Housing: Reading Letting Agent fined £20,000 (Updated 12-08-2012)
Reading Borough Council has reaffirmed its commitment to raising the standards of rental properties in town after a rogue letting agent was fined over £20,000.
Reading Borough Council has reaffirmed its commitment to raising the standards of rental properties in town after a rogue letting agent was fined over £20,000.
This case relates to an Application for a Rent Repayment Order made by 6 Tenants. The Midland Panel awarded the Rent Repayment Order and the Respondent was to pay each Applicant £1,480.
Hillingdon’s clampdown down on illegal back garden homes and rogue landlords has scored a court victory. Jam al Uddin of 36 Gloucester Road, London, has been ordered to pay £15,377 for using an outbuilding as accommodation following a Hillingdon Council investigation.
A local landlord has been prosecuted by Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council for operating a House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) without a licence.
A rouge landlord who amassed a property empire by illegally cramming 28 flats into four houses has been prosecuted and fined a total of £320,000.