Empty Homes Review
Datatank’s Empty Properties Review service confirms whether properties declared as empty are occupied
What is Empty Homes Review?
Datatank’s Empty Homes review
Our empty homes review helps you identify homes that have been brought back into use, enabling you to maximise revenue from the new homes bonus grant, and helping to tackle the UK’s housing shortage.
We notify you of those homes which may require a property inspection where occupancy cannot be verified from data matching alone. This significantly cuts down the number of properties you need to inspect and allows you to focus your efforts on properties at risk.
Key Features of Empty Homes Review
Reduced admin
Fully managed service
This is provided as a fully managed service which includes risk-based verification of occupancy, canvassing the liable council tax-payer (and/or property occupants) asking them to confirm occupancy or not, capturing all responses and making them available to the Council so you can update your systems.
Fewer inspections
Recommended inspections
In the event that the current occupancy status cannot be accurately determined and no response is received from the liable council taxpayer/occupier, Datatank will provide the Council with a list of properties it recommends should be manually inspected by the Council.
Identifying risk
Focus on risk
We notify you of those homes which may require a property inspection where occupancy cannot be verified from data matching alone. This significantly cuts down the number of properties you need to inspect and allows you to focus your efforts on properties at risk.
How it works
Step 1: Data upload
The Council’s empty property data is uploaded to Datatank via our secure data transfer portal. The Council is asked to include property owner email and telephone numbers, where they are known.
Step 2: Data Screening
Datatank will screen the Council’s data against credit bureau data and other commercially available data sets to determine if there are adults with an active financial footprint at the property address.
Step 3: Canvassing
The liable council tax payer/occupier is asked to respond online using Datatank’s Empty Homes Review e-Forms or complete and return an enclosed form.
Step 4: Unoccupied Result
Properties with little or no significant financial activity will be confirmed to be unoccupied.
Step 5: Occupied Result
Where the screening and risk-score analysis indicates there is an active credit/financial footprint at the property, Datatank will contact the liable council tax payer by post asking them:
– if the property is empty?
– if the owner (and other adults) are in residence at the property?
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Find out how Empty Homes Review services can help you.
- A fully managed service
- Inspection recommendations
- A focus on risk