This writer became peripherally involved in a property scam worth millions. Originally published August 2021. One early spring day in 2016, I was interviewed by the Serious Fraud...
About Peter Bill
Golden Oldie
An open (and helpful) letter to developers
Originally published September 2020. Dear development financier, Are you really, truly, aware of the risks you will be taking over the next few years with your residential loan...
The Storyteller
Spoofing the bankers
Master poker player Achilleas Kallakis used his skills to build a property empire based on fraud and forgery Achilleas Kallakis was still in prison in the summer of 2014, when I...
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Punting on the Ritz
The startling tale of how a lorry-driving conman extracted £1m from a property mogul as a down payment on a top London hotel. To grasp how a bankrupt 49-year-old Yorkshire lorry...
Investor's Notebook
How to win awards
Awards are show business, mining a deep human need or peer approval. Formed and shaped for profit by producers. Staged and fronted by directors nurturing sector nabobs. Marketed...
Investor's Notebook
Waiting for the drop
Watch share prices, brace for a bang. “If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it. - Richard Dawkins Real estate currently beats any but the riskiest...