Jun 14, 2021 | Civil Penalty, HMO Management Regs, Not Fit and Proper, Rogue Council, Success, Case Study, Tribunal - FTT
14 Jun 2021 In a shocking, and embarrassing for Northampton Borough Council (NBC), determination by Judge Wayte of the First Tier Tribunal property, he went so far as to suggest that the landlord should make a claim for costs against the Council. A move...Jun 10, 2021 | Civil Penalty, Licensing
10 Jun 2021 Instead of charging landlords around £1,000 like most UK councils – for the dubious honour of going into a database – which the council will then use so they can easily inspect properties and issue eye watering fines, Jersey (which is of course...Jun 9, 2021 | Civil Penalty, Tribunal - FTT
09 Jun 2021 A council investigation found no fire alarms, routes of escape blocked, and a broken window covered with a ‘to let’ sign A Manchester letting and management company has been fined more than £21,000 after one of their properties was found to...May 7, 2021 | Civil Penalty, Court Fine
07 May 2021 A crackdown is now underway withTrading Standards divisions now taking an even stricter approach to enforcement of compliance obligations. This is yet another assault on the wallets of letting agents and landlords in addition to ever increasing compliance...Mar 29, 2021 | Civil Penalty, Other News
29 Mar 2021 And so the EPC witch-hunt begins…. Threatening fines of up to £5,000 for any rental property with an EPC lower than Band E, councils are now using artificial intelligence to pull together all manner of records and information to cross-correlate properties...Feb 11, 2021 | Civil Penalty, Court Fine, Licensing
11 Feb 2021 A LETTINGS agency has been fined £12,000 after council officers found 11 students living in a ‘high risk’ unlicensed converted pub. Portsmouth letting firm Kings Estates was initially handed a £6,000 fine by Portsmouth City Council after a tenant blew the...
