Older people a target for property fraudsters
The Land Registry sent me a pile of leaflets pointing out that older people who live away from their property (for example in a care home) run the risk of fraudsters taking over the title of their home without their knowledge and selling it on. You have to make sure the register is up-to-date and they know how to contact you if you live somewhere else. Otherwise, presumably, someone claiming to have taken over your house can simply pick up mail from the Land Registry and you would never know.
Contact them on: http://www.landregistry.gov.uk/ to get leaflets yourself; currently this issue is on their front page, but there’s loads of other property info there.