...

A firm has been fined £29,000 after a rental property was found to be - in the words of Nottingham city...

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

A local council has successfully applied for a landlord without an appropriate HMO licence to repay housing benefit - no less...

A landlord and his letting agent who failed to declare they were operating a series of bedsits at an address in...

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £7,000 after failing to licence a house in multiple occupation in the...

A landlord has been fined and left with a bill of nearly £6,000 for overcrowding at his property with an illegal...

An amnesty on the licensing of houses in multiple occupation is being held in Barnet in north London following the successful...

A landlord has been hit with an £11,000 fine after putting his tenants' lives at risk. Javeed Hossain was prosecuted by the...

A private landlord who provided false documents and endangered the lives of his tenants has been ordered to undertake 200 hours’...

A landlord who failed to apply for an HMO licence despite being interviewed on the subject under caution has now been...

A rogue landlord who rented out a shoddy property in north west London has become the first to be fined under...