Who we are
Commercial Rent Bailiffs Limited, known to most of our clients as CRB, is a firm of certificated enforcement agents. We were incorporated in 2012 and have spent the years since doing one thing well: enforcing the rights of commercial landlords and creditors, through the statutory procedures Parliament has provided for that purpose.
Our directors have more than 25 years of enforcement experience between them and remain personally involved in every instruction. When you instruct us, your matter is handled by principals who know the law and the practice, not passed down a call centre.
What we do
Our work falls into five areas, and most instructions involve more than one of them.
- ✓Commercial Rent Arrears Recovery (CRAR). The statutory procedure for recovering unpaid commercial rent without a court order, available once rent is seven days overdue.
- ✓Forfeiture of lease. Peaceable re-entry to bring a lease to an end and return possession of the premises to the landlord.
- ✓High Court enforcement. Transferring County Court judgments to the High Court and enforcing them under a writ of control.
- ✓Traveller eviction. Removal of unauthorised encampments from private land under common law.
- ✓Security services. Vacant property protection, patrols and guarding, so that what has been recovered stays recovered.
How we work
Enforcement is a matter of procedure. A notice served a day early, a fee charged at the wrong stage or an attendance outside the permitted hours does not merely fail; it hands the other side a grievance and can expose the client to costs. So we are procedural people. Every instruction is checked before anything is served, every notice is served correctly and every attendance complies with the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 and the Taking Control of Goods Regulations.
We are also discreet. In most rent cases the objective is the rent, recovered with the tenancy relationship intact. Where possession is the objective, we secure it cleanly and hand it back ready to re-let. Either way, recovered funds are remitted promptly with a full account of every sum recovered.
Who we act for
Our clients are institutional and private landlords, managing agents, chartered surveyors and solicitors. They include names such as Savills, FHP Property Consultants, Cooke & Arkwright, Gorvins Solicitors and Ronald Fletcher Baker LLP, and they instruct us because we serve correctly, attend promptly and account for every penny.
Where we work
We have enforcement agents able to attend anywhere in England and Wales. The compliance stage of a rent case is run from the office and is identical wherever the property sits. Where an attendance is needed, we plan it properly rather than promise a visit we cannot make. Our areas we cover page sets out the regions we are most often called to.
Regulation and standards
All of our enforcement agents hold a certificate granted by the County Court under the Certification of Enforcement Agents Regulations 2014, and act strictly within the authority that certificate confers. Commercial Rent Bailiffs Limited is registered in England and Wales, company number 07900765. Our terms and conditions and privacy policy are published in full on this site.