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New data reveals a 68 per cent surge in reports of meter tampering and energy theft during winter. The data - revealed...
31 October 2023
From: Breaking News
A lettings agency has removed a video of an apartment where a murder took place, following an approach by a national...
11 September 2023
From: Breaking News
Two agents who helped establish a multi-million-pound drugs ring in two cities have been jailed. Ossama Omar and Mohamed Latif ran Platinum...
21 April 2023
From: Breaking News
A company claims that some 18 per cent of property firms have seen a rise in criminals attempting to launder money...
18 July 2022
From: Breaking News
A PropTech firm claims to have saved a client more than £160,000 by preventing a criminal from illegally renting one of...
20 December 2021
From: Breaking News
Property fraud is on the rise and early in 2022 agents will have an opportunity to attend a webinar featuring a...
10 December 2021
From: Breaking News
One of the local authorities with the tightest clampdowns on letting agents has issued a statement celebrating its successes. Tower Hamlets council in...
19 October 2021
From: Breaking News
A lettings agent has been jailed for three years for defrauding tenants and landlords out of more than £182,000. Lee Clarke, 42,...
20 September 2021
From: Breaking News
Airbnb has launched a scheme it calls the UK Trust and Safety Alliance to offer hosts information on health, safety and...
23 July 2021
From: Breaking News
Rightmove is to host an anti-money laundering webinar next week, aimed at lettings and sales agents. The event, which is entitled Five...
13 November 2020
From: Breaking News
The government has formally announced a pause in evictions in England until January 11 at the earliest. The only exceptions to this...
06 November 2020
From: Breaking News
A buy to let investor who kept a group of men as slaves – making them work 90-hour weeks in return...
04 June 2020
From: Breaking News
Three criminals have been sentenced after pleading guilty to money laundering involving an online lettings agency. The sentences follow an investigation spearheaded...
18 October 2019
From: Breaking News
A lettings agent jailed in March for taking £220,000 from tenants and landlords is now in trouble over her legal representation. Heather...
14 October 2019
From: Breaking News
The rental market is being warned of the dangers from unsafe gas and electricity supplies caused by meter-tampering. Research undertaken by the Grosvenor...
20 August 2018
From: Breaking News
The former owner and director of a Plymouth lettings agency are to stand trial on charges of fraud, false accounting and...
12 March 2018
From: Breaking News
A former lettings agent stole thousands of pounds worth of cash and personal items from homes after conning other agents into...
06 October 2017
From: Breaking News
Beleagured housing minister Alok Sharma has been told by a London council that his decision over an application for a borough-wide...