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Housing and communities

Guidance and regulation

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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