Sure. But as a distant second place after having somewhere to live, I would also want the fraudster to go to prison. Assuming this article is correct, he was "told by the police they didn't believe a criminal offence had been committed here" which seems dumb.

The home owner has not been scammed. The land registry and the buyer have been scammed.

Well there's also all his belongings which also have been taken (and are not controlled by the land registry)