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The Building Engineering Services Association has welcomed the new government’s commitment to reinforce the rules that require landlords and their agents...

NatWest Group has announced a new package of what it calls ”targeted lending and support” to help local councils provide more...

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

Shelter is telling the government it “must deliver” on the revolution it pledges under the Renters Reform Bill. Chief executive Polly Neate...

Lloyds Banking Group and homelessness charity Crisis have joined forces in a new two-year partnership including the establishment of a so-called...

The agency and landlord responsible for letting a two-bedroom flat in Dagenham have been found guilty in court for providing extremely...

The large majority of players in the lettings industry wants the rental reform programme outlined by the government, an agent claims. Laura...

Another council is to conduct a consultation process to expand selective and additional licensing schemes for the next five years. Under existing...

A lettings agent who also runs a tenant complaint insurance service has renewed his attack on landlords and local authorities. Ajay Jagota...

A lettings agent has taken the unorthodox approach of advising tenants to take their landlords to court in a bid to...

A letter from a tenant’s union is demanding that a Labour councillor “publicly explain” his actions as an accountant advising investors...

Today’s Queen’s Speech, setting out the government’s legislative programme for the next year, is expected to include rental reform. It’s thought one...

A group of rental campaign bodies have come together to claim that some 694,000 tenants apparently face eviction when the current...

A council says it’s looking for lettings agencies that worked with a rogue landlord who's been issued with a four year banning order. Bristol...

Activists from the so-called renters’ union Acorn have held a protest outside the office of a lettings agency in Oxford. A photograph...

A lettings firm has been ordered to pay over £18,000 after failing to provide adequate living conditions for his tenants. Chelmsford magistrates...

A company that slots temporary tenants into properties that it manages has been found guilty of 15 charges connected with Homes...

A seaside council has issued over £15,000 in fines to owners of unlicensed HMOs.  Torbay council in south Devon adds that “a...

A landlord has been fined almost £2,500 for breaching an improvement notice issued by Cambridge City Council. Noelle Salameh was fined after...

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

A new report by a leading lettings sector expert cautions parents who are considering entering the Buy To Let sector by...

One of the most pro-licensing local authorities in the country has extended its own scheme to include the entire centre of...

A dawn raid on unlicensed HMOs in north London last week were the latest sign of a crackdown on rogue operators...

A controversial review website which says it can be used to identify “good (and bad) letting agents” has won the backing...

An overcrowded property let by an unlicensed company with inadequate fire precautions and unheated rooms has led to a £46,620 fine...

The landlord of an HMO who subjected his tenants to insanitary and unsafe living conditions has been told he will no...

A London local authority is looking for the landlord of a bungalow which had two bedrooms but was home to 15...

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

Council officers staged a dawn raid to uncover an unlicensed HMO in north London. The team discovered 10 men and women sleeping...

The government has set out new measures to mitigate against overcrowded and dangerous living conditions of private tenants in shared homes. From...

The director of a property management firm has been found guilty of nine offences of breaching regulations relating to a house...

A landlord who exposed tenants to “miserable” living conditions because of fire safety hazards has been prosecuted by a local authority.    The...

Waltham Forest council has enforced an Interim Management Order on a house in its area meaning it will take over day-to-day...

A letting agency and one of its landlords have been fined over £20,000 and given criminal records for failing to licence...

A council has issued a press release to say that a trio of prosecutions on private landlords combine to prove it...

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

Labour MP Karen Buck is accusing local authorities of taking a ’softly, softly’ approach to rogue letting agents and landlords. Buck, whose...

A landlord has been ordered to pay fines adding up to over £6,600.  Balwinder Singh Dhadwal was prosecuted at Dudley Magistrates’ Court...

The proportion of properties bought by landlords with a sitting tenant has reached the highest level since 2005, according to Countrywide. The...