Research carried out for WATCH YOUR HOME in 2007 amongst
non resident property owners has revealed the following:
- 18% know that their property was let without their
permission and agents pocketed the rental income.
- 42% feel that their apartment was let by agents
without their permission.
- 33% of people who don't rent their property but who use
key holder services have a sense that someone has used
their apartment in their absence.
- One respondent was actually in their apartment when a family
they knew nothing about entered as they had rented it from
a keyholder who had no permission to rent the property.
- Another family returned home after 4 weeks holiday and gave their
keys to a friend who arrived at their apartment a week later to find
6 people in the apartment again without the knowledge of the owners. |