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A Labour council is warning landlords to get licensing or face hefty fines or prosecution.  Brent council in north London says it...

The recent unveiling by several London councils of selective licensing schemes should raise concerns among private sector landlords - especially 'amateur'...

Landlords in London are benefitting from double digit increases in rents, outdoing every other region of Great Britain.  London rents increased by...

Fines for rogue landlords and agents in London have surged past the £10 million mark.   With 19 council licensing schemes and...

A Labour council in London has issued a statement appearing to celebrate its role cracking down on landlords. The statement from Brent...

A landlord has been slammed with £9,000 in fines and costs for ignoring notices to improve his property. Following reports of disrepair...

The government may be keen on scrapping Section 21 powers for private landlords but it’s getting much tougher on social housing...

Escalating rents have led many first time buyers to adjust their property expectations and accept smaller homes when they purchase, a...

A landlord who used a fake name to evade detection has been hit with £485,000 in fines after illegally renting out...

Almost all landlords letting out properties in a London borough will soon be legally required to have a selective license. It’s one...

Brent council in North London has launched a new selective licensing regime across part of the borough. Landlords who let properties in the...

A website claims that Banning Orders on private landlords have not been served because of local government funding shortfalls. Open Democracy says...

A criminal businessman has been given a London council’s first ever landlord banning order. Property dealer Jaydipkumar Rameshchandra Valand, who lives in...

Labour controlled Brent council in London has taken the possibly-unique step of paying a landlord’s legal fees and rent to avert...

The latest research by London lettings agency Benham and Reeves has revealed the uphill struggle facing those in search of a...

A new law requiring landlords in three wards of the London borough of Brent to pay for a selective licence will...

London landlords and letting agents have so far been hit with more than £900,000 in fines in the first half of...

A group of rental activists in London claims that over 10,000 private rented homes in the borough of Brent have a...

HM Courts and Tribunals Service has halted the work of bailiffs on safety grounds.  An incident is under investigation, and it’s believed...

Council enforcement officers found 11 people crammed inside a three-bed semi in London following a tip-off from eagled-eyed residents. Brent council officers...

Activist group Generation Rent is demanding that the government tighten regulations on damp and mould - and is tying this to...

Local authorities exist to improve housing stock in their area; however, licensing is not the best way to improve standards across...

HMOs in the London borough of Brent must now win planning consent and meet a new set of criteria to ensure...

A borough-wide consultation on landlord licensing for privately rented properties in Brent is taking place for the next 12 weeks.  The online...

A lettings agency says demand for ‘bills included’ properties in London has rocketed since April - despite it costing tenants large...

Covid-19 has undoubtedly shifted the way new landlords will be looking to invest in 2022, and our ranking makes it clear...

A landlord who built extensions and converted them into flats and bedsits all without planning permission has been given a record...

The popular belief that homes in close proximity to shops inevitably pushes up the rent is being challenged by new research. The...

A private landlord operating an unlicensed and overcrowded property in London has been hit with a fine of more than £21,000. Brent...

A private landlord operating an unlicensed and overcrowded property in London has been hit with a fine of more than £21,000.  The...

A one-time promoter of The Rolling Stones was so busy on the road that he forgot to get an HMO licence...

Conservative Peer Lord Black of Brentwood - Guy Black, a former newspaper magnate and Conservative activist - has urged the government...

There are now 10 councils with licensing schemes covering more than 20 per cent of the rental market according to activists’...

A tenant who sub-let a property by falsely claiming to be its owner has been given a criminal record.  Sonia Nascimento rented...

A Crown Court judge has ordered a landlord to pay back almost £750,000 in illicit earnings made from overcrowded properties in...

A property development firm says it’s to spend up to £500m in land acquisitions over the next three years, as part...

An analysis by a lettings management service has identified those parts of London with the strongest yields and capital growth in...

Buy-to-let landlords face having to reduce rents by at least 5% over the next five years as a growing number of...

A buy-to-let landlord has been ordered to pay back a whopping £190,000 after he was caught receiving rental from illegal flats. A...

Brent Council’s application to extend its selective licensing scheme in the north west London ward has been rejected by central government.  Brent...

A buy-to-let landlord has been ordered to pay just over £90,000 for repeatedly ignoring selective licensing laws in north London.  Stephen Ige...

Despite the slowdown in the UK housing market in recent years, caused in part by the Brexit vote which fuelled uncertainty...

Brent Council in north London will be taking action against a buy-to-let landlord who is accused of “exploiting tenants” after  17...

What has happened to residential property prices since the last general election just two years ago? On a national scale, the...

London Borough of Brent has approved the renewal and extension of borough-wide additional licensing for Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) for...

Council officers from Brent and Harrow Trading Standards have pledged to clampdown on unscrupulous letting agents in the London boroughs of...

An unscrupulous landlord who housed at least 25 tenants in a rundown property in north-west London has been ordered to pay...

A rogue landlord in north London has been ordered to pay more than £66,000 after being found guilty of making tenants'...

A rogue landlord has been ordered to pay a fine of £10,000 after being convicted for renting out two unlicensed properties...

Brent Council in north London discovered three tenants living inside a shed in the garden of a three-bedroom semi-detached house in...

Members of the general public are being offered the opportunity to have their say on Brent’s landlord licensing scheme. Brent Council wants...

An unscrupulous landlord has been told to pay close to £25,000 after being prosecuted for renting out rooms in an unlicensed...

As an income investment, buy-to-let continues to look attractive, especially compared to low savings rates and stock market swings, but when...

New research has identified London’s most uninhabitable boroughs for the capital’s tenants, based on the cost of living there to the...

Brent Council in north London looks set to take action against a buy-to-let landlord who is accused of “exploiting tenants” after ...

A rogue landlord deemed unfit to rent out property in the north London borough of Brent in 2015 has since received...

A family of slum landlords who crammed 31 people into a suburban four-bedroom house has been ordered to pay back almost...

Rogue landlords who converted terrace houses into shoebox flats without planning permission have been ordered to re-pay illegal income or face...

A notorious rogue landlord who illegally built a number of tiny bedsits across North West London has been ordered to pay...

Private landlords across the UK collectively earned £33.8bn from their buy-to-let investments in the year from 5 April 2017 to 2018,...

More than 20 men were discovered living in cramped conditions in a three-bedroom house in north-west London during a raid by...

Brent Council officers discovered 15 men crammed inside a two-bedroom bungalow during an enforcement raid yesterday morning. Tenants were found sleeping on...

Buy-to-let has recently taken a bit of a bashing with some landlords forced to exit the market as profits drop amid...

A tenant who illegally sublet an unlicensed and poorly-maintained bungalow in north London, which was described by Brent Council as a...

Brent Council insists that it wants to build better relationships with private landlords after successfully winning close to 150 prosecution cases...

A private tenant occupying a three-bedroom house in north-west London has been jailed after he was caught illegally subletting the property...

One of the most active councils in London when it comes to prosecuting rogue landlords and letting agents has now extended...

Criminal landlords across London will be named and shamed on an online database after all London boroughs signed up to a rogue...

An ‘unsafe’ house in multiple occupation (HMO) in north London has been uncovered by enforcement officers from Brent Council following a...

A landlord in North West London who failed to deal with noisy pigeons nesting at one of its properties has been...

While rental growth may have slowed in London over recent months, the appetite to invest in HMO properties across the capital...

Three tenants who sub-let a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Kingsbury, north-west London, to 35 men have been fined more than 23,000. The residents...

Plans to introduce new licensing schemes for privately rented homes across parts of North West London have been given the go-ahead by...

A buy-to-let landlord has been ordered to pay £7,400 after failing to obtain a license to rent out a property in...

Criminal landlords who crammed up to 40 migrants inside their semi-detached townhouse in north-west London face losing hundreds of thousands of...

The mayor of London Sadiq Khan yesterday launched a new public online database which ‘names and shames’ dodgy landlords and letting...

A property firm with assets in the Virgin Islands has paid a £8,000 civil penalty to Brent Council after two tenants...

Football legend turned property magnate Robbie Fowler, estimated to be worth more than £30m, is behind free advice on how to...

More than 500 landlords attended Brent Council’s latest Landlord Forum in north London last week where they were given presentations from...

The owner of a three-bedroom house in Queensbury, north-west London, where 35 men were living in rooms full of mattresses has threatened to...

Brent Council has once again vowed to clamp down on rogue landlords in the local area after 35 men we found...

A landlord has been ordered to pay almost £10,000 after tenants were discovered living in appalling, cramped conditions, as Brent Council...

A rogue landlord who rented out squalid flats, which breached council planning laws and failed to meet basic living standards, has...

Borough wide selective licensing could soon be coming to Brent if the the local council gets its way. Brent Council wants the...

There is a direct correlation between licensed rental properties and a reduction in anti-social behaviour, according to a north London based...

No fewer than 16 men were found to be living in a one-bedroom flat filled with bunk beds made out of...

Most buy-to-let landlords could soon be required to licence their properties in the London borough of Brent if the government agrees...

Landlords renting out properties in the London borough of Brent have been ordered to pay fines totalling more than £500,000 over...

The mayor of London Sadiq Khan has vowed to crackdown on criminal landlords by ensuring that they are ‘named and shamed’...

Four weeks of prosecutions by Brent Council in north London has seen six successful results with total court fines for rogue...

A company letting out an illegally converted house in North West London has been ordered to pay £250,000 under the Proceeds...

A private landlord has been fined by Willesden Magistrates Court for poor and potentially dangerous housing conditions following a prosecution by...

Two tenants in Kingsbury, north-west London, have been handed fines totalling £4,500 after being convicted of obstructing a Brent Council housing...

Dlighted is trying to persuade more landlords and tenants to use its deposit-free renting service by claiming that at least £2bn...

A landlord operating in the London borough of Brent has been has been ordered to pay close to £7,500 for cramming...

A  landlord and his letting agents have been slapped with a fine of more than £20,000 and given criminal records for failing...

A criminal landlord has been handed a fine of almost £40,000 after he was caught housing 24 tenants in a rental...

A landlord has been fined £16,000 and now has a criminal record after being punished in court for refusing to make...

No fewer than 31 people were found to be living in cramped conditions in a four bedroom house in north-west London...

A private landlord in north London has been sentenced to four months imprisonment and fined £20,000 after pleading guilty to intimidating his...