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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...

Two London agents who traded fraudulently through their lettings business and scammed victims out of over £24,000 have been sentenced. After a...

Propertymark has urged the Sunak government to press ahead with leasehold reform ahead of the Second Reading of the Leasehold and...

A letting agent who stole over £40,000 from her employer was caught when a bank queried the use of a company...

A wealthy landlord who set up a fake lettings agency in Hull has been jailed for 11 years for allowing ‘ghost tenants’ to...

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

Two property company bosses have been sentenced following an Insolvency Service investigation which found they had abused a £30,000 Bounce Back...

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

A fraudster lettings agent must repay £122,922.68 to her old firm within three months - or face yet more time in...

Trading Standards has stopped a lettings agency owner from being a company director after he defrauded customers by over £80,000. Francis Smart,...

A lettings agency maintenance manager stole almost £100,000 from her company - but has escaped prison. Farida Mughal was working at the...

A former lettings manager has pleaded guilty to defrauding her agency employers for almost five years - but there’s uncertainty over...

The head of a Martin & Co office in Wolverhampton has been jailed over fraudulent activity. A court heard that Bhavander Singh...

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

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

A former lettings agent has been jailed for almost three years after admitting conning landlords out of over £80,000. The sentence for...

The former director of a lettings agency has received a suspended jail sentence for making threats of violence against ex-colleagues in...

A letting agent who stole over £80,000 from landlords is awaiting sentence. Frank Smart - owner of Smart Residential Letting Agents in...

The sole director of a lettings agency, who was recently made the subject of an anti-social behaviour injunction and banning order,...

A property management company has been punished with a hefty fine for failing to both clear up and also keep free...

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...

Over £80,000 pounds of fines have been imposed on a letting agency and its director. Zenith Accommodation Ltd’s boss, Mohammad Mallick of...

A lettings agent has been jailed for three years for defrauding tenants and landlords out of more than £182,000.  Lee Clarke, 42,...

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

Many letting agents fail to conduct the obligatory identity checks on landlord clients according to an industry supplier. Blinc UK says that...

A 24 month community order and 200 hours of unpaid work are the price being paid for an unlawful eviction.  Buy to...

One person had to be rescued from a fire after their landlord failed to ensure they had a working fire alarm...

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

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

Two suspended sentences, community service, a fine and disqualification from being a director - those form the penalty for a rogue...

A  buy to let investor has been sentenced to two years in prison after claiming income support despite being a professional portfolio...

A buy to let investor who kept a group of men as slaves – making them work 90-hour weeks in return...

Liverpool’s Labour council, which was prevented by the government from extending its city-wide licensing scheme for another five years, is seeking...

A landlord from Plymouth has been sentenced after failing to maintain gas appliances and failing to have landlord’s gas safety checks...

A jailed letting agent in a long-running legal saga has now been told she must repay her victims some £43,000 -...

A London council tenant who for a period of seven years failed to disclose that he owned three houses, has been...

A rogue landlord has been found guilty of unlawful harassment and misleading and aggressive practices, and will be sentenced next month. Ragoopathy...

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

A landlord has been ordered to pay almost £20,000 and has been told by a judge that he was meaner than...

A former Labour councillor and solicitor Muhammad Harun has been jailed for 16 months after pleading guilty to two counts of...

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

Martin & Co says it has compensated clients fully after a rogue lettings agent in Cornwall added sums to invoices sent...

Three criminals have been sentenced after pleading guilty to money laundering involving an online lettings agency. The sentences follow an investigation spearheaded...

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 London council’s action against a property agent it has accused of “repeated negligence” has resulted in £37,000 of fines and...

A rogue landlord in Chesterfield has received a hefty fine for a second time after the council took her to court...

The number of landlords admitting to not paying tax has soared in the past year, according to new data. During 2018/2019, 16,110...

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

The Scottish Government is investigating 114 businesses suspected of carrying out letting agency work without registration and has issued 86 compliance...

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 former employee of Martin & Co has admitted operating a fraud scheme that involved agency clients paying money into his...

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

Mother and daughter lettings agency fraudsters have been told to expect jail sentences after defrauding landlords and tenants of £266,000 over...

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

A landlord has been convicted of three offences relating to his failure to comply with fire safety requirements in a privately...

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

A buy to let investor who converted three family homes to HMOs without securing planning permission has been jailed for falsifying...

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

A Trading Standards team has prosecuted a landlord who allegedly 'knew' criminal activity was taking place in his buy to let...

A landlord and building contractor have been fined after quantities of asbestos fibres were released from the demolition of a conservatory...

A crooked lettings agent who illegally pocketed tenants’ deposits to pay for his gambling addiction and lavish lifestyle has been convicted...

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...

One of Britain's highest profile landlords is to be sentenced on December 11 - and she must show the court details of...

A man who submitted false VAT returns for the Lincoln franchise branch of Martin & Co for a period of six...

A self-employed gas fitter has been sentenced to 16 months in prison after he carried out unsafe gas work while falsely...

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

A head tenant who changed the locks on a property that was illegally sublet to no fewer than 35 men has...

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

A second journalist at the London-based financial newspaper City AM has launched an attack on letting agencies - while the furore...

A property managing agent has been ordered to pay £40,000 following the death of a woman at a fire at a...

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

Three head tenants who sub-let a three bedroom house to 35 men have been hit with over £23,000 in fines. Gheorghe-Valentin Lingurar...

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 crooked lettings agent has been ordered to repay thousands of pounds from his pension. As previously reported on Letting Agent Today...

A fake agent who made thousands from letting out rooms that didn’t exist has been arrested - a month after being...

Two landlords and two tenants were fined a total of over £11,000 after losing their appeal against housing convictions concerning property...

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

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

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

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

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

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

A former lettings agent stole thousands of pounds worth of cash and personal items from homes after conning other agents into...

A landlord from Cornwall has been fined after failing to maintain gas appliances at his rental properties in Launceston.   Truro Crown Court...

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

A management firm and corporate landlord have been hit with a £250,000 fine after a “potentially lethal” flat blaze in London -...

A family of rogue landlords who crammed 31 tenants into a 'Slumdog Millionaire'-style shanty home have this month been found guilty...

A north London landlord who housed a family of five, including three children, in a cramped attic has been prosecuted by...

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 property company owner who waged a campaign of harassment and intimidation against a young mother he wanted to illegally evict...

A landlord who admitted threatening violence against a tenant who left the property he was renting has been given a substantial...

A landlord who ran multiple property companies but failed to declare his income or that he was a company director to...

A rogue landlord found guilty of waging a campaign of harassment and intimidation against a young mother he wanted to illegally...

A council’s first case for non-compliance with its landlord licensing regime has seen one individual plead guilty to 12 offences -...