By Sean Maguire ( May 14, 2026, 06:47 GMT | Insight) -- Australia’s privacy watchdog found Property Lovers and its fastproperty.ai platform did not breach national privacy laws, but referred some of their conduct to the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission. The probe followed earlier findings in 2024 that Property Lovers unlawfully scraped court data to help users target distressed sellers, prompting scrutiny of whether similar practices continued. The latest investigation found the company had stopped using court-scraped data, but had promoted identifying “distressed” properties from court lists, which the privacy watchdog said was not accurate.Property Lovers and fastproperty.ai did not collect or use personal information in violation of national privacy laws, Australia’s privacy watchdog said after conducting a probe into the property tech platforms, but some of their conduct was referred to the competition watchdog due to concerns about ongoing harm to consumers....
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