Verify a real estate agency before entrusting it with your project

Buying, selling or renting often goes through a real estate agency. You grant a mandate, you sometimes pay a deposit, fees, a reservation. The amounts at stake are significant, and the relationship rests on trust. Yet a polished storefront and a known brand do not guarantee the seriousness of the agency or of the people who run it.

Real estate also attracts opportunistic structures and, sometimes, fake agencies set up to capture deposits or rents before disappearing.

What you really risk

The risks range from a lack of seriousness to outright fraud. A fake agency can collect a deposit or a first month's rent for a property it has no right to offer. A real but failing structure may lack insurance or financial guarantee, and leave you unprotected if the funds you entrust to it disappear. An agent may also hide a past of disputes or dubious practices under a new brand.

In real estate, the sums involved make these situations particularly costly, and recourse often long and uncertain.

Why the brand and the storefront are not enough

A nice agency, a professional website, a reassuring agent: none of this proves what matters. The reality of the licence to operate, the existence of a financial guarantee, the solidity of the structure, the real past of the people running it - these do not appear on the storefront. A trustworthy-looking brand can mask a recent, fragile or problematic structure.

What you would want to know before entrusting your project and your money is not found in the agency's communication.

The right reflex: verify before you sign

Before granting a mandate or paying funds, it is legitimate to know who you are dealing with. An independent verification establishes the reality and seriousness of the agency and its directors, before the commitment.

That is what Scam Check does: we verify the agency and the people behind it for you, and we give you a clear verdict - low, medium or high risk.

What we do

At YMV & Co, we verify for individuals the reality and seriousness of an agency or a professional before a significant commitment. The report is confidential and ends with a clear verdict. From 79 EUR, no subscription.