rogue landlords
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Rental market
Activists calls for action on landlord ‘exaggerated’ deposit claims
Insured schemes should be scrapped to stop landlords holding on to tenant deposits for too long, says Generation Rent's Holly Williamson.
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Rental market
Keep attacking landlords and ‘you’ll lose them’
Saif Derzi, a landlord and co-founder of Landlord Resource, says the constant demonisation of landlords risks an exodus from the private rent sector.
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MP campaigner against “dodgy landlords” handed key Government job
Mary Kelly Foy, who boasts a record dealing with "dodgy landlords", is given job working with Housing Minister.
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Regulation & Law
Rogue landlord fines fail to be collected by councils
The NRLA's Ben Beadle says: “Councils are failing to collect the money they should from those flouting their obligations."
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Regulation & Law
Midlands council carries out citywide HMO raids
Council officers, police and immigration officials are all working together to locate Coventry’s unlicensed HMOs.
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Regulation & Law
Landlord crackdown must be funded by fines, warns council
Funding enforcement through prosecutions risks sending out the wrong message, warns Bath and North East Somerset Council’s Andy Wait.
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Regulation & Law
Greens promise ‘rogue landlord taskforce’ after big election win
The Green Party swept to victory in major London borough with the pledge to "drive compliance across the PRS".
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Regulation & Law
West Yorkshire council backs big fines for rogue landlords
More than three out of five visits to problem rental properties results in council taking action, says Calderdale’s Cllr Danielle Durrans.
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Regulation & Law
Council admits fines ineffective at controlling rogue landlords
Northern council has been forced into issuing banning orders after its failure to collect civil penalty fines has meant they are not seen as a deterrent.
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Regulation & Law
‘Greedy’ landlord couple ordered to pay back £560,000 in rent or face prison
Brent Council took action against the pair who “milked £564k from illegal ‘shoebox’ flats” and "ignored the law for years".
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