Brand new passports presented to agents and solicitors, as they may have just been acquired for the purpose<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nLandlords can sign up to an alert service through HM Land Registry, which sends an email if a property you have registered has any activity on it, like changing ownership.<\/p>\n
All landlords are being urged to be vigilant, although the chances of being subject to this type of fraud are still relatively low.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Property fraud is on the rise, with \u00a324.9m lost in the year to April 2017 through property hijacking. Could you be a victim of the latest scam? Welsh accountant and tax advisor Green & Co is the latest expert to warn property owners of hijacking scams after it emerged that one homeowner had potentially lost… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":8805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,6],"tags":[15,341,345,10],"class_list":["post-8792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buy-to-let-landlords","category-investment","category-uk-housing-market","tag-landlords","tag-newsletter","tag-regulation","tag-tenants"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}