Tag: landlords
Former couple jailed for stealing more than £400k
A Birmingham letting agent and her former boyfriend were today (22 April 2016) jailed for a total of 7 years for stealing more than £400,000 from a Sutton Coldfield lettings agency and its clients over two years. Amy Williams (28) of Farrier Close, Sutton Coldfield, was sentenced to four-and-a-half years imprisonment, after pleading guilty to […]
Working with local landlords to deliver affordable housing
150 landlords are heading to Millennium Point this Thursday for the Birmingham Landlord Forum, a joint event between the National Landlords Association and Birmingham City Council’s Private Rented Service. The afternoon’s conference – which is fully booked - will help to bring landlords up to speed with a range of issues including new housing legislation, […]
Landlord fined for ‘taking the law into his own hands’
A landlord was fined at Birmingham Magistrates Court today (13 January 2016) for ‘taking the law into his own hands’ and illegally evicting a couple and their seven children from their home in Bordesley Green. Mr Mirsad Solakovic, age 37, of Kyotts Lake Road, Sparkbrook, Birmingham was fined £700 , with £1,500 costs and a victim surcharge […]
Reminder to landlords and tenants – new laws from 1 October
Birmingham City Council is reminding landlords and tenants that new legislation affecting the private rented sector comes into force on Thursday 1 October. Amongst the raft of new measures are new regulations requiring landlords to install adequate smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors, the introduction of a new notice to quit form (Section 21) and […]
