Finding Out Owner of House

pollyanna24

The house next door to my dad is rented out (room by room I should imagine) to people who don't speak English.

My dad wants to contact the owner of the house in order to get permission to do something about a tree that is leaning over the garden fence.

We have tried to get the name of the agency dealing with the rentals, but haven't been unsuccessful so far.

Is there any other way to get in contact with them?

theartfullodger

Land Registry, £3, takes 5 minutes.

MrJB

Get the owners address through the Landregistry property search.

https://eservices.landregistry.gov.uk/www/wps/portal/!ut/p/b1/04_Sj9CPykssy0xPLMnMz0vMAfGjzOKNjSxMDA1NjDwsjM3MDTxN3dyNDUNMjQ1MjPWDU_P0C7IdFQG9k5Tz/

davidmcn

theartfullodger wrote: »

Land Registry, £3, takes 5 minutes.

Won't necessarily give you a current contact address for them though.

pollyanna24

theartfullodger wrote: »

Land Registry, £3, takes 5 minutes.

This will tell me the name of the owner, but not where he lives though, right?

Guest101

If it's just to prune the tree simply do it and make the cuttings available for the owner if they require them

pollyanna24

Guest101 wrote: »

If it's just to prune the tree simply do it and make the cuttings available for the owner if they require them

Not sure if this is his only concern. Think it is leaning over, might damage the fence and essentially damage anyone who happens to be there if it falls over.

Guest101

pollyanna24 wrote: »

Not sure if this is his only concern. Think it is leaning over, might damage the fence and essentially damage anyone who happens to be there if it falls over.

Fair enough, alternatively write to the address - there could be a mail redirect in place

theartfullodger

pollyanna24 wrote: »

This will tell me the name of the owner, but not where he lives though, right?

If the address is the rented property then do a deal with tenants and sell it or Mortgage it as he may not find out & you get rich!

With his name it should be easy to find him with social media or findermonkey.

MrJB

pollyanna24 wrote: »

This will tell me the name of the owner, but not where he lives though, right?

It will have both a name and address of registered owner in the form:

Registered Owner: (Name) of (address). If the landlord purchased the house for his own residence at some point it maybe less helpful. If there's a charge registered against it then it may yield more results.

antrobus

davidmcn wrote: »

Won't necessarily give you a current contact address for them though.

Particularly if the title isn't registered.:)

What the Land Registry will have is the identity of the owner, if you want to where they are, because they aren't at the property concerned, and the register gives you no clues, then you try a tracing agent.