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Rogue landlords

More than 10,000 rogue landlords are banking high rents, often for atrocious living conditions, in England and Wales. And current laws let them get away with it. An investigation by the Guardian and ITV News found some of the worst – and asks what can be done to stop them

24 March 2024

  • A image of Camden High Street

    Part of billionaire family’s property empire named on London’s rogue landlord list

    Subsidiary of Lazari Investments fined £67,000 for breaches of HMO licence conditions on Camden flats

21 July 2019

  • A dilapidated bathroom

    Tenants will be given access to rogue landlord database

    Move follows Guardian/ITV News investigation that found contents were to be kept secret

15 April 2019

  • Photo of houses.

    No rogue landlords issued with banning orders in 12 months

    Just four entries have been recorded on database in the year since its launch, FOI finds

20 January 2019

  • Bernard McGowan

    Council pays rogue landlord £500,000 in housing benefit

    Bernard McGowan, who has £30m in property, received money from Brent despite being banned

12 December 2018

  • Fergus and Judith Wilson outside one of their rental properties

    Landlord fined £25,000 over lack of hot water for disabled tenant

    Judith Wilson, who owns 300 houses in Kent, ignored council enforcement notices

8 December 2018

  • Housing in Haringey, north London

    Exposing rogue landlords: 'The deck feels stacked against tenants'

    Simon Goodley explains how the Guardian uncovered the secret world of convicted landlords who continue to operate – and exploit – with impunity

8 November 2018

  • House in Bristol

    Ministers pledge £2m to help English councils tackle rogue landlords

    Fund works out at less than £6,000 per council

1 November 2018

  • Tenant in small flat

    MPs ask for clarity on plans to crack down on rogue landlords

    Concerns raised after Guardian and ITV exposed unfit landlords still collecting rent

26 October 2018

  • Flat with holes in ceiling and mouldy walls

    MPs vote to give tenants more power to fight rogue landlords

    Private member’s bill is sent to Lords following investigation by the Guardian and ITV News

25 October 2018

  • A row of houses in Nottingham.

    Bleak state of Britain’s private rented sector

    Letters: Guardian readers respond to our investigation into rogue landlords and private rented housing conditions
  • David Lammy

    We’re in a new era of slum landlords and tenant squalor

    David Lammy
    The government must build more housing and punish exploitative landlords, says David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham
  • The state of a property discovered during the landlord investigation by the Guardian and ITV News.

    Rules for landlords not fit for purpose, says John McDonnell

    Shadow chancellor speaks out after Guardian and ITV News investigation revealed exploitation of loopholes

24 October 2018

  • A property in Bristol.

    Tenants will get access to rogue landlord database, says PM

  • Mould on the walls of a property in Newham

    The Guardian view on slumland Britain: a housing market failure

  • Two local MPs described the story of Mill View tower as shocking.

    Freezing UK tower block was cash cow for foreign investors

  • This Toxteth tower block, which attracted investors from Russia, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia, had more housing prosecutions in 2017 than any other building.

    Why a Liverpool tower block was a magnet for foreign capital

  • Revealed: the landlords hit with the biggest fines in 2017

  • 53 councils have not prosecuted a single landlord in three years

  • Who will protect tenants from rogue landlords? Certainly not the Tories

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

23 October 2018

  • Rogue landlord hides in toilet then gets into wrong car while escaping reporters – video

    Landlord Bernard McGowan tries to escape film crew by hiding in a cafe toilet

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