City of London Police is supporting the Land Registry’s newly launched Protect your Property campaign as a positive measure to help protect homeowners who are most at risk of property fraud.

Elderly homeowners who are living in care homes and no longer at their properties, homeowners living abroad – many who are mortgage free – and buy-to-let landlords, are all vulnerable to property fraud. The ‘Protect your Property’ campaign will advise these groups how best to protect their property.

Land Registry will be using the Central Office of Information’s register of 6,500 organisations to distribute a ‘Protect your Property’ leaflet to homeowners at advice centres, law centres, solicitors’ offices, elderly concerned organisations and public libraries. The leaflet can also be downloaded from the Land Registry website.

The leaflets provide information about how people in these vulnerable groups can protect their most valuable asset. The campaign will also be supported by online content and advertising.