The phrase "for a residence" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a place where someone lives, such as in the sentence, "We looked for a residence in a quiet neighborhood."
They look for a residence.
While buying furniture for a residence may meet necessity, decorating it with knickknacks is sheer indulgence.
But neither is the highest price paid for a residence in Manhattan.
But at 1,100 square feet, it was too small for a residence and offices for both Ms. Davol and her husband.
The manor house is used as a retreat, as well as for a residence for nuns who teach at the school.
Sixteen-foot pipes for a 41-rank instrument being recycled from an old church organ for a residence in Port Washington towered nearby.
He said the apartment where the fire started was like a Collyers' mansion, the term firefighters use for a residence piled with belongings.
Fifth, upon my return to the Dominican Republic, as a foreign legal entry, immediately apply for a residence permit to live in my own house.
Or $117.5 million for a nearly nine-acre estate in Woodside, Calif., in Silicon Valley, the highest price ever paid for a residence in the United States?
Has Larsson been told yet that he's on the Devils and that he should look for a residence in New Jersey?
On "666 Park Avenue," the Ansonia on Broadway stands in for a residence on the East Side, and the Satanists aren't oddballs; they're in real estate.
