Lettings Ltd: Licensing Offences and Housing Benefit

lettings ltd: The flats had cost around 60,000 each in 2013 and were all rented to residents claiming housing benefit, according to The Guardian. The company was prosecuted for licensing offences. Mill View tower, a 16-storey former council-owned high rise in Toxteth, attracted 13 prosecutions last year for Elite Property Management and Lettings Ltd, a local firm that was managing 13 of the flats. The discovery of the building's story described as shocking by two local MPs has prompted calls for some landlords to have their properties seized and housing benefit rental payments withheld. In total, about 80% of the block was owned by international investors, with only 12 of the tower's 64 flats UK-owned, when the inspectors called. When environmental health officers inspected the block in April 2016, 11 out of the 13 flats that were later the focus of the prosecutions were owned by overseas investors based as far away as Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and Malaysia. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.