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A council says it’s secured the first banning order in its area, securing a stop on a rogue letting agent renting...

Landlords’ champion Paul Shamplina says more landlords should use lettings agents, who he describes as their “allies” in the battle to...

A thieving lettings agent stole over £128,000 which should have gone to landlord clients - and with it she funded an...

A rogue lettings agency in London has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme but is still thought to be trading. Hawks...

Three property management companies and a landlord have been fined approaching £80,000 for health and safety failings. Mohammed Ali Abbas Rasool, Cadogan...

Six letting agencies across the London borough of Haringey have been fined a total of £12,000 after a council clampdown. Trading Standards...

Five agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme - all for compliance failures. The first is Home Trader Properties, in...

An accreditation scheme says the government database of rogue letting agents should be expanded.  The government is committed to creating a new Property...

A controversial database which will allow widespread access to the identities of rogue letting agents and landlords has been backed by...

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

A jury has ruled that a lettings agency has been guilty of illegally evicting tenants in Margate - with locks changed,...

Two agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for failing to pay compensation awards. Thamlet Estates, based in east London,...

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

Six agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay compensatory awards - five of them for offences...

A London lettings agency is exposed on TV this evening over what turns out to be a sham guaranteed rent scheme. Landlords...

A local Trading Standards team is clamping down on rogue letting agents. Devon, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay Trading Standards Service has launched...

A lettings agency director has been issued with a Criminal Behaviour Order for unlawfully evicting a tenant back in 2019. CFDP Ltd, trading as...

Another lettings agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for failing to pay an outstanding compensation award - but...

A huge trading standards operation clamping down on lettings agents who fail to abide by Client Money Protection rules has been...

A lettings expert claims that many agents are failing to comply with appropriate legislation, rendering their landlord clients liable for legal...

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

One of the highest profile figures in the rental sector says rogue letting agents should be named and shamed as a...

A crooked lettings agent stole almost £30,000 from dozens of clients to prevent his business from going bankrupt. Tim Catherall, of Nottinghamshire,...

A new report demands that online rental platforms and portals allowing direct advertising by clients do more to deter fake landlords...

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...

The government’s hugely-publicised database for rogue letting agents and landlords has been running for almost two years and has…wait for it…just...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents and The Guild of Property Professionals have both given their backing to the government’s latest...

The government and local authorities run by all political parties are keen to advocate measures to curb rogue letting agents and...

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

An estimated 20 per cent of letting agents have still not signed up for a Client Money Protection scheme, six months...

Two London agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for failing to honour two compensation awards. The first is Chase...

Last week’s revelation that approaching 50 per cent of letting agents surveyed in London were in breach of the law is...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents is urging tenants to “walk straight out” if they believe an agency is breaking the...

A lettings agent in London has been fined for the third time in as many years – this time for failing...

The Property Ombudsman has announced a slew of expulsions after six agents failed to comply with redress rules. They failed to abide...

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents says it fears the government needs to do more to prevent the possibility of banned...

There’s a warning this morning that the root-and-branch reform of the agency industry recommended by a government-backed working party will be...

Local authorities are failing in their duty to prosecute criminal letting agents, the National Landlords Association (NLA) has warned. The NLA says...

Two landlords will this evening be seen securing the £16,000 they are owed by a rogue lettings agent - and TV...

Seven agencies have been expelled from membership of The Property Ombudsman after failing to pay compensation awards made by TPO. All are...

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

A rogue letting agent has been ordered to pay £42,596 in fines and costs of £10,626 after pleading guilty to a...

A lettings agent who stole over £350,000 is reported to have been told to pay back…£1. Local media in the south of...

A crooked letting agent took £220,000 from tenants and landlords and has been exposed as buying a home in Florida, renting...

New figures from a leading trade body suggest that councils across England have cut by a quarter the amount they are...

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

A lettings company’s management director has been disqualified for failing to protect thousands of pounds of tenants’ deposits. Kari Jade Ridout from...

The National Approved Letting Scheme has published the latest version of its Effective Enforcement Toolkit - aimed at helping councils clamp...

A former lettings agent in Plymouth has finally admitted taking hundreds of thousands of pounds from tenants and landlords - the...

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

Two lettings agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for failing to pay awards. One is OJ Residentials Limited trading...

The former owner of a lettings agency has admitted charges of fraud, false accounting and theft involving some hundreds of thousands...

The Guardian says the government is committed to making a datebase of rogue letting agents and landlords available to tenants. The newspaper quotes...

One of Scotland’s top lettings agents is warning of “an air of criminality” in the rental industry north of the border. His...

Trading Standards departments in London are asking renters to name and shame letting agents who are not complying with the law...

Which?, the consumer organisation which this week revealed details of an undercover investigation of 30 viewings of properties marketed by lettings...

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...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has heaped praise on a local authority which has fined 27 lettings and managing agents...

Property expert Kate Faulkner says the massive surge in new regulations, legislation and fiscal measures aimed at the private rental sector...

A regional newspaper claims that a lettings agency has collapsed, its boss has gone to ground, and thousands of pounds are...

A leading PropTech entrepreneur has renewed his call for letting agents to use more technology to clean up their act when...

This week marks a major milestone in Mayor of London Sadiq Khan's efforts to crack down on the capital's rogue letting...

Today Trading Standards teams across the country will highlight the work they do to protect landlords and tenants from rogue letting...

Two rogue letting agents in London have been fined thousands of pounds as part of a council campaign to clean up...

An agent has been banned from letting properties under ‘fit and proper person’ legislation in Scotland, following an incident in which...

A statement from the government has repeated its determination to clean up the private rental sector through a series of measures,...

The Property Ombudsman is the latest property industry player to throw its support behind the introduction of mandatory qualifications and a...

The government has this morning - Easter Sunday - announced a crackdown on rogue letting agents in the shape of a...

A Brighton and Hove lettings agent has been fined more than £3,000 for allowing two properties that he owned himself to...

The head of a major PropTech company serving the lettings sector says he want to see the introduction of a database...

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

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

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

Romans has thrown its weight behind the banning orders being introduced in April which could see rogue letting agents and landlords...

A lettings agent has been charged £1,000 after telling a new tenant to dump waste left by a previous occupier into...

Crooked letting agents and landlords have raided close to £1m from tenancy deposit accounts in 2017, new figures show. Campaigning agent Ajay Jagota,...

The new online database identifying rogue letting agents and landlords will save lives according to the London Fire Brigade. We wrote about...

The first London boroughs are now rolling out the Greater London Authority’s ‘Rogue Landlord and Agent Checker’ - allowing tenants to...

A database of rogue letting agents and landlords and new banning orders, first promised in the Housing and Planning Act announced...

A lettings agency chief who monitors legal action against rogue agencies and landlords says almost £850,000 of deposits have been stolen...

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

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

A letting agent named in a case concerning a rat-infested House in Multiple Occupation in Leytonstone, East London, has been fined...

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

The head of a property management company is calling on the government to introduce a tenants' register which would help rogue...

The National Approved Lettings Scheme has called for the London Mayor’s new rogue agents’ database to be extended to include those...

Letting agents who have broken the law are set to be ‘named and shamed’ by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan,...

The Residential Landlords Association has broken ranks with the Association of Residential Letting Agents by opposing an ARLA-backed public database of...

An east London landlord, who was also director of a letting agency, has been forced to pay out over £235,000 for...

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

A leading letting agent campaigning against rental sector deposits is warning that the industry might be hit with “astronominal” insurance premiums...

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

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

A convicted Surrey letting agent who used his clients’ money to cover his business debts has been ordered to pay £25,000...

A trade body has backed government plans to introduce so-called ‘banning orders’ for rogue letting agents and landlords, but it says...

Conservative MP Oliver Colvile is calling for urgent action following a recent spate of fraud involving rogue letting agents.   When approached by...

A landlord and letting agency have been fined more than £26,000 after being found guilty of housing offences at two properties...

Lettings agents have been issued fines totalling £14,100 by a local authority for failing to comply with consumer rights laws.   Officers from...

One of London’s leading politicians has created guidelines to help individuals ‘secret shop’ in a bid to expose what she claims...