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A council has issued a statement apparently celebrating the fact that it’s fined HMO landlords over £100,000 since the start of...

The owners of a large HMO in London have been fined £13,500 after failing to repair multiple hazards within their property. A...

A landlord has been fined over £3,800 for letting out an unsafe and unlicensed HMO. South Gloucestershire council issued the landlord a...

A council has won an appeal concerning two Civil Penalty Notices imposed on a landlord. The landlords had been issued two fines...

A landlord has been fined a total of £10,000 for breaching regulations when renting HMOs to vulnerable residents, as a supported...

A new council licensing scheme has been given the go ahead by the government. Peterborough council’s selective licensing scheme will be run...

Gedling council in Nottinghamshire is launching a consultation to renew yet another selective licensing scheme. The scheme was launched in 2018 and...

Councils in Greater Manchester admit to charging landlords over £14,000 for “officer time” involved in licensing schemes. There are currently eight selective...

A landlord in London has been ordered to refund 12 months’ rent to tenants after failing to license their HMO. The fine...

Landlords across just one London borough who failed to license HMOs have been issued with fines amounting to £207,500. To date, 59...

Two groups of activists who campaign for rent controls and reform of the private lettings sector have turned on each other. Acorn...

Landlords in one part of the country are being told they must apply for their selective license in just the next six...

A £5,000 fine handed to a landlord for not having an HMO licence has been slashed by 50 per cent. The landlord...

A landlord has been fined over £7,000 for letting out an unsafe and unlicensed HMO. South Gloucestershire council’s private sector housing team...

A landlord company has been fined more than £15,000 for failing to improve housing conditions in three properties. North Somerset council received...

Fines totalling more than £250,000 were issued to rogue landlords in Barking and Dagenham last year. Offences included failing to have a...

The Rogue Landlord Team of a local authority has triggered a civil penalty notice resulting in a fine of over £21,000...

A Midlands council says it’s sent thousands of letters to landlords in the last 12 months in response to complaints from...

Salford council in Greater Manchester is to introduce landlord licensing for HMOs where three or four tenants live - and the...

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

The family of an 80-year-old landlord fined for failing to maintain a block of flats in Wisbech has stepped in to...

A £4,550 fine has been upheld after an appeal by the landlord was rejected by a property tribunal. Fenland council served five...

Northampton council is seeking a so-called Charging Order against a landlord who failed to carry out improvements to her property and then...

London’s first rogue landlord banning order has been issued after tenants’ lives were put at risk through the letting of unsafe...

A private landlord in Evesham has been ordered to pay £14,500 after he was found to be illegally renting his property...

A buy-to-let landlord has been ordered to pay £14,500 for illegally renting out an overcrowded House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) without...

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

Two landlords who let substandard properties in Lancing and Southwick have had their appeals against Civil Penalty Notices (CPNs) rejected. Adur District...

A landlord in Stevenage who allowed his tenant to live in an excessively cold attic with a serious fire safety hazard...

The Government is poised to introduce tough new laws for landlords this week – with fines of up to £30,000 for...