Mortgage application fraud up 9%

Press Association

Updated 14 July 2016 at 9:51 pm

Increasing numbers of home-buyers are falsifying credit and job histories in order to get a mortgage, new figures reveal.

Mortgage application fraud rose by 9% in 2012 from 2011, a report by credit rating firm Experian shows.
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