Aisha Dow

Real estate agents will be legally required to advertise a property’s reserve price at least a week before an auction or private sale deadline.

Buyers are furious, experts aren’t surprised, and here’s how property underquoting rogues get away with it.

Data submitted to the government’s buried property market review shows homes selling for more than 100 per cent over the top of the guide.

Prompted by our Bidding Blind probe, the REIV will convene a roundtable to develop a new blueprint for property price guides.

Many Australian scam victims are in a seemingly hopeless battle to recoup devastating losses, while federal scam reforms “sit on a shelf”.

More than 5550 people told this masthead’s Bidding Blind investigation that they had spent money and time investigating properties that they would later discover they could not afford.

Veronica Crescent is a microcosm of a wider pattern that has taken hold across swaths of the city and fuelled hot debate about the extent of underquoting.

HSBC customers lost more than $40 million to impersonation scams. The corporate regulator is suing the bank for failing to protect them.

Some accounts are stolen, some are bought and some are just plain fake, but all are used to reap millions of dollars from scams.

Facebook operator Meta has been repeatedly warned about a nasty genre of scam ads targeting Australians, but they continue to be published.