The Cyprus Real Estate Agents Registration Council recorded 125 convictions for illegal real estate brokerage in 2024, according to an announcement released on Tuesday.
The number of convictions, the...
Residents in a hilltop apartment building in Germasogeia, Limassol are living in fear that their complex could collapse at any moment.
The developer who built...
Corrupt lawyersin Cyprus continue to plunder the estates of their deceased clients by calculating their fees for administering estates on the Cyprus Bar Association's 'Minimum Fee Regulations', which were abolished in 2018
Scammers in Paphos claiming to be middlemen of major developers have taken money from a Chinese woman who subsequently discovered that the land she had paid for did not belong to the seller.
Several dozen Chinese families buying property Cyprus have reported being scammed by unlicensed real estate agents who take advantage of foreign buyers according to Marinos Kynegirou.
People selling property in Cyprus are being targeted by fraudsters claiming to be from a company called 'Prime Consortium' who are trying to obtain their bank account details in return for a 10 per cent deposit.
There is evidence that a property developer has made false Immovable Property Tax declarations to the authorities, which has resulted in his customers receiving IPT notices from the Inland Revenue.
Over the past few of weeks we have received literally dozens of emails from people who have received unreasonable demands for Immovable Property Tax (IPT) from their developers.
Communist party AKEL has become embroiled in a property scam following the arrest of two members of its politburo alleged to have been involved the sale of Turkish Cypriot owned land.
A number of families who bought land in Fasoula and paid for properties to be built have been left with no homes as the contractor and property development companies have closed.
A pamphlet in Russian entitled "?????????, ????!" (Beware of Cyprus!) is being handed out at the Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow warning Russians not to buy property on the island.
Seven months after selling their house in Cyprus, a British couple finally received the proceeds of the sale from their Paralimni-based lawyer after they engaged another lawyer to collect their money from him.
Nefarious property developers continue to exploit their customers by thinking up new ways of extorting money from them and using the threat of withholding Title Deeds to elicit payment.
We have received further reports of property developers in Cyprus continuing to extort money from buyers by using the threat of withholding Title Deeds to elicit payment of highly inflated amounts of Immovable Property Tax.
