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Fines totalling £108,000 have been issued to letting agents and landlords breaching HMO rules in part of London.  An additional HMO licensing...

Changes put forward to the Renters Reform Bill to crack down on rogue landlords, protect vulnerable residents and improve the safety of...

Local media in one of Britain’s busiest cities for rentals says tenants have been left in tears as a result of...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove says the long-awaited Renters Reform Bill, first promised in 2019, will finally be introduced into Parliament this...

A lettings agent has taken the surprising step of encouraging tenants to seek compensation if their landlords fail to abide by...

PropTech firm Kamma says total fines for agents and landlords have now topped £8m in London alone with a £238,000 increase...

A PropTech supplier which helps agents and landlords identify private rental sector licensing issues has announced a new partnership. Geospatial technology firm...

PropTech companies Kamma and Veri-Check are consolidating an existing partnership. Kamma users can already access Veri-Check’s instant property licensing checks, but in...

One of the local authorities with the tightest clampdowns on letting agents has issued a statement celebrating its successes. Tower Hamlets council in...

As a letting agent in the UK, you might think what happens in China has no bearing on your work here....

An analysis of the Mayor of London’s Rogue Landlord and Letting Agent Checker shows that since it was introduced in 2018...

A London council has taken a landlord company to court after complaints of poor housing conditions in five of its rented...

Councils are failing to protect tenants in three out of four cases where they discover rental homes are unsafe, according to...

A London council is telling its private rental sector residents to use a new tool to check whether they may be...

The council at the centre of one of the planning controversies involving Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has issued a warning to...

Rent to the value of £10,982.25 is to be returned to tenants by a landlord who was operating without a licence. Mrs...

Pressure group Generation Rent claims half of London’s councils did not fine any landlords for letting out unsafe homes in the...

[Letting Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise to...

A Shropshire man has become the first in England to be banned from being a landlord.  In a case brought by Telford...

Figures given through a Parliamentary answer have revealed just how bad councils in England are at policing and enforcement action against...

One of London’s most enthusiastic councils for additional and selective licensing has pushed back the date for enforcement action against landlords...

A London property firm must repay no less than £60,000 in rent after a council obtained a Rent Repayment Order against...

Local authorities across the UK are to get another £2m to crack down on rogue operators in the buy to let...

A landlord had been ordered to give back almost £4,000 that was paid to him while operating without a licence. The case...

An Essex council claims it is one of the first to be granted a rent repayment order - part of legislation...

PropTech firm PayProp has welcomed the latest measures to clamp down on rogue elements within the lettings industry - but warns...

A landlord has been prosecuted and ordered to repay over £5,000 to his tenants for letting an unlicensed House of Multiple...

A south London property firm has been prosecuted by a local authority over its HMO management and may now have to...

Agents and landlords with properties in Wales have been reminded they could be breaking the law if they're not signed up to...

The government has issued a new statement saying unequivocally that letting agents’ fees on tenants will be banned in England -...

New legislation coming into force today gives local authorities in England tough new powers to crack down on rogue agents and...

A legal tribunal has ruled that a landlord must refund his tenants rent totalling £2,934 because he housed them in unlicensed...

A local council has successfully applied for a landlord without an appropriate HMO licence to repay housing benefit - no less...

Generation Rent, the lobby group which recently narrowly escaped folding because of a lack of financial support, wants the public to...

The Associational of Residential Letting Agents has spoken up in favour of most of the provisions in the new Housing and...

The growth of the PRS has provided a long list of benefits for the lettings industry. However, it is not without...