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Services

  1. 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.

  2. Right to Buy: application form (RTB1)

    The RTB1 form is the notice claiming the Right to Buy that tenants need to complete.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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Guidance and regulation

  1. Right to Acquire discounts by location
    • Guidance
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  2. Your right to buy your home: a guide
    • Guidance
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  3. Right to Buy: summary booklet
    • Guidance
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  4. How to buy a home
    • Guidance
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  5. Thinking of buying your council flat?
    • Guidance
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
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News and communications

Press release

Malthouse launches £8.5 million fund to help communities deliver discounted homes

Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

  1. Almost half a million new keys exchanged with Help to Buy
    • HM Treasury
    • News story
  2. Council for Licensed Conveyancers conference 2019
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
    • Speech
  3. More than 400,000 first time buyers step onto the housing ladder with Help to Buy
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government and HM Treasury
    • Press release
  4. Budget to support new housing, high streets and local services
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
    • Press release
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Research and statistics

  1. Live tables on social housing sales
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
    • Statistical data set
  2. Northern Ireland House Price Index Q1 2019
    • Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Department of Finance (Northern Ireland)
    • National statistics
  3. Help to Buy (equity loan scheme) statistics: April 2013 to 31 December 2018
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
    • Official statistics
  4. Right to Buy sales in England: October to December 2018
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
    • Official statistics
  5. Help to Buy (equity loan scheme) statistics: April 2013 to 30 September 2018
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
    • Official statistics
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. Redress for purchasers of new build homes and the New Homes Ombudsman
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
    • Open consultation
    • Closing date 22 August 2019
  2. Use of receipts from Right to Buy sales
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
    • Closed consultation
    • Date closed 09 October 2018
  3. Improving the home buying and selling process: call for evidence
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 17 December 2017
  4. Starter homes regulations: technical consultation
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 30 June 2016
  5. Housing associations and the Right to Buy: government response to the Select Committee report
    • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
    • Policy paper
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Service Level Agreement between UK Asset Resolution and HM Treasury regarding Help to Buy
    • HM Treasury
    • Transparency
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