Increasingly sophisticated methods of cybercrime are causing havoc for property investors and law firms, with conveyancing firms proving particularly vulnerable.

The Home Affairs Committee has published its long-awaited report into money laundering today, in which it fingers the London property investment market for "making a safe haven for laundering the…

Academics from Goldsmiths, Sheffield and York universities have floated the idea of slapping a "premium property tax" on London's prime property market to pay for social and affordable housing.