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Two London agents who traded fraudulently through their lettings business and scammed victims out of over £24,000 have been sentenced. After a...

Tenant reference and tech supplier The Lettings Hub claims 25 per cent of fraudulent documents submitted by would-be tenants were identified...

The classified ad website Gumtree is issuing an alert about what it claims is the growing threat of rental fraud. It says...

A fraudster lettings agent must repay £122,922.68 to her old firm within three months - or face yet more time in...

Trading Standards has stopped a lettings agency owner from being a company director after he defrauded customers by over £80,000. Francis Smart,...

HomeLet has launched a product to help combat tenancy fraud, which it claims has seen a 36 per cent rise since...

Over half of all fraudulent tenancy applications involve fake or doctored pay slips, a PropTech firm claims. Goodlord analysed a sample size...

A lettings platform claims that as many as one in 20 rental properties may be let to criminals - that’s some...

An analysis from PropTech firm Goodlord claims that agents and landlords would have lost a combined £1m over the last year...

Industry suppliers are linking up to host a webinar for agents this week outlining the growing risks of tenancy fraud. HomeLet, Let...

PropTech company Homeppl has launched two products that it calls “revolutionary fraud detection tools” for letting agents. One of the two technologies...

A lettings agency employee who diverted over £50,000 of landlords’ money into his own account has been given a suspended sentence. Paul...

A PropTech firm claims to have saved a client more than £160,000 by preventing a criminal from illegally renting one of...

A scam in one city has reportedly seen scores of individuals robbed of thousands of pounds as short lets have been...

The Build to Rent sector is being targeted by criminals with a 364 per cent rise in fraudulent tenant applications in...

A lettings agent has told the BBC that he has spotted illegal rental scams using online platforms, but the police have...

There’s been a huge 263 per cent increase in the value of fraudulent tenant applications in just three months, it’s been...

Tenant referencing. It’s a necessary evil.  Although most tenants are responsible and pay their rent on time, broke swindlers with dubious...

A lettings agency is warning that fraudsters have copied property listings and put them on Facebook Marketplace, demanding deposits from the...

A series of fake scams allegedly advertising apartments to rent have appeared on Zoopla and other property websites. The Edinburgh Live news...

The Deposit Protection Scheme is warning of a possible online scam affecting agents, landlords and tenants A statement on the DPS website...

An inventories supplier is advising that the growing number of sub-letting scams can be reduced by regular property visits by agents...

The growing chorus of calls to professionalise the short lets sector has won influential backing from a senior PropTech entrepreneur. Neil Cobbold...

Apprentice star Lord Alan Sugar has warned about the dangers of short let scams after an American family was apparently conned out...

The number of fake or fraudulent rental applications is on the rise, with landlords and letting agents being fooled by a...

More nightmare tenants have been the subject of investigation in a Channel 5 TV programme to be shown this evening. In the...

Mother and daughter lettings agency fraudsters have been told to expect jail sentences after defrauding landlords and tenants of £266,000 over...

Prospective tenants are being warned about a fraud scam that cons people into paying an advance fee to rent a property. The...

We’re grateful to The Property Group, an agency in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, for alerting us to an incident involving its Mayfair Town...

Reference provider Rent4sure says agents should beware of the growing issue of online identity fraud, especially hitting people in their 30s.   A...

A fraudster has been jailed after being convicted on nine counts of fraud, theft and forgery relating to property firms which...

The internet classified listings service Gumtree will meet with the Residential Landlords Association to discuss scams in which fraudsters posing as...

An industry body has asked classified listings online service Gumtree to issue its users clear warnings about possible scams involving fake...

New student tenants have been urged to be vigilent and not fall victim to fake online letting agents and landlords. The National...