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Is a Vulture Fund demanding money under false pretences?

In what appears to be a deeply troubling development, a Vulture Fund is demanding more than €625,000 from an elderly British woman, despite the...

Public warned over fake real estate agents as convictions rise

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...

Limassol man duped in house sale

A Limassol man paid €60,000 over the internet for a house in Cyprus, which turned out to be a fraud, police said on Saturday. The...

Apartment residents living on the edge

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 lawyers continue to plunder estates

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

Chinese targeted by property scammers

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.

Chinese buyers scammed

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.

Fraudsters target property sellers

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.

False Immovable Property Tax declarations

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.

Refunding developers’ Immovable Property Tax

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.

More arrests in property scam

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.

Property scam leaves families with no home

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.

Russians warned against buying property

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.

It is like getting blood from a stone

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.

Cypriot developers find new ways to extort money

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.

Developers continue Immovable Property Tax scams

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.
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