With the Renters’ Reform legislation having been alleged, by some, to be missing in action - despite just having gone through its second reading in the House of Commons - the Government has suggested that it will, actually, be in tomorrow’s King’s Speech.

The Bill is scheduled to go through its next legislative stage in the House of Commons today (with a planned protest by renters' groups outside Parliament this evening).

The landlord was convicted of 4 Housing Act offences at Peterlee Magistrates, including failure to apply for licences to operate 2 rental properties in the Horden area.

Sheffield City Council has obtained a 10 year banning order against a PRS landlord who it says "has a long history of operating and managing extremely poor quality housing."

The recently built 2 tower development, on the south bank of the River Thames, includes one block of a 'stepped design' comprising 23, 11, 9 and 6 storeys, and has an estimated 204 households in occupation.

Energy UK, 'The voice of the energy industry', has joined a chorus of disapproval expressed over the Prime Minister's scrapping of, amongst other targets, domestic energy efficiency targets planned for the PRS.

Illegal eviction was in both the national and the property press recently, following the news that the Metropolitan Police was to instruct its officers to “start arresting landlords who illegally and sometimes violently evict tenants.”

The CMA, one of whose purposes is to tackle unfair market practices, has been investigating the private rented sector and has raised concerns about the functioning of the PRS in a recent report this month.

A "Serial slum landlord" has received Brent Council's first banning order whilst a "Dodgy landlord" and his agent in Dagenham are made to pay £22,000 with the landlord also ordered to pay a £15,000 rent repayment order.

Described as "the biggest shakeup of civil penalties since 2014 the fine per occupier rises from £1000 to "up to £10,000 per occupier" for a first offence.