A landlord couple who moved into their tenant’s spare bedroom while she was still living there have been fined.
A Portsmouth rent-to-rent agency which let out overcrowded and unlicensed HMOs has been handed a hefty fine.
Landlords should check whether they’re in one of 37 licensing schemes under consultation or about to be implemented – or risk a huge fine.
A rogue landlord has been fined for a second time this year for failing to license his portfolio of houses.
A landlord in Liverpool has been prosecuted by its city council for 23 offences under national HMO management regulations.
Sheffield Council has boasted that it’s one of the keenest prosecutors of rogue landlords in the UK.
More than 100 local councils in England and Wales have not prosecuted any rogue landlords in the last five years despite getting thousands of complaints.
