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Landlords of more than 5,000 homes must register for a license and ensure their tenants have good quality housing or face...

A Labour council in London is taking the unusual measure of threatening landlords with community protection notices - associated with anti-social...

A London council describes two new licensing schemes as ‘making renting fairer’ - even though they are launched during the pandemic. Islington’s Labour...

Three lettings agents who kept tenants’ rent instead of passing it to the landlords have been ordered to pay almost £100,000...

A private rental licensing consultancy has spotted that an additional licensing scheme run by a London borough council has now lapsed...

Government advice to local authorities to sit tight with new licensing proposals during the Coronavirus pandemic appears to have been ignored...

A Labour councillor on Islington council - which is controlled by the party and has Jeremy Corbyn as a local member...

Two private landlords have been found guilty of managing Houses in Multiple Occupation with dangerous and sub-standard conditions, following a successful...

This month’s prosecution of a letting agency for issuing ‘sham licences’ that suggested occupiers had no right to challenge eviction and...

It hasn’t been a happy Christmas for one London landlord, who has been told to repay £40,000 in rent received in...

A landlord’s company has been left with a bill of over £14,000 for letting unlicensed flats in north London.   Appearing at Highbury...

A London council has prosecuted a letting agency that was ’ghost listing’ on Zoopla flats that were not in fact available...

A letting agent and four landlords face bills totalling more than £20,000 after being prosecuted by Islington Council for operating unlicensed...

Two buy to let investors who breached planning regulations by converting a house into seven studio flats have been ordered to...

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