Search Results for: unlicensed hmo
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Regulation & Law
London housing officers going ‘door-to-door’ to catch unlicensed HMOs
Brent Council’s enforcement officers are out in force in the streets as part of a borough-wide crackdown on rogue landlords.
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Sibling landlords hit with £20k fine for ‘horrific overcrowding’ in unlicensed HMO
Councillor declares, 'Every Brent resident has the right to live in a safe and secure home' – slamming HMO where students slept on floor mattresses with smoke alarms covered in foil.
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Regulation & Law
Letting agency fined £10,000 for unlicensed HMO
The complicated case involved a freeholder, a letting agent, a rent-to-rent company and two tribunal hearings.
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Regulation & Law
Slough landlord fined £15k for unlicensed HMO ‘fire trap’
Landlord Hajra Mehmood has been given a hefty fine after she was found guilty of breaching HMO rules on eight separate counts.
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Regulation & Law
Landlord fined for unlicensed HMO despite legal agreement with letting agency
A Portsmouth landlord has been fined £7,500 for an overcrowded HMO even though it was being run by a lettings agency under a guaranteed rent scheme.
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Regulation & Law
Property firm to repay £19,000 in rent over unlicensed HMO
Company prosecuted for failing to register house as an HMO with Camden Council.
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Regulation & Law
Potential buyer reports vendor for running unlicensed HMO… after viewing!
Landlord Daria Smith must pay £4,322 for failing to supply documents for the six-bedroom property, which had not been licensed via Mandatory HMO licensing.
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Crime
Lettings agency fined £25,000 over ‘squalid and dangerous’ unlicensed HMO
Two directors of Masons Estates (East Anglia) Ltd and the company itself have been fined after council officers found the property in a dangerous state of repair and overcrowded.
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Online letting agency apologises for featuring another unlicensed HMO
Spotahome says it has now taken measures to prevent booking at the property on its platform. Similar unlicensed properties were featured on its platform earlier this year.
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Letting agent fined £80,000 over unlicensed HMO properties
Fire in attic of one property led local council officers to inspect the property and discover it lacked working smoke alarms, fire doors or safety notices.
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