What is Tenancy Fraud?

Tenancy Fraud is often the unlawful subletting of a property, by the registered tenant, to third parties by way of renting the property in return for financial gain. It is a huge problem for social providers, private landlords and estates.

It is said approximately 160,000 social housing properties are being illegally sublet and costs the taxpayer £2 billion per year (Experian)

The illegal subletting of social housing properties can also be a criminal offence and fraudsters can be prosecuted under:

• Housing Act 1996 S171 and 214
• Fraud Act 2006
• Prevention of Social Housing Fraud Act 2013
• Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

How to Investigate Tenancy Fraud

Our tenancy fraud and subletting investigation services help property owners and landlords identify and document unauthorized activities in their rental properties. We specialize in uncovering fraudulent tenancy arrangements, unauthorized subletting, and other property-related violations.

Is Remington Hall adept at Tenancy Fraud Investigations?

Yes, very much so. Using surveillance, background checks, specialist financial, banking and insurance data, property monitoring and on-the-ground covert intelligence gathering we gather evidence of tenancy fraud, unauthorised occupants, and breaches of lease. Our investigations help property owners protect their investments and take appropriate legal action when necessary.

Why Use Remington Hall?

• We use specialist and exclusive data access agreements.
• Our experts are accredited fraud investigators, criminologists, computer forensics geniuses and experienced covert intelligence officers.
• Every case we investigate is by human expertise - we do not rely on automation.
• Our housing clients have relied upon us, and have consistently returned to us, for 30 years.
• Our reporting is fixed-fee, transparent, easy to understand, meaningful and relevant. Our advice is always focused at our clients best interests.
• Our clients tell us that we are the UK's prominent and preferred social housing tenancy fraud investigation team, relied upon by housing professionals, lawyers, barristers, and housing in-house legal teams.

Expert Support

Our expert support provides your teams with specialist advice and investigative expertise.

Outsourced Casework

Outsourced Casework involves handling cases directly for you when your internal resources are limited.

Required Due-Diligence | Fraud Prevention Obligations

Our Fixed Fee Residency Reports produce detailed reports on all suspected tenancy fraud cases as part of your preliminary investigations and required counter-fraud due-diligence.

Presenting Evidence in Court

Housing and property lawyers depend on us to present our critical evidence that we have collated, and upon which they rely, in court as part of their possession claims.

Remington Hall's social housing team investigate a significant number of cases each year. How do we help? We consistently and successfully help our housing clients recover possession of abused social housing stock in cases and ways such as:

• Illegal/Unauthorized Subletting
• Occupancy Verification
• Evidence of Registered Tenant's Location and Residence
• Non-Occupation and Abandonment
• Property surveillance and monitoring services
• Tenant Background and Reference Verification
• HMO Investigation
• Key Selling
• Suspect Succession Applications
• Identity Fraud/Theft
• Application Fraud and Misrepresentation
• False Tenancy Application
• Property Damage and Unauthorized Modification
• Multiple Tenancy and Unlawful HMO/Overcrowding
• Commercial Use of Residential Property
• Improper/Immoral User
• Breach of Covenant