Finding adderss of landlord ?

[Worriedgirl888]

Tenants next door behaving really anti socially and don't want to escalate to the council at the min due to selling the house soon.
How can I find out the landlords addrsss to possibly contact them?
I know land registry might give a name but need an address to write to really. It's private not an agency and no one seems to know and not seen the guy in ages.
Thanks !

Worriedgirl888 Mon 19-Dec-16 21:29:59
Well I've checked it and despite having a mortgage on it they are listed as living at the address...:/

Two separate databases. Does not mean mortgage fraud, but also does not solve op problem. Or landlord problem as house no doubt being trashed.

I only said he may be in breach of the mortgage conditions.

You might also try the Council.

1. Try the private landlord section. There is some chance the landlord is renting via a scheme which places housing list people in the house. (Sometimes people who have been evicted from elsewhere for their behaviour - sometimes, especially if children are involved people just get moved around and around.) Which would be why you don't see it up for rent. Instead a Housing Association will probably be managing.

1. The tenants may well be in receipt of housing benefit, so the council may have ideas of how to contact an absent landlord.

1. Does the property seem to have 5 or more unrelated (sharers) people living there, or three or more if more than two storeys. If so it might be an unregistered Housing of Multiple Occupation (HMO) and you can report to the HMO people for them to investigate.

1. My council used to have a Private Housing person, who was brilliant when an absent landlord had his builders walk out, leaving the scaffolding up for months, which really worried the elderly man next door. No one could contact the landlord, but somehow an official council letter through the letterbox and the scaffolding was down within days.

1. The Council's Anti-Social Behaviour Unit should also have ideas.

The OP has said she wants to try to resolve things without going to the council.

The OP has said she wants to try to resolve things without going to the council.

But there is a difference between raising a dispute, and just trying to contact the LL via the council.

If you remember enough about the advert a few years ago, and a roughest, could you maybe find the advert online. And contact the number given on the advert?

Sorry OP. However you can often find out quite a lot from a council without giving you name/putting it in writing. A sort of "my friend has a problem.." sort of thing. That is what I did for my elderly neighbour.

If it is let via to HB clients or through a housing assn (on a long term lease from a private LL) or is a HMO then they may have ideas of how to get hold of the LL. And may be helpful if you say you are phoning on behalf of an elderly neighbour who is worried by anti-social behaviour. They should understand if you say you don't want a formal dispute in your name as you plan to move.

If the reason you aren't going to the council is because you wouldn't want to have to disclose this to a buyer, you'd have the same issue if you complained to the owner though as you'll have to fill in a property info form and say whether there are any disputes.

Try googling the address and you might find the old advert with a phone number in for the owner.

Raising an issue isn't a dispute though - depends what the response is.

I was in similar position few years ago. Tentatively asked around and discovered from another neighbour that owners rented out a few properties and managed them themselves, I was then told roughly where it was thought they actually lived. Finally found their house and in person explained the trouble I was having, they were horrified and acted immediately, problem solved. So my advice is to keep asking neighbours, even postman at every opportunity if they can recall anything about where the people live who bought number 10 or whatever

Land Registry may have listed the LL as living at the address simply because the form submitted by the purchasing solicitor at the time the LL purchased the property, ticked the wrong box. Land Registry do not usually raise any queries if the form (AP1), the Transfer and the Mortgage Deed all state the same information. They only raise queries if the forms don't match. The solicitor (or more likely an assistant) didn't put the correspondence address as opposed to the property address in the appropriate box. It's actually a really easy mistake to make but it is something the LL should have noticed when he signed the Transfer (before exchange) and asked his solicitor to rectify.

Unfortunately, doesn't solve OP's problem.

In your shoes, I would google the property address to find the selling agent when it was sold to the LL. Write a letter to the Estate Agent (enclosing letter for LL) asking them to forward it to the seller's solicitor and then hopefully, the seller's solicitor will be able to forward the letter on to the LL (previously their client). May take a while of course.