{"id":150032,"date":"2025-04-01T01:17:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T18:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tenants-win-260000-of-rent-back-in-legal-fight-with-london-rogue-landlord\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T01:43:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:43:32","slug":"tenants-win-260000-of-rent-back-in-legal-fight-with-london-rogue-landlord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tenants-win-260000-of-rent-back-in-legal-fight-with-london-rogue-landlord\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenants win \u00a3260,000 of rent back in legal fight with London \u2018rogue landlord\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nResidents took firms owned by billionaire to tribunal for operating unlicensed houses in multiple occupationTenants of two buildings in east London have been awarded a six-figure sum in rent repayments by a tribunal after challenging a billionaire described by a judge as a \u201crogue landlord\u201d.The group of current and former residents of Olympic House and Simpson House in Hackney took companies owned by John Christodoulou to tribunal for operating unlicensed houses in multiple occupation (HMOs), which meant the buildings were not subject to the safety and quality standards required by law. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Residents took firms owned by billionaire to tribunal for operating unlicensed houses in multiple occupationTenants...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-D1S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":115768,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tenants-told-to-use-lunch-and-holiday-savings-to-pay-full-rent\/","url_meta":{"origin":150032,"position":0},"title":"Tenants told to use lunch and holiday savings to pay full rent","date":"April 21, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\r London agent for billionaire landlord turns down residents\u2019 request for coronavirus reliefTenants who asked their billionaire landlord for a rent reduction during the coronavirus pandemic were told to use the money they would have spent on lunches and holidays to pay the full amount due.More than 100 residents living\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":114531,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tenancy-tribunal-sides-with-tenants-after-landlord-tries-to-increase-rent-by-400week\/","url_meta":{"origin":150032,"position":1},"title":"Tenancy Tribunal sides with tenants after landlord tries to increase rent by $400\/week","date":"February 26, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The Tenancy Tribunal has barred a landlord in an affluent suburb from pushing up the tenants' rent by $400 a week. 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