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A man has pleaded guilty to tenancy fraud after unlawfully subletting his council flat  by advertising it for rent via Airbnb. Birmingham...

Direct Line is highlighting the importance of residential landlords having their properties inspected regularly, with research revealing 83 per cent of...

The National Residential Landlords Association says the Renters Reform Bill won’t win the support of landlords in its present form. The Bill...

A clampdown has found 18 council homes were being unlawfully sublet on Airbnb and other short let platforms. The investigation led by...

An Airbnb survey first reported last week on Landlord Today has exploded into a national newspaper controversy. Airbnb claims that almost 80...

One in eight tenants admit to letting out part or all of their rented property - and that rises to a...

A landlord has been found guilty of three housing offences after it was discovered a property he let out posed a...

A private tenant who stabbed his landlords to death has been convicted of murder. Daniel Garcia unleashed what an Old Bailey trial...

Periodic inspections of your property are just as important for landlords as the inventory check at the start of the tenancy....

There is a growing issue of tenants subletting their rental properties on websites like Airbnb, with some renters inappropriately using it...

As a landlord, you may have purchased a flat for the purposes of subletting, but are you actually allowed to rent...

A landlord faces prosecution after police found he had squeezed 31 beds into a very overcrowded three-bedroom house that had just...

A tenant who illegally sublet an unlicensed and poorly-maintained bungalow in north London, which was described by Brent Council as a...

A private tenant occupying a three-bedroom house in north-west London has been jailed after he was caught illegally subletting the property...

A new TV show called ‘Bad Tenants, Rogue Landlords’, a companion series to ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords’, starts today. Following the success...

Three tenants who sub-let a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Kingsbury, north-west London, to 35 men have been fined more than 23,000. The residents...

In most cases, a tenant needs their landlord’s consent before they can sublet their home, and yet some tenants seem to...

Dealing with tenant disputes is one of the biggest challenges landlords must overcome, and can sometimes prove both expensive and time-consuming...

There is a direct correlation between licensed rental properties and a reduction in anti-social behaviour, according to a north London based...

Total Landlord Insurance is warning landlords to be extra vigilant over the festive period as it reports a 14% year-on-year increase...

Around a third of private rented sector tenants in the UK admit that they are currently subletting their rented accommodation without...

More and more tenants are subletting rental properties on peer-to-peer websites such as Airbnb, according to an eviction specialist.   Landlord Action says...

Newham Council has prosecuted what it called a “group of criminals” running a dodgy letting business with an estimated income of...

Do you know who’s living in your property? Maybe not, according to new research.   Direct Line for Business found that one in...

The total number of evictions last year reached a record high of 42,728 according to data from the Ministry of Justice.  Whilst...

Almost half of tenants who sublet their property do so without their landlord’s consent, according to new findings from the National...

A tenant eviction specialist has warned that the Government’s proposal to introduce minimum room sizes will not prevent subletting scams which...

London’s biggest social landlord, Southwark Council, has launched a new anti-fraud tool to prevent illegal subletting.   The new website (www.ilatch.co.uk) will help...

Stay tuned tomorrow evening at 9pm for the first in a six-part Channel 5 series about subletting. ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords’ follows...

Work of council fraud investigators in Barnet to expose tenancy fraud has led to almost 50 council houses being re-let to...