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Find out about buying a home through shared ownership. Read about who can apply, costs, paying rent, buying more shares and repairing and selling your home.
You can buy a home through the shared ownership scheme if you cannot…
You can buy a home through shared ownership if both of the following are…
You’ll need to plan for all the costs when buying a home. When you’ve…
For a shared ownership home, you need to pay rent to your landlord for the…
There are 4 steps to apply for a shared ownership home. 1. Check if you…
There are several places where you can search for shared ownership homes…
You will need to pay for repairs and maintenance no matter what share you…
You can buy more shares in your home after you become the owner. This is…
You can sell your shared ownership home at any time. If you own 100% of…
You can normally rent out (sublet) a room in the home, but you must live…
You can no longer apply for a Help to Buy: Equity Loan - find out about interest rates and how to manage your Help to Buy: Equity Loan.
Rent a property at a discount to help with the cost of saving for a deposit to buy a home. Information on who is eligible and how to apply.
Rent to Buy helps tenants in England save for a deposit to buy a home by…
To be eligible for Rent to Buy, you must be: in full or part time…
You apply to rent a property that is in the scheme. If you’re considered…
If you live in England (excluding London), you can search for…
You can use the deposit you’ve saved to buy any home, including those…
How to fully or partly repay your equity loan - with your own money, when you sell your home or when you remortgage.
This form is for housing association tenants who wish to apply to buy their home through the Right to Acquire scheme.
You can no longer apply for the Help to Build Equity Loan. Find out what happens after you’ve applied and how to make a complaint.
Set up regular payments to pay back your Help to Buy: Equity Loan fees and charges.
How to apply for investment partner qualification (IPQ) to receive funding and deliver homes through the Social and Affordable Homes Programme (SAHP) 2026 to 2036.
Register as a new Affordable Housing Grants Service administrator or change existing administrators for your organisation.
To be used by organisations taking part in the Homes England Cladding Safety Scheme.
Register as a new organisation to join the Investment Management System (IMS) or change your security administrators.
You can nominate a relative who we can contact to make decisions about your equity loan on your behalf.
Public sector bodies that would like to procure services through Homes England frameworks must enter into an access agreement.
Registered providers and unregistered bodies must notify us if a relevant event is going to happen that could lead to grant recovery.
Provide your customer due diligence details to Homes England when applying for affordable housing grant funding.
These guidance notes are for property valuers who have been requested to value a property with a Help to Buy: Equity Loan that has external cladding.
You must notify us of changes to your organisational name, shareholding or legal structure.
We may allow you to take out extra borrowing to pay off leasehold arrears or mortgage payments for your Help to Buy home.
Form for landlords to make a formal offer to a tenant to buy a property through the Right to Acquire scheme.
Use this form to notify Homes England when you're transferring affordable housing stock to another registered provider.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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