This is a ROR formatted XML document describing the resources of the website http://www.propertyscam.org.uk. For information about the ROR format, go to www.rorweb.com Main Website http://www.propertyscam.org.uk The Sale of Countryside Awareness Movement Land Plots, Green Belt Contact PropertySCAM PropertySCAM@gmail.com http://www.propertyscam.org.uk Address Bromsgrove Worcestershire GB Feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/Propertyscam SiteMap http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/sitemapindex.xml Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/fullarchive Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/7GJHDC We would like to draw our readers' attention to the new forum for UKLI plotholders, created by the Joint Administrators of UKLI. UKLI Forum Please remember that this site has been set up specifically to deal with plot and site specific issues. Other ... 2008-07-14 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/7G3E84 If you live outside the UK and have purchased land at any of the sites previously marketed in the UK by UK Land Investments, you may be wondering whether your investment has been affected by the winding up of UKLI. We'd like to hear from you. If you ... 2008-06-29 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/7FJC7R IN JANUARY 2006, I flagged up the emergence of a new industry which was about to become a financial scandal. Tipped off by a reader to investigate land banking, I was concerned by promises being made by bogus property investment companies. At the time I ... 2008-06-12 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/7FDB6Y Britain's financial services watchdog is looking to shut down UK Land Investments (UKLI), the country's largest "landbanking" company, which has been the subject of Guardian Money warnings. This will leave 4,500 investors with slices of virtually ... 2008-06-07 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/7FCPGQ Leeds MP, Greg Mulholland, has expressed his delight that the FSA has called upon the High Court to wind up the UK’s largest land investment company UK Land Investments, after Mr Mulholland wrote to them to highlight serious financial irregularities in the ... 2008-06-06 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/7FAEU8 The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has asked the High Court to wind up the UK’s largest 'landbanking' company, UKLI Limited (UKLI), for operating as an illegal ‘collective investment scheme’ (CIS) and denying its investors protection for their money. ... 2008-06-04 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/7F9GWG Lee Manning and Carlton Siddle of Deloitte were appointed as Joint Administrators of UKLI Limited (the Company) on 22 April 2008. UKLI was involved in ‘landbanking’, the purchase of large areas of undeveloped land which were then subdivided into plots and ... 2008-06-03 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/7F9EAL The Administrators of UKLI have posted on the UKLI home page a useful and informative summary of the situation regarding UKLI, the rights of plot owners and the options open to them. Unfortunately, this summary is posted on the UKLI web site as an image ... 2008-06-03 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/7E8JF6 A Swiss company that sold land in Southern England as part of a scheme which left investors owning useless plots bought at inflated prices has been ordered into compulsory liquidation. Hambrook & Greenstock AG ran a land banking business selling plots ... 2008-05-01 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/htdocs/commentspolicy.htm PropertySCAM Comments Policy 2008-05-01 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/7E5CA9 In the High Court of Justice (Chancery Division) Companies Court     No 2684 of 2008 In the Matter of UKLI LIMITED (Company Number 04656772) and in the Matter of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and in the ... 2008-04-28 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/7D4FS2 A director of a property fund management company based in London has been disqualifed for four years following an investigation by Companies Investigation Branch of the Insolvency Service. Mr Baljinder Chohan was the founding director and controlling ... 2008-03-26 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/7D4FEK A company marketing plots of land as an investment opportunity has been wound-up by the High Court in Manchester following investigations by both the Companies Investigation Branch (CIB) of the Insolvency Service and the Financial Services Authority. From ... 2008-03-26 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/7CQC7G The BBC carries a story about a share scam perpetrated against British investors. A father and daughter have been accused of tricking 15,000 mostly elderly British citizens out of more than $70m (£34m) by selling worthless shares. Investigators allege ... 2008-03-14 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/7BZC6Z Insolvency Bulletin LAND INTERNATIONAL LIMITED LAND INTERNATIONAL (UK) LIMITED LAND INTERNATIONAL (MARKETING) LIMITED LAND INTERNATIONAL (FAR EAST) LIMITED The Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform has presented a ... 2008-02-20 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/79TMTQ The Plot Owners Google Group, which we set up for plot owners to meet and discuss tactics, has recently been abused by a small number of individuals to post spam messages. All spam messages have been removed, the individuals responsible have been banned ... 2007-12-12 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/79THSX Hambrook & Greenstock have now been put into compulsory liquidation and the official receivers are keen to hear from everyone who bought land from H&G. If you are an H&G plot owner, please either: Leave a comment below including a working ... 2007-12-12 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/79HKP7 Tony Hetherington replies to a reader's letter on land ... 2007-12-02 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/78DEM8 Investors in United Land Holdings - the "landbanking" company whose stand at the Ideal Home Exhibition 2006 was shut down by the Department of Trade - have learned they have no legal title to land they thought they had bought. In all, investors ... 2007-10-27 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/75DEN4 Four companies involved in selling plots of agricultural land to the public have been wound up by the High Court following an investigation by Companies Investigation Branch (CIB) of the Insolvency Service. Agricultural land was acquired at sites at ... 2007-10-02 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/htdocs/hounslow.htm Hounslow (Concorde Village) 2007-09-28 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/6WYF5X The company [Land Heritage (UK)] took £5m from 700 investors in return for small parcels of farmland in Sussex and Lincolnshire. Liquidators Smith & Williamson have told them there is nothing left for creditors. LHUK was one of many ... 2007-09-08 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/74QGQ7 Three companies involved in selling plots of agricultural land to the public have been wound up in the High Court, following an investigation by the Companies Investigation Branch (CIB) of the Insolvency Service. Townfield Land Investments Limited acquired ... 2007-07-02 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/73FKTQ ITV West are currently looking to speak with people who feel they have lost money by investing with land banking companies in the West or South West of England. If the land you purchased hasn’t increased in value or you feel you are stuck with a worthless ... 2007-05-22 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/73BHTJ New curbs to protect High Streets and block out-of-town superstores are to be at the centre of the Government's overhaul of planning laws. Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly will next week announce that all councils will have a right to reject any ... 2007-05-18 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/73AHUD (See also the similarly titled, earlier post here.) Since the FSA started to act against companies which had been offering collective investment schemes without proper authorisation, most land banking companies now clearly state in their published ... 2007-05-17 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/6WNFXK As more people become aware of the land banking problem the popularity of PropertySCAM continues to grow. We are interested in hearing from our readers and, in addition to the email link you can see near the bottom left of every page, have enabled reader ... 2007-04-20 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/6SDC25 The residents of Hawk Green have had enough. They want the landbankers out of their village. Their anger shows an often forgotten facet of landbanking - the effect on local communities when companies buy agricultural land in their midst and then sell it on ... 2007-04-18 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/727MU3 The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has presented petitions in the High Court to wind up Townfield Land Investments Limited ("Townfield") and Libertas Land Limited ("Libertas") in the public interest. Townfield carried on ... 2007-04-12 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/6ZBUEG A company marketing plots of land on behalf of a "land-bank" business has been wound-up by the High Court in Manchester following an investigation by the Companies Investigation Branch (CIB) of the Insolvency Service. From August 2005 to July ... 2007-03-15 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/6ZAL7Y Braintree District Council is advising people to exercise caution before buying land through internet "landbanking" schemes. These schemes offer plots of land for sale with promises of huge profits for buyers when the land gets planning permission ... 2007-03-14 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/6ZAD5R As PropertySCAM continues to grow, more and more people are posting comments here seeking to join forces with others who have bought land plots. Recognising this, and because the PropertySCAM site itself was designed primarily to inform readers and not as ... 2007-03-14 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/6Z5EPJ The Office of Fair Trading came under pressure today to investigate firms that 'scam' consumers into buying small plots of rural land on the promise of high returns. The watchdog received a formal request from Liberal Democrat MP Greg Mulholland to launch ... 2007-03-09 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/6YWL8W A number of land banking companies have now been closed down by FSA/DTI action, having been found to be operating illegal collective investment schemes. Other land banking companies are currently being investigated by the FSA. This leaves many plot owners ... 2007-03-02 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/htdocs/rural.htm Rural Land - what is it worth? 2007-02-23 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/6XUD8D The chief City regulator has forced another landbanking company to shut its doors, leaving hundreds of investors with land worth a fraction of the price they paid. Guildford-based Rubicon Estates, which bought fields at farmland prices and then sold small ... 2007-01-27 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/6XCDHL The Financial Services Authority has published information on your rights to recover money or claim compensation from land bankers operating unauthorised collective investment schemes. Your rights Unauthorised collective investment schemes are not ... 2007-01-11 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/6WHEEP The Government is facing calls to crack down on landbanking firms that scam consumers into buying small plots of land on the promise of high returns that never materialise. MPs and the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) have launched a campaign to ... 2006-12-15 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/6WGKTS Greg Mulholland, Liberal Democrat MP for Leeds North West, has tabled an early day motion calling on the government to recognise the seriousness of this problem and the need for a co-ordinated and joined up Government response, involving the Financial ... 2006-12-14 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/6WGC5F The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) is launching a campaign to get the practice of "landbanking" regulated by the government. There are 29 companies offering plots of land for sale, many of them in or close to green belt land. The ... 2006-12-14 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/6W5NSN We are grateful to Greg Mulholland, Liberal Democrat MP for Leeds North West, for his permission to publish in full a letter he wrote recently to Nigel Walter, Managing Director of UK Land ... 2006-12-03 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/6W5NYM A number of media representatives have contacted PropertySCAM to try to contact people involved in Land Banking. If you would be happy to talk to someone about your experiences then please email us at the address at the bottom, left of this site. Are you ... 2006-12-03 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/6VVDYY One of Britain's biggest landbankers has gone bust, leaving investors who paid a total of £7m for tiny slices of farmland, wondering where their money went. Land Heritage (UK) Ltd told 700 land purchasers this week it was going into liquidation on the ... 2006-11-25 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/6VGDGU A BRITISH company is offering Irish investors a little piece of English "countryside" with the promise of long-term profits — but the local council says the deal is pie in the sky. Oakwood & Scott, a landbanking company, is selling plots of ... 2006-11-12 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/6UQHAL LAND-investment firm PropertySpy has finally bowed to pressure and removed ugly markers blighting rural land between Wheathampstead and Harpenden. PropertySpy, a St-Albans-based company in Upper Marlborough Road, buys Green Belt land and then sells it off ... 2006-10-20 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/htdocs/fivemyths.htm Five Myths About Land Banking 2006-10-10 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/6TYE5B It sounds like the perfect deal - buy a piece of the English countryside, apply for planning permission and sell it on to developers for a huge profit. But scores of investors across the country have been tricked into handing over thousands of pounds for ... 2006-09-25 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/6TVB6F Randeep Ramesh in New Delhi Plots of green belt land in England are being sold to Indians for thousands of pounds as one of the best ways to make money. They are being marketed on the basis that vast tracts of the English countryside would soon be covered ... 2006-09-22 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/6TMEF4 For years, land banking has been a solid and rewarding investment. It has reaped big dividends for big-names such as Bob Hope and Howard Hughes right down to small market-gardeners on the fringes of growing cities. All over the world people have got ... 2006-09-14 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/htdocs/rubery.htm Rubery 2006-09-08 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/6T5KZW Since the FSA started to act against some land banking companies it suspected of operating unauthorised collective investments, many other land banking companies have publicly stated that they do not operate collective investments. If this is so, what are ... 2006-08-29 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/6SDC5W One of Britain's biggest landbanking operations, Land Heritage (UK), has suspended operations, leaving question marks over £7m paid by 700 investors who bought small plots of farmland from the company. The plots were sold to investors on the basis that ... 2006-08-05 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/htdocs/gnn.htm Government News Network - Advice on Scams 2006-07-19 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/6RSK3K As more people become aware of the land banking problem the popularity of PropertySCAM continues to grow. We are interested in hearing from our readers and, in addition to the email link you can see near the bottom left of every page, have enabled reader ... 2006-07-17 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/6RNM2Y The Department of Trade and Industry has begun proceedings to wind up an investment company involved in a controversial practice known as land banking. The procedure involves selling off plots of land as investment opportunities on the back of expected ... 2006-07-13 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/CWLT-6RBGWW MYSTERY surrounds a plot of land near Tewin that appeared for sale on the online auction site eBay, writes Rob Gibson. The business seller, who hails from Croatia, was asking for £80,000 for a half share in the acre of land. But the item failed to receive ... 2006-07-02 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/htdocs/talktous.htm Talk to us 2006-06-13 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/htdocs/finchampstead.htm Finchampstead 2006-06-13 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/htdocs/ruscombe.htm Ruscombe Valley (Stroud) 2006-06-13 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/CWLT-6QGKFU Officials from the DTI this week swooped on a controversial land investment company exhibiting at the Daily Mail Ideal Home Show following concerns about "landbanking" schemes first raised by Guardian Money. United Land Holdings is one of the ... 2006-06-05 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/CWLT-6Q3KZD TM of London writes to This is Money: I rather stupidly purchased two plots of Green Belt land for £10,000 each, under the assumption planning permission was very likely. I have now been told this is not likely. What should I do? This is Money ... 2006-05-23 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/htdocs/majors.htm Majors Green (Solihull, Hollywood and Whitlocks End) 2006-05-09 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/CWLT-6PGDHY STYAL'S greenbelt guardians welcomed new guidelines urging town halls to protect the countryside and get tough with land speculators. In recent years the phenomena of 'land banking' hit Styal, with the company Property Spy buying up farmland at Birch Farm, ... 2006-05-04 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/CWLT-6PCBDV It's the latest craze, but beware firms asking up to £200,000 an acre for land that may never be developed, advises Alexander Garrett ...It is a message that has been persuading gullible investors to part with thousands of pounds, with little likelihood ... 2006-04-30 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/CWLT-6MYCZ4 ADVERTISEMENTS for strips of Green Belt land headlined "Plans for 25,000 homes are revealed" and with another line saying: "Plans to build thousands of new homes on greenbelt land on the edge of St Albans", are the subject of a ... 2006-03-17 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/CWLT-6MTS8B Lib Dem MP Greg Mulholland, Leeds North West, today pledged to try to put an end to a property speculation scam that threatens Britain's greenbelt. Greenbelt land is being bought up by so-called 'land bankers' who draw up plans for housing estates on these ... 2006-03-12 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/CWLT-6MAL47 A BID to build a house on Green Belt land which is guaranteed to be unsuccessful is the latest move in the battle to persuade people not to buy speculative plots of land. Wheathampstead Parish Council is to apply to build a house on the land being marketed ... 2006-02-23 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/htdocs/mission.htm Our Mission 2006-01-31 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/CWLT-6LFK47 Pursuant to section 162A of the Fair Trading Act 1999 the Director of Consumer Affairs Victoria has issued the following warning to the public: The Director of Consumer Affairs warns Victorian consumers about the activities of EUROPEAN LAND SALES ... 2006-01-27 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/htdocs/residents.htm Information for residents 2005-12-02 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/CWLT-6JPE9D THOUSANDS of landowners are to be stung by a £3 billion windfall tax as part of a massive housebuilding programme to be announced by the Chancellor on Monday. As part of the Government’s response to the Kate Barker report on housing, the Chancellor will ... 2005-12-02 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/CWLT-6JKNHJ Liberal Democrat MP Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West) has introduced the Sale of Green Belt Land Bill. The Bill aims to outlaw land banking, the practice of buying up green belt and and  selling it on at a profit. Introducing the Bill, Greg Mulholland ... 2005-11-29 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/htdocs/ruralold.htm Rural Land - what is it worth? 2005-11-08 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/CWLT-6HSE2S PUNTERS are again being warned not to buy into a scheme offering prime Green Belt land it is unlikely they will ever be allowed to build on. Nearly 100 individual plots at Home Farm in Stoke Poges, are being sold to prospective house builders. They are ... 2005-11-03 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/CWLT-6HRCVX A reader, Mr D of Leamington Spa who asks for his identity to be withheld, writes to us: "I have paid the reservation fee for a plot of land just outside Cambridge. The price of a plot is £11,500. It is 4305 sq ft. The reservation fee is £1050. The ... 2005-11-02 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/CWLT-6HRNH2 Wycombe Council's planning committee has voted to pour a quarter of a million pounds of taxpayers' money into a fighting fund to save the countryside from being carved up by land speculators. Cllr Hugh McCarthy, cabinet member for planning, says the ... 2005-11-02 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/htdocs/purchasers.htm Information for purchasers 2005-11-01 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/CWLT-6ENLCW The subdivision and sale of small plots of agricultural land is a matter of widespread public concern. The issue was debated in the House of Commons on 8 December 2003. The Government has been considering the scope for taking action, and officials have met ... 2005-11-01 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/htdocs/disclaimer.htm Disclaimer 2005-11-01 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/CWLT-6EPJ7N In 2001 Hartwell Bond Ltd, a St Alban's based land speculator, purchased a Hertfordshire field of 20 acres from a local farmer for £100,000. Hartwell Bond Ltd then offered the field for re-sale in 43 separate parcels as "Investment Plots" through ... 2005-07-27 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/CWLT-6EPJFL Firms are buying tracts of farmland that have no planning permission then selling it on in smaller parcels to would-be developers. Here's a sure-fire way to earn a shedload of cash - buy a nine-acre field for £90,000 and divide it up into small blocks and ... 2005-07-27 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/CWLT-6EPJCY LAHORE: Justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry, the Lahore High Court (LHC) chief justice, has ordered the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to launch a crackdown against firms illegally inviting people to purchase property abroad. The chief justice, taking ... 2005-07-27 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/CWLT-6EPFQD Objection to a regional press advertisement that stated "... FREEHOLD INVESTMENT Land for Sale in Brede, near Battle *Road frontage and sandwiched between residential developments *Plots available from ...". The complainant, who believed that not ... 2005-07-27 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/CWLT-6EPFMU Objection to a national press and Internet advertisement, for land sales, that was headed "PROFIT FROM LAND". An illustration showed plots of land with many labelled "sold" and the areas surrounding labelled "EXISTING ... 2005-07-27 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/CWLT-6EPFK6 Complaints by a Macclesfield local councillor against Property Spy plc were upheld by the ASA. The full adjudication is ... 2005-07-27 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/CWLT-6ENLRV When Baron Deschauer started to sell land at Groombridge, East Sussex, it brought a wry smile from local shopkeeper Andy Patel, as he had already had his fingers burned in a similar scheme several years before. "I was fortunate," he says, ... 2005-07-26 PropertySCAM Article http://www.propertyscam.org.uk/d6plinks/CWLT-6ENLPW Canadian entrepreneur Baron Deschauer is buying up the British countryside and selling it off in plots for huge profits. His customers are convinced they will be granted planning permission for lucrative housing. Others are not so sure. So, is it a scam? Saul ... 2005-07-26 PropertySCAM