Property sourcing is regulated estate-agency work — and HMRC knows it. Generic estate-agent AML training doesn't cover the multi-party deals, introducer chains, investor lists, and WhatsApp deal-groups that define sourcing. This course does.
Property sourcing falls within the scope of UK Money Laundering Regulations because it constitutes estate-agency work — the definition in the Act turns on marketing property to buyers, not on holding client money. HMRC has been clear about this for years. Most sourcers know. Fewer have training that actually addresses the sourcing-specific risks they face every day.
Your business doesn't look like an estate agent's. You have a vendor, an investor, often an introducer, sometimes a JV partner, sometimes a sub-sourcer. That's multi-party CDD that single-agent training simply doesn't address. You distribute deals across public, community, and private channels — each with different compliance rules. You take deposits, structure sub-sales, and work with SPVs. Every one of those has its own AML exposure. Generic training isn't good enough.
The course is built around the way a sourcing deal actually flows — vendor intake, deal structuring, investor distribution, introducer packaging. At each stage you'll see what the law expects, where criminals exploit the gap, and what you personally must do about it.
Why sourcing attracts a specific pattern of criminal abuse — BMV urgency, opaque structures, investor distance from the vendor.
Why sourcing is in scope for MLR 2017. The Estate Agents Act overlay. POCA s.327–s.329 offences. What HMRC supervision means in practice.
Risk-assessing the investor you act for. Individual vs corporate buyers. PEPs, offshore structures, unexplained wealth. Simplified, standard and enhanced due diligence.
Vendor CDD. Lead-source risk. Welfare duty on vulnerable or distressed vendors. Red flags at first contact.
Sub-sale chains, lease options, SPV purchases. Register of Overseas Entities checks. When structures look legitimate and when they don't.
Public content, community content, CDD-completed distribution. How to market deals without tipping off the criminal world. WhatsApp and deal-group compliance.
The introducer register. Why Reg 39 reliance rarely fits sourcing. Sub-sourcer verification. Cash-fee prohibition. Bird-dog agreements.
BMV residential, serviced accommodation, HMO, lease options, commercial and development. Deal-specific red flags, CDD steps, and the €10,000 rent-to-rent threshold.
This is not an estate-agent course with the word "sourcer" pasted over the top. It has been written from primary legislation (MLR 2017, POCA 2002, EAA 1979, the Register of Overseas Entities requirements) and from the real mechanics of a sourcing deal — how vendors enter the pipeline, how investors are onboarded, how deals are distributed and packaged.
Every first-cohort buyer gets a direct line to the author of the course. Questions about a specific deal, uncertainty on a CDD judgement call, confusion about how the Reg 39 reliance rules apply to a particular sub-sourcer arrangement — email, we reply.
We'd rather build this course alongside the sourcers who actually use it than launch with testimonials we can't yet substantiate. If you're in the first cohort, you shape what the next version looks like. That's the deal.
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Yes. Property sourcing falls within the definition of estate-agency work in the Estate Agents Act 1979 — the definition turns on marketing property to buyers, not on holding client money. Where a sourcing firm's turnover or activity meets the threshold, HMRC supervision is mandatory. Trading unregistered is an offence with an unlimited fine and up to two years' imprisonment for serious cases.
You can — but it won't cover the risks specific to your business. A sourcing deal has multiple counterparties (vendor, investor, sometimes introducer, sometimes sub-sourcer, sometimes JV partner). It travels through deal distribution layers — public posts, community alerts, CDD-completed sends. It touches deal types estate agents rarely see — lease options, sub-sales, serviced accommodation, rent-to-rent. Training built for single-transaction estate agents doesn't address any of those. HMRC inspectors know the difference.
No accounts or software needed. Staff work through the 8 modules, complete the 10-question knowledge check (pass mark 8/10), print and sign the declaration, and hand it to their line manager. The line manager countersigns and files it as part of their personnel record. Certification lasts 12 months — set a reminder and refresh.
No. One payment covers your whole team, every office, as many times as you need — new joiners, annual refreshers, everyone. Unlimited use.
The £80 Written Guide is a DIY document. You read it, adapt the templates to your firm, and type your own procedures in Word — expect to spend a working day on it. The £280 Bespoke Wizard is a guided 18-section system — you answer firm-specific questions and it produces the finished Word document for you. Same regulatory content, different amount of your time. The wizard also produces a companion Firm-Wide Risk Assessment; the guide doesn't.
Standard carries the Inspiring Ventures brand throughout. White Label is fully rebranded with your sourcing firm's name, logo and colours, with full source files so you can edit further. White Label also includes reseller rights — you can charge other sourcing firms or members of your investor network to take the training through your brand.
If you do sourcing as a subset of wider estate-agency activity, you're already covered by the same registration. But your training and policies need to address the sourcing-specific risks, not just single-party sales. Running this course for the staff who do sourcing — while running the estate-agent course for the staff who don't — gives you a documented audit trail that every risk your firm actually carries is covered.
Primary legislation and guidance only: MLR 2017 as amended; POCA 2002 Parts 7 and 11; Terrorism Act 2000 Part III; Estate Agents Act 1979; Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022; Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023; and current HMRC guidance for estate-agency and letting-agency businesses. Everything is referenced back to source in the course notes.
Immediately. After checkout, SamCart delivers a download link to the course files and the supporting documents. For the £280 Bespoke Wizard, the checkout redirects you directly to the wizard URL.
Every legal training obligation met — with a documented audit trail HMRC expects to see. Built for sourcing, not adapted from it.