Brought a house, did not move into - Does this count as an address?

hamster999

Hi All,

I brought a house and officially completed in December 2014- For 4 months the house was empty because I was going through a change in circumstances with my job. Since then, I have agreed with my mortgage lender to rent the place as I was offered a new job out of town and have tenants living at the address already now.

For this reason, I have started a new job and they require me to do some checks on me (not told me explicitly that it will be credit checks but I am assuming) and therefore need my address for the last 7 years.

As I did not move out of my family home - should I just keep that as my address? or do I need to tell them I move to that address from December to February (when in reality I did not).

Any advice and help would be appreciated?

Thanks in advance,
H.

bargainbetty

If you were not resident there, it wasn't your address. It was a property your owned, nothing more.

hamster999

Okay - makes sense.

But I have had pay the following in my name:

- Utilitiy Bills
- Council Tax

Does this make any difference? I hope not.

Many thanks again.

hamster999

Please note the utilities company accounts in my name have been closed now and set up in the tenants names..

Alter_ego

Your address is where you live - simples

bebewoo

Give them the address that your bank accounts /credit cards were registered to, and you were on the electoral roll for.

engineer_amy

Were you on the electoral role at your parents house? This would show a number of years residence at that address


As previously mentioned by BargainBetty, you owned this other property but didn't reside there, so you wouldn't class that as your address. Depending on the checks they do and what sort of access they have, it may show up that you have set up an account for utilities and council tax linked to the new address, but if there were any questions regarding this, it is easy enough to explain that you set them up as landlord accounts until you had tenants.

DCFC79

I agree with everyone else.

hamster999

Perfect - Thank you very much and it all makes sense.