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Right to Acquire: application form (RTA1)
This form is for housing association tenants who wish to apply to buy their home through the Right to Acquire scheme.
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Right to Buy: application form (RTB1)
The RTB1 form is the notice claiming the Right to Buy that tenants need to complete.
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Right to Buy: initial notice of delay form (RTB6)
The RTB6 form is for a tenant to use if their landlord is not completing parts of the Right to Buy application within set time limits.
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Right to Buy: operative notice of delay form (RTB8)
The RTB8 form is for a tenant to use if they do not get a response to the initial notice of delay form.
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Right to Buy: notice in reply to a tenant's claim (RTB2)
The RTB2 form is the notice that a council sends to a tenant who has applied to buy their home through the Right to Buy scheme.
Guidance and regulation
- Right to Acquire discounts by location
- Your right to buy your home: a guide
- Right to Buy: summary booklet
- How to buy a home
- Help to Buy (equity loan): funding administration agreement
News and communications
- Government loans to build new schools alongside new homes
- Help to Buy loophole closed to benefit homeowners
- Changes to shared ownership to help more people get on the property ladder
- Malthouse launches £8.5 million fund to help communities deliver discounted homes
Research and statistics
- UK Stamp Tax statistics
- Live tables on social housing sales
- Northern Ireland House Price Index Q2 2019
- Help to Buy (equity loan scheme) statistics, April 2013 to 31 March 2019, England
- Northern Ireland House Price Index Q1 2019
Policy papers and consultations
- New national model for shared ownership
- Redress for purchasers of new build homes and the New Homes Ombudsman
- Use of receipts from Right to Buy sales
- Improving the home buying and selling process: call for evidence
- Housing associations and the Right to Buy: government response to the Select Committee report