Guidance

Joint shared ownership guidance

This document provides information on the rules and requirements of grant funded shared ownership schemes in England.

Applies to England

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Joint shared ownership guidance

Details

This guidance will be updated in 2023.

This guidance has been jointly produced by the Homes and Communities Agency (now Homes England), the Council of Mortgage Lenders and the National Housing Federation.

It sets out the requirements and procedures that providers of grant-funded shared ownership must conform to.

It will be of use to:

  • lenders already actively lending and to those considering lending on shared ownership
  • conveyancers who may be instructed to carry out some of the requirements as part of the conveyancing process in first tranche and subsequent tranche sales of a shared ownership property.
Published 30 September 2016
Last updated 11 February 2022 + show all updates
  1. Updated page to note that this guidance will be updated in 2022.

  2. First published.