The lives of a young family were put at risk by their landlord who failed to have their gas boiler serviced and checked, a court has heard.The mother, her partner and young child moved into the property in Newquay, Cornwall, in July 2013 but were not supplied with a copy…

A landlord who breached gas rules has been given a suspended jail sentence and fined £10,000 for putting his tenants’ lives in danger by carrying out illegal gas work at the flats he let out.Vispasp Sarkari, of Harrow in north London, rented out five flats in a block in Wembley.…

Landlords across England and Wales will be banned from letting out below minimum e-rated EPCs for rental properties from 2018 in a bid to cut energy bills and carbon emissions. New regulations are set to cut bills of tenants who spend an average of £1,265 on heating, exacerbated by poorly…

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has been forced to release the name of letting agencies or landlords working through companies, where they have been convicted of Housing Offences in England and Wales. A ruling by the Information Commissioner has now allowed that information to be published in a ‘register‘ by…

Landlords in the seaside town of Hastings have taken to the local press to fight back against yet another local authority’s attempt to impose expensive licensing systems. The local authority is seeking to introduce selective licensing systems in 10 wards within the town, obliging landlords to pay £500 per property…

The confusion over council’s bungled attempts to introduce Enfield Landlord Licensing – deemed illegal by the High Court – has now become something of a party political football. Shortly before Christmas the High Court ruled that Enfield council, in north London, had undertaken insufficient consultation for its policy to be…

The Residential Landlords Association has hit back at those pressure groups and politicians advocating rent controls by claiming that analysis of the official English Housing Survey reveals that private sector rents are actually falling in real terms.Latest results from the EHS – a continuous survey conducted by the Department of…

A whopping 94% of UK renters admit they may be in breach of their tenancy agreement, according to new research. Some 58% of UK renters burn candles, despite being prohibited from doing so, while 54% have redecorated without permission, and 50% have kept a pet, a survey by Ocean Finance…

New data from the National Housing Federation has revealed that 31% of all private renters in Britain are struggling each month to pay for their home. The equivalent of just over three million people, most of which are families, are particularly feeling the strain with 41% admitting they fight each…

ARLA has highlighted some good news for prospective tenants as available rental properties eases against demand in the private rental sector. According to a new report from the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA), available rental properties in the private rental sector is showing signs of improvement.  However, despite the…

About one in 18 British adults now lets out a property to supplement their main income – but many are unaware of basic legal, health and safety regulations according to new research. That means almost 500,000 new landlords have not had their property checked by a gas safety engineer in…

Consultation looking to improve energy efficiency in rented homes One in ten fall into lowest F or G efficiency category Those who live in these low band homes pay far higher energy bills Landlords who rent properties built in the Victorian era and early part of the twentieth century may…