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Professional and effective CRAR services
As industry leaders in High Court Enforcement, our Certificated Agents can recover your commercial rent arrears swiftly, ethically and entirely free of charge to you.
- Over 20 Years' Experience
- Business Reputation Protected

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- Free CRAR Service
- Over 20 Years' Experience
- Business Reputation Protected
Case Actioned Within 24 Hours
Prompt action is the key to successful recovery. We undertake proceedings to recover as fast as possible after you instruct us.
Case Actioned Within 24 Hours
At the point of choosing to instruct us, you will have already waited too long for your outstanding rent. You can rest assured that our professional enforcement teams will collect your arrears in the quickest, most effective way possible.
Protecting Landlord/Tenant Relationships
We are there to protect the relationship of tenants and landlords of commercial properties and help maintain business networks.
Protecting Landlord/Tenant Relationships
If the tenant is unable to pay the arrears in full at the time of attendance but payment is proposed, we will contact you to see if this is acceptable. If agreed, we will put a controlled goods agreement in place, and monitor the arrangement from start to finish.
Free Service
Expert service entirely free of charge to you. As directed by Statute, the fees for our professional service are added to the outstanding arrears of rent.
Free Service
As such, the fees are payable by the tenant, regardless of the outcome of our attendances. There is no need to be concerned about incurring costly legal fees for obtaining professional advice or waiting for issuing court proceedings.
Instruct DCBL
DCBL is an industry leader with over 50 years of experience in Commercial Rent Arrears Recovery
50 years of industry experience!
Within this time, we have amassed an in-depth understanding of Commercial Rent Arrears Recovery (CRAR) and have developed a CRAR process designed to produce a swift, favourable result on every occasion.
Our nationwide teams of certificated agents are all highly skilled in dealing with tenants in the debt recovery of Commercial Rent Arrears whilst always representing you, our client, in the best light possible, ensuring the landlords and tenants relationship remains intact.
DCBL accreditations
DCBL accreditations
What is CRAR
What is CRAR?
Whilst the Rent Act 1977 stripped residential landlords of the ability to recover unpaid rent through seizing goods, commercial landlords are still able to do this.
The process of CRAR allows landlords to recover overdue rent without needing a court order. However, this only applies to commercial tenancies subject to a written lease. The rent arrears must be at least 7 days’ worth or more at the time that the Notice is served and at the time of enforcement, and landlords do not have the rights to seize goods – this can only be actioned by certified enforcement agents, such as DCBL’s.
DCBL's Process
DCBL's process
Once you have filled out a Warrant of Control, you can instruct DCBL. Upon instruction, our specialist CRAR team will begin the enforcement action which starts with issuing a 7-day notice to your tenant.
If your tenant doesn’t pay, we will schedule an attendance from our certified agents who will enter the property and take control of goods. These will then be sold at auction.
Expert service, entirely free of charge to you. As directed by Statute, the fees for our professional service are added to the outstanding commercial rent arrears.
As such, the fees are payable by the tenant, regardless of the outcome of our attendances. No costly legal fees for obtaining advice or waiting for a time-consuming Court process.
Why Choose DCBL for Commercial Rent Recovery?
Instruct DCBL’s certificated Agents for CRAR to ensure that your rent arrears are recovered
swiftly, efficiently, and ethically.
1
Free
Service
The fees for our professional service are added to the outstanding rent arrears and are payable by the tenant.
2
Reputation Protected
We are there to protect the landlord/tenant relationship and help you to maintain your tenant and business networks.
3
Fast
Service
Prompt action is the key to successful recovery. We action your case within 24 hours.
4
Monies
Remitted
Upon collection, your monies are remitted via your preferred method as soon as the 14-day statutory holding period has ended.
Our approach
Our
approach
Complete debtor address verification
We invest heavily in the most up-to-date, real-time trace and address verification systems to obtain the subject’s most recent credit activity and link them to any address and phone number they may be using.
Experienced
Officers
Our certificated and vetted Enforcement Agents undergo robust training to ensure they work in accordance with our procedures. This ensures every case is dealt with in an ethical and compliant manner.
Unrivalled brand awareness
Our participation in the popular TV Series “Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away!” created a unique brand awareness that is instantly recognised by many, meaning we collect debts that others simply can’t.
Committed
to excellence
We maintain high standards, exceeding guidelines set by our accreditations from the FCA, CSA, CAI and Alcumus ISO 27001 and 9001.
Complete debtor address verification
We invest heavily in the most up-to-date, real-time trace and address verification systems to obtain the subject’s most recent credit activity and link them to any address and phone number they may be using.
Experienced Officers
Our certificated and vetted Enforcement Agents undergo robust training to ensure they work in accordance with our procedures. This ensures every case is dealt with in an ethical and compliant manner.
Unrivalled brand awareness
Our participation in the popular TV Series “Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away!” created a unique brand awareness that is instantly recognised by many, meaning we collect debts that others simply can’t.
Commitment to excellence
We maintain high standards, exceeding guidelines set by our accreditations from the FCA, CSA, CAI and Alcumus ISO 27001 and 9001.
DCBL Stadium Sponsors
DCBL are honoured to invest in and support the local community. We proudly sponsor The DCBL Stadium – home of the Widnes Vikings Rugby League club. This sponsorship allows us to support an enormous community asset & also presents us the opportunity to reward our employees and local charities, to help us show appreciation for the valuable work they do.
Furthermore, we provide support to other community sport teams, to help nurture fresh talent in the local area.
Get Your Free Quote
As one of the UK’s leading Debt Collection Agencies, DCBL offers a range of services to ensure you recover what is rightfully yours. We have been providing debt advice and assistance to clients unable to recover outstanding debts and unpaid invoices for over 20 years.
Whether you need help with late payments, enforcing a county court judgment (CCJ), business debt recovery, international debt recovery, or any other debt-related queries, call us free on 0203 838 7037.
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