Don't be an accidental mortgage fraudster

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Lenders are clamping down on a relatively new type of mortgage fraud: buyers pretending to be landlords when in reality they will be living in the property themselves.

The advantage of doing this is that buy-to-let (BTL) mortgages can be misused as a new form of 'self-certification' mortgage for people unable to prove their income.
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