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A council has placed a Banning Order on a lettings agency operating unlicensed Houses in Multiple Occupation. Trophy Homes Ltd was hit...

The government’s failure to act on the Regulation of Property Agents (RoPA) working party - chaired by Lord Richard Best and...

Managing agents in London have been instructed to pay a £15,000 fine for operating a House in Multiple Occupation without the...

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

A lettings agency says the cost of living crisis calls into question the viability of a selective licensing scheme in its...

The former president of ARLA Propertymark has made an outspoken attack on the government for failing to regulate the agency industry. Maxine...

Housing is back on the political agenda with a bang. The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper sets out sweeping reforms...

ARLA Propertymark has launched a radical programme of reform for the private rental sector - getting in before the government’s own...

The architect of the Regulation of Property Agents working group - which has called for agents to be trained and licensed...

A lettings agency and its director have pleaded guilty to renting out an overcrowded house in the first case brought to...

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...

A council has prosecuted five private landlords who failed to get licences for the properties they let out. Oldham council says its...

A judge has ordered two landlords to pay a total of £14,858 for illegally renting out an unlicensed house without working...

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

There’s been a sceptical response to news leaked from government over the weekend suggesting that a database of rogue landlords would...

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

A Freedom of Information request by The Guardian newspaper has produced the startling admission from government that not even one landlord...

The government has beefed up its support for councils identifying and prosecuting rogue landlords. Yesterday the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local...

The government is back to business attacking the lettings sector with an extraordinary claim by a minister that many students are...

A senior Labour politician claims that “unscrupulous” letting agents are hammering tenants with higher-than-usual charges between now and June 1 when...

The latest report for the rental sector by the TDS Charitable Foundation calls for greater cooperation between property professionals and tenants...

Nottingham council - which recently introduced one of the largest and most controversial selective licensing schemes in the country - now...

A lettings trade body has welcomed extra government funding for English councils to clamp down on criminal landlords. But the Residential Landlords...

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has made a clear pledge to tighten regulations surrounding the private rental sector. In an interview with The...

Negative media portrayals of the buy to let sector could help to tip Britain into a housing crisis, claims an online...

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...

The government has confirmed that all property agents in England will need to be part of an approved Client Money Protection...

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

The chairman of the Residential Landlords Association has written in the Labour-supporting New Statesman magazine about the need for the lettings...

Buy to let expert Kate Faulkner says tenants should undertake more research on agents, landlords and properties before choosing a place...

The government has released more details on long-discussed proposals to tighten up licensing in the private rental sector. It wants landlords in...

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

At the latest meeting of the Fair Fees Forum, members described the current approach towards landlord licensing as a 'post code...

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

The National Approved Letting Scheme says the most recent call to ban letting agent fees - in a demand made by...

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

An organisation representing councils wants a government database covering all housing-related convictions to deter rogue landlords switching from one area to...

A letting agency that failed to apply for House of Multiple Occupation licences at three properties in Birmingham has been fined...