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How to make your home greener and reduce your energy bills: upgrade your boiler, insulate your loft, draught-proof windows and doors, find out about energy grants.

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.

• Updated: 4 February 2022

Buy your rented home through the Right to Shared Ownership scheme: who can apply, how to apply, costs, paying rent, buying more shares, repairing and selling your home.

• How Right to Shared Ownership works

  The Right to Shared Ownership scheme allows some tenants in England to buy…

• Who can apply

  You may be eligible to buy a share of your rented home through the Right…

• Costs

  When you apply for Right to Shared Ownership, you’ll need to make sure you…

• Paying rent

  For a shared ownership home, you need to pay rent for the share you do not…

• How to apply

  There are 9 steps to apply for Right to Shared Ownership. 1. Tell your…

• Buying more shares ('staircasing')

  You can buy more shares in your home after you become a shared owner. This…

• Selling your home

  You can sell your shared ownership home at any time. If you own a 100%…

• Repairs and home improvements

  When you buy a home with Right to Shared Ownership, your lease will have…

• Renting out all or part of your home (subletting)

  You’ll usually need to get the landlord’s permission to rent out (sublet)…

• Help and advice

  MoneyHelper You can get free, impartial advice from MoneyHelper. This…

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.

Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) helps homeowners on certain benefits pay interest on loans or mortgages - what you'll get, eligibility and how to claim.

A guide to adapting your home or business to flooding, and how to pump water out of your property after a flood.

• Updated: 1 October 2009

The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has today (4 November 2025) published its analysis of large social landlords’ Tenant Satisfaction Measure (TSM) results.

• Updated: 4 November 2025

How to work out splitting up money, property and possessions when you divorce or dissolve a civil partnership - including mediation.

Park (mobile) home owner rights and responsibilities - fees and repairs, selling or giving away a home and residents' associations, settling disputes

Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services