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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...

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...

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

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

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

A landlord faces a hefty jail sentence unless she finds over £50,000 in the next three months - and on top...

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

A London council has successfully prosecuted two landlords who failed to comply with a planning enforcement notice originally issued against substandard...

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

A private landlord has been prosecuted for failing to carry out works to make his rented property safe . David Almond of...

Renting out dangerous properties in Cardiff has cost two landlords thousands of pounds. Rowshanara Begum has been fined £20,000 at Cardiff Magistrates'...

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

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

A London council has prosecuted a landlord for failing to carry out repairs on his property and causing a severe health...

A local authority is introducing charges for the issuing of Improvement Notices to landlords - and has chosen to announce it...

A council has secured a banning order against a landlord, taking effect almost immediately. The order is against Grzegorz Surminski, a landlord...

Landlords Shaun and Laraine Etherington have pleaded guilty to four offences of breaching Prohibition Orders against human habitation at their properties...

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

A council has prosecuted a landlord for a second time, for multiple offences.  The offences concerned a tenanted caravan that had been...

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

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 landlord and his property company have been ordered to pay a total of £40,000 in fines after a council says...

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

The Health and Safety Executive Northern Ireland has prosecuted landlord Paul Coyle, resulting in fines totalling £3,000. Belfast Magistrates Court found Coyle...

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

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

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

A private landlord has been prosecuted after a family, including a baby and two older children, were left without water or adequate...

A landlord has agreed to repay £2,160 that he received in housing benefit following the expiry of an improvement notice served...

A local authority controlled by the Green Party says it’s issued 550 per cent more fines against landlords in the past...

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

A newspaper has discovered that over 1,500 warnings for damp or mould have been issued to landlords by just one city...

A landlord has been sentenced at Wolverhampton Crown Court after she had previously been found guilty of illegal eviction. Dr Amy Eskander,...

It’s claimed that Liverpool’s Labour council would take almost 150 years to process applications for its landlord licensing scheme. The council has...

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

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 London council has boasted of its success in working with a landlord to remedy problems on a rental property served...

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

Another landlord has been hit with a substantial fine for failing to licence an HMO. Ryan Antony Otto, a director of Otto...

A council has secured a banning order against a rogue landlord who was found guilty of failing to comply with legal...

The latest attack on landlords by Generation Rent director Baroness Alicia Kennedy concerns insulation and household warmth. She claims a quarter of...

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

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

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

A local authority says the fact that it has conducted no prosecutions against private landlords despite over 1,100 complaints from tenants...

A landlord has been fined for failing to ensure that gas fittings, appliances and associated flues were checked for safety. Edinburgh Sheriffs...

The majority of local authorities in England do not accurately record the number of private rented sector tenure complaints which they...

New selective licensing schemes are now live in areas of north and east Manchester covering more than 1,400 properties.  This means compulsory...

A rogue landlord who has already been fined on numerous occasions for similar offences has now been served with a £5,000...

A landlord has been fined almost £5,000 for failing to install smoke detectors into a house he let to a family. The...

A London council has prosecuted a rogue landlord after a 30 month saga regarding the condition of an apartment.  Richmond council received a...

A council says it’s working with police to target landlords which it claims are flouting the law and illegally eviction and...

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 fined and sentenced to a 12-month community order for failing to maintain gas appliances at a rental...

A landlord has been fined £24,750 and told to repay his tenants almost £47,000 in rent. In December 2018, Preston council responded...

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

A landlord has been prosecuted for a second time for breaches of Wirral council’s selective licensing scheme. The council’s housing standards team...

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

A landlord who failed to comply with improvement notices for a vulnerable tenant and threatened to evict her if the improvements...

A landlord who failed to ensure his property was clean and safe for tenants to live in has been prosecuted by...

A landlord has been fined more than £16,000 for failing to license his property. It is the first time South Tyneside Council...

A landlord has been prosecuted for failure to make improvements to his tenanted property, including failing to install a fire detection...

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...

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

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

Two landlords of a property in East London have been ordered to pay costs and fines totalling £61,057.05 after they were prosecuted...

A landlord that refused to make safety improvements at two of her properties in Folkestone has been fined nearly £5,000. Madeleine Scott,...

A rogue landlord has been hit with a bill of £48,000 - a record for the council which brought the prosecution. Tariq...

A landlord who allowed his tenants to live in squalid conditions, has been ordered by the court to pay £5,000 for...

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 London council is running what it describes as “an innovative project” to help private tenants reclaim rent from landlords who...

A landlord has been sentenced for failing to maintain gas appliances at a rental property in accordance with the law. Swansea magistrates’...

A landlord has been hit with a fine of over £600 after failing to comply with an improvement notice - jeopardising...

A landlord who failed to improve his rental property, leaving his tenants in dangerous conditions, has been fined. Haroon Karim from Nottingham...

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

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...

Generation Rent activists are back on the warpath, this time accusing councils of not doing enough - and sometimes nothing -...

A buy-to-let landlord in Bristol has been forced to hand £1,569 back to the council for housing benefit payments he received. Charles...

A buy-to-let landlord has been sentenced after failing to maintain gas appliances at a rental property he owns in Plymouth.  Plymouth Crown...

A buy-to-let landlord in Liverpool has been ordered to pay almost £9.500 after failing to provide acceptable living conditions for his...

A buy-to-let landlord has been ordered to pay more than £2,000 after ignoring several requests to carry out important repairs to...

A property firm has been fined £3,000 after neglecting a property in Derbyshire.  A & S Milward Property Limited was found guilty...

A rogue landlord in Doncaster has been given a banning order for two-and-a-half years after repeatedly putting tenants’ lives at risk...

Slough Borough Council has taken action against an unscrupulous landlord in Slough who to date has refused to pay a fine...

A rogue landlord who repeatedly rented out a substandard property in Yeadon, West Yorkshire, has been fined more than £25,000. Jack Collins,...

An unscrupulous landlord has been ordered to pay £47,500 after council officers found 11 people living in a small flat in...

An unscrupulous landlord in Chesterfield has been ordered to pay a total of £5,684.91 after being prosecuted by a second time...

A buy-to-let landlord in South Yorkshire has been fined £4,000 and ordered to pay costs of £1,121 as well as a...

A buy-to-let landlord in north London has been ordered to pay more than £13,000 after breaching fire safety regulations and failing...

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

A buy-to-let landlord has been ordered to pay a fine of £2,646, costs of £2,000 and a victim surcharge of £170...

A buy-to-let landlord in Doncaster has been ordered to pay more than £5,000 in fines and costs following a successful prosecution...

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