Legal Resources and News

Residential Property and Conveyancing specialist, Haneef Khan, has been promoted to Associate. 🎉🎉

Property title fraud is where a criminal steals a property owner’s identity. The criminal can then apply for loans using the true owner’s property as collateral or they could attempt to sell or mortgage the property by pretending to be them. 

If the fraud isn't discovered promptly, the true property owner might find their property has been transferred or sold without their knowledge.  Property that is empty, rented out or mortgage-free is more at risk.

Charlene Shillingford is a Senior Associate at Neves Solicitors and believes that a successful conveyancing transaction requires building a good rapport with clients to help walk them through all of the complexities of searches.

Here she explains the importance of environmental searches.

In previous years, many scams have involved debit and credit cards being used to commit fraud but scammers are increasingly focusing their activity on authorised push payment fraud, also known as payment diversion fraud.

Criminals are actively targeting property purchases, with the aim of tricking you into transferring them your house deposit and/or the balance of purchase monies to them.

Huge Congratulations go to two members of our Residential Property and Conveyancing Team this month.