Industry News

Rogue landlords should have their details included on a database on Brighton and Hove City Council’s website, according to a Labour councillor. Gill Williams, who used to chair the council’s Housing Committee, also wants “a zero tolerance approach to rogue landlords”....

The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has placed Essex-based Swan Housing on its gradings under review list. The RSH said in a statement this morning that it was now investigating the 12,000-home landlord on an issue that could affect its compliance with the...

Portsmouth City Council have made the following announcement: An innovative pilot aiming to reduce evictions by providing free mediation between private landlords and tenants in Portsmouth will run to the end of December 2021. The pilot scheme, run by Portsmouth...

A landlord has been fined £24,750 and told to repay his tenants almost £47,000 in rent. In December 2018, Preston council responded to a tenant's complaint about the living conditions at a student HMO in the town. As a result of an inspection, the owner and landlord...

PayProp have hosted  a major industry roundtable discussion which receives its live launch next week, on Tuesday November 9 at 12:30pm. An edited version of the roundtable – which brought together some of the industry’s biggest names and was moderated by Landlord...

You may be aware of the man who came back to his house to find it had been sold, without his knowledge - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-59069662 If you want to ensure it doesn't happen to you, one of our members has just obtained this advice on...

The Local Government Association has recently published a report on its findings on the households on waiting lists. This shows that one in ten households in need of housing are stuck on council waiting lists for over five years. This is due to a chronic shortage of...

The Housing Ombudsman has published a Spotlight report which urges social landlords to adopt a zero-tolerance approach to damp and mould. The report – Spotlight on damp and mould – It’s not lifestyle – examined 410 complaints investigated concerning 142 landlords over...

Under a scheme to be operated by Local Authorities, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities will provide the £65m to assist Landlords in England with tenants in rent arrears because of Covid. They will have the choice of how to administer the funding...

A married couple who are landlords from Southall have been ordered to pay over £290,000 after they failed to comply with a planning enforcement notice issued by Ealing Council. The west London local authority prosecuted the landlord couple, Mr Kartar and Mrs Surinder...