Housing and communities

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Services

• Stamp Duty Land Tax

  You pay Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) when you buy houses, flats and other land and buildings over a certain price in the UK.

• Search for land and property information

  Find a property and get its title plan, title register, who owns it and see if it's at risk of flooding

• Find out your rubbish collection day

  Check your council's website to find out when your rubbish will be collected

• Housing Benefit

  Housing Benefit or Local Housing Allowance (LHA) - rates, eligibility, claim form, calculator, appeals, 'Discretionary Housing Payment'.

• Search sold property prices

  Find out how much a property sold for in England or Wales

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Guidance and regulation

• HM Land Registry: Registration Services fees
  • Detailed guide
  • 31 January 2022
  • HM Land Registry
• Contact HM Land Registry
  • Detailed guide
  • 8 August 2022
  • HM Land Registry
• Assured tenancy forms
  • Detailed guide
  • 1 October 2021
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Start paying Council Tax
  • Detailed guide
  • 22 January 2016
  • Valuation Office Agency
• How to rent
  • Guidance
  • 21 July 2021
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

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News and communications

• Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (Amendment) Regulations 2022 compliance
  • 26 September 2022
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • News story
• Homes England makes cornerstone investment in new development finance fund
  • 22 September 2022
  • Homes England
  • News story
• Buildings insurance for multiple-occupancy residential buildings: letter to the Association of British Insurers
  • 21 September 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Correspondence
• Buildings insurance for multiple-occupancy residential buildings: letter to the British Insurance Brokers’ Association
  • 21 September 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Correspondence
• Buildings insurance for multiple-occupancy residential buildings: response to FCA and CMA final report
  • 21 September 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Correspondence

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Research and statistics

• Statistical disclosure control methods report for 2021 Census
  • 26 September 2022
  • Office for National Statistics
  • Official statistics
• Live tables on homelessness
  • 22 September 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Statistical data set
• Statutory homelessness in England: financial year 2021-22
  • 22 September 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Official statistics
• Monthly property transactions completed in the UK with value of £40,000 or above
  • 21 September 2022
  • HM Revenue & Customs
  • National statistics
• Northern Ireland Homelessness Bulletin January-June 2022
  • 15 September 2022
  • Department for Communities (Northern Ireland), Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, and Northern Ireland Housing Executive
  • Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

• Consultation on the introduction of tenant satisfaction measures
  • 21 September 2022
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 03 March 2022
• Rogue landlord database reform
  • 8 September 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Consultation outcome
  • Date closed 12 October 2019
• A Decent Homes Standard in the private rented sector: consultation
  • 2 September 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 14 October 2022
• Social housing rents consultation
  • 31 August 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Open consultation
  • Closing date 12 October 2022
• Ending rough sleeping for good
  • 5 September 2022
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Registered providers of social housing – updated monthly
  • 27 September 2022
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • Transparency
• Whistleblowing report 2021-22
  • 26 September 2022
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • Transparency
• Homes England spend for transactions over £250
  • 1 September 2022
  • Homes England
  • Transparency
• Regulator of Social Housing Business Plan 2022-2023
  • 1 September 2022
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • Corporate report
• RSH spending over £250 - 2022
  • 30 August 2022
  • Regulator of Social Housing
  • Transparency

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Organisations

• Regulator of Social Housing
• Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
• Valuation Office Agency
• Homes England
• HM Treasury

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• Being a landlord and renting out a room
• Council housing and housing association
• Freehold and leasehold property
• Homebuying
• Homelessness and rough sleeping
• Housing for older and vulnerable people
• Housing funding programmes
• Housing regulation
• Neighbours, noise and pests
• Owning and renting a property
• Recycling, rubbish, streets and roads
• Rented housing sector
• Repossessions, emergency housing and evictions
• Safety and the environment in your community
• Tenancies and leases
• Traveller communities