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Money Laundering in the Real Estate Sector

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  • Brigitte Unger
  • Joras Ferwerda

Abstract

In many countries, the real estate sector is vulnerable to money laundering due to a high number of factors including; the high value of assets, price fluctuations and speculation within the market, difficulties in assessing the true value of a house, and the fact that the legal owner is not necessarily the economic owner. In this book, the authors identify a total of 25 characteristics which render a property susceptible to money laundering. The more such characteristics a property exhibits, the more suspicious it becomes. The authors also discover that some of these characteristics weigh heavier than others. Combining economic, econometric and criminological analysis, this multidisciplinary approach shows how to detect criminal investment in the real estate sector.

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  • Brigitte Unger & Joras Ferwerda, 2011. "Money Laundering in the Real Estate Sector," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 13952.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eebook:13952
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    1. Brigitte Unger, 2013. "Can Money Laundering Decrease?," Public Finance Review, , vol. 41(5), pages 658-676, September.
    2. Fabrizio Battisti, 2023. "SDGs and ESG Criteria in Housing: Defining Local Evaluation Criteria and Indicators for Verifying Project Sustainability Using Florence Metropolitan Area as a Case Study," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(12), pages 1-37, June.
    3. John Cullis & Bruce Morley, 2017. "A methodology for determining the ‘cash economy’ in the European Union via an announcement effect," European Journal of Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 44(1), pages 113-129, August.
    4. Brigitte Unger, 2013. "Introduction," Chapters, in: Brigitte Unger & Daan van der Linde (ed.), Research Handbook on Money Laundering, chapter 1, pages 3-16, Edward Elgar Publishing.

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    Keywords

    Economics and Finance; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy;
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    JEL classification:

    • F5 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy

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