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12 February 2024
From: Breaking News
The company which owned and was responsible for a five-storey block of rented flats in Bridlington has been ordered to pay...
23 August 2023
From: Breaking News
A property ownership and management company has been fined £20,000 for failing to carry out safety and fire safety improvement works...
28 April 2022
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A proposal for one of the country’s largest ever private rental sector licensing schemes has gone out to consultation. Manchester’s Labour council...
22 June 2021
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A London council has taken a landlord company to court after complaints of poor housing conditions in five of its rented...
06 May 2021
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Councils are failing to protect tenants in three out of four cases where they discover rental homes are unsafe, according to...
29 April 2021
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A Labour councillor in Yorkshire claims letting agents are not showing the actual properties available to rent when they use virtual...
18 December 2020
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The owner of a Derbyshire property must pay out more than £3,000 after being found guilty of failing to comply with...
02 January 2020
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A landlord has been banned for two and half years after repeatedly putting tenants’ lives at risk by letting unsafe housing. This...
18 December 2019
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A landlord has been hit with court fines for a fourth time for failing to properly manage his rental properties. Landlord Jack...
27 November 2019
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A husband and wife pair of buy to let investors have been prosecuted after letting out a property that contained serious...
29 August 2019
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A rogue landlord in Chesterfield has received a hefty fine for a second time after the council took her to court...
18 July 2019
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Junior housing minister Heather Wheeler MP has written to Hull City Council to express her concerns about the authority's controversial accreditation...
03 July 2019
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A London council wants to extend its private rental sector licensing scheme - and in doing so is boasting of the...
02 July 2019
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Today the long-awaited Homes (Fitness For Human Habitation) Act comes into force, pioneered by Labour MP Karen Buck and giving people...
20 March 2019
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Hull council has won a legal case in the High Court against a local trade body, the Humber Landlords Association. The claim...
13 March 2019
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A landlord who failed to comply with orders to improve the standard of a property has had to pay over £7,500...
05 February 2019
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Two thirds of local authorities in England and Wales brought no prosecutions against private landlords in 2017/18 according to research by the...
29 November 2018
From: Breaking News
The landlord of an HMO who subjected his tenants to insanitary and unsafe living conditions has been told he will no...
13 September 2018
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A landlord has been prosecuted for failing to comply with Improvement Notices on her property and failing to licence her house...
26 June 2018
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A property management company which ignored a series of housing safety regulations and flouted laws designed to protect tenants’ rights has...
03 April 2018
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A rogue landlord has been fined twice in the space of two months for failing to provide a suitable standard of...
19 February 2018
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Four landlords have been fined and ordered to pay costs totalling £232,155.68 in the first prosecutions of its kind brought by...
19 October 2017
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A Scarborough buy to let investor has been found guilty of two offences under the Housing Act 2004 for non-compliance with...
21 September 2017
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A landlord has been prosecuted and fined for failure to comply with two Improvement Notices “resulting in a catalogue of health...
19 January 2017
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An industry body says agents and landlords who ignore tenants' complaints about damp and mould could be putting their property at...
17 August 2016
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Two landlords have received fines totalling £3,000 – and were ordered to pay costs of nearly £2,000 - after failing to...
28 July 2016
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A landlord who did not remedy a string of safety concerns about a property he was letting has been ordered to...
30 November 2015
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A landlord man has been fined more than £20,000 after admitting renting out substandard houses to 30 people without obtaining a...
06 November 2015
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A landlord has admitted letting sub-standard HMOs to 30 people without being registered with his local authority. Plymouth landlord John Mayer pleaded...
21 October 2015
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A landlord has been ordered to pay a total of £8,680 after failing to comply with formal council notices to improve...