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A wealthy landlord who set up a fake lettings agency in Hull has been jailed for 11 years for allowing ‘ghost tenants’ to...

A fraudster lettings agent must repay £122,922.68 to her old firm within three months - or face yet more time in...

Trading Standards has stopped a lettings agency owner from being a company director after he defrauded customers by over £80,000. Francis Smart,...

Two agents who helped establish a multi-million-pound drugs ring in two cities have been jailed. Ossama Omar and Mohamed Latif ran Platinum...

A lettings agency manager stole nearly £140,000 from her company to help clear her son’s drug debt. Wendy Dare, 57, is now...

The head of a Martin & Co office in Wolverhampton has been jailed over fraudulent activity. A court heard that Bhavander Singh...

Trading Standards is calling for more due diligence checks to be made following the jailing of a rogue letting agent for...

A former lettings agent has been jailed for almost three years after admitting conning landlords out of over £80,000. The sentence for...

The former director of a lettings agency has received a suspended jail sentence for making threats of violence against ex-colleagues in...

A lettings agent has been jailed for three years for defrauding tenants and landlords out of more than £182,000.  Lee Clarke, 42,...

A landlord who built unlawful extensions to a family home and squeezed up to 14 people into the rooms has forfeited...

With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

A  buy to let investor has been sentenced to two years in prison after claiming income support despite being a professional portfolio...

A buy to let investor who kept a group of men as slaves – making them work 90-hour weeks in return...

A landlord from Plymouth has been sentenced after failing to maintain gas appliances and failing to have landlord’s gas safety checks...

A jailed letting agent in a long-running legal saga has now been told she must repay her victims some £43,000 -...

A lettings agent who stole over £23,000 from tenants to pay for his gambling habit and pay off debt has escaped...

A Southampton lettings agency owner has been jailed after defrauding landlords and tenants out of £230,000. Andrew Whitehead has been jailed for...

A former Labour councillor and solicitor Muhammad Harun has been jailed for 16 months after pleading guilty to two counts of...

A north of England letting agent who conned home owners out of thousands of pounds has been ordered to pay it back...

Martin & Co says it has compensated clients fully after a rogue lettings agent in Cornwall added sums to invoices sent...

New analysis by Direct Line for Business reveals a surge in the number of police investigations into the theft of electricity,...

A lettings agent jailed in March for taking £220,000 from tenants and landlords is now in trouble over her legal representation. Heather...

A landlord who illegally converted a London home into two flats without planning permission has been given a prison sentence after...

Cornwall council has confirmed that it’s to use the Proceeds of Crime Act to try to win compensation for victims of...

Mother and daughter lettings agency fraudsters have been told to expect jail sentences after defrauding landlords and tenants of £266,000 over...

A buy to let investor who hid families in windowless rooms after failing to get planning permission for a block of...

A regional fire service says a tragic anniversary is a good opportunity for agents and landlords to remember their legal obligations...

A buy to let investor who converted three family homes to HMOs without securing planning permission has been jailed for falsifying...

Sometimes, running a lettings agency can feel as if you’re losing control of client money. Recent cases of property management fraud such...

A man who submitted false VAT returns for the Lincoln franchise branch of Martin & Co for a period of six...

A letting agent who stole a reported £700,000 from clients has been jailed for five years and has been described by...

A self-employed gas fitter has been sentenced to 16 months in prison after he carried out unsafe gas work while falsely...

A letting agent responsible for a property in Huddersfield which caught fire and killed two young boys has been jailed for...

Crooked letting agents and landlords have so far this year been convicted of illegally pocketing over £900,000 of tenant’s cash – and there’s...

A head tenant who changed the locks on a property that was illegally sublet to no fewer than 35 men has...

The cash value of tenancy deposits crooked landlords and letting agents have been convicted of pocketing in 2018 has already passed...

Crooked landlords and letting agents were convicted of stealing £1,162,037 of tenant’s cash in 2017 – a rise of 14 per...

A crooked lettings agent has been ordered to repay thousands of pounds from his pension. As previously reported on Letting Agent Today...

A fake agent who made thousands from letting out rooms that didn’t exist has been arrested - a month after being...

A letting agent has been spared jail despite stealing over £7,600 from tenants to subsidise his failing business.  Simon Cawley, from Kingsbridge...

The owner of a property firm who reportedly misled tenants and let an illegally converted property has been jailed for 155...

A lettings agent who stole thousands of pounds collected from tenants has been jailed for 20 months. Kent Online reports that gambling...

A former lettings agent stole thousands of pounds worth of cash and personal items from homes after conning other agents into...

A landlord from Cornwall has been fined after failing to maintain gas appliances at his rental properties in Launceston.   Truro Crown Court...

An agency staff member has received a suspended prison sentence after stealing £11,500 in unclaimed deposits from a branch of Connells.   Amy...

A prominent campaigner over the misappropriation of rental deposits has welcomed the news that government proposals to ban letting agent fees...

A body representing 370 councils in England and Wales wants the government to close a legal loophole which allows the conversion...

A letting agent has been jailed for keeping more than £15,000 in client deposits. Thirugnanaselvam Damayantharan ran See Own Properties in Purley and...

It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...

A landlord who ran multiple property companies but failed to declare his income or that he was a company director to...

A buy to let landlord who converted an Uxbridge house into two flats without planning permission has been ordered to pay...

A fraudster has been jailed after being convicted on nine counts of fraud, theft and forgery relating to property firms which...

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Three men have received prison sentences of up to 28 months after a nationwide lettings scam was unearthed by trading standards...

A letting agent who stole more than £400,000 from clients has had her sentence appeal dismissed by judges. Amy Williams, who part-owned Williams...

A gunman who described himself as a would-be tenant has been jailed after two “terrifying” robberies on letting agencies.  The Enfield Independent...

A self-employed property investor and caterer who stole over £70,000 in a tax credit fraud, has been jailed.   Khalid Farid, 59, from...

A 35-year-old self-employed worker from London has been given two suspended jail terms for falsely claiming to be Gas Safe Registered and signing off certificates for privately...

A private landlord has been jailed after being accused by a judge of "cutting corners" and deliberately putting his "wealth" before...

Our latest infographic shows figures of how the majority of deposits are repaid at the end of tenancy and goes into...

A man who posed as a letting agent to swindle landlords and tenants has been jailed for just over two years.   Legal...

The Local Government Association, representing 370 councils across England and Wales, is calling on the public to speak out against rogue...

  A letting agent who scammed dozens of tenants and landlords out of more than £220,000 of rents and deposits has been...

A letting agent has been jailed after reportedly tricking students into paying deposits totalling thousands of pounds for flats they could...

A 24-year-old from Luton has been jailed after being found guilty of six counts of fraud in relation to obtaining properties...

A letting agent who closed his New Malden firm leaving 17 landlords some £27,000 out of pocket has been jailed for...

A lettings agency in south London has been found to be the front for a cannabis growing operation, with drugs grown...

A trio of criminals have been jailed for 18 years after using the cover of a lettings agency to allow them...

A Liberal Democrat peer has accused the government of being “a bit rich” in its willingness to jail letting agents or...

A letting agent has been told he faces a possible jail sentence after admitting stealing thousands of pounds from tenants. The Manchester...

A businessman has been jailed for two years for failing to declare and pay tax on income he received from his...

A man has been jailed for 10 years for deliberately running over a tenant during a heated row over a rent...

A landlord has received a six month suspended jail sentence, has been ordered to carry out 200 hours of community service...

An opinion poll's findings, released to back up a call for tougher controls in the private rental sector, suggests 71 per...

A body representing over 370 local councils in England and Wales wants more powers to control the private rental sector, letting...

A letting agent who fled Britain to India, leaving landlords and tenants out of pocket and his staff’s wages unpaid, has...

A letting agency has announced its support for new rules which will allow landlords to evict illegal immigrants without a court...

There has been a mixed reaction to the government’s announcement that agents and landlords face jail if they fail to conduct...

Controversial buy to let property mogul Fergus Wilson has given his backing to the government over its controversial extension of Right...

Agents and landlords who fail to identify and evict tenants who are illegal immigrants face up to five years in jail...

A student landlord has been sentenced to six months in prison and ordered to pay over £12,400 after pleading guilty to...

A landlord has been jailed for four years for cultivating cannabis. Sixty-year-old James Sullivan was thought to have been overseeing the cultivation...