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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...

A council has prosecuted a landlord for letting out two HMOs without a licence and failing to comply with HMO Management...

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

A landlord has been sentenced to six months in prison - suspended for 18 months - and 250 hours community service...

The landlord of a property has been hit with over £23,000 in legal costs after being found guilty of operating an...

A council has prosecuted a landlord for letting out two HMOs without a licence and failing to comply with HMO Management...

A council has prosecuted a landlord for letting two HMOs without a licence and failing to comply with HMO Management Regulations.Mohammed...

The landlord of a flat has been ordered to pay a total of £3,287 for failing to carry out repairs.  Carlo Ykhlef,...

A landlord and a property management company have been found guilty of putting tenants at risk after a council probe. Kensington and...

The Additional Licensing HMO scheme in the Bath and North East Somerset area ends on New Year’s Eve.  The scheme covers around...

A fire and rescue service is urging tenants to know their rights when it comes to fire safety. Warwickshire Fire and Rescue...

The Fire Protection Association says a recent First-Tier Tribunal decision and appeal dismissal highlight the responsibilities that landlords hold in relation...

The priority for the majority of landlords is rental income that is paid on time, but there is also the priority...

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...

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 cellar ‘flat’ where a fire resulted in the death of a man has been jailed for breaching...

The landlord of two flats in Cardiff has been fined over £4,500 for failing to fix fire safety defects after being...

A Cardiff landlord has been ordered to pay just over £4,500 for failing to rectify faults relating to two flats he...

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

A landlord has been ordered to pay over £10,000 at Cardiff Magistrates' Court for a catalogue of failures relating to a...

Scottish landlords have been targeted with a raft of restrictive legislation in recent years but most are staying the course and...

A landlord has been hit with a huge £23,000 fine for failing to properly maintain two HMOs. Landlord Lystra Dorval from Ilford...

The new academic year is just around the corner, so many landlords will be thinking about student housing sector to diversify...

A landlord who repeatedly let out an unsafe house has been fined £20,000 by magistrates. Housing officers from Salford council found fire...

A landlord who failed to comply with an Emergency Prohibition Order to make safe an HMO has been fined £1,000 and...

A landlord has been hit with a bill of almost £25,000 for allegedly exposing vulnerable tenants to serious fire risks in...

A second-offence landlord has received fines totalling £5,259.75 after council officers found nine different safety violations at a single property. The building...

A landlord who let out a property that raised serious concerns for the safety of 18 residents, including six children, has...

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

A private landlord who failed to carry out essential safety work has been fined for ignoring an Emergency Prohibition Order. Mohammed Deryo,...

A landlord has been refused a lettings licence by a local council because he failed to keep fire safety alarm records...

A landlord in the north of England has been given a suspended prison sentence and a huge fine for fire safety...

A landlord has been ordered to pay thousands of pounds by magistrates after a bedroom fire revealed tenants were living in...

A landlord has been sentenced to nine months imprisonment suspended for two years for breaches of fire safety legislation. Thirunavukkaradu Kuladaisamy, the...

A London council has prosecuted a landlord for renting out an unauthorised and unsafe House in Multiple Occupation. Daniella Mbachu, who owns...

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

A landlord has been convicted and ordered to pay more than £11,500 in fines and legal costs for the offence of...

A London council has taken a landlord company to court after complaints of poor housing conditions in five of its rented...

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

A property company and its sole director landlord have been convicted and ordered to pay more than £50,000 in fines and...

A landlord and a property company have a total of over £90,000 to pay after being found guilty of 27 charges...

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

The unknown number of landlords with properties in blocks caught in the cladding crisis may be able to benefit from a...

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...

A landlord who failed to properly look after two HMOs has been fined £70,500 by an Essex council. Lystra Dorval, of Ilford,...

Two landlords have been fined over £100,000 after 35 people were found living in what a judge called “criminally improper conditions.” Arun...

Croydon Council has applied for government consent to renew the borough’s landlord licensing scheme that makes sure privately-let properties meet key...

Following last week's announcement by the Welsh government that it plans to introduce new regulations to combat carbon monoxide poisoning, here are a...

An unscrupulous landlord has been fined £27,000 over an unlicensed HMO in Luton with multiple fire and safety breaches. ​ Luton Magistrates Court...

Britain has faced terrible flooding this year. Floods and other property emergency can take minutes to occur and years to remedy....

As you will undoubtedly know, it is a legal requirement to ensure your rental property has adequate smoke detectors installed.  Some landlords...

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

A buy-to-let landlord in Sutton has been fined £2,694 and ordered to pay £1,994 in costs and a victim surcharge of...

Private landlords have long been expected to keep their properties to a reasonable standard, but up until fairly recently what this...

A buy-to-let landlord in Worcester has been ordered to pay almost £3,000 for operating an unlicensed House of Multiple Occupation (HMO)...

A buy-to-landlord in Worcester has been ordered to pay almost £3,000 for failing to install adequate safety measures.  Mohammed Rafiq, who was...

City of Lincoln Council has taken action against a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) landlord in Lincoln for failing to comply...

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 found guilty of failing to comply with a notice from Bradford Council ordering him to improve...

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

Citizens Advice has called for more regulation of the private rented sector after research revealed that hundreds of thousands of tenants...

A rogue landlord has been fined £55,000 and ordered to pay court costs of £2,989.67 as well as a victim surcharge...

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

Lettings of London Ltd has been ordered to pay more than £50,000 after pleading guilty to 18 offences largely relating to...

A private landlord has been ordered to pay £800 in fines and costs after investigators discovered several deficiencies in a property...

Two landlords have been ordered to pay more than £30,000 for breaching fire safety and over-occupancy licence conditions at their House...

Toilet flushing discharged into the rear yard of a property, broken fire alarms and faulty electrics were among the defects found...

A landlord who failed to install a proper heating system and left safety hazards across a house in Peterborough has been...

A buy-to-let landlord in Glasgow will be left out of pocket after the renewal of her house in multiple occupation (HMO)...

HMO properties look very good on paper. Why charge a single rent when you can charge four or five lots of...

A buy-to-let investor, once dubbed “country’s worst landlord”, still owes more than £100,000 in unpaid fines in relation to over 60...

A rogue managing agent of an overcrowded house of multiple occupation (HMO) in east London has been fined £26,000 for breaches...

As a landlord, it goes without saying that you must keep the property you provide your tenants with safe and free...

A now former landlord has been fined £20,000 for putting the lives of five residents at risk after a broke out...

Singer Midge Ure and West End actress Carley Stenson have backed a campaign attempting to make homes in this country safer. Ure...

A buy-to-let landlord in Immingham, near Gimsby, has been ordered to pay £1,380 after being found guilty of renting an unlicensed...

A rogue landlord has been ordered to pay almost £3,000 after being found guilty of a number of breaches relating to...

A buy-to-let landlord in Nottinghamshire has been ordered to pay almost £6,500 after failing to comply with an improvement relating to...

A buy-to-let landlord who let ‘hazardous’ properties in Leyland has been fined £20,000. Leyland Estates Ltd was prosecuted at Preston Magistrates Court after...

A private landlord in Lincoln has been fined more than £10,000 after being caught breaking safety rules for a second time. Missing...

A deranged tenant in Scarborough has been sentenced to 32 months in prison after he attempted to set fire to his...

There is a lot for landlords to consider when letting a property and what is required often relates to the date...

A buy-to-let landlord had been prosecuted for letting rooms to three disabled people in an unlicensed property in the Rose Hill...

A private landlord in Liverpool has been handed a hefty fine for putting his tenants at risk of fire. Following an inspection...

A number of buy-to-let landlords are taking measures to check the fire safety of their buy-to-let properties in the wake of...

A barrister, who often represented landlords and tenants, has been fined for breaking the law, after it turned out that he...

A landlord who allowed tenants to live in substandard conditions in Oxford has been handed a fine of £2,500. The poorly-maintained six-bedroom...

A landlord has been sentenced to six weeks in prison following the illegal evicting of one of his tenants and for...

A buy-to-let landlord in Sheffield has been told that he has to pay £2,412 in court costs, fines and compensation after...

Two landlords in Reading have been fined almost £14,000 for failing to put right a string of housing offences at a...

Two unscrupulous landlords in Reading have been fined almost £9,000 for poor housing standards and a complete disregard for the welfare...

Sheffield Council has promised to continue targeting rogue landlords after bringing its highest-ever number of successful prosecutions. Seven individuals and companies were...

A landlord in Bristol has been fined thousands of pounds after tenants and neighbours complained about the awful state of toilets,...

There are a significant amount of private landlords who fail to keep rental properties in a safe condition for their tenants,...

A landlord in Grimsby has been jailed and ordered to pay costs of more than £100,000 after putting the lives of...

A landlord has been fined £20,000 after a raid revealed that 28 tenants were residing in “unsafe” cramped conditions in a...

Rogue landlords in the London Borough of Barnet are being targeted by the local council as part of a crackdown on...

A Birmingham landlord has been handed a fine of more than £24,000 after being prosecuted for a string of offences. Salih Mahfood...

A Birmingham landlord has been sent to prison for 19 months and ordered to pay £13,820 costs over a catalogue of...