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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...

A lettings agency has removed a video of an apartment where a murder took place, following an approach by a national...

Two agents who helped establish a multi-million-pound drugs ring in two cities have been jailed. Ossama Omar and Mohamed Latif ran Platinum...

A company claims that some 18 per cent of property firms have seen a rise in criminals attempting to launder money...

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

Property fraud is on the rise and early in 2022 agents will have an opportunity to attend a webinar featuring a...

One of the local authorities with the tightest clampdowns on letting agents has issued a statement celebrating its successes. Tower Hamlets council in...

A lettings agent has been jailed for three years for defrauding tenants and landlords out of more than £182,000.  Lee Clarke, 42,...

Airbnb has launched a scheme it calls the UK Trust and Safety Alliance to offer hosts information on health, safety and...

Rightmove is to host an anti-money laundering webinar next week, aimed at lettings and sales agents. The event, which is entitled Five...

The government has formally announced a pause in evictions in England until January 11 at the earliest. The only exceptions to this...

A buy to let investor who kept a group of men as slaves – making them work 90-hour weeks in return...

Three criminals have been sentenced after pleading guilty to money laundering involving an online lettings agency. The sentences follow an investigation spearheaded...

A lettings agent jailed in March for taking £220,000 from tenants and landlords is now in trouble over her legal representation. Heather...

The rental market is being warned of the dangers from unsafe gas and electricity supplies caused by meter-tampering.  Research undertaken by the Grosvenor...

The former owner and director of a Plymouth lettings agency are to stand trial on charges of fraud, false accounting and...

A former lettings agent stole thousands of pounds worth of cash and personal items from homes after conning other agents into...

Beleagured housing minister Alok Sharma has been told by a London council that his decision over an application for a borough-wide...

A former administrator at a Savills letting office has admitted embezzling around £16,000 from the firm over a five and a...