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  • How to remortgage your Help to Buy home and borrow more money

    When you need permission to remortgage, how your lenders are involved, what documents you’ll need and how to apply.

    • From: Homes England
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  • Becoming a sponsor: Homes for Ukraine

    Everything you need to know about how to become a sponsor including things to consider and thank you payments.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Right to rent immigration checks: landlords' code of practice

    Guidance for landlords, homeowners and letting agents affected by the introduction of right to rent immigration checks.

    • From: Home Office and 1 others
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  • Housing health and safety rating system (HHSRS) operating guidance: housing inspections and assessment of hazards

    Guidance about inspections and assessment of hazards in housing given under section 9 of the Housing Act 2004.

    • From: Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
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  • Remediation costs: what leaseholders do and do not have to pay

    This guidance sets out further information about what you, the leaseholder, do and do not have to pay for remediating a building safety defect via your service charge.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • Tenant Fees Act 2019: guidance

    Guidance for tenants, landlords, letting agents and local authority enforcement officers explaining how the Act affects them.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
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  • ​Transparency, Influence and Accountability Standard

    Outcomes landlords must deliver about being open with tenants and treating them with fairness and respect so that tenants can access services, raise complaints, influence decision making and hold their landlord to account.

    • From: Regulator of Social Housing
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  • Building safety leaseholder protections: guidance for leaseholders

    This guidance provides leaseholders with a plain English explanation of the implications of the leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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  • HM Land Registry: 1862 Act Register

    Access historical information about properties and people recorded in the 1862 Act Register.

    • From: HM Land Registry
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  • Homelessness: duty to refer

    This guidance provides an overview of the duty to refer, which will help public authorities understand how to administer the duty.

    • From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
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  • How to sublet your Help to Buy home

    You are not allowed to sublet your home unless your personal circumstances make it difficult to live there.

    • From: Homes England
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  • Leases: determination (PG26)

    How leases are determined and how this affects registered titles (practice guide 26).

    • From: HM Land Registry
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  • Powers of attorney and registered land (PG9)

    Advice on the evidence that HM Land Registry needs when an attorney has executed documents lodged for registration (practice guide 9).

    • From: HM Land Registry
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  • Tenancy Standard

    Outcomes social landlords must deliver about the fair allocation and letting of homes and how tenancies are managed and ended by landlords.

    • From: Regulator of Social Housing
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  • ​Safety and Quality Standard

    Outcomes landlords must deliver about the safety and quality of tenants’ homes.

    • From: Regulator of Social Housing
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  • First registrations (PG1)

    Guidance for conveyancers on how to register unregistered estates in land for the first time (practice guide 1).

    • From: HM Land Registry
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  • Neighbourhood and Community Standard

    Outcomes landlords must deliver about engaging with other relevant parties so that tenants can live in safe and well-maintained neighbourhoods and feel safe in their homes.

    • From: Regulator of Social Housing
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  • Help to Buy: Equity Loan arrears

    If you're struggling with your Help to Buy: Equity Loan payments, it’s important to understand the options available to you.

    • From: Homes England
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  • Electronic signatures accepted by HM Land Registry (PG82)

    Information about the types of electronic signature accepted by HM Land Registry (practice guide 82)

    • From: HM Land Registry
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  • Devolution on the death of a registered proprietor (PG6)

    What to do following the death of a joint, sole or last surviving proprietor of a registered estate, charge or mortgage (practice guide 6).

    • From: HM Land Registry
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