Right to Buy sales and replacements, England: 2025 to 2026
Official statistics on the sales of local authority-owned dwellings through the Right to Buy scheme.
Applies to England
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This release presents official statistics on the number of sales of dwellings under the Right to Buy scheme, as well as providing statistics on receipts resulting from those sales and starts on site. Following the Government response to the consultation on Reforming the Right to Buy, published on 2 July 2025, these statistics will no longer report on the previous replacement target.
The Right to Buy scheme allows eligible social housing tenants to buy their house at a reduced price and has been in place since 1980. These statistics relate only to sales by local authorities under the scheme, excluding sales by private registered providers under preserved Right to Buy.
Following changes to the data collection, outlined in the technical notes, this is the fifth annual Official Statistics on Right to Buy sales, replacing the quarterly series which ran until April 2021.