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With the tenancy file details, name, dates of birth if held, previous address and any references, a professional trace will usually confirm an absconded tenant’s new verified address within days. That address unlocks everything that follows: the letter before action, county court proceedings for arrears or dilapidations, and enforcement of any judgment.
Tenants who leave owing rent rarely provide forwarding addresses, and the trail from a surrendered or abandoned property goes cold quickly. Utility switches, new credit footprints and electoral registration at the new address are exactly the signals professional tracing reads, and letting agents and landlords are among the heaviest users of the service for that reason. The earlier the instruction, the warmer the trail.
Supply the tenant’s full name, the tenancy address and dates, and anything from referencing, date of birth, employer, guarantor details, vehicle. The report returns a current verified residential address, flags any obvious insolvency or CCJ markers, and is provided on a no trace no fee basis for standard cases. Where a guarantor also needs pursuing, both can be traced under one instruction.
With the new address confirmed, the money claim can proceed and be validly served, and after judgment the same file supports enforcement, from attachment of earnings where we have traced employment to instructing enforcement agents at the right door. Landlord clients often pair the trace with our pre-sue report to check the tenant can actually pay before spending further on proceedings.
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