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Find out about buying a home through shared ownership. Read about who can apply, costs, paying rent, buying more shares and repairing and selling your home.
You can buy a home through the shared ownership scheme if you cannot…
You can buy a home through shared ownership if both of the following are…
You’ll need to plan for all the costs when buying a home. When you’ve…
For a shared ownership home, you need to pay rent to your landlord for the…
There are 4 steps to apply for a shared ownership home. 1. Check if you…
There are several places where you can search for shared ownership homes…
You will need to pay for repairs and maintenance no matter what share you…
You can buy more shares in your home after you become the owner. This is…
You can sell your shared ownership home at any time. If you own 100% of…
You can normally rent out (sublet) a room in the home, but you must live…
You can no longer apply for a Help to Buy: Equity Loan - find out about interest rates and how to manage your Help to Buy: Equity Loan.
Rent a property at a discount to help with the cost of saving for a deposit to buy a home. Information on who is eligible and how to apply.
Rent to Buy helps tenants in England save for a deposit to buy a home by…
To be eligible for Rent to Buy, you must be: in full or part time…
You apply to rent a property that is in the scheme. If you’re considered…
If you live in England (excluding London), you can search for…
You can use the deposit you’ve saved to buy any home, including those…
How to fully or partly repay your equity loan - with your own money, when you sell your home or when you remortgage.
Find out how the Help to Build Equity Loan works, how to apply for the loan and repay it, what happens after you’ve applied and how to make a complaint.
This form is for housing association tenants who wish to apply to buy their home through the Right to Acquire scheme.
Set up regular payments to pay back your Help to Buy: Equity Loan fees and charges.
How to apply for Investment Partner status to receive funding and deliver homes through the Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) 2021 to 2026 and associated affordable housing programmes.
Register as a new organisation to access the IMS or apply to change your security administrators or signatories.
To be used by organisations taking part in the Homes England Cladding Safety Scheme.
You can nominate a relative who we can contact to make decisions about your equity loan on your behalf.
Registered providers and unregistered bodies must notify us if a relevant event is going to happen that could lead to grant recovery.
If you're staying with your current lender to remortgage without borrowing more on your Help to Buy home, you do not have to contact us or apply to remortgage.
Public sector bodies that would like to procure services through Homes England frameworks must enter into an access agreement.
These guidance notes are for property valuers who have been requested to value a property with a Help to Buy: Equity Loan that has external cladding.
You can only alter your Help to Buy home for medical reasons after a change in circumstances.
Documents that we may need to see about you and your company as part of our customer due diligence 'Know your Customer' process.
Form template for landlords to respond to a tenant’s application to buy their housing association property at a discount through the Right to Acquire scheme.
Form for giving notice to a tenant who has confirmed their intention to buy a property through the Right to Acquire scheme but has failed to progress to completion within a reasonable timeframe.
Use this form to notify Homes England when you're transferring affordable housing stock to another registered provider.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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