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09/04/2026
A charity known for producing Remembrance Day poppy wreaths has come under media scrutiny after reports that it issued Section 21 eviction notices to tenants.
Ministers have suggested the charity’s actions may not have been justifie…
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23/03/2026
With monthly losses from tenancy fraud reaching an estimated £266m, around 70% of affected landlords are unable to recover the funds.
Data suggests the problem is widespread, with one in 20 landlords reporting they have …
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20/03/2026
Craig Littlejohn, who is leading a parliamentary petition calling for stronger protections for landlords, is urging the introduction of an “expedited court process” to speed up evictions which has of course been denied by the government along with…
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18/02/2026
England and Wales landlords are now facing far longer waits to regain possession of their properties.
Average timelines have climbed 9% in the past year, reaching almost 25 weeks.
The rise comes amid increasi…
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06/10/2025
Fresh data reveals that nearly seven in ten UK landlords (68%) have caught tenants subletting their properties without consent—a practice that’s becoming alarmingly widespread.
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28/01/2025
A landlord reports that a troublesome tenant left his property in a deplorable state, with two years' worth of litter, which included bags of faeces and 200 bottles of urine.
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Jan Pringle told the Plymouth L…
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10/01/2024
Research from an Insurance company has found that 83 per cent of UK landlords have had to deal with renters breaching their tenancy agreements.
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From the insurer’s survey results the company is telling land…
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13/07/2023
A government committee could be instrumental for introducing a “wider range of behaviours” that come under the terms of anti-social tenants’ grounds for eviction.
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The Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Sel…
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21/06/2023
Comparethemarket’s website has put together a list of what it says are the most used lies by prospective tenants on applications and some of the areas where the practice is used the most.
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The comparison we…
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19/12/2022
Local authorities and police forces according to a landlord association are significantly failing to take any form of effective action to ‘wipe out’ the serious problem of anti-social tenants.
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This accusation fo…
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28/11/2022
A legal firm’s two law partners are ‘coaching’ tenants’ with the best method of using a five-step process when complaining to landlords about the disrepair state of their ‘home’ and asking them to resolve the problems.
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21/11/2022
Generation Rent once again jumps on the anti-landlord bandwagon by accusing PRS landlords of using ‘force’ to evict tenants with Section 21 powers.
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Deputy director of the campaign group Dan Wilson Craw whe…
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18/11/2022
The government has actually accepted an industry body’s proposals to get to grips with anti-social tenants who make neighbours and fellow tenants’ lives a misery.
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MP Felicity Buchan delivered her first speec…
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16/11/2022
A rogue tenant who almost got away with selling his landlord’s house for £400,000 is now jailed with police calling his attempt an "almost unbelievable" crime.
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The culprit Andrew Smith, 41, rented sh…
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23/09/2022
Once again Shelter has ‘trumpeted’ somewhat unfounded misleading claims which landlords immediately counteracted its belief that one in seven UK private tenants have had to cope with rent increases in August.
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14/09/2022
A recent story in The Telegraph claims that one in twelve tenants are being allowed by the landlords to pay a reduced rent to help them cope with the cost of living crisis.
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Buy-to-let investors are ‘bleeding…
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05/05/2022
An eviction specialist claims it has seen a huge surge in landlords applying to use its debt recovery service. Between April 2021 to March 2022 instructions from landlords increased by 180 per cent compared to the previous 12 months April 2019 to M…
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29/04/2022
Stranger than fiction but true - a private tenant has taken vows in a somewhat pseudo marriage ceremony with her cat hoping this will help her bypass any rental pet ban.
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Deborah Hodge, 49, claims she has ha…
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19/04/2022
In spite of the expected reduction in powers or total abolition of Section 21 evictions, rental activists have stated they will be carrying out further campaigns and protests to dilute landlords’ power’s even further.
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13/04/2022
A PropTech rental platform has controversially published fifteen questions for prospective tenants to ask their landlords/agents, when looking at potential new homes.
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The PropTech company caused a considerable …
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Older News
Fit for Habitation|March 2019 The ACT is intended to define minimum standards a rental property MUST
be and makes a clearer pathway way for Tenants to be compensated|https://www.pims.co.uk/fit_for_habitation_act_march_2019/
Guarantor|The person who provides a guarantee and promises to make payment good should the person responsible for the agreement fail|http://www.pims.co.uk/guarantors/
MEES|The Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard (MEES) Landlords are charged with the requirement to bring their rental property to a minimum EPC rating of E. Property with F and G rating will effectively be banned from the rental market April 2018 |http://www.pims.co.uk/epc/
Section 11|Section 11 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 places an obligation on the landlord to maintain the structure and exterior of the property, including installations for the supply of water, gas and electricity, heating systems, drainage and sanitary appliances|http://www.pims.co.uk/landlord-section-11-repairs/
serving date|This date is the date deemed received at the property - as an example if posted allow for posting days|/serving-notice-on-a-tenant-delivery-days/
Tenancy Application|The objective of vetting is to empower yourself so you can make an informed decision as to the calibre of the prospective person. Making your decision on facts and figures is invaluable and this is why you should always take references. The application form also provides you with permission to perform credits. This form details all the information you should ever require deal with most eventualities including absconding tenants|http://www.pims.co.uk/doc/57/
Tenant Fees|From June 2019 where renting properties in England gone are the days of charging for admin, letting fees, vetting, references,
inventory, check in, check out, cleaning, pet insurance or ANY other fee
that is not explicitly permitted within the legislation. |https://www.pims.co.uk/ban_letting_fees_act_2019/