Reply to: Be Careful Working Away

[OwlHoot]

Maybe it is the original owner who is the real fraudster? He could have set up a clone of his own details, including a "fake" bank account, his end game being a payout from the solicitor's insurance.

Blimey, you should write detective novels. That would have made a great denouement in the last couple of pages.

[d000hg]

You saying a man of the cloth is involved in criminal activity ?

Every murder mystery I ever did has a priest or vicar

[GJABS]

You saying a man of the cloth is involved in criminal activity ?

The perfect cover

[SueEllen]

Maybe it is the original owner who is the real fraudster? He could have set up a clone of his own details, including a "fake" bank account, his end game being a payout from the solicitor's insurance.

You saying a man of the cloth is involved in criminal activity ?

[GJABS]

Maybe it is the original owner who is the real fraudster? He could have set up a clone of his own details, including a "fake" bank account, his end game being a payout from the solicitor's insurance.

[d000hg]

Good Shout!, beat me to it, I'm still getting alerts about old properties ( I know I should delete), but they give you fair warning of anything untoward about to happen.

Yeah I never remove any so I get informed when past houses get sold again which is vaguely interesting as an excuse to be nosy online.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Ah, dear dead days beyond recall when he was still funny.

[Gibbon]

Seems quite an audacious attempt given how long it takes a sale to go through.

A good time to remind people about this notification service - it will ping you of anything happening to the addresses you enter: https://propertyalert.landregistry.gov.uk/

Good Shout!, beat me to it, I'm still getting alerts about old properties ( I know I should delete), but they give you fair warning of anything untoward about to happen.

[mattster]

I can't see any point in trying to steal official ownership of a property in this day and age, as in the present case, besides squatting

It seems a completely daft crime, as it is almost bound to come to light and the real owner or their successors in title reinstated and the fraudster prosecuted with ample evidence readily available.

The fraudster in this case seems to have been the one who "sold" the house to an unsuspecting buyer and has since made off with the cash. Right or wrong (ok, wrong), I can still see the point of this from the criminal's perspective.

[NotAllThere]

... the fraudster prosecuted with ample evidence readily available....

Step 1. Identify the fraudster.

[OwlHoot]

I can't see any point in trying to steal official ownership of a property in this day and age, as in the present case, besides squatting

It seems a completely daft crime, as it is almost bound to come to light and the real owner or their successors in title reinstated and the fraudster prosecuted with ample evidence readily available.

It's been much the same for hundreds of years, even when life was more uncertain and absent owners harder to trace, and long before the Land Registry was around, because if/when the true owner turned up they only had to request an Assize of novel disseisin to get their land or property back and they were usually successful.

[d000hg]

Seems quite an audacious attempt given how long it takes a sale to go through.

A good time to remind people about this notification service - it will ping you of anything happening to the addresses you enter: https://propertyalert.landregistry.gov.uk/

[BlasterBates]

I would imagine that if someone stole your car but had a contract of sale, which you were tricked into signing and a plausible story that the police might just say it was a civil matter.

[BlasterBates]

If I buy a stolen car via a dealer its not mine. Why would a house be?

I suspect you do get your house back, but it's somewhat more complicated due to it being legally determined by the land registry. A car is different, you still legally own it.

[vetran]

The laws governing it are different.

yes and I suggested they should change. See previous posts.