diff --git a/mautrix_telegram/formatter/from_telegram.py b/mautrix_telegram/formatter/from_telegram.py
index d012117d..acff7eed 100644
--- a/mautrix_telegram/formatter/from_telegram.py
+++ b/mautrix_telegram/formatter/from_telegram.py
@@ -348,7 +348,11 @@ def text_to_html(
         last_offset = relative_offset + (0 if skip_entity else entity.length)
     html.append(text_to_html(text[last_offset:]))
 
-    return "".join(html)
+    html_string = "".join(html)
+    # Remove redundant <br>'s after block tags
+    html_string = html_string.replace("</blockquote><br/>", "</blockquote>")
+    html_string = html_string.replace("</pre><br/>", "</pre>")
+    return html_string
 
 
 def _parse_pre(html: list[str], entity_text: str, language: str) -> bool: