Tenant’s property disposal after death?

Contact the person you sent the notice to and ask about executor(s). Contact them and sort a convenient date for collection/clearance.
Contact the hospital for next of kin details.
If your tenant was on benefits contact the benefits dept as they have a record of next of kin.

Reply to the comment left by Judith Wordsworth at 25/08/2023 – 14:23
you wont get any details out of the hospital or the benefits office. They will all quote GDPR/Data protection back at you and give no info and wont offer to contact any name that may be listed on your behalf either.

Try this??
Contact the Probate Call Centre if you need more help to work out who can administer the estate.

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Reply to the comment left by Judith Wordsworth at 25/08/2023 – 14:23
DWP do not hold next of kin details. They would only have a 3rd party detail if that party was the Appointee, Attorney or Court of Protection deputy. As I did this role in relation to people without capacity for many years so I know this is the case. I have always said, given the issues when people lose capacity and family cannot be found, so the local authority (or court appointed solicitors) are appointed Deputies to manage their money there is an easy solution. On reaching the age for yoru state pension you should not be allowed to receive it until you fill in a simple form which would be lodged centrally with your name and NINO, giving details such as your next of kin or friends property ownership and where your Will may be. This means that on losing capacity (as many of us will as we live longer and many more of us get dementia) a prospective Deputy would have access to some helpful info.

I’d just keep it simple. Store it for 3 months. If no claims. Dispose. Might cost you storage for that time but at least you get to re let the property.

The tenants death does not end the tenancy and what the OP has done so far won’t end it either. This is potentially a more complex process than has been understood. I suggest you get some legal advice about how to end a tenancy on the death of the tenant.