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A pro-tenant group wants the next government to take Right To Buy properties back to public ownership when they come up...

The politician widely regarded as being the architect of rent controls in Scotland says he will shortly present a wider package...

Media reports in Brighton say that a lettings agency which serve tenants with illegal eviction notices and unjustified legal threats has...

The Metropolitan Police has been advised by tenant activists and the London Mayor on developing rule changes for evictions. The changes include a presumption against...

A property firm which admitted misleading tenants on their rights and threatening them to leave has been ordered to pay £8,000. Four...

A property company director who admitted misleading tenants on their rights and threatening them to leave has been ordered to pay...

A former lettings agent who now helps tenants take legal action against landlords says 25 per cent of the complaints he...

Labour’s new housing spokesperson, Matthew Pennycook, says his party would go further than the government on the subject of private rental...

Airbnb, so often criticised for operating in the largely-unregulated short lets market, has called on the UK government to scrap Section...

An activist group in London has launched a scathing attack on councils which it claims have been ineffective in regulating rogue...

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

Propertymark has strongly opposed a proposal by the Scottish Government to radically reform the private rental sector. The proposals put out for...

The lettings agency boss at the centre of a major industry takeover has fired a warning shot about rent controls and...

A lettings agency has been prosecuted by Birmingham council for unlawfully evicting a tenant. Principal Homes is based at Great Barr and was...

A 24 month community order and 200 hours of unpaid work are the price being paid for an unlawful eviction.  Buy to...

Activists from a range of pressure groups have reacted angrily to what they call a half-baked eviction ban announced by the...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan, has told the government of “illegal evictions by letting agents” - without specifying the incidents he refers...

A landlord has been ordered to pay nearly £6,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to harassing and financially exploiting...

A tenant is thought to be the first ever to have been awarded damages under new Scottish lettings legislation. Dambaru Baral was...

A Labour council which has become famous for its critical approach to the private rental sector has now been given almost £200,000...

A landlord who left his tenant homeless after changing the locks while he was on holiday has been hit with a...

A local authority has prosecuted a landlord for illegally evicting a tenant. Tendring district council prosecuted Lisa Bottone of Chelmsford who admitted...

A property company owner who waged a campaign of harassment and intimidation against a young mother he wanted to illegally evict...

A private landlord in Sheffield has been prosecuted for harassing a tenant and failing to manage his property adequately.   Nilendu Das was...

A landlord who admitted threatening violence against a tenant who left the property he was renting has been given a substantial...

Sheffield council claims it receives 2,000 complaints relating to private rental sector conditions each year - and in one month it...

A landlord has been given a conditional discharge and a four-figure bill after being found guilty of unlawfully evicting a tenant.   Cornwall...

Citizens Advice claims that 2,087 people asked it for help after being threatened with what it describes as ‘illegal eviction’ in...

A landlord has been prosecuted for both illegal sub-letting and illegal eviction at the same time - an occurrence which is...

A letting agent who unlawfully evicted a tenant from a property has been ordered to pay a total of £4,315. Alan Croft...

The Local Government Association says recent prosecutions show that councils are cracking down on illegal evictions by landlords and their agents...

A landlord has been cautioned and has agreed to pay £1,000 compensation to a tenant, and pay £2,000 towards legal costs,...

The Citizens Advice charity is urging people to lobby for more controls over the private rental sector, letting agents and landlords,...

A landlord has been ordered to pay a fine and costs of £2,925 for unlawfully evicting a tenant from a house...

A council in an area with one of the country’s largest private lettings sectors says it has launched investigations into more...