A private landlord from Cambridge has been sentenced to 16 months in jail for failing to meet responsibilities for gas safety in the homes he rented out to tenants.Cambs 24 reports that Istiaq Ahmed also presented a fake gas safety certific...
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Action is being taken in Southend to clamp down on private landlords who are not providing an adequate service.Conservative councillor Mark Flewitt told the Essex Echo that the town's local authority is working hard to ensure that those who...
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The National Landlords Association (NLA) and the charity for single homeless people, Crisis, are looking to the Conservative Party to develop a new vision for the private rented sector.Measures to clamp down on rogue private landlords and p...
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It is natural that private landlords are going to be "sceptical" about the proposed new national landlord register in England, according to Paragon Mortgages managing director John Heron.He claimed there are already a lot of regul...
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Private landlords in Southend, Essex are at the centre of a new project by the town's council.According to the Southend Echo, the local authority will be aiming to clamp down on rogue landlords, who rent out sub-standard properties to tenan...
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A private landlord's property in Brentford has been uncovered as a drugs den.The Hounslow Guardian reports that two teenage brothers were found growing cannabis with a street value of £5,000.Both boys were Vietnamese and aged 15 and 13...
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Students have been warned about a number of scams in which fake private landlords con them out of money.A number of cases have been reported in the national media whereby students pay cash but are never given keys or see a property and cann...
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents (Arla) has voiced its support for the National Landlords Association's (NLA) database of private landlords.It was announced last week that the NLA has established an online list of all its membe...
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