A council is cracking down on buy to let and shared house landlords failing to licence their homes. Read more

A letting agent who ripped off deposits worth £137,000 from more than 200 tenants was sentenced to a suspended jail sentence and unpaid community work. Read more

Even lawyers are perplexed at the rules that landlords and letting agents need to follow when tenants leave early or join an existing tenancy. Read more

A lettings agent swindled landlords and tenants by taking their cash to support his ailing finances. Read more

Builders gambled with the lives of students while taking safety short cuts to open a purpose-built private  hall of residence. Read more

Landlords who refuse to allow their tenants to install satellite TV could be breaching their human rights. Read more

A couple who provided false information on mortgage applications in order to acquire 19 rental properties have been ordered to pay back £200,000 of their criminal gains within six months, or face a longer jail term. Read more

A letting agent who was previously named “entrepreneur of the year” is awaiting sentence after pleading guilty to four fraud charges. Read more

A landlord couple lost an appeal to cut their fines for breaching shared house safety rules which found some electrical wiring was so dangerous the property was described as  a “firebomb waiting to go off”.

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A mortgage adviser who tried to defraud lenders out of £3 million by stealing the identities of buy-to-let landlords has been jailed for five years. Read more