What are the penalties for landlords who break the law?

There are a lot of laws that are in place to make sure that landlords are doing right thing. The good news is that the vast majority of landlords are good ones and we don’t need to worry about them doing the wrong thing. They have always been able to establish a penalty when a landlord would break a law. Some of the laws that can be broken is letting to someone that is not legally allowed to be in the UK, and other safety and health violations.

Key Takeaways:

• Among other things, landlords are now legally obliged to maintain rented properties to a good standard, remove potential hazards and install fire safety measures.
• Good landlords – and that’s the vast majority – have taken on board all the legislation and absorbed the ever-increasing cost of letting a property.
• From April 2018, any conviction for an offence under the Housing and Planning Act 2016 will result in your details being put on a ‘rogues’ database shared by local and central government.

“But there are still some who don’t know the rules and struggle to keep up with new ones while others continue to flout the law.”

Read more: https://www.your-move.co.uk/blog/what-are-the-penalties-for-landlords-who-break-the-law