Guidance and regulation

The process to repay all or part of your Help to Buy: Equity Loan, using your own money or other private funds.

• From: Homes England
• Updated: 23 November 2023

The process you need to follow to repay your Help to Buy: Equity Loan when you decide to sell your home.

• From: Homes England
• Updated: 23 November 2023

How to repay your Help to Buy: Equity Loan, either in full or in part, when you remortgage your home.

• From: Homes England
• Updated: 23 November 2023

Table showing the discounts that are available by area when applying to buy a home through the Right to Acquire scheme.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
• Updated: 21 January 2013

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

• From: Homes England
• Updated: 4 February 2022

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

• From: Homes England
• Updated: 28 September 2023

When you need permission to remortgage, what documents you’ll need and how to apply.

• From: Homes England
• Updated: 4 February 2022

How you can add, remove or replace one or more homeowners, with a process known as a Transfer of Equity.

• From: Homes England
• Updated: 4 February 2022

Guidance for tenants on the changes to the Right to Buy scheme.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 6 April 2024

A list of the administration fees that apply to the Help to Buy: Equity Loan.

• From: Homes England
• Updated: 15 February 2024

What structural alterations are, when and how to apply for permission, how they may affect your home's value and what you owe on your equity loan.

• From: Homes England
• Updated: 4 February 2022

Information on how the equity loan works. The scheme is closed to new applications.

• From: Homes England
• Updated: 16 March 2023

A guide to buying a home in England and Wales.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
• Updated: 6 September 2019

Guidance documents for local authorities and industry to support the delivery of First Homes.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 15 February 2024

'Want to make your home your own?' Right to Buy summary booklet.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 6 April 2024

How to make a complaint about Help to Buy: Equity Loan

• From: Homes England
• Updated: 16 June 2023

A guide to selling a home in England and Wales.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
• Updated: 6 September 2019

Details of the rules for lenders offering the Help to Buy: mortgage guarantee scheme.

• From: HM Treasury
• Updated: 17 November 2017

Template application pack and template conveyancer pack for local authorities to use for new build sales of First Homes delivered through developer contributions.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 18 January 2024

Documents that we may need to see about you and your company as part of our due diligence processes

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 2 others
• Updated: 4 October 2016