Previous house owners post,

G_M

Only court appointed bailiffs can force entry. Most of these bailiffs that come round are privately instructed and have no right of forceful entry.

Are you an owner-occupier or tenant? If O-O, check your insurance as it may well be invalid if the property is unoccupied' for 30+ days (or 45, 90 whatever).

If tenant, your tenancy agreement may require you to either t=inform, or get permission from, your landlord for an extended absence, because of the insurance issue above. To maintain his insurane cover, the LL may have to access the property regularly to check eg for water leaks). Discuss this with your LL. This could also help with your concerns over the previous tenant and bailiffs.

TBagpuss

As others have said, if you are getting bailiff notices etc contact them and let them know the date on which the old owner moved out.If you have a forwarding address give them that.

Most bailiffs are not entitled to force entry. However, if you are concerned, you could put a notice on the outside of your door stating that "[name of former owner] sold the property and moved out on [date] and that to the best of your knowledge his forwarding address is [address if you have it]. You could attach a copy of your office cop entries showing you as the new owner (you can redact the 'price paid' if you wish.)