Apr 30, 2021 | Court Fine, Eviction
30 Apr 2021 A lettings agency director has been issued with a Criminal Behaviour Order for unlawfully evicting a tenant back in 2019. CFDP Ltd, trading as Belvoir Nuneaton and Hinckley, along with its director Clayton Foston, have been taken to court by...
Feb 11, 2021 | Civil Penalty Fines, 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...
Jun 29, 2020 | Other News
29 Jun 2020 £1 to advertise your property but don’t expect any ‘service’ or advice. Proceed with caution! London-based estate agent Portico has digitalised its letting process, with the launch of a new online rental service for private landlords who want to let their...
Jun 23, 2020 | Agents, Civil Penalty Fines, Licensing, Planning Enforcement, Rent-to-Rent
23 Jun 2020 The last two weeks has been hectic and often people see what we publish and ask what exactly do we do? Well here are some of the things we have covered in the last two weeks, no day is ever boring and it is a long read and these cases are all landlords...
Jun 23, 2020 | Agents, Civil Penalty Fines, Licensing, Planning Enforcement, Rent-to-Rent
23 Jun 2020 The last two weeks has been hectic and often people see what we publish and ask what exactly do we do? Well here is the first half covering just some of the things we have covered in the last two weeks, no day is ever boring and it is a long read and these...
Mar 19, 2020 | Other News
19 Mar 2020 It’s easy to forget in the Coronavirus frenzy but from tomorrow, Friday March 20, all tenancies are to become subject to the provisions of the Fitness for Human Habitation Act. The Act, which applies to England only, came into effect last year but only for...
Nov 19, 2019 | Other News
15 Nov 2019 Just over a fifth of lettings agents questioned in a major industry survey are concerned that may not be complying with the Tenant Fees ban introduced in April. Some 79 per cent of agents responding to the annual Fixflo study said they were “extremely...
Jul 4, 2019 | Agents, Civil Penalty Fines, Court Fine
04 Jul 2019 Local authorities are failing in their duty to prosecute criminal letting agents, the National Landlords Association (NLA) has warned. The NLA says a lack of enforcement is undermining efforts to improve the reputation of the private rental sector. More...
May 16, 2019 | Success, Case Study
16 May 2019 PLEASE SHARE WIDELY Des Taylor here. I’ve just been working with a letting agent for a client and found the letting agent had a clear misunderstanding of what constitutes a HMO (House in Multiple Occupation). HMO is formed “when two or more...
