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Buy to Let Mortgage Fraud
Fri, 14 Oct 2011
Buy to let mortgages were a key target for mortgage fraud in the boom years as a result of affordability in relation to rental income and after dodging regulation in 2004.

There have been some high-profile cases which have cost the property market many hundred of millions of pounds.

In January 2009 saw five directors of a Gateshead-based property company plead guilty to involvement in an £80m buy to let mortgage fraud .

With more finance going into and more competition in the buy-to-let sector, this sector is likely to become a big target again.

Early 2011 witnessed the Financial Services Authority accusing specific brokers of abusing buy-to-let mortgages to help self-cert clients.

Certain mortgage brokers are using some buy-to-let and let-to-buy deals to bypass strict income and affordability checks on regulated residential mortgages .

It would appear that buy-to-let mortgages have replaced new-build mortgages as the target of fraud.
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