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The police has warned landlords to beware of tenants wanting to use properties as cannabis farms. The warning comes after police officers...

An analysis of over 600,000 tenancy applications has found that fraudulent applications rose by 140% last year.  The analysis, carried out by...

A property law specialist wants a national register of tenants to allow landlords to check their history before rental agreements are...

Eviction experts claim the UK court system is nearing crisis point as many County Court bailiff evictions are being put on...

Research by the National Residential Landlords Association reveals that of those private landlords who have served a repossession notice, half have...

A couple growing cannabis at a house in Cambridgeshire jumped through a window and hid in the loft of their rental...

Lettings agency and property management consultancy Bramleys has revealed the most common landlord complaints, and has provided suggestions as to how...

Over half of tenants who have stayed at short let home-based properties via Airbnb or similar platforms have broken or damaged...

Some tenants are effectively “professional crooks” taking advantage of Coronavirus law changes to avoid paying landlords, a leading letting agent says. Benham...

Direct Line Business Insurance has outlined seven tell-tale signs of cannabis cultivation, which it says is an increasing problem for landlords across...

An expert assessment of the average cost of damage caused by rogue tenants growing cannabis suggests landlords will typically pay almost...

An industry service supplier has revealed the scale of the backlog in possession cases which cannot be pursued to eviction because of...

Evicting an unscrupulous tenant could potentially cost landlords thousands, even hundreds of thousands of pounds, new research shows. Benham and Reeves has...

Amid the headline-grabbing political manoeuvring over Brexit, a policy proposal which could have serious ramifications for thousands of private landlords –...

The new blacklist of rogue agents and landlords, introduced as part of the Housing and Planning Bill, will go a long...

Significantly more must be done to protect landlords from rogue tenants, according to a couple who were left with a £10,000...

The government has vowed to offer private renters extra protections and safeguards, as set out in the long-awaited white paper yesterday,...

Given the financial issues that landlords can experience when they rent their property out to a nightmare tenant, especially those that...

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

The Housing and Planning Bill, which includes measures to tackle criminal landlords and letting agents, should also address the issue of...

Eviction firm Landlord Action is calling for a blacklist of persistent rogue tenants to be made public. The Housing and Planning Bill...

The National Landlords Association (NLA) has launched its latest campaign, Reinventing Renting, which identifies opportunities for landlords to enhance their lettings...

A blog post by eviction specialists Landlord Action has exposed bad tenants who can clearly afford to pay the rent but...

In a welcome change to rogue landlord stories, a number of national newspapers have run a story about tenants trashing a...