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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

A fraudster has been jailed after being convicted on nine counts of fraud, theft and forgery relating to property firms which...

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

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...

An estate agent from Devon who conned landlords, tenants and even his friends out of a total of £157,250 has been...

A 35-year-old self-employed worker from London has been given two suspended jail terms for falsely claiming to be Gas Safe Registered and signing off certificates for privately...

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

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 buy to let landlord in Stockton-on-Tees, has been sentenced after illegally uncapping and reconnecting a gas supply. Teeside Magistrates’ Court heard...

A student landlord has been sentenced to six months in prison and ordered to pay over £12,400 after pleading guilty to...