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With Labour’s election victory, a new EPC target has been announced. In mid-July, the new Secretary of State for Energy Security and...

A controversial council claims that HMRC is working with its enforcement team because many landlords who avoid licensing schemes are also...

Now a date for the General Election has been set, the Renters (Reform) Bill has expired with the proroguing and effective...

A website is being prepared to assist private renters know where to turn if their landlord or lettings agent fail to...

Political parties should stop bickering and instead work together to boost enforcement of rental standards in the private sector. That’s the view...

Trading Standards has defended the introduction of ‘material information’ requirements on details of properties for sale, after a conveyancer warned landlords...

Landlords quitting the sector could have to spend hundreds of pounds more when selling their home owing to new Trading Standards...

Labour is using a Bill currently going through Parliament as a backdoor method to introduce the regulation of lettings, estate and...

A London lettings agency has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman for not paying compensation to a landlord following a failure...

Landlords will have to include many more specific points about their properties when they list them in future - whether directly...

There’s been a clampdown on imprecise wording used in lettings listings. The National Trading Standards Estate and Lettings Agency Team  - which...

Hawks Properties Limited has been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for failing to honour a compensation award. The agency - with...

A council chief has spoken out in support of landlords who lost money to a “despicable fraudster” who is now in...

A landlord who left his tenants homeless after breaking into their house at night with a hammer has been prosecuted by...

TV property expert Phil Spencer has called for a radical simplification of the rules surrounding landlord licensing, fees and other regulations. In...

Over the last few years, the property industry has been focusing on the need to provide more information to buyers ‘up...

A landlord has admitted breaching planning rules at two properties in south London. He submitted a guilty plea in response to Southwark...

A rogue landlord who created false identities and fake lcompanies as part of an elaborate web of misinformation designed to exploit...

Many landlords have welcomed the zero deposit insurance concept - but is this being damaged by the pressure-selling techniques of some...

A landlord representative is to be a member of a new advisory panel which has been set up by the Property...

As the cost of energy spikes and the government rolls out new support, landlords and tenants involved in ‘bills included’ rental...

The Guardian newspaper has given an aggrieved tenant the opportunity to explain how he and other renters took a landlord to...

A rogue landlord prosecuted for illegally squashing seven flats into a development with planning permission for six must pay around £250,000.  In...

Trading Standards has approved a new alternative dispute resolution body for the private rental sector. It’s The Dispute Service Ltd, and it...

A leading figure in the PropTech sector says more regulation could make the rental sector fairer and more transparent - but...

A London council has prosecuted a builder - Valeriu Sandu, of Valmic Properties Limited - for lying about fitting sufficiently fireproof...

Landlords are likely to be obliged to supply agents with additional details in future, before their properties are listed to let...

A council says it’s going to clampdown on landlords who are “keeping deposits unnecessarily” and agents “charging unpermitted fees.” The pledge comes...

The BBC Radio 4 consumer affairs programme You and Yours says 4,746 rental scams have been reported to the police and...

Automated rental payment platform PayProp recently held a webinar, attended by well over 100 people, in which a condensed video of...

Private sector landlords are being warned by a council to check their investments meet the legal minimum energy efficiency standard, or...

Something that has been touching a raw nerve with me for some time now is the issue of so called ‘rent...

The live launch of a roundtable event hosted by rental payments platform PayProp takes place tomorrow – and landlords can still...

The steps landlords need to take to improve their own image and enhance their reputation in the eyes of consumers was...

A warning has gone out to landlords with properties in Scotland regarding legislation coming into effect in early 2022. Trade association SELECT is...

The Citizens Advice consumer charity is warning that fake investment scams are amongst the fraudulent activity that’s on the rise across...

A warning has been issued to landlords about a crackdown on compliance issues surrounding property management. No Letting Go, the country’s largest...

Several high-flying lettings sector bodies say rental properties advertised on portals should carry much more upfront information. This means landlords who use agents...

An 83-year-old landlord who let a property through collapsed agency Homepoint says he is being pursued for nearly £2,400 by liquidators. Homepoint...

Two landlords have to pay almost £8,000 for letting their flats in defiance of a Prohibition Order.  The order came into force...

Scams involving fake landlords and bogus lettings agents are rife in the private rentals sector, and may have been made worse...

The owner of a property used for an illegal party has been fined by a London council for breaking lockdown. Police were called...

Two men have been ordered to pay almost £8,000 for letting out flats in defiance of regulations designed to keep tenants...

A London landlord must pay over £280,000 in three months after housing eight people in a flat deems illegal for even...

The trading standards team charged with policing lettings and estate agents is to investigate whether a new guideline on referral fees...

As more people start to think about moving home as the coronavirus restrictions are eased, sales and letting agents are being...

Landlords should be aware that eight estate and letting agents have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme (TPO), which means...

A rogue landlord in Gainsborough will be sentenced later this month after being found guilty of unlawful harassment towards his tenants...

An unscrupulous letting agent has been jailed for two years for conning landlords and tenants out of almost a quarter of...

Three rogue operators in London have been sentenced after pleading guilty to money laundering fraudulent rental payments received for properties that...

Letting agents are being urged to do more to raise consumer awareness about rogue operators in the industry by demonstrating their...

Council officers from Brent and Harrow Trading Standards have pledged to clampdown on unscrupulous letting agents in the London boroughs of...

The Residential Landlords Association (RLA) has criticised the London Trading Standards (LTS) for what it says is an admission of failure in...

ARLA Propertymark is urging the government to continue taking action to clampdown on unscrupulous agents in the letting industry.  A significant number...

With new figures showing that almost half of letting agents do not comply with the law, London Trading Standards (LTS) has...

The Tenant Fees Act, better known simply as the tenant fees ban, is coming into force from June 1 2019. It...

A private landlord in Lincoln has been warned that he could be given a prison sentence of up to 15 months...

A new pilot has been launched by TrustMark, the government endorsed quality scheme, in partnership with East Sussex Trading Standards, to...

Three rogue directors of a letting agency in London who conned at least landlords and tenants out of more than £105,000 were...

Landlords in West Bromwich should be aware that local letting agent, The Lettings Shop (TLS), located in High Street has been...

At least 19 landlords and tenants have been left £105,000 out of pocket by unscrupulous letting agents who ran London-based letting...

Trading standards will almost certainly need help from consumers to help police the ban on letting fees, according to PayProp. As part...

Tenant Fees Bill that will ban most charges set by landlords and letting agents to tenants in England will continue its...

The next stage of the Tenants’ Fees Bill through Parliament will be a Second Reading in the House of Lords this...

Trading Standards services in London are warning landlords and letting agents to ensure that they comply with the law and not...

A buy-to-let landlord has been found guilty of aggressive practices, failing to protect a tenancy deposit and operating an unlicensed House...

The Property Ombudsman (TPO) scheme has released its latest annual report revealing an increase in the number of consumers contacting the...

The security deposits that tenants leave with their landlord or their letting agent could be capped at no more than five...

A landlord who failed to provide his tenants with adequate living conditions has been sent to jail. Majid Saniinejad, of Stoke Newington,...

It is a statutory duty for letting agents to fully publicise the fees they charge to landlords and tenants, and yet...

Stronger enforcement and streamlining of legislation in the private rental sector is urgently required to ensure the abolishment of what is in...

The recent closure of Morgan Hampton letting agents in Wimborne, Dorset, has been ceased upon by the CEO of Keep It...

A landlord in Hayes, west London, has been ordered to pay back more than £140,000 in rent she received unlawfully after...

A new Fair Fees Forum has been launched by the National Approved Letting Scheme (NALS) in order to help prevent excessive...

Last week, a landmark case in Scotland highlighted the need for deposit protection, after a letting agent in North Ayrshire became...

Landlords are being urged to regularly check their carbon monoxide alarms or risk being fined up to £5,000, after a new...

A free open evening is being held by Teignbridge Council for anyone interested in letting property in the South Devon district. The...

Stirling Council is inviting local private landlords and letting agents to register for an upcoming Open Day and Conference. The annual event,...

A rent-to-rent fraudster has been jailed for 16 months after being found guilty of six counts of fraud relating to HMOs Moses...

Tests by the Trading Standards Service have found that eight in ten Carbon Monoxide (CO) alarms failed British Standards tests. The Trading...