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It’s been revealed by Propertymark that HM Revenue & Customs has fined agents over £1.6m for branches of anti-money laundering regulations. The...

A court has heard that a trusted lettings manager was discovered to have been diverting company funds to her personal bank...

Fines for agents and landlords who breach Right To Rent rules increase today from £80 per lodger and £1,000 per occupier...

A warrant backed without bail has been issued for the arrest of a lettings agent who failed to appear in court. Gareth Wills...

Inventories are a key tool to ensuring they, and the properties they let, comply with the law. That’s the claim from industry...

A lettings agency employee who diverted over £50,000 of landlords’ money into his own account has been given a suspended sentence. Paul...

A six-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, has been handed to a former lettings agent from Eastbourne for charges of...

Number 10 briefings to the national media suggest that the scrapping of Section 21 - long talked about by the previous...

Energy market regulator Ofgen is considering an amnesty for tenants and landlords, amongst others, to own up to ‘stealing’ energy through...

A man who claimed he needed a council house but was actually a landlord has been ordered to pay back more...

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

A London council has won one of the largest-ever Proceeds of Crime claims from an unscrupulous buy to let investor. Andre Charles Trepel,...

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

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

The National Approved Lettings Scheme has taken the unusual step of commenting on, and welcoming, the outcome of a court case...

A couple from east London who illegally converted a town centre office block into 14 flats have been ordered to pay...

We regularly carry stories about fines for landlords and letting agents who have apparently broken council or national laws - but...

A respected property lawyer says she wants a change in the law to prevent unscrupulous landlords from offering accommodation in return for sex.  Liz...

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

The director of a lettings agency who who stole hundreds of thousands of pounds to spend on holidays and other luxuries...

A buy to let property owner has received a four month prison sentence for letting out a property he had already...

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

Crooked letting agents have been convicted of stealing almost £700,000 of tenants’ deposits in the first half of 2017.   Campaigning letting agent...

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

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

A report out today claims foreigners and Britons without passports, particularly from ethnic minorities, are being discriminated against in the lettings...

A letting agency specialising in student accommodation in Nottingham city centre and its director have admitted a series of breaches of...

The landlord of a property risked the lives of his tenants and their young family by not undertaking annual safety checks...

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

A landlord has been given a suspended prison sentence following his failure to maintain or check the gas fittings in one of his properties. A...

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

A former letting agent has received a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to ten counts of fraud. Nicholas Dowse, also known...

A leading trade body says it’s time for the private rental sector to take gas safety more seriously following a spate...

A chef who is reported to have battered a letting agent over the head with a cricket bat in a row...

A landlord has received a suspended six month prison sentence after he ignored repeated warnings about arranging an annual gas safety...

A managing agent who tried to force out his tenants by filling the stopcock chamber with cement so that they would...

An unregistered gas fitter has been received a suspended prison sentence for illegally installing a gas boiler and undertaking landlord’s gas...

A London landlord has been given an eight week suspended prison sentence after failing to have a gas boiler in a...

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

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

Letting agents and property managers of blocks with fire doors are being urged to take their responsibilities more seriously. The warning comes...