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A landlord law expert has criticised four social housing providers for avoiding serious financial penalties themselves, while simultaneously levying big fines...

New research from Direct Line reveals thousands of landlords in England are facing increasing costs due to selective licensing schemes imposed...

The Housing Ombudsman has launched a special investigation into a Labour council after 16 ‘severe Maladministration’ cases in a year and...

An advisory service is warning landlords to heed the lessons from a recent court case concerning legal obligation to ensure fire...

The Housing Ombudsman - which currently presides over the social housing sector - has named and shamed 12 councils and housing...

A London council has prosecuted landlord Syed Shah, owner of an HMO, for a string of  breaches that posed significant risks...

The Housing Ombudsman - which assesses problems involving social housing landlords - has found severe maladministration in four cases involving Croydon...

A landlord has been found guilty of operating eight unlicensed HMOs and a range of breaches of the HMO Management Regulations. Northampton...

There is a real difficulty for Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party at the moment.  After 14 years in power, any failings land squarely...

A rogue landlord has been fined £27,460 for putting residents at risk by failing to maintain a property. Flintshire County Council brought...

A council has issued financial penalties of over £20,000 to landlords failing to manage their properties.   Three of the four cases...

A London council that just days ago threatened private landlords with unlimited fines and “have control of their properties removed” has...

A council that is often outspoken in its criticism of rogue private landlords has been slammed for literally thousands of health...

A landlord and three property management companies have been fined approaching £80,000 for health and safety failings. Mohammed Ali Abbas Rasool, Cadogan...

Rogue landlord Hazmar Fauz of Welwyn in Hertfordshire has been given a hefty fine of over £15,000 for a series of...

A Labour pressure group wants the party to campaign on housing at the next General Election, including railing against what it...

A landlord and two businesses have been fined over £145,000 following a fire in a building containing residential flats and a...

The landlord of a property dubbed a “house of horrors” by Barking and Dagenham council enforcement officers has been ordered to...

A not-for-profit business that advocates tenants use Rent Repayment Orders against landlords has issued a furious response to a Supreme Court...

The landlords’ trade body is welcoming a landmark ruling from the Supreme Court which provides vital clarification about so called ‘rent-to-rent’...

A landlord has been ordered to pay over £25,000 by magistrates for a catalogue of failings relating to his rental property...

The Scottish Government’s dramatic immediate introduction of a rent freeze and eviction ban could mark the beginning of the end of the...

A council now consulting on a huge licensing scheme for private landlords has been slammed - over its own record as...

Labour MP Hilary Benn has spoken out in favour of buy to let landlords currently expected to pay towards remediation work...

A council has obtained a banning order on a landlord in a ruling that is the first of its kind in...

A landlord has been found guilty of a series of fire safety failings which left residents with only one option to...

The government has approved a vast landlord licensing scheme in Liverpool - but even including 45,000 homes it is still much...

A small proportion of private landlords grab the spotlight because of their poor treatment of tenants and properties - yet figures...

A London council has prosecuted a rogue landlord and his associated property firm for letting unsafe properties and being unlicensed -...

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

A serial-offender landlord has been fined for putting tenants at serious harm from fire and exposing them to substandard and dangerous conditions. Nilendu...

A landlord who committed 33 offences at a property he owns has been issued with civil penalties totalling £50,500. Zaheer Uddin Babar,...

A landlord has been hit with what a local authority calls a record £66,000 fine after being found guilty of letting...

An unscrupulous landlord has been ordered to pay more than £150,000 after failing to fix several safety hazards in his property. Officers from...

A buy-to-let landlord in Nottingham been fined £6,000 and instructed to pay  £1,583.18 costs, along with a £170 victim surcharge following...

Buy-to-let landlords are concerned about the proposed scrapping of Section 21 in the absence of a new system that allows them...

Private landlords will have a major say in a court case considering the future of the government’s Right to Rent scheme. The...

A buy-to-let landlord has been ordered to pay more than £6,000 in relation to 12 charges under the Housing Act after...

We all know that buy-to-let investors provide a vital service for people looking for housing, and yet an article in The...

A private landlord from St Helens has been ordered to pay £21,000 after a prosecution by the local council found a...

A neglectful landlord, who allowed his tenants to occupy a property without working smoke alarms, a lack of sufficient fire doors...

A landlord has been ordered to pay just over £5,000 after admitting safety failings at a fire-hit house in Letchworth, Hertfordshire. Lawrence...

Around 5% of buy-to-let properties are set to fail new Minimum Energy Efficient Standards (MEES) that come into effect in April...

The rapid growth in popularity of buy-to-let in recent years has been fuelled in part by the failings of the pensions...

After a tenant paid his rent, he did not expect a few weeks later to be contacted by the landlord wanting...

A landlord has been fined over £4,000 at Cardiff Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to eight charges relating to five rented...

The owner of a rental property in west London, which was described by a judge as a “deathtrap”, has been told...

A buy-to-let landlord has narrowly escaped jail after failing to ensure gas appliances in one of her properties were checked for...

The owner of a house in Colindale, north London, let out to tenants in a dangerous condition has been fined £25,000. Habib...

A west London property company managing an HMO in Notting Hill has been fined £47,900 in relation to 24 charges under...

A landlord has been found guilty and fined for fire safety failings and denying that his property was being used as...

A Warwickshire landlord has been fined £10,744 for failing to properly manage a two-storey property he owns in Leamington. Manjit Chima owned...

A Bristol landlord has been handed a suspended jail sentence after student flats under his ownership were found to have numerous...

A Birmingham landlord has been ordered to pay nearly £20,000 for a number of failings in managing an HMO. Amrik Singh Gill,...

A West Midlands landlord has been ordered to pay costs and fines of more than £6,600 after a series of poor...