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The issue of money laundering and questionable money flowing through the UK property market, especially London, has had a light shone...

The most recent Mayor's Question Time meeting revealed that there have been no Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs) secured to stem the...

With ITV's Our House currently gripping millions of TV viewers, property experts have outlined how property fraud - which plays a central...

With Russia yesterday launching a full-scale invasion into Ukraine, it’s likely that the UK and other Western countries will announce further...

London-based PropTech firm Homeppl has developed two ‘revolutionary’ fraud detection tools to support agencies currently combating rising levels of rental fraud. The...

Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum have become increasingly popular among young investors, despite being famously volatile. But, at present, buying...

It's been another busy year for those with a stake in the UK property market, with commercial to residential transformations, Build...

Despite recent warnings from the Bank of England that it could be worthless and investors being at a potentially greater risk...

A PropTech firm says it recently saved one of its premium Build to Rent (BTR) clients more than £160,000 by preventing a US-based...

According to data from due diligence and guarantee firm, Homeppl, the Build to Rent (BTR) sector is being targeted by fraudsters with...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the UK’s main financial regulator, has warned a number of times in the past about the...

A rising problem in the Build to Rent (BTR) sector is tenant fraud. The busiest time of year for renters is...

Here at PIT, we have covered a number of stories in recent times about the potential dangers of get-rich-quick schemes, often...

From March 1 2021, HMRC’s new VAT domestic reverse charge for building and construction services comes into effect. With this in mind,...

There has been an increasing trend in recent years for property investment courses which promise financial freedom and untold riches for...

Blockchain technology and cryptocurrency have been such buzzwords in the last decade. We hear these concepts often pertaining to a variety...

New data has revealed that thousands of affected property businesses across the UK qualify to join a major High Court fraud...

A property valuations and disposals firm has been appointed by the joint administrators of two further Elliot Group development schemes in...

The promise of emerging technologies, championed by the most forward-thinking in the PropTech space, could have been inspired by nostalgic French...

The latest statistics from Cifas revealed that mortgage fraud is up 5%, but what exactly is it and what can lenders,...

Following on from our recent article about the average property scam costing victims more than £107,000, fresh research from fraud prevention...

With all property titles in England and Wales published online, and scammers potentially able to access this information to commit property...

On April 1 2019, the rental sector shifted into a new era of even greater professionalisation with the introduction of mandatory...

A property investor has been jailed for failing to declare Capital Gains Tax from the sale of his rental properties. Richard Fuller,...

Most landlords are unable to identify a fake passport when presented with one leaving them vulnerable to fraudsters with fake ID’s, according...

As a buy-to-let property owner, the last thing you want is for your investment to be sitting empty. But it’s not...

A man described as a ‘fraudster on a grand scale’ has been jailed for more than three and a half years...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned six individuals who orchestrated a property investment fraud from carrying out any regulated activity. The...

A self-employed property investor and caterer from Bermondsey, who confessed to stealing more than £70,000 in a tax credit fraud, has...

Located around 600 miles from mainland Portugal lies the popular year-round sub-tropical holiday destination of Madeira - an island rich in...

Kathryn Clark and Richard Clay, the former directors of unregulated investment scheme Arck, have been imprisoned for fraud crimes. The pair both...