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In his latest criticism of landlords, the chief executive of Generation Rent says rent controls would protect “so many renters from...

A Hastings landlord has been fined £10,000 after failing to provide a satisfactory Electrical Safety Installation Certificate to the town council. The...

A council has won an appeal to enforce two Financial Penalty Notices that were served on the same landlord who let...

A landlord has been fined for allowing a family to live in a substandard property with serious hazards including damp and...

Three people have been prosecuted and fined a total of £17,604 for letting an unlicensed HMO in Barnsley. Council officers also identified...

The government has released more information on its new Renters Rights Bill, which is expected to be launched into Parliament in...

Salford council has launched a consultation on whether private housing landlords in parts of Broughton and Kersal should require a selective...

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

A landlord must pay £24,000 for failing to comply with an Improvement Notice issued to him.  Landlord Lakhbir Singh Rakhra was reported...

A landlord has been ordered to pay more than £20,000 after being found guilty of offences related to the living conditions...

“When it comes to housing policy, there is little difference between the two major parties” says Aneisha Beveridge, head of research...

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

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

Private renters in England face a postcode lottery as councils are failing to properly inspect properties with potential hazards. That’s the view of...

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

A private landlord who let three of his properties fall into dangerous disrepair has been ordered to pay almost £14,000 after...

The National Residential Landlords Association is introducing a new energy efficiency retrofitting course this summer - ahead of possible EPC rule...

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

The Renters Reform Bill returns to the House of Commons today with activist groups critical of amendments put forward to reach...

A landlord who has repeatedly flouted housing rules has been fined a further £36,000 following a prosecution brought by a council.  Giuseppe...

MPs return to the Commons today after a substantial Easter recess - and with progress on the Renters Reform Bill on...

A private landlord from Bridlington has been ordered to pay £1,500 for putting tenants into a dangerous property, thereby breaching a...

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

A charity is calling for landlord licensing schemes which cost enough to fund annual inspections, and the issuing of “sentencing guidelines”...

A landlord referred to only as ‘Mr Gurung’ has been named by two councils as being penalised £3,000 for an overcrowded...

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

A property finance consultancy claims that unmortgageable properties can be snapped up with a discount of 27 per cent. Apex Bridging says...

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

A landlord has warned her local authority that high charges for licensing are unaffordable without the fee being passed on to...

A council has won an appeal to enforce a Financial Penalty Notice that was served on a landlord who let out...

A council has prosecuted a landlord after a family of nine were discovered living in an outbuilding. Tariq Khan of Peterborough was...

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

The Labour Party has committed to extending a crackdown on social housing landlords who fail to fix mouldy homes, to include...

A council claims “hundreds of residents have been made safer in their homes” thanks to a licencing regime. Sheffield council insists the...

Damp and mould are two of the most common issues in rented properties, with surface mould caused by condensation one of...

Urgent action is needed by government to protect tenants who live in poor quality private rented homes, MPs have demanded. A report...

Landlords who fail to ensure their private rented homes meet required standards face massively increased charges from a council. Bath & North...

There is to be no comparable law for private landlords, following the introduction of Awaab’s Law. Earlier this week the Department of...

New plans to clamp down on rogue social landlords who fail to provide safe homes have been announced today. This is part...

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

Private tenants are being encouraged by a local council to report damp and mould issues to their landlords. Shropshire council says private...

The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health has given a warm welcome to many of the provision in the Renters Reform Bill...

A council has prosecuted a private landlord who let out an uninhabitable outbuilding in Kings Langley. Deborah King of Kings Langley was...

A controversial licensing scheme is due to come into force tomorrow - just as the council administering it has declared itself...

A council has prosecuted a private landlord who rented out an uninhabitable outbuilding in Kings Langley. Deborah King was initially fined £4,000...

A new but small survey by a compensation consultancy claims there are serious mould and damp issues amongst private rental properties. Some...

Inventory clerks are ideally placed to protect landlords from some heavy fines triggered by the Renters Reform Bill, it’s been claimed. The...

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

A council has prosecuted four landlords in three days, with convictions secured for seven offences. Harold Mews Management Ltd of Margate was...

A landlord who let tenants live in properties riddled with hazardous electrics, unsafe boilers, mould and no smoke alarms must pay...

A London council is looking to introduce new licensing for landlords. Currently Wandsworth council operates mandatory licensing for HMOs with five or...

New directives issued by the government put the emphasis firmly on private landlords to take responsibility for issues of damp and...

More than 300 landlords have applied for a new licence brought in this summer by Tory controlled Kensington and Chelsea council...

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

Arun council has prosecuted a Littlehampton landlord for failing to comply with an improvement notice. The case was heard at Worthing Magistrates...

A landlord has been given a £20,000 fine for failing to carry-out badly needed repairs on a property in Lancashire.  The fixed...

A controversial licensing scheme will come into force this winter with the blessing of Housing Secretary Michael Gove. Nottingham council’s selective licensing...

A north of England council says it’s held two local landlords to account after they failed to make essential repairs to...

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

A landlord has been ordered to pay over £44,000 after a court found him guilty of a serious housing offence. Giuseppe Sutera,...

The Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, says he is demanding the powers to seize usage or poor quality homes...

A PropTech firm claims that its research shows a third of tenants have not seen fire safety certificates or information about...

A landlord has been fined more than £8,000 for failing to complete necessary improvements to properties. Eric Bland pleaded guilty at Chesterfield...

Social housing tenants are to be encouraged to hold their landlords to account as part of a taxpayer funded training scheme. From free advice on...

An unnamed landlord in the Norfolk town of Cromer has been issued with a £2,000 penalty, after the Residential Property Tribunal...

Shelter claims that private renters who complained to their landlord, letting agent or local council in the last three years were...

The Housing Ombudsman has released its special investigation into Rochdale Boroughwide Housing, the social housing provider which supplied accommodation to Awaab...

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

Dacorum council in Hertfordshire has prosecuted a private landlord who rented out an uninhabitable outbuilding in Kings Langley. Deborah King was fined...

A landlord has been fined after pleading guilty to breaching a prohibition order preventing him from letting a property. The Isle of...

A London borough council has revealed the number of cases it has taken against private landlords since the start of 2021...

A £50m scheme to bring more empty homes back to life in Wales - but private land are excluded from applying. The...

A Wirral landlord has become the first in the region to be served with a Banning Order, which will prohibit him...

A council is telling private tenants in its area to make contact if they believe their mould-related problems are not being...

A consultation on a new licensing regime looks set to start in Warwick in the new year. The council will next week...

A landlord has been issued with a £16,000 penalty after the Residential Property Tribunal dismissed an appeal and upheld a financial penalty. North Norfolk council issued the...

A landlord has been fined £10,000 by a Devon council for failing to tackle what it calls “essential repairs following a...

A landlord has been fined £10,000 by a Devon council for failing to tackle what it calls “essential repairs following a...

A licensing scheme for rental properties in one part of Cardiff looks likely to be reintroduced next year. The Cathays Additional Licensing...

From November Gedling council in Nottinghamshire wants its Selective Licensing extended to four additional wards.  This follows a pilot where over 78...

The government - at least until it changes under the new Prime Minister to be announced today - is moving forward...

A landlord has pleaded guilty of four counts of breaching a Criminal Behaviour Order and told to expect to pay “a...

Renters are being placed at unnecessary risk due to a delay in reforms that would allegedly give them greater protection, it’s...

The early bird discount period for what many regard as the country’s most controversial landlord licensing scheme has been extended. The discount...

The campaigning charity Shelter - once a critic of government policies over letting agents and landlords - has given a ringing...

A market research company is to go door-to-door to seek residents’ views as part of a council’s consultation on landlord licensing. MEL...

Brand new ‘property passports’ would help landlords prove their homes are compliant and assist tenants to identify decent and safe housing,...

Landlords are being warned by the Fire Protection Association of major changes ahead for those letting properties in Wales. The Fitness for...

A consultation is underway into the extension of yet another private landlord licensing scheme for a further five years. Since March 2018...

Gedling council in Nottinghamshire is the latest local authority to resume consultations on Selective Licensing after putting initial proposals on ice...

A council has served improvement notices on a number of properties owned by the Salvation Army and let to private tenants...

A senior committee of MPs claims that it’s “too difficult for renters to realise their legal right to a safe and...

A campaign group wants local candidates fighting elections in London next month sign up to a set of policies including rent...

A landlord has been fined £6,250 for failing to make a series of improvements to the property he lets out in...

Applications open later this week for one of the country’s largest and most controversial landlord licensing schemes - in Liverpool. The new...

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...

Husband-and-wife landlords Robin and Susan Kirstein have been landed with a massive fine for letting a home that was deemed by...

A poll suggests that many private tenants admit to being more interested in the tidiness of their properties than safety within...

Rogue landlords who create portfolios of overcrowded, unregulated and unsafe properties - including the infamous beds in sheds - now face...

The council in Harrogate, Yorkshire, has issued what appears to be a celebration statement about its legal action against rogue landlords. The...