Search Results for: Rent repayment order
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Regulation & Law
East London landlord hit with £14,600 rent repayment order
Managing agent of unlicensed HMO accused of cutting off the electricity, illegally attempting to increase rent and threatening to throw away tenants' belongings.
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Propertymark gives surprise backing to doubling of Rent Repayment Orders
Estate agency body offers unexpected support for expanded RRO powers despite the huge scale of potential penalties.
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Minister reveals huge extension of Rent Repayment Orders to punish bad landlords
Sir Stephen Timms says following three-council trial, 38 more are to take up powers enabling them to recoup rent from landlords who let unlicensed properties to 'benefits' tenants.
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‘Skint’ London landlord hit with £11k rent repayment order
Hackney landlord tries to blame local council’s hacked IT for his failure to obtain an HMO licence for his rental property, to no avail.
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Landlord hit with £35,800 rent repayment order for unlicensed HMO
First Tier Tribunal rules that it is the landlord named on the tenancy agreement of an unlicensed Westminster property who must pay the fine, not his letting agent.
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Landlords told ‘don’t blame the letting agent’ when facing Rent Repayment Orders
Legal expert warns landlords not to defend RROs unless they have rock solid evidence that they have licensed their property, and also not to rely on blaming others.
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Billionaire landlord hit with one of the biggest-ever rent repayment orders
The landlord of two unlicensed East London HMOs has been fined a combined total of £263,555.68 for rule breaches.
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Landlords in ‘lucky escape’ avoid £12K rent repayment order
A tribunal ruled that an rent repayment order was made a day too late, after two landlords of a flat in Southwark had failed to secure a HMO licence.
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Supreme Court rules on landlord’s landmark rent repayment order case
Tenants in the Rakusen vs Jepsen case have lost their appeal to the UK's highest court to settle their £26,000 argument with the landlord.
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Russian London landlords fined £6k rent repayment order
Two Russian landlords unable to travel to the UK have been fined over £6,000 plus costs for renting out a property without the correct paperwork within a selective licensing area in the London Borough of Brent.
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