{"id":183146,"date":"2026-04-02T04:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183146\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T04:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:31:07","slug":"data-shows-240-increase-in-n-y-deed-theft-complaints-from-2023-to-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183146\/","title":{"rendered":"Data shows 240% increase in N.Y. deed theft complaints from 2023 to 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                Complaints about deed theft to the New York Attorney General&#8217;s Office have more than tripled over the last few years. Deed theft is essentially when someone steals a house, often forging the paperwork, and data obtained by CBS News New York shows a 240% increase in complaints to the New York Attorney General&#8217;s Office from 2023 to 2025. CBS News New York investigative reporter Tim McNicholas reports.\n                      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Complaints about deed theft to the New York Attorney General&#8217;s Office have more than tripled over the last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-183146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}